Design

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Good design is good business.

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

Design is people.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

Accessible design is good design.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.

We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.