Designer famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The floating world is the realm of the graphic designer
-- Aaron Betsky -
I don't need designer things. And YOU are designer, Rush.
-- Abbi Glines -
I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
-- Adam Lambert -
There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.
-- Alber Elbaz -
I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
-- Alber Elbaz -
The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.
-- Alber Elbaz -
There is no better designer than nature
-- Alexander McQueen -
Right now I'd say my favorite fashion designer is Zac Posen.
-- Allyson Felix -
The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.
-- Alvin Lustig -
I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.
-- Anna Sui -
My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.
-- Anne Robinson -
I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna!
-- Anne Robinson -
Every time you make the user make a decision they don’t care about, you have failed as a designer.
-- Aza Raskin -
I meet the designers very often, we discuss the products, they show me their ideas, we discuss the ad campaigns and every new invention that we can find for the future.
-- Bernard Arnault -
If you haven't read Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways you should be arrested for calling yourself a Designer
-- Bob Gill -
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
-- Bruno Munari -
If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.
-- Cameron Sinclair -
I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.
-- Carly Rae Jepsen -
Every designer has to stand behind and believe in what they are creating.
-- Charlotte Ronson -
I Google everyone I meet and I look up designers.
-- Christian Siriano -
I always wear what I'm comfortable in. If one designer doesn't like what I'm wearing, the next one will.
-- Coco Rocha -
As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.
-- Curt Schilling -
I am a bit in love with a new designer, George Hobeika; I have worn him a couple of times on the carpet. Ralph Lauren is another one I really have fun with.
-- Darby Stanchfield -
I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player,
-- David Cage -
I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.
-- David Chipperfield -
When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.
-- David Mazzucchelli -
As designers, we have a great responsibility.
-- Dieter Rams -
I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.
-- Dieter Rams -
Everyday people are not very good designers.
-- Donald A. Norman -
A good designer will actually design the company.
-- Donald A. Norman -
Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much.
-- Donatella Versace -
A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom.
-- Donna Karan -
I worked for UFA as a set designer, you know.
-- Douglas Sirk -
Anytime you can promote young artists and designers is a cool thing.
-- Dylan Lauren -
I love designer stuff but like it will only be like, on a whim. I love Alexander Wang so much, but it's expensive.
-- Ellie Goulding -
Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.
-- Erik Spiekermann -
I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.
-- Erin Wasson -
Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
-- Erma Bombeck -
I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.
-- Eva Zeisel -
The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.
-- Eva Zeisel -
In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
-- Fede Alvarez -
We'll work with any designer producing something linked to gastronomy. So a chair for the dining area, a van to move food around. Anything that's connected to the gastronomic process.
-- Ferran Adria -
I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.
-- Francisco Costa -
Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.
-- Fred Brooks -
I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.
-- Frida Giannini -
I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.
-- Genevieve Gorder -
I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were
-- George Nelson -
I'm having my platform run up by a movie set designer, so it will be very impressive from the front, but not too premanent. After all, there's no sense putting a lot of time and thought into something you'll have no use for after you're elected.
-- Gracie Allen -
The people in business must understand what they can achieve with designers. Designers have to understand that they really must deliver to business not just beautification, or another form of it, but substantial change.
-- Hartmut Esslinger -
On the other hand, if people are made safer, more efficient, more comfortable – or just plain happier – by contact with the product, then the designer has succeeded.
-- Henry Dreyfuss -
The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.
-- Herbert Simon -
The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize and glean insights that enable him or her to “make the invisible visible
-- Hillman Curtis -
Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
-- Indira Gandhi -
This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.
-- Isaac Mizrahi -
I did not want to be labelled the designer who survived the atomic bomb, and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.
-- Issey Miyake -
Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.
-- James Dyson -
The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.
-- Jan Tschichold -
I don't wear particular designers. I wear whoever fits me well.
-- Jane Lynch -
I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.
-- Jane McGonigal -
Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasnt always translated to the streets.
-- Jason Wu -
You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.
-- Jean Paul Gaultier -
Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.
-- Jeffrey Zeldman -
I don't like it when you look too styled and wear one designer from head to toe.
-- Jessica Szohr -
We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.
-- John Romero -
One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.
-- Jonathan Ive -
I don't have a favourite designer because I feel every designer offers something different and special, but I do really like Alexander Wang, Burberry, Stella McCartney and Balmain.
-- Jourdan Dunn -
I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.
-- Judi Dench -
I wanted to be a set designer when I was young.
-- Judi Dench -
No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
-- Karl Lagerfeld -
Development is only necessary to rectify the ignorance of designers
-- Keith Duckworth -
I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.
-- Kevin McCloud -
You can't really have like high end designers for everything.
-- Kim Kardashian -
I don't have designer clothes in my closet. I just wear them once and give them back.
-- Kristin Cavallari -
Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.
-- Lori Loughlin -
My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.
-- Maira Kalman -
I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
-- Manolo Blahnik -
Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.
-- Marty Neumeier -
I'm not a designer, I'm a sifter. I can sift everything, all the time. My sift level lines keep shaking all the time for everything that is around.
-- Massimo Vignelli -
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
-- Massimo Vignelli -
A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing
-- Massimo Vignelli -
For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die.
-- Matt Mullenweg -
No one loves authenticity like a graphic designer. And no one is quite as good at simulating it.
-- Michael Bierut -
Part of maturing as a designer is discovering what you're good at.
-- Michael Bierut -
I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.
-- Mickey Rourke -
We've had the same set designer and the same crew in many cases since 1972.
-- Mink Stole -
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour.
-- Naeem Khan -
I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16.
-- Naomi Campbell -
I am proud that my collections have received such praise, and I am even more proud to share the stage with so many talented designers.
-- Nicole Richie -
Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.
-- Niklaus Wirth
