Worry is essentially a misuse of imagination.
Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.
With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.
Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.
Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.
Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper. '
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.
Fair Flora! Now attend thy sportful feast, Of which some days I with design have past; A part in April and a part in May Thou claim'st, and both command my tuneful lay; And as the confines of two months are thine To sing of both the double task be mine.
Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.
We have seen so many exhibits in recent years where the exhibition design was aesthetically beautiful. In this case, if someone wants to get something out of the exhibit, they must neglect the aesthetics and look at my pictures.
If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page. . . When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
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.
Everything is as it should be. God's design is perfect.
I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?
We shouldn't just look at new buildings but at existing stock building because that's an even greater problem than the new buildings being built. The renovation of existing buildings and making them green is just as important as designing new green buildings.
Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it.
I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
