Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians. "

Lapo Elkann

Design

Leaf

Research

Related Quotes:

" A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. "

" Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time. "

" I went through the workroom at Central Saint Martins in London, which is the most competitive workroom of a design school in the world. Very high creativity, very conceptual, very international, age-diverse and cutthroat - people who have master degrees reapplying into a foundation there is just wild to me to launch their careers. "

Zac Posen

People

Creativity

" 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. "

" I've learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality. "

" When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task. "

" Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible. "

" I've been fascinated with interior design for as long as I can remember. "

" Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone. "

" As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best. "

" I always tried to design something new and of the moment. The idea was not to make something that would last, but to make something a woman could really wear when she needed it, like a good friend. "

" Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral. "

" Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another. "

" Is there a way to design a room in my house where I float around? I would quite enjoy that. It's nuts. "

Karl Lagerfeld

" My favorite days are the ones where I deal only with my own team, design, marketing, working on the next accessories collection. "

Diane von Furstenberg

Design

Team

My Own

" What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years. You can't think of her without imagining her with a hat or a crown. I would, of course, love to design one for her. "

" The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared. "

" I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured into our eyes through the Web, and we're all visualizers now; we're all demanding a visual aspect to our information. There's something almost quite magical about visual information. It's effortless; it literally pours in. "

" I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look. "

" I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure. "

" When designing your product, go beyond consumers' current knowledge base. Design, test, and dig deeper than almost any client would pay you to do. "

" I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life. "

" Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. "

Tyra Banks

" 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. "

" Technology's related to everything. Technology is making the world more accessible, so yeah, as generations go by, they'll become more and more married to each other, for sure. I think they go hand in hand - fashion inspires design, and technology inspires design as well. "

Justin Timberlake

Think

World

" Longhorns are unique - each and every one of them is a different color with a different design. "

" One of the things that is particularly precious about working at Apple is that many of us on the design team have worked together for 15-plus years, and there's a wonderful thing about learning as a group. A fundamental part of that is making mistakes together. "

" I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit. "

" Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design. "

" For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work. "

James Wan

Scary

Design