Designer Quotes - Page 33

• Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

  Philip Treacy

  Fashion, Night, Pounds

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• There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.

  Tom Turner

  Past, Garden, Wish

  Tom Turner (2005). “Garden History: Philosophy and Design, 2000 BC--2000 AD”, p.437, Taylor & Francis

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• The tragedy of feminine design is that it receives so little official support. Most of the world's design schools, having been organized by men, encourage a masculine approach, even when they are run by women. Yet many designers who are male in the biological sense have a feminine approach to design.

  Tom Turner

  Running, School, Men

  Tom Turner (1996). “City as Landscape: A Post-postmodern View of Design and Planning”, p.132, Taylor & Francis

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• As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

  Stephen Frears

  Jobs, Directors, Actors

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• Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

  Paola Antonelli

  Successful, People, Design

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• My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.

  Nate Ruess

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Shoes

  "Fun's Nate Ruess on Black Tie and Band Fashion". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 29, 2012.

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• My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.

  John Maeda

  Impact, Design, Roles

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• The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.

  Alexander Girard

  Lying, Believe, Design

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• If the point of contact between the product and people becomes a point of friction, then the designer has failed. If, on the other hand, people are made safer, more comfortable, more desirous of purchase, more efficient — or just plain happier — by contact with the product, then the designer has succeeded.

  Henry Dreyfuss

  Hands, People, Made

  "Designing for People".

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• Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

  Henry Dreyfuss

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Design

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• Designers need to be more than ambassadors, they need to be fully functioning and fully aware members of strategic decision-making teams in a company.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Team, Decision, Needs

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• Designers are optimistic people who are trained to be courageous about the future—and making the future happen. They aren’t always aware of the intricacies of operations and the impacts of the solutions they propose, just like entrepreneurs, but they aren’t afraid of confronting a blank piece of paper (or screen or board) and getting to work making something new.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Optimistic, Impact, People

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• The future is created at the intersection of business, technology, design, and culture. *In the Bubble* is an insightful and delightful explanation of this nexus and of how each force affects the others. Designers often miss a great deal in their educations about the real people who will use and inhabit their work. Thackara astutely illuminates a lot of what designers don't know they're missing.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Real, Technology, People

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• A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it.

  May-Britt Moser

  Perfection, Focus, Excellence

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• For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? To the designer of the camera? to the finger on the button? to the law of averages?

  Gore Vidal

  Photography, Art, Law

  Gore Vidal (1982). “The second American revolution and other essays (1976-1982)”, Random House Inc

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• Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

  Fergie

  Fashion, Reading, Responsibility

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• I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But Im a glass half-full kind of guy.

  Prabal Gurung

  Glasses, Guy, Roles

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• The problem is that resuscitating old labels doesn't work anymore. I think it is very important to give hope to a new generation of designers, so that one day they really can put their own names out there.

  Giambattista Valli

  Thinking, Names, Giving

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• Famous designers think nothing of putting their names on your clothing, but would have the servants set the dogs on you if you ever tried to put your name on their clothing.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

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• A designer must always think about the unfortunate production engineer who will have to manufacture what you have designed; try to understand his problems.

  Raymond Loewy

  Science, Thinking, Understanding

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• A magazine to have style, must need and understand and invest in what jingles - not jiggles - in designer jeans.

  Frances Lear

  Jeans, Style, Jingles

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• Everyday people are not very good designers.

  Donald A. Norman

  People, Everyday, Very Good

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• Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Fashion, Favourite, Mary

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• As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.

  Linda Evangelista

  Thinking, Long, Dresses

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• If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.

  Christian Lacroix

  Fashion, Design, Trends

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