Kenya Hara famous quotes

Verbalizing design is another act of design.
-- Kenya Hara

#Design

Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well.
-- Kenya Hara

#Creativity #Unique #Giving

White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.
-- Kenya Hara

#Eggs #White #Example

Because nonbeing longs for being, on occasion it creates a stronger sense of being than being itself.
-- Kenya Hara

#Stronger #Occasions

Successful communication depends on how well we listen, rather than how well we push our opinions on the person seated before us.
-- Kenya Hara

#Communication #Successful #Opinion

Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.
-- Kenya Hara

#Light #Color #Giving

Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life.
-- Kenya Hara

#Ideas #Design #Everyday

The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.
-- Kenya Hara

#Lying #Essence #People

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.

Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.