Best objects & design Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.”

Children Mother Pieces Design Objects Brother Salt Brothers And Sisters Cousin Peppers Mother And Child Shakers Salt And Pepper

Author:Eva Zeisel

“The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide the attention, and to counteract his great design of speaking to the heart.”

Heart Moments Attention Design Objects Genius Waste Painter Divides Great Design

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, Delivered at the Royal Academy

“There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate closely to its function. The abutment of the edge of one board to an adjoining board can mean the success or failure of a piece. () Gradually a form evolves, much as nature produces the tree in the first place. The object created can live forever. The tree lives on in its new form. The object cannot follow a transitory “style”, here for a moment, discarded the next. Its appeal must be universal. Cordial and receptive, it should invite a meeting with man”

“I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.”

Space Rooms Design Objects Building Aim Interaction Viewers Furniture Skylines

Author:Gae Aulenti

“We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or with history, or with ideas of any kind beyond the self-referential. What we call 'regeneration' is largely an excuse for building for maximum profit with a bit of sculptural design thrown in to catch the eye of the media.”

Kind Ideas Self Eye Bits Media Design Objects Building Profit Excuse Dialogue Britain Thrown Maximum Regeneration

Author:David Chipperfield

“All you have to do is pick up a baseball. It begs to you: throw me. If you took a year to design an object to hurl, you'd end up with that little spheroid small enough to nestle in your fingers but big enough to have some heft, lighter than a rock but heavier than a hunk of wood. Its even, neat stitching, laced into the leather's slippery white surface, gives your fingers a purchase. A baseball was made to throw. It's almost irresistible.”

Ifs Giving Years Littles Made Ends Enough Bigs White Rocks Design Objects Picks Baseball Fingers Woods Surface Irresistible Leather Neat Lighters Slippery Hunk

Author:Dave Dravecky

“Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven.”

Men Important Soul Heaven Social Natural Answers Interesting Views Powerful Influence Design Objects Curiosity Affection Excited Selfish Mysterious Motive Providence Permission

Author:Daniel Boone

“All my plans in private life; all my pursuits; all my designs, wishes, and thoughts, have this one great object in view: the overthrow of the ruffian Boroughmongers. If I write grammars; if I write on agriculture; if I sow, plant, or deal in seeds; whatever I do has first in view the destruction of those infamous tyrants.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Wish Views Deals Plans Design Objects Destruction Plant Seeds Pursuit Tyrants Agriculture Grammar Private Life Infamous Ruffian

Author:William Cobbett

“I always choose strong, direct backlighting that creates patterns of intricate abstract shadows. These shadows become strong design elements that lie across and touch other objects in the set up.”

Light Lying Strong Design Objects Elements Shadow Direct Patterns Abstract Intricate

Author:William C. Wright

“To go back to architecture, whats 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.”

Whole Bigs Rooms Break Issues Design Fields Identity Objects Products Architecture Scales Realms Breaking Down Product Design Small Rooms Holism

Author:Greg Lynn

“The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.”

Mean Use Past Design Objects Future Mark Aim Instruments Past And Present

Book:Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects

Source: Thoughts on Religion and Other Curious Subjects

“Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.”

Men Feels Made Book Design Objects Communication Miracle Complexes My Favorite Smell Burning

Author:Ken Baumann

“Designing for me is a very complex process. There are many ideas that I want to express in one object, very often contradictory. The creative process in Miu Miu is completely different from that of Prada. Miu Miu is not as complicated and thought out as Prada. Rather than being young, Miu Miu is immediate Prada is very sophisticated and considered; Miu Miu is much more naive. The solution, when I am working on Miu Miu, has to come immediately, instinctively, spontaneously with whatever is available at the moment. If I think three times, I stop.”

“No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.”

Humans Plans Design Objects Produce Understood Capacity Appearance Outcomes Human Capacity

Author:Bruce Mau

“Regardless of what the object of design is, humans need design. For anything humans use in their day to day life, they need design and it is a clear and concrete proof of the fundamental human right to live.”

Needs Humans Use Clear Design Objects Fundamentals Proof Concrete Day To Day Day Life Day To Day Life

Author:Kenji Ekuan

“Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.”

Want Home Design Objects Keys Harmony Notes Strive Peaceful Atmosphere Interior Design Decorating

Author:Charlotte Moss

“All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.”

Should Left Rooms Design Objects Elements Acquire Interior Design Installation

Author:Charlotte Moss

“... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.”

Honest Design Objects Who We Are Diaries Interior Design

Author:Charlotte Moss

“Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.”

Design Objects Remembered Small Things What You Love Interior Design

Author:Charlotte Moss

“Alberto Alessi had asked a dozen architects to design a sterling silver tea service - with a teapot, a coffee pot, sugar, creamer, a spoon, and a tray. Our brief was that it didn't matter if it didn't work and cost wasn't the issue. It was a promotional project, not a commercial enterprise, and was going to be showcased in museums. And the coffee and tea piazza, as mine was called, received a great response. It was wonderful to walk into the Whitney museum and see all these objects on the first floor.”

“All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.”

People Thinking Humans Country Ability Design Objects Tools Instance Awful Buttons Units Extensions Fidelity Inconvenient High Fidelity

Author:Victor Papanek

“The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.”

Kind Process Space Design Objects Structure Adaptable

Book:Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

Source: Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

“I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.”

Process Design Objects

Author:Michael Hansmeyer

“The idea that hardware on networks should just be caches for movable process descriptions and the processes themselves goes back quite a ways. There's a real sense in which MS and Apple never understood networking or operating systems (or what objects really are), and when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.”

Way Should Trying Ideas Different Real Process Design Objects Computer Models Understood Decided Apples Description Networking Beef Hardware Operating Systems Personal Computers Cache Mainframe

Author:Alan Kay

“The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good work here, but much of what’s on view is actually more about obsession and repetition: a couch made out of 3,500 quarters, a necklace composed of 100 handgun triggers. The building, too, seems caught between wanting to be an object of decorative delectation and making an architectural statement.”

“It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.”

Ideas Would Be Interesting Design Objects Everyday Everyday Life Very Interesting

Author:Zaha Hadid

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