Designer Quotes - Page 28

• It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

  Bernard Arnault

  Design, Creative, Management

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• The good designer aims at a perfect fusion of the various considerations which enter into his design. He aims at an untortured unity-a direct whole. He arranges his levels consciously or subconsciously, adhearing to the requisites of the problem he is asked to solve or to his own inclination. Some designers see total act through a disc of aesthetic considerations-others, more practical minded, may put economic considerations at top level.

  Leo Lionni

  Perfect, Design, Unity

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• Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do no harm' is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do.

  Milton Glaser

  Doctors, Design, Drug

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• This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer or maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?

  Isaac Newton

  Believe, Taken, Law

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• There was no working title for the album. The record-jacket designer said `When I think of the group, I always think of power and force. There's a definite presence there.' That was it. He wanted to call it `Obelisk'. To me, it was more important what was behind the obelisk. The cover is very tongue-in-cheek, to be quite honest. Sort of a joke on 2001. I think it's quite amusing.

  Jimmy Page

  Thinking, Important, Groups

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• I try to be thoughtful about spreading the wealth: young designers. Mixing things up is important to me.

  Michelle Obama

  Thoughtful, Important, Trying

  "Michelle Obama Reveals Her Fashion Motto" by Lisa Sugar, www.popsugar.com. October 18, 2011.

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• What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great designers design with mankind in mind . . . The crossroads of science and art, innovation and inspiration are what I love about design.

  Michelle Obama

  Art, Inspiration, Design

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• 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

  Beautiful, Mother, Fashion

  "Stella McCartney: 'Fashion people are pretty heartless'". Interview With Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2009.

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• Lindsay Lohan's collaboration was a disaster. I am furious but I can't do anything about it. That happens to a lot of designers. We were the creators and patrons, responsible for the creation and destiny of our houses. But when we gave up our houses, we gave up our souls.

  Emanuel Ungaro

  Destiny, House, Soul

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• A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom.

  Donna Karan

  Fashion, Designer Clothes, Victim

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• Have I ever been horrified to see someone in my clothes? Many times, but I close my eyes and look the other way. That happens to everyone. What can you do? Go and tell her, 'Don't wear that dress again'? We designers always have fantasies in our heads, but the difficult task is to make them reality. Because you can be the best designer, but designing in your own place and with nobody wearing [your clothes], then what happens? You're nowhere.

  Carolina Herrera

  Eye, Reality, Clothes

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• In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities to understand complexity, clarify vision, and improve shared mental models - that is, they are responsible for learning.

  Peter Senge

  Teacher, Organization, People

  "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge, 1990.

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• Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We don't trust it until we can see it and feel it.

  Win Ng

  Success, Business, Ideas

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• It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.

  Suzanne Collins

  Book, Artistry

  "'The Hunger Games' Author Suzanne Collins Praises Lionsgate's Adaptation" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 01, 2012.

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• I always wear what I'm comfortable in. If one designer doesn't like what I'm wearing, the next one will.

  Coco Rocha

  Next, Ifs, Comfortable

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• Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

  Nancy Banks-Smith

  Ideas, Answers, Architecture

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• Users are not designers.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Design, Users

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• A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.

  Fred Brooks

  Design, Mind, Fans

  "No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering". Paper by Fred Brooks, 1986.

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• Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. (...) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design’s most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.

  Ellen Lupton

  Book, Reading, Offering

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.87, Chronicle Books

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• The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.

  Jan Tschichold

  Book, Perfect, Strive

  Jan Tschichold, Robert Bringhurst, Hajo Hadeler (1991). “The form of the book: essays on the morality of good design”, Hartley & Marks Publishers

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• Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)

  Michael Shermer

  Intelligent, Design, Understanding

  Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.80, Macmillan

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• I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.

  L'Wren Scott

  Fashion, Fashion Designer

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I'm going to spunk £500 on a pair of designer shoes, it's going to be a pair that I can a) dance to 'Bad Romance' in and b) will allow me to run away from a murderer, should one suddenly decide to give chase.

  Caitlin Moran

  Running, Shoes, Giving

  "How To Be a Woman".

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• We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.

  John Romero

  Games, Size, Dues

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• As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.

  Curt Schilling

  Thinking, Average, Good Design

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