Designer Quotes - Page 30

• Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.

  Oleg Cassini

  Fashion, Care, Today

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• In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

  Fede Alvarez

  Art, Guy, Another Life

  "Filmmaker Fede Alvarez digs up scares with 'Evil Dead'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. April 4, 2013.

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• I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.

  Trudi Canavan

  Lonely, Art, Jobs

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• As designers we have a great responsibility.

  Dieter Rams

  Responsibility, Great Responsibility

  "Looks familiar? Apple classics and their 1960s ancestors" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2008.

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• I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.

  Francisco Costa

  Fashion, Wanted, Knows

  "When Francisco Met Bianca". Interview with Bianca Jagger, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes.

  Francisco Costa

  Fashion, Artist, Clothes

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• I'm not a designer, I'm a creator.

  Nicola Formichetti

  Creator

  "Work Hard, Play Hard: Backstage With Nicola Formichetti". Interview with Alice Pfeiffer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 20, 2011.

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• Evolving Culture, Reality, as we perceive it, is largely shaped by the artifacts, both material and symbolic, of thought, thought that leads to creative manifestation in form and color. With that in mind, it might be suggested that the visual artist, - from commercial designer to fine art painter - has much to do with most things that enter your everyday visuals, and thus form a major portion of one's reality and, certainly, how this culture manifests and evolves.

  Robert Venosa

  Art, Reality, Color

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• My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

  Maira Kalman

  Art, School, My Sister

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• Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Artist, Tough

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• I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.

  Jason Wu

  Fashion, Years, Careers

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• Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasnt always translated to the streets.

  Jason Wu

  Clothes, Streets, Outlandish

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• I am an Asian designer. I was born in Taiwan. That is who I am. But I am a designer, like any designer of any race. Growing up in the '80s in Taiwan, the arts were not considered a career.

  Jason Wu

  Art, Growing Up, Race

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• When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

  David Mazzucchelli

  Artist, Groups, Introducing

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• When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community and often the community socially is broken.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Crush, Technology, Broken

  "Quotes of the day: Cameron Sinclair". www.cnn.com. July 11, 2008.

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• A good game impresses you with what you're doing. I think that's a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need to recede in the background.

  Sid Meier

  Thinking, Differences, Games

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• From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.

  Kenneth Frampton

  Block, Opening Up, Space

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• Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

  Jane McGonigal

  Games, World, Lawyer

  "Super Girl" by Whitney Joiner, www.elle.com. June 22, 2011.

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• I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

  Jane McGonigal

  Games, Want, Nobel

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• A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic. If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.

  Alan Cooper

  Powerful, Simple, Thinking

  Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin (2012). “About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design”, p.121, John Wiley & Sons

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• As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Guy, Niche

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• When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Boys, Moon, Doctors

  "Olivier Theyskens On Creativity & Commerce, Obama & Middleton, And Being Naked". Interview with Blue Carreon, www.forbes.com. October 24, 2011.

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• I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Vintage, Inspired, Be Inspired

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• Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Fashion, House, Age

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• When I walk for a designer, I walk the ramp as Vijender Singh, the boxer. I believe that by doing so, boxing will at least, in some way, get promoted in our entertainment industry. Plus, if cricketers can, why can't I?

  Vijender Singh

  Believe, Boxing, Boxers

  "Vijender Singh on Boxing, Bollywood and Modeling". Interview with Preetika Rana, blogs.wsj.com. June 1, 2012.

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