Designer Quotes - Page 4

• Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

  Ellen Lupton

  Technology, Design, Spacing

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.91, Chronicle Books

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• I just check my Instagram. I get a lot of inspiration from there, I follow a lot of different designers and not really people in particular, just kind of designers and shops, certain stores that I love and just kind of draw inspiration from there and bookmark them.

  Lili Reinhart

  Inspiration, People, Different

  "Riverdale Stars Lili Reinhart and Camila Mendes Star in Their First Fashion Campaign for Bongo". Interview with Brittany Talarico, people.com. August 9, 2017.

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• London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, offers the range of subjects that help young designers to arrange the underpinnings that are necessary to get from zero to 10. The hardest part is the beginning, understanding your passion and making the decision that whatever it takes, that's what you're going to do. London College of Fashion shows them what they must do and helps them to find their goal.

  Carmen Dell'Orefice

  Fashion, Art, Passion

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

  Henrik Fisker

  Art, Design, Branding

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• Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.

  Rita Ora

  Fun, Should Have, Clothes

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

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• Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

  Erik Adigard

  Philosophy, Design, Crafts

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• Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

  Chris Bangle

  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

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• I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Discipline, Design, Assuming

  Jeffrey Veen (2001). “The Art & Science of Web Design”, New Riders Pub

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• Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

  Erma Bombeck

  Fashion, Design, Literature

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• It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Style, Together

  Interview with Amy Odell, www.thecut.com. February 5, 2009.

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• A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Death, Thinking, Design

  Interview with Carlo Pescio, www.eptacom.net. June 1997.

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• A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

  Bruno Munari

  Badass, Bad Ass, Design

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• Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Men, Style

  "Oscar de la Renta's Legacy" by Vanessa Friedman, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2014.

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• My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Art, Real, Expression

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• A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspiring, Success, Writing

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• Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Ideas, Design, Normalcy

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• Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Blue Dress

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

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Artist, Design

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• Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is not about designers. Design is not an ocean it's a fishbowl. Design is creating something you believe in.

  Chuck Green

  Believe, Ocean, Eye

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• Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood.

  Ivan Chermayeff

  Hands, Design, Language

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• As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

  Harry von Zell

  Simple, Space, Cost

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• When we did 'Dynasty', it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!

  Aaron Spelling

  Thinking, Clothes, Dynasty

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• As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.

  Colleen Atwood

  Beautiful, Clothes, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Stress, Pride, Suffering

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• We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, President, Actors

  Interview with Peter Halley, www.indexmagazine.com. 2004.

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