“Interior design is a business of trust.”
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“All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.”
“Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.”
“McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.”
“Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?”
“No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.”
“I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.”
“I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.”
“Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.”
“I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.”
“Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.”
“I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.”
“Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.”
“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.”
“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
“I don't design clothes, I design dreams.”
“Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.”
“The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.”
“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.”
“Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.”
“Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.”
“Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.”