Designer Quotes - Page 10

• Designers devote their efforts to change.

  Sol Sender

  Effort

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• Designers shouldn't aim to control, but to enable.

  Dan Hill

  Aim

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• The products we design are going to be ridden in, sat upon, looked at, talked into, activated, operated, or in some way used by people individually or en masse. If the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed. If, on the other hand, people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient-or just plain happier-the industrial designer has succeeded.

  Henry Dreyfuss

  Happy, Failure, Hands

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• I was on a Japanese designers' pedestal - considered a maestro. My design was getting closer to a couturier's work, and I felt like I was missing something.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Design, Missing, Pedestal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do feel that I'm talking to someone who's in a totally different place from where I was when I started modeling. I was fortunate enough to have the wonderful designers and amazing photographers around me, and editors that I knew, and if I wanted to ask a question, I asked them. So that gap has broadened a bit.

  Naomi Campbell

  Talking, Editors, Different

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I feel like I'm a designer, not a pop star. But if certain people think of me like a pop star, then the only thing I could do about this is dye my hair black and cut it short maybe.

  Nicki Minaj

  Stars, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

  Cate Blanchett

  Way, Painter, Graphic

  Interview with Jack White, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not. So there I was.

  Donna Karan

  Choices, Lessons, I've Learned

  Interview with Calvin Klein, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2009.

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• Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell designer jeans, shampoo, and rock stars. Why, we might end up with people whos attention span for the printed word is longer than the time it takes to read a T-shirt.

  Jim Trelease

  Stars, Book, Creativity

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• I have always been fascinated by structure and by exploring its possibilities. Throughout my life as a designer and maker, my structures have progressively become lighter and lighter, to the point now where I wonder how I can just sell the idea without any physical form. This seems to parallel human development where, as our bodies age, physicality is replaced by conceptualising and spirituality.

  David Trubridge

  Ideas, Age, Development

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• It is not coincidence that makes a designer but his continuity. And continuity means working and searching, working and fighting, working and finding, finding and seeing, seeing and communicating, and again working and searching. Designers must challenge the past, must challenge the present, must challenge the future; but first of all, designers must be true to themselves. Design is attitude.

  Helmut Schmid

  Attitude, Mean, Fighting

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• Forget trendy designer labels. Jeans, a sweater or a t-shirt worn under a jacket that seems welded to you. When it's just right, when you don't see the effort, it's irresistible.

  Emmanuelle Alt

  Jeans, Sweaters, Effort

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• I love mixing and playing with different textures and the whole taking different designers and mixing them - I was one of the first, I think, to not do a full runway look, yet there's always a method to the madness, which is the harmonious discord.

  Lori Goldstein

  Thinking, Mixing, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work. There is a certain taste I'm drawn to and feel inspired by, and finding that inspiration is what keeps the conversation moving forward.

  Marc Forster

  Moving, Inspiration, Talking

  Interview with Octavio Molina, www.askmen.com. August 30, 2014.

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• I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there.

  Joan Collins

  Design, Dresses, Pieces

  "Truly Outrageous: Joan Collins on The Power Suit". Interview with Susan Cernek, www.glamour.com. September 10, 2009.

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• There are some brilliant designers but their clothes only really suit 6 foot 20-year-olds.

  Joan Collins

  Years, Feet, Clothes

  "Truly Outrageous: Joan Collins on The Power Suit". Interview with Susan Cernek, www.glamour.com. September 10, 2009.

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• I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.

  Christian Serratos

  Mother, Fashion, Long

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

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• Colour disturbs people. I am confident in black, not in light. This dark side of life is attractive to me forever and from the beginning. I am a lazy designer when it comes to colour.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Dark, Light, People

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• That the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible. They operate on the premise that city people seek the sight of emptiness, obvious order and quiet. Nothing could be less true. The presences of great numbers of people gathered together in cities should not only be frankly accepted as a physical fact... they should also be enjoyed as an asset and their presence celebrated.

  Jane Jacobs

  Order, Cities, Numbers

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• The costume designer, her name is Anne Hardinge. She's done "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz." She's really comedic costume designer, which was right up my alley. She was a joy to work with. She was like fabulous Geena Davis. She was just floating with her red lip and kind of fabulous.

  Jerusha Hess

  Names, Joy, Hot

  "Interview: Jerusha Hess and J.J. Feild of 'Austenland'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. August 22, 2013.

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• Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really inspiring and I take great pleasure in working with them. That's what's most fun about directing.

  Marc Webb

  Fun, People, Creative

  Source: screenrant.com

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• If you view computer designers as artists, they're really into more of an art form that can be mass-produced, like records, or like prints, than they are into fine arts. They want something where they can express themselves to a large number of people through their medium, and their medium is technology and manufacturing.

  Steve Jobs

  Art, Technology, Views

  "Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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• The idea that hunting is one against one is ludicrous. It's one animal versus the hunter, the manufacturer of the rifle, the bullet maker, the designer and manufacturer of the telescopic sight, the auto manufacturer who made the car the hunter got to the edge of the wild in, the maker of his waterproof shoes, the various manufacturers of his mittens, glasses, overcoat - and that's only the beginning of the list. The "sportsman" who shoots an animal should then make a speech, like the actor who wins an Oscar does, thanking the multitudes behind the scenes who made this "victory" possible.

  Dick Cavett

  Hunting, Animal, Winning

  Dick Cavett, Christopher Porterfield (1974). “Cavett”

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• The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it.

  Hyman Rickover

  Mistake, Paper, Necks

  "AEC Authorizing Legislation: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy", (p. 1702), 1970.

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• I'm an unbelievable designer. I don't know how I know and just do these things. I just start sketching and then I just know the colors and I always know the forecast. I know green and purple are going to be hot. I was born to be a designer. I worked hard to be a tennis player, I don't work hard to be a designer.

  Serena Williams

  Hard Work, Player, Color

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