Design Quotes

“Destiny to some people is a preconceived notion as a design of blind faith, while in fact destiny is a constitution of endowed efforts in an attempt to steer toward a desired outcome. Create your destiny and reach for your dreams, you only live once.”

“Do everything in your power to make customers go confidently in the direction of their purchase intention.”

“It is the nature of intuition to spark and guide creativity, and it's an essential ingredient for anything "new" to happen in the world at all.”

“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.”

“I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.”

“I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.”

“Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.”

“I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outshined me. That was by design. And I'm not wanting for appreciation.”

“A challenge always is good. Normal design does not come under the constraints of a small budget and time frame. But it has helped me to make quick and knowledgeable decisions.”

“It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out.”

“The theory of mechanism design can be thought of as the 'engineering' side of economic theory.”

“The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.”

“I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.”

“Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.”

“I don't have a background in design, so I think it's always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I'm going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.”

“Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.”

“Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.”

“Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.”

“When typography is on point, words become images.”

“I realised as a teenager that I was destined for a creative life and found that fashion design was something I enjoyed and was a potentially successful career path.”