Quotes About Industrial Design

#1. Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.

John Sculley

#2. 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

#3. Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.

Raymond Loewy

#4. Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs.

Temple Grandin

#5. If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

Jefferson Han

#6. While I was at community college, I studied industrial design because I thought maybe I'd be an automotive designer - I grew up in Detroit - and I also studied, geology because I was interested in science, a little bit.

Andrew J. Feustel

#7. I majored in industrial design/painting, but haven't had time to exercise that creativity.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#8. The fashion industry has an enormous amount to offer in what we do in industrial design because fashion is fast, fashion has its finger on the pulse. There are very few creative industries that work on that rhythm.

Marc Newson

#9. I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.

David Chipperfield

#10. Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.

Bill N. Lacy

#11. There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

Victor Papanek

#12. Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's.

Timothy Noah

#13. The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model for music, making it significantly less expensive for big users.

Douglas Rushkoff

#14. Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item.

Charles Pollock

#15. I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.

Karim Rashid

#16. [Industrial design in 50 years] will be less about looks and more about personality of artifacts.

Nicholas Negroponte

#17. The industrial real estate market completed one of its strongest demand cycles in history as several factors ignited the fire. For projects coming on line in 2005, record-low interest rates during the design phase 12 to 18 months prior provided additional incentive for development and absorption.

Brian Gordon

#18. About, not to. Prepositions had been invented for a reason.

Lauren Willig

#19. ....young people unskilled in mathematics, addled by credit cards, and weaned on so-called intelligent design...will somehow retool American science for another generation of world industrial leadership.

Kevin Phillips

#20. Traditional agriculture was labour intensive, industrial agriculture is energy intensive, and permaculture-designed systems are information and design intensive.

David Holmgren

#21. I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.

Scott Westerfeld

#22. They did not know that the quicker a fresh-water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he is;

Mark Twain

#23. ... no industrial designer worth his salt, or our attention, has been trained to work exclusively on any particular product, unless by accident. What he has been trained to do is practice a process called design, a process that includes esthetic choices but does not consist only of them.

Ralph Caplan

#24. Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

E. O. Wilson

#25. As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

Craig Venter

#26. A chair is the first thing you need when you don't really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.

Ralph Caplan

#27. I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

Anna Chlumsky

#28. To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas.

Bruce Lee

#29. Happiness is not outside ourselves.

Leo Babauta

#30. It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

Alva Noto

#31. I dream of a Digital India where farmers are empowered with real-time information to be connected with Global Markets.

Narendra Modi

#32. As an industrial designer, you design the thing by yourself, and then it goes away from you, whereas fashion is in constant relation to the body and to psychology. It makes it more complicated, and it makes it more challenging.

Raf Simons

#33. I'm a dramatist.

Richard LaGravenese

#34. People who design machines and airplanes {or buildings}, no matter how much they believe that what they do is good, the winds of time eventually turn them into tools of industrial civilization. They're cursed dreams. Animation, too. Beautiful yet cursed dreams.

Hayao Miyazaki