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- Nov 07, 2020
Design Quotes
On design as history, craft, and a single creative umbrella.
A few quotes here take a long historical view, tracing design back to early stone tools and ancient flutes long before the word itself existed. For more, see Creativity quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Prejudice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Architectural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Always beware an unsigned architectural design.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a design behind the world that we are living in, which is veiled to most of us most of the time, but every once in a while, you catch a glimpse of it.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I help design my own tennis clothes.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I observed that many talented graphic designers, including those in my own family, had difficulty getting their designs to market. I thought it would be possible to hold open stationery design competitions where all designers could participate.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The name Minted speaks to the freshness of our design - the fact that we are receiving thousands of new designs each week and selling freshly minted winners from our design competitions.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020