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When you say design, everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it is an emotive word. Everybody thinks it is how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

I do not particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.

I do like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

I am drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It is limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

I have always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I was not a singer I do probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I am quite visually greedy. I can not have things to be plain I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I am just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it is functional and works with what you are trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.

I am a fashion designer. I am not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I am a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive you will be able to design a house together with your family a garden for your children places where you can work beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream.

We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.

The level of detail and craft is something that is inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They do not care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you are lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.