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A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

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

~ James Dyson

Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible.

~ Julia Roberts

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.

~ Jamie Dimon

'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.

~ Alber Elbaz

When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.

~ Patrick Dewitt

There really are so many lines of work that you can join that don't have to only be design. And that was one that particularly interested me a lot, because the editors could appreciate all the trends, all the designs and all the work of the designers.

~ Nina García

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

~ Steve Wozniak

If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old.

~ Alison Gopnik

When I take on a design project, I have to jet from the bookstore to the hardware shop to the lamp store and back again just to collect a small portion of the many items I need to fill a home. But, when you hit the flea market, they're all right there. From booth to booth, you have the bases covered.

~ Nate Berkus

I love Pinterest! Pinterest is absolutely phenomenal when you're trying to come up with a costume design.

~ Ashley Wagner

AppStudio is a native app builder that allows you to build the app and automatically deploy it on Android, iPhone, and Windows. It lets you design it once and then implement it anywhere.

~ Jack Dangermond

Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses.

~ Colleen Atwood

I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit.

~ Colleen Atwood

I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

~ Colleen Atwood

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

~ Kinky Friedman

I have been working with Hive, part of British Gas, on reinventing the thermostat. Now you can control your heating at the press of a button on your phone. As I say, design should permeate every part of society.

~ Yves Behar

When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.

~ Yves Behar

CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it.

~ Jeffrey Zeldman

I say homes are for families, and you have to make sure you design for the family, not just one person: kids, your wife, your grandparents need to be able to use it.

~ Tony Fadell

If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it.

~ Tony Fadell

There's a big gaping hole in the EDM space for songwriting. It's one thing to learn how to be a great sound designer and become big just on sound design. Especially if you're in the dubstep category, it's like, how much fatter and more interesting can you make those drops.

~ Steve Aoki

If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in.

~ Dasha Zhukova

With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

~ Olivier Theyskens

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

~ Terence

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

~ Tim Gunn

The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'

~ Alexander Wang

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

~ Isaac Mizrahi

You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program, and you can do a lot of - there's other ways other than physically to develop your weaponization program to get you very close to the real deal.

~ Mike Rogers

When we started out, you could design a chip with a few guys in a basement.

~ Henry Samueli

When I design a building, I'm making sure you and I can get to the front door, there's enough of a threshold for entry, and that the rooms are in a logical sequence.

~ Michael Graves

The cost is minimal, but one of the things that you want in a universal design is to make the plan as open as you can... and to still have walls around bedrooms and that sort of thing, and to keep the corridors wide enough so the wheelchair can do a 360 in the corridor.

~ Michael Graves

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

~ Richard Powers

You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.

~ Bre Pettis

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

~ Douglas Wilson

Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

~ John Maeda

I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.

~ Scott Westerfeld

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

~ Eddie Cantor

A marriage doesn't have to be perfect, but you can be perfect for each other.

~ Jessica Simpson

The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.

~ Sacha Guitry