“The blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within an ecological and cultural context will be the basis of creating a new ...design science for the post-petroleum era.” TechnologyDesignWindWasteCreatingBasesProductionsArchitectureErasPostsHousingEcologicalPetroleumUtilizationFood Production Author:John Todd
“I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.” PeopleKnowsLinesCompanyStudyTakenTeamFashionDesignCreatingDesigner Author:Bonnie Wright
“I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.” PeopleThinkingRealDeathArtistVirtueDesignCreatingCustomersPracticalsClothingsIndividualismAccessories Author:Giorgio Armani
“In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to all physical, biological and social systems that survive and thrive.... But let’s take that one step forward... the systems just described are ... constantly evolving. This suggests another design principle: ... design for evolution rather than creating a static design optimizing for the present.” OrderSocialStepsPrinciplesGreaterDesignEvolutionCreatingFlowCurrentsAccessEvolveThriveProvidingStaticSteps ForwardSocial Systems Author:John Hagel
“I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.” MeanIdeasInspirationOpinionDesignPersonalityTasteCreatingCraftsFabric Author:Olivier Theyskens
“When I was younger, I wanted to own a circus and create this bizarre revue that went from town to town. And, I was interested in set design and doing theater. And then, I was painting for a while. It was all circling around creating an intense experience for an audience of one, or an audience of many.” WantedAudienceDesignPaintingCreatingTheaterTownsIntenseBizarreCircusAudience Of One Author:Neil Burger
“I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. Im into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.” TryingArtHouseEnjoySidesCuttingFashionDesignInspireCreatingEdgesArtisticInteriorsInterior DesignCutting EdgeCreating Things Author:Chris Kirkpatrick
“Creating music to fit the marketplace, so that music can be heard? If ever I thought that I even came close to catering to the marketplace, or designing my productions and my music to cater to what is currently fashionable, I would sell shoes for a living. For me, the marketplace can rot in hell. I will do music for the love of music and for the love of people who listen to music, and absolutely nothing else will drive me.” PeopleIfsHellHeardDesignFitCreatingSellsShoesProductionsListening To MusicMarketplaceFashionableAbsolutely NothingMusic LoveCateringCreating Music Author:Daniel Lanois
“It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don't care if it's designing toothbrushes. It's just making cool stuff to leave behind, that's all it is, it's nothing more.” IfsTryingCareActorsStuffBehindsDesignCreatingDon't CareI Don't CareDesignerRapperGood WorkToothbrushesCool Stuff Author:Andre Benjamin
“I love the fact that I work with everything that has to do with the brand, the product, the environment, the online, the architecture, the web design, because I am somebody that loves making things, making experiences, creating things that people love to engage with.” PeopleFactsEnvironmentDesignProductsCreatingArchitectureBrandsOnlineLove MakingWeb DesignCreating Things Author:Christopher Bailey
“You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property.” WorldWritingFirstsLittlesCharacterChoicesActorsGivenSubjectsDesignDirectorsProjectsCreatingPropertyProductionsStudiosProducersCostumesProduction Design Author:Rainn Wilson
“I might do a film someday for the collection. I love designing sets and creating environments, in film school and for my own presentations. I love telling stories.” StoriesMightSchoolFilmMy OwnEnvironmentDesignCreatingCollectionsSomedayPresentationTelling StoriesFilm School Author:Pamela Love
“Creating a city for successful aging involves incorporating age friendly values into everything we do - every plan, every project, every design. I'm excited to be leading Honolulu in this effort, and I believe that it will be one of the most rewarding things I do as Mayor.” BelieveAgeValuesI BelieveEffortCitiesSuccessfulPlansDesignProjectsCreatingAgingExcitedFriendlyMayorsIncorporatingHonolulu Author:Kirk Caldwell
“I got my career start by first creating my own free, independent lifestyle in my own house out in the country. There I taught myself to make and later design furniture. I have continued to go my own way, always consciously needing to feel that I am moving forward.” WayFeelsFirstsCountryMovingHouseMy OwnCareersDesignTaughtCreatingIndependentLifestyleMoving ForwardFurniture Author:David Trubridge
“Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details, like a forest.” SeemsQualityEnvironmentDesignCreatingDetailsForestsInteriorsCurvesSculptureInterior DesignBaroque Author:Camille Henrot
“I like to talk about the idea of "design without design," where... we're creating the conditions for the things that we want to see happen rather than trying to force a particular set of outcomes.” WantTryingIdeasHappensForceConditionsDesignParticularCreatingOutcomes Author:Toby Hemenway
“If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.” IfsDifferentWould BeCompanyDesignTypeCreatingCompetitionAvailableVarietyConsumersExpensiveElectricOutletsPlugsAppliances Author:Bill Gates
“When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is sifting through a rack of clothes, somehow that piece of clothing that you had so much fun designing speaks to her she responds to it and buys it. I believe you can actually transfer that energy to material things as you're creating them.” BelieveShowsEnergySpeakFunI BelievePiecesDesignMaterialsProductsCreatingClothesHaving FunClothingsTransfersBelieve You CanMaterial ThingsRacksCreating SomethingSomething You LoveSifting Author:Tom Ford
“Navigation is about wayfinding, you can't treat it as separate because many other things run parallel with it. If you look at studies in wayfinding, everything from exhibit design to building the cathedrals, it's about creating a complete system. It's about looking at the whole.” IfsLooksWholeRunningStudyDesignBuildingCreatingTreatsParallelsExhibitsCathedralsNavigation Author:Clement Mok
“We can design things that learn, so you can grow an intelligence by creating an environment and creating things that just do it a million time faster than we do.” GrowsMillionsEnvironmentDesignCreatingFasterJust Do ItCreating Things Author:Howard Rheingold
“My documentaries have always been very much constructed in the spirit of dominant cinema. From the time I started making non-fiction, I was mainly interested in designing and creating documentaries like fiction, so it was a natural evolution to try and embark on doing a dramatic narrative.” TryingSpiritNaturalFictionDesignEvolutionCreatingNarrativeCinemaDramaticDominantDocumentariesNon Fiction Author:Brett Morgen
“It's an art installation to put out a collection, with the people behind the scenes who are inventing and creating these designs and making sure they're realized on the catwalk, and just how much hangs on it for the designers. Their livelihoods hang in the balance, as far as whether this year's collection works for them or not, and there are so many people's jobs on the line, as a result of that. I just had no idea.” PeopleYearsArtIdeasJobsLinesResultsBehindsDesignBalanceSceneCreatingNo IdeaDesignerCollectionsInventingLivelihoodBehind The ScenesInstallationCatwalk Author:Tom Riley
“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.” LifeInspirationalArtRealPoetryDesignCreatingGardenPoetry IsPoeticImaginaryToads Author:Marianne Moore
“In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone and plastic. Inferior standards can prevail due to smart marketing or industry collusion.” MadeGamesPathDesignIndustryCreatingSmartStandardsStonesInvestmentMarketingDuesPlasticInferiorsDependencyCorrespondingRules Of The GameCollusion Author:Evgeny Morozov
“As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of an infinite regress. If God created the universe, what created God? To say that God, by definition, is uncreated simply begs the question. Any being capable of creating a complex world promises to be very complex himself. As the biologist Richard Dawkins has observed repeatedly, the only natural process we know of that could produce a being capable of designing things is evolution.” IfsKnowsWorldProblemUniverseProcessNaturalDesignProduceEvolutionPromiseCreatingCapableInfiniteComplexesCriticsNotionDefinitionsCreatorBiologist Author:Sam Harris