Designer Quotes - Page 6

• We get better product when the focus is on the fans and the artists - all artists; musical artists; singers, the graphic designers, the painters, the DJs, I mean everybody, the writers. We can't allow ourselves to feel as if we're not important in the equation when we are everything!

  David Banner

  Mean, Artist, Focus

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• I am creative in my living space - the designer in me helps that out.

  Julie Taymor

  Space, Creative, Helping

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• I was... 15? And Garry Marshall, who had many, many seasons in the sun and a very long career, was in the middle of the brightest of all his seasons - I think he owned network television - and it was his next thing, and he was directing [Mean Jeans ]. And I thought, "If there's anyone who can bring comedy out of a designer jeans shop, it's gotta be Garry."

  Rob Lowe

  Mean, Thinking, Jeans

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's an art installation to put out a collection, with the people behind the scenes who are inventing and creating these designs and making sure they're realized on the catwalk, and just how much hangs on it for the designers. Their livelihoods hang in the balance, as far as whether this year's collection works for them or not, and there are so many people's jobs on the line, as a result of that. I just had no idea.

  Tom Riley

  Art, Jobs, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people have different types of disabilities, and you cannot put a code that applies towards everyone - generally, they can be guidelines, but in the long run, interior designers and architects need more education on the subject. That's what's missing.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Running, Thinking, Long

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Fashion, Gay, Men

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• I've gotten into such weird jobs just by word of mouth... Like I didn't try to be an accessory designer, but I had a friend working at the company and I needed a job so that's where I ended up.

  Nicolas Cowan

  Jobs, Trying, Accessories

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was "Can Capital Punishment Be Humane" and it was the story about an electric chair repairman and execution machine designer. And then buried in the back of the paper was the fact that Fred Leuchter had also been involved in holocaust denial.

  Errol Morris

  New York, Punishment, Holocaust

  Source: collider.com

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• The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops around a major artery, then goes all the way back up again. It goes right past the larynx on the way down. All a decent designer would have to do is loop it off at that point. What we're looking at is the legacy of history.

  Richard Dawkins

  Running, Past, Voice

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There is a grand designer behind everything. God's plan for your life, all that happens to you, including your mistakes, your sins, and your hurts.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Mistake, God's Plan

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.177, Zondervan

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• My favorite jewelry designer is Suzanne Belperron, a great Parisian jeweler who was known for her bold and creative use of stones. I admire the fact that she was a strong successful woman during a time when women did not play a large role in the work force.

  Kara Ross

  Strong, Successful, Play

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the renaissance people [when we were young].

  Warren MacKenzie

  People, Potters, Textiles

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.

  David Chipperfield

  Design, Littles, Industrial Design

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• If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

  Mike Wells

  Would Be, Fiction, Parks

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• The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

  Alan Kay

  Design, Coins, Done

  ACM Queue, Volume 2, issue 9, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Today, Young

  "Karl Lagerfeld: 'I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better'" by Imogen Fox, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2014.

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• Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art would be revolutionized by freeing designers and construction workers from repetitive tasks, and democratized by making high-style architecture more affordable.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Construction Workers, Design

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• The ill design is most ill for the designer.

  Hesiod

  Design, Ill

  Opera et dies, 266 (translated by M L West, 1988).

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• A man fashions ill for himself who fashions ill for another, and the ill design is most ill for the designer.

  Hesiod

  Fashion, Men, Design

  Hesiod, Martin Litchfield West (1989). “Theogony ; and, Works and days”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.

  Lady Gaga

  Thinking, Musician, Culture

  "Women in Music: Lady Gaga". Interview with Seth Plattner, www.elle.com. June 12, 2009.

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• Back at the Rash [a Florida nightclub], a waif in a lime latex body tube went into the rest room to snort the newest designer drug, XGB5, which gave people the uncanny sensation of throwing money away while chewing their own lips off. It was hard to come by and everyone had to have it.

  Tim Dorsey

  Florida, People, Drug

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• Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour.

  Naeem Khan

  Needs, Stories, Glamour

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• You always hear about fashion's success stories. How a starlet lost an earring one night and by the next morning, the entire country was wearing one earring. Or how sweaters made a comeback in a drugstore, or a First Lady influenced how we dressed during her reign. But what about the losers? The fashions that came and went out the same day? The hopes and dreams of designers that were shattered by the sound of fifty million women ... laughing themselves to death.

  Erma Bombeck

  Country, Dream, Fashion

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.107, Open Road Media

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• In their work, designers often become expert with the device they are designing. Users are often expert at the task they are trying to perform with the device. [...] Professional designers are usually aware of the pitfalls. But most design is not done by professional designers, it is done by engineers, programmers, and managers.

  Donald A. Norman

  Design, Trying, Pitfalls

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 6, 1988.

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• Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made.

  Donald A. Norman

  Errors, People, Innocence

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 6, 1988.

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