Everything we do is designed, whether we’re producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything. – Henry Petroski
Trends are dangerous; you will fail if you design for them. You cannot follow the work of others. I have my own DNA, my own formula. I always stay true to myself and to the brand. – Giuseppe Zanotti
I don’t like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to luxury fashion. That’s what I’ve always felt and embraced. I like the best quality, the best fabrics and the most creative field in fashion. I will stay consistent. I belong to this world. – Hedi Slimane
Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study. – Henry Petroski
Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good. – Gregg Harper
I’m an artist. So if acting doesn’t work out, which I hope it does, I’m probably going to go into graphic design or something like that. – Gabriel Basso
Any design, whether it’s for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures. – Henry Petroski
I am tremendously excited to introduce a unique ‘Metal Gear Solid’ experience to a new audience of gamers as well as collaborate with my mentor in game design, Mr. Miyamoto, on ‘Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes’ for Nintendo GameCube. – Hideo Kojima
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design. – Gianfranco Ferre
To go back to architecture, what’s organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. – Greg Lynn
Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection. – Henry Petroski
There’s a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the small shops, production offices and design studios close down, and hey presto, we have another fashionable London suburb indistinguishable from the rest. – Howard Jacobson
Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography. – Hedi Slimane
The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design. – Jonathan Ive
I want to have all that scientific information that we’re building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions – and here it’s not just land-use planners, but it’s everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house – can analyze all of these information layers and design a future. – Jack Dangermond
Pete Dye introduced me to golf course design back in the 1960’s. He came to my hometown Columbus, Ohio to work on The Golf Club. – Jack Nicklaus
I’m always thinking about whatever game I’m working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I’m awake. – Jane McGonigal
When something’s made in the smallest volume – as a one-off couture piece – or in large quantities, deep care is critical to determine authentic, successful design and, ultimately, manufacture. – Jonathan Ive
I don’t want to be too harsh, but there’s very little evidence for ‘intelligent design’ or any sort of creator. – Jose Gonzalez
If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk. – Jamie Oliver
I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself. – Jamie Wyeth
The Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession posed daunting new challenges for central banks around the world and spurred innovations in the design, implementation, and communication of monetary policy. – Janet Yellen
What we’re looking at is God’s design, nature’s template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature. – Joel Salatin
Wellness is not a ‘medical fix’ but a way of living – a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever. – Greg Anderson
Developing games for the PC and consoles is all about everything and the kitchen sink. In many ways, you don’t have design decisions to make. You do it all. So I enjoy going back to making decisions about what’s important as I’m working on a game. – John Carmack
