Design Quotes - page 39

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. (James Rouse)
If we don't have accurate information, if we are not able to tell difficult truth one to another, we will never be able to effectively design a policy for Iraq. View quote
Jack Reed
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. View quote
John Langdon
I look at graphic design as communication, meaning that the work has to have a vibe to connect to the viewer or perceiver. I make a black and white drawing and then add color digitally, bringing in a contemporary pattern to the composition to create a vibrance. View quote
John Van Hamersveld
We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are. View quote
James Hall
Always beware an unsigned architectural design. View quote
Martin Filler
Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it. View quote
Martin Filler
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades. View quote
Martin Filler
Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms. View quote
Martin Filler
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919. View quote
Martin Filler
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades. (Martin Filler)
Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.' View quote
Martin Filler
In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality. View quote
Martin Jacques
When I am there at our global product development centers, I am meeting with the design team and reviewing design work being done there and meeting with engineers responsible for work being done specific to that region, meeting with purchasing team. View quote
Mary Barra
I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up. View quote
Mary J. Blige
I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform. View quote
Matt Mickiewicz
When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly. View quote
Michael Arad
I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me. View quote
Michael Arad
For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design. View quote
Michael Arad
It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this. View quote
Michael Graves
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works and in reality the computer has a lot of influence on design. (Michael Hansmeyer)
I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate. View quote
Mike Davidson
It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme. View quote
Mike McCready
It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global. View quote
Mike Mills
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. View quote
Mike Rogers