Quotes About Designers

#1. Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason is because no one leaves. In the last 15 years, not one of the 18 designers has ditched Apple for greener pastures.

Jonathan Ive

#2. Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

Jonathan Barnbrook

#3. It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audience's role in it will be.

Edwin Schlossberg

#4. And which new designers are most likely to have the right habits? The ones who have formed the right truces and found the right alliances. Truces are so important that new fashion labels usually succeed only if they are headed by people who left other fashion companies on good terms.

Charles Duhigg

#5. I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

Bjork

#6. Designers were saying to me that they didn't have a place to sell their special pieces from the runway.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

#7. The Minted mission is to be a community that supports designers from all over the world and provides them with an opportunity to be discovered and build their careers.

Mariam Naficy

#8. Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

Henry Dreyfuss

#9. There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.

Tom Turner

#10. Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

Paul Saffo

#11. 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

#12. I know and have worked alongside some of the designers, developers, and editors at Vox Media; you'd be proud to work with any of them.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#13. I think I'm one of few American designers doing a house in Europe, and I think I've been proving myself there very well.

Jeremy Scott

#14. Brazil has its own fashion identity. Many very talented Brazilian designers show every season at Sao Paulo and Rio fashion weeks.

Gisele Bundchen

#15. We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new tags and scripting languages. We said designers, developers, and content folks should create one site that was accessible to everyone.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#16. Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#17. Peter Som is one of my favorite designers. I love his clothes so much.

Brad Goreski

#18. Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it.

Jane McGonigal

#19. It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.

Natalie Massenet

#20. That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.

Eric Carle

#21. The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 80 to upward of 100 people; of designers, engineers, boat builders, an incredible group of people, and there are a lot of nationalities in New Zealand's team.

James Spithill

#22. The problem is that resuscitating old labels doesn't work anymore. I think it is very important to give hope to a new generation of designers, so that one day they really can put their own names out there.

Giambattista Valli

#23. Designers shouldn't design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

Ralph Caplan

#24. Users are not designers.

Jakob Nielsen

#25. My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.

Anne Robinson

#26. What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.

Kellan Lutz

#27. With 'Suffragette,' I was emboldened that there were so many women around me. We had a female writer, producers, production and costume designers.

Sarah Gavron

#28. Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.

Edith Head

#29. Importance of Interior Designers in Dubai for Designing Your Homes and Offices

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#30. The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

Kate Reardon

#31. Designers and photographers still want to work with me and I'm grateful for that. I don't know how long I'll carry on - as long as they'll have me.

Linda Evangelista

#32. Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

Ozwald Boateng

#33. Tell me, which designers in New York do you think are great - besides me, of course.

Oscar De La Renta

#34. If I'm two pounds heavier, I'm fat. If I'm skinnier, I'm sick. It's ridiculous. And that's not coming from agents or designers.

Alessandra Ambrosio

#35. I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable.

Twiggy

#36. When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's "form follows function," what they meant was,
form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it,
because there is no effort to spare for error.
Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives.

Paul Graham

#37. Using predictive models from engineering and public health, designers will plan safer, healthier cities that could allow us to survive natural disasters, pandemics, and even a radiation calamity that drives us underground.

Annalee Newitz

#38. Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.

Hartmut Esslinger

#39. If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough - they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things.

Donald A. Norman

#40. I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.

Pam Grier

#41. Anytime you can promote young artists and designers is a cool thing.

Dylan Lauren

#42. By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other
designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

P. J. Plauger

#43. I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.

Chanel Iman

#44. My daughter decided to embrace and celebrate who she was. She was a size 2 at one time, but she decided she didn't want to be hungry anymore. I think that's how you turn it around. Today, more and more designers are recognizing how lucrative that market is.

Beverly Johnson

#45. I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice.

Seth Green

#46. We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art to movies to music to design. Fashion is always evolving. Actually, the field is huge. I don't think there is another profession that is so open to so many possibilities.

Miuccia Prada

#47. I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.

Johanna Drucker

#48. I've learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.

Claudia Schiffer

#49. But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.

Samantha Mumba

#50. Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening ... It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.

Marc Jacobs

#51. Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.

Marty Neumeier

#52. Watches have watch makers, paintings have painters, designs have designers, and creation has a creator,

Tony Evans

#53. The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.

Marty Neumeier

#54. I wish I was more into clothes. I don't know the current designers.

Alice Dellal

#55. To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.

Gary Wolf

#56. They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients.

Rudy VanderLans

#57. 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

#58. Fashion Week is so important for designers.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#59. Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

Katori Hall

#60. Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.

Yves Behar

#61. It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

Jonathan Ive

#62. My clothes are fabulous - colourful, fun and by some very special designers. They deserve a better life than being sleeping beauties in a bed of tissue inside a trunk.

Suzy Menkes

#63. I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropologist by training.

Jan Chipchase

#64. There really are so many lines of work that you can join that don't have to only be design. And that was one that particularly interested me a lot, because the editors could appreciate all the trends, all the designs and all the work of the designers.

Nina Garcia

#65. I try to be thoughtful about spreading the wealth: young designers. Mixing things up is important to me.

Michelle Obama

#66. She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.

Kanye West

#67. I'd love there to be more larger models, but it's just not going to happen. Designers love to design for slim girls.

Twiggy

#68. I love heels, and as a size 36, I've accumulated a wall of amazing high heels from catwalk shows over the years where designers had to make especially small shoes. Tom Ford's golden versions are my favourite. I do, however, also live in my flat Saint Laurent Chelsea boots or Givenchy sneakers.

Liberty Ross

#69. When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

Peter Senge

#70. I find some collections to be more vibrant than others, but the designers who last are those who are able to continue to be creative within the mold they have cast, usually right at the beginning of their careers.

Suzy Menkes

#71. The reason why many clients don't value design is because haven't had a designer prove to them the value of it. You need to prove it to clients who've hired a bunch of shitty designers and their business has not been that successful. When they hire a good designer, they see the difference.

Jessica Hische

#72. The challenge of a revival is how to bring something fresh. The reward is the opportunity to add different flourishes. You're dealing with different actors, designers and a different time.

Scott Ellis

#73. Anyone can contribute images, and we sell them to designers and agencies all over the world.

Jon Oringer

#74. We are type designers, punch cutters, wood cutters, type founders, compositors, printers, and book binders from conviction and with passion, not because we are insufficiently talented for other higher things, but because for us the highest things stand in close kinship to those ends

Rudolph Koch

#75. Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers.

Boy George

#76. Fashion is about affordable luxury ... To succeed, designers need to be affordable, wearable, accessible, and aspirational.

Tommy Hilfiger

#77. Design is too important to be left to designers.

Raymond Loewy

#78. My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer and not many designers?

Richard Dawkins

#79. No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.

Karl Lagerfeld

#80. A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.

Elsa Peretti

#81. Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.

Jaclyn Smith

#82. The most important thing to do is to take risks. The risks are where breakthroughs happen, and big shifts take you to new places and create opportunities. They can be really scary and intimidating, but that means it is taking you out of your comfort zone. All designers look at life through a

Sophia Amoruso

#83. Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.

Alexander McQueen

#84. Designers devote their efforts to change.

Sol Sender

#85. Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

Erma Bombeck

#86. There are highlights when you become irreplaceable as a model, like when you become a muse to designers. They look at you differently; you're not a coat hanger for hire.

Iman

#87. My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don't often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

Vera Wang

#88. Early in my career, I was involved with engineer-led projects, where designers came in late in the game and were expected to put lipstick on an existing code base. This almost never works.

Ryan Holmes

#89. Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place

William McDonough

#90. At Sir-Tech I went through the ranks, almost like an apprenticeship. I was very fortunate. The industry was smaller then, and I was able to work alongside some amazing game designers.

Brenda Brathwaite

#91. I'm always interested in collaborating with designers. I love Gaultier. I know that's kind of a high hope!

Pamela Love

#92. I did Urban Zen for myself, to make clothes for me and my friends, a similar philosophy to when I started Donna Karan. Except this time I hope it will stay that way so that I will be able to support young designers and mentor them.

Donna Karan

#93. Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

Edith Head

#94. Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much.

Donatella Versace

#95. What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with these big houses, was just beginning then [in the 90th].

Roopal Patel

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

Erma Bombeck

#97. Somebody has to pay our editors, writers, journalists, designers, developers, and all the other specialists whose passion and tears go into every chunk of worthwhile web content.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#98. There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.

Joan Collins

#99. I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.

Emma Watson

#100. It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.

Twiggy