Designer Quotes - Page 14

• If you say that you're a cheap designer, you're a cheap designer. It's really hard to recover from that.

  Jessica Hische

  Hard, Ifs

  Source: www.digitalartsonline.co.uk

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• Being a good designer certainly doesn't guarantee that you're good at business. It's probably more surprising when the two talents coexist in one person.

  Susan Orlean

  Guarantees That, Two, Talent

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement which glued his facts together, and his emotions as a kind of dark and obscure designer of those facts. Reluctantly, he comes to the conclusion that to account for his book is to account for his life.

  Richard Wright

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Richard Wright (1991). “Works”

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• The designer [...] has a passion for doing something that fits somebody's needs, but that is not just a simple fix. The designer has a dream that goes beyond what exists, rather than fixing what exists. [...] The designer wants to create a solution that fits in a deeper situational or social sense.

  David E. Kelley

  Dream, Passion, Simple

  "The Designer’s Stance". Interview with Bradley Hartfield, hci.stanford.edu.

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• Over 95% of the designers who have ever lived are alive today. Together, we have the power to define what professionalism in the communications industry will be about: helping increase market share or helping repair the World.

  David Berman

  Communication, Together, Live For Today

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• My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom

  Robin Wright

  Levi Strauss, Fruit, My Favorite

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• No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.

  Will Wright

  Player, Games, Narcissism

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• Screenwriting you don't necessarily have to do the job of the costume designer and the prop master and the set designer. It's more just about finding the visuals and finding these characters through dialogue.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Jobs, Character, Costumes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To make good films, you have to have a good relationship and good collaboration as composer-director, composer-editor, composer-production designer-actor because you're working with the actors on screen.

  Howard Shore

  Editors, Good Relationship, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• I like the new shoe designers. Not all of them - there are really bad ones too. But I go to the colleges with these kids for lectures, as an honorary professor or whatever, and this Chinese girl I like very much who I give the award to says to me, "You don't know how much you inspired me to do shoes." And I'm glad that I convey that kind of desire to people when they see my bloody shoes.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, Kids, College

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• People are like, "Why are you all dressed up? Did you dress up just for me?" I'm like "No, I dressed up because I'm an adult and I felt like putting on my suit." But I love it. Tom Ford and Ralph Lauren are my two heroes of clothing designers.

  Paul Feig

  Hero, Two, People

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2011.

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• I'm always interested in collaborating with designers. I love Gaultier. I know that's kind of a high hope!

  Pamela Love

  Kind, Knows, Collaborating

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are not many designers who are truly creative and literate. Most are self-indulgent, illiterate, fashion-mongering, service people trying to bridge a message between a product and an audience.

  Ivan Chermayeff

  Fashion, Self, Bridges

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• To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Needs, Reaching, Interest

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• As a young designer explained to me bluntly: "Everyone upstairs is dumb," referring to the floor above the engineering lair at the 156 University office where customer support, administrators and salespeople sat. My first impulse was to laugh at his ridiculous, blithe dismissiveness, until I realized that it wasn't very funny.

  Katherine Losse

  Engineering, Laughing, Office

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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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 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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• We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art to movies to music to design. Fashion is always evolving. Actually, the field is huge. I don't think there is another profession that is so open to so many possibilities.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Art, Jobs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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 been called an eco-designer simply because I use wood. But I am not an eco-designer, nor does the use of wood make me one. I am a designer who cares about the effect of what I do, and about making good things for people to keep and cherish - that, surely, is simply the basic condition for 'good design'?

  David Trubridge

  People, Design, Who Cares

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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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• Designers have to keep the body in mind all the time. Think of the girl's undergarments: the bra is always key.

  Candice Huffine

  Girl, Thinking, Keys

  "Plus-Size Model Candice Huffine Has Launched Her Own Collection and It's Fabulous". Interview with Lauren Chan, www.glamour.com. May 6, 2015.

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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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• All movements begin and end, and all have been inspired by others that have come before them. They evolve and then deconstruct again. There are very few designers whose aesthetic I'm drawn to on a personal level. However, that's different from the ways in which I might dress the characters in my films.

  Marc Forster

  Character, Dresses, Different

  Interview with Octavio Molina, www.askmen.com.

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