“It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.”
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“I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.”
“I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.”
“I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.”
“Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.”
“I won't give up my day job of design.”
“They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.”
“French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.”
“For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.”
“The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.”
“Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.”
“You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program, and you can do a lot of - there's other ways other than physically to develop your weaponization program to get you very close to the real deal.”
“The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun.”
“The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'”
“User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.”
“After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.”
“I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'”
“I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.”
“With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.”
“Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.”
“When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn to draw. That was my absolute driven passion, to become an artist or a painter. So the romantic realist in me, I studied to be a graphic design artist and an art teacher.”
“I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad.”
“I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.”
“In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.”