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" The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky. "
Rachel Lambert Mellon
Free
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Sky
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" There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the small shops, production offices and design studios close down, and hey presto, we have another fashionable London suburb indistinguishable from the rest. "
Howard Jacobson
Rise
Rest
Small
" Fashion and interior design are one and the same. "
Iris Apfel
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Fashion
" For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction. "
David Carson
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" Obama really changed the way in which design can be used effectively for a candidate. "
Debbie Millman
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" How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design? "
Kinky Friedman
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" If you want to come up with a really original design idea, and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all. "
Peter Marino
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" You must have the ability to recognize good design and good user experience. These are core things at Airbnb. It doesn't matter which department you're in. "
Joe Gebbia
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Good
" Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. "
Charles Eames
Accomplish
Plan
Purpose
" I often say that 'Design Matters' began in February 2005 with an idea and a telephone line. "
Debbie Millman
Telephone
Matters
Line
" It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. "
Henri Matisse
Design
Artist
Used
" I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer. "
Stella McCartney
I Am
Mother
Wife
" This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it. "
Isaac Mizrahi
You
Design
Get
" People interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs, and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way. "
Kevin Systrom
Design
Think
You
" Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it. "
Jonathan Ive
Like
Think
Perhaps
" I got to train with some of the best and have critics like Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein. As a student under Calvin Klein, my project was to make a coat, and then years later, I was hired at Calvin, by Calvin, to design coats for him. It came full circle! "
Narciso Rodriguez
Design
Student
Train
" Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic. "
Francisco Costa
Design
Clean
Aesthetic
" Good design doesn't date. Bad design does. "
Paul Rand
Does
Date
Good
" Any design, whether it's for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures. "
Henry Petroski
Ship
Design
Done
" I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '50s and '60s, when designers like Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, George Nelson and Dieter Rams were shepherds of the brands they were working with. They had influence over the products and how companies communicated and promoted themselves. "
Yves Behar
Golden
Design
Believe
" It's great to design a beautiful, modern, sleek home like you'd see in a magazine. But if it doesn't suit your lifestyle, it's really wasted. "
Candice Olson
Beautiful
You
See
" Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter. "
Donna Karan
Style
Good
Effort
" I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it. "
Michael Graves
Believe
Design
I Believe
" Everyday people are not very good designers. "
Donald Norman
People
Very
Design
" Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. "
Jim Rohn
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Future
Happiness
" Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women. "
Gary Gygax
Think
Women
Thinking
" A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end. "
Jonathan Ive
Change
Process
Small
" One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work. "
Colleen Atwood
Think
People
Design
" If you want to communicate something, you'd better make sure that your design piece is well-dressed and that its teeth are fixed. At the same time, I still believe that if it is only stylistically great and it has nothing to say, it still is not going to make a lasting impression on anybody. "
Stefan Sagmeister
Better
Time
Great
" It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books. "
Steve Wozniak
Open
Real
Be Nice
" After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared. "
Arthur Erickson
Design
Evidence
Space