The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired to design the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Seattle had promised fairgoers a glimpse of the world that would exist in 2001. That year eventually unfolded as something less than the dream we'd imagined.
I never knew that I would be actually designing clothes or as into fashion as I am now.
The strongest logos tell simple stories.
We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.
There's a false narrative that only the political class has the wisdom and the ability to be commander-in- chief. But if you go back and you study the design of our country, it was really designed for the citizen statesman.
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.
Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.
Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.
If you stand for great service, low prices, superb quality, stylish design and environmental friendliness, you actually stand for nothing.
I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through. So it's self-given, but that's the only way, I think, to make a strong, good new creation.
I'm also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I'm surprised I haven't gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.
We use the word typography to describe two different things: the design of letterforms, and the layout of typeset passages on a page. Both of those experiences are really important to communicating information, especially when that information involves complex ideas.
Everyone has to contribute, or they become laborers.
I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.
Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient.
Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.
I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.