Designer Quotes - Page 30

• My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in the world; that it was used in many troubled places. I think the policies of these countries are to blame, not the designers. Man is born to protect his family, his children, his wife. But I want you to know that apart from armaments, I have written three books in which I try to educate our youth to show respect for their families, for old people, for history.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Country, Children, Book

  "For Patriotism and Profit". Interview with Robert Fisk, www.worldpress.org. July 2001.

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• You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists

  Marc Newson

  Jobs, Looks, Use

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• Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

  Jonathan Barnbrook

  Change, Power, Thinking

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• Designers, stay away from corporations that want you to lie for them

  Jonathan Barnbrook

  Lying, Want, Corporations

  Jonathan Barnbrook (2007). “Barnbrook Bible: The Graphic Design of Jonathan Barnbrook”, Booth-Clibborn Editions

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• Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to. It's the way they reach us. The designer has an enormous responsibility. Those are the people, you know, putting their wires into our heads.

  Rick Poynor

  Communication, Responsibility, People

  "Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Remember - the fault is in the garment, certainly not the girl. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with the shape of her. Some designers cut their clothes for certain body types and others for others. Occasionally the pattern will make her ass look strangely square or the fabric will cling in an unflattering way, but Not Cut Well is always the answer, and it has the extremely delightful quality of saving your ass and being completely true at the same time. Use it wisely.

  S. Bear Bergman

  Girl, Cutting, Clothes

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• Do you know anything about fashion magazines? Being treated like superficial bimbos by men like you, and having to write about designer brands. Do you know what that feels like?

  Suh Jung

  Fashion, Writing, Men

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• Design is all about relationships. Unfortunately, many designers don’t fully appreciate this. Some of the best design work I’ve ever done was drinking coffee or beers with engineers, marketing people, and business development hustlers. And I wholeheartedly mean design work.

  Daniel Burka

  Drinking, Coffee, Mean

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• The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people.

  Brian Webb

  Fall, Differences, People

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• The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.

  Adrian Frutiger

  White, Creating, Space

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• My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.

  Reeve Carney

  Mom, Dad, Musician

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• Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Shops, Knows

  "My life in shopping". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2008.

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• Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Emotional, People, Creative

  "A Conversation With Fashion Icon Ozwald Boateng on Style, Africa, and His New Film A Man’s Story". Interview with Govindini Murty, Jason Apuzzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Tools, Firsts, Emotion

  "A Conversation With Fashion Icon Ozwald Boateng on Style, Africa, and His New Film A Man’s Story". Interview with Govindini Murty, Jason Apuzzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Escaping, Inspired, Film

  "A Conversation With Fashion Icon Ozwald Boateng on Style, Africa, and His New Film A Man’s Story". Interview with Govindini Murty, Jason Apuzzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.

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• Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.

  Ozwald Boateng

  Fashion, Real, Two

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• If it weren't for rock'n'roll, I wouldn't be a designer

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Ifs

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• You have to think like a designer. You have to establish the trend four seasons before it becomes popular.

  Kanye West

  Thinking, Four Seasons, Trends

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• If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Focus, Design, Architect

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• Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But it's just plain impossible to design a perfect language, because there are two ways to look at a language. One way is by looking at what can be done with that language. The other is by looking at how we feel using that language-how we feel while programming.

  Yukihiro Matsumoto

  Two, Perfect, Design

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• If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer

  Bob Gill

  Art, Calling, Sideways

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• Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on competitions and awards ceremonies that celebrate creativity instead of strategy results and sustainability.

  David Berman

  Creativity, Awards, Design

  David B. Berman (2008). “Do Good Design: How Design Can Change Our World”, p.140, Peachpit Press

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• It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

  Giorgetto Giugiaro

  Design, Architect, Artisans

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• With billions of years, who knows what science might make possible? Why, it might even make it possible for an intelligence, or data patterns representing it, to survive a big crunch and exist again in the next cycle of creation. Such an entity might even have science sufficient to allow it to influence the parameters for the next cycle, creating a designer universe into which that entity itself will be reborn already armed with billions of years worth of knowledge and wisdom.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Technology, Data, Creating

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