- Different Places
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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
- Something
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.
- New Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.
- Bridge
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- Nov 07, 2020
A bridge is born of necessity, but it must establish its own identity. It should harmonize with its surroundings, and the design must transcend the purely local and transform the setting.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Grand Central Station, which is a marvelous building, the design and engineering of the Oculus will endure for many generations to come.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the most basic level, prioritizing design also represents a practical consideration. It's far easier to design first and engineer later.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.
- Privacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Robots are very tricky to design and expensive, whereas humans are cheaply manufactured. Humans can handle things with greater manual dexterity than most robots I've known.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020