In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
I've built a tree house; because of my architectural training, it's heavily over-designed, with an oriel window sticking out of it and flying foxes coming off it.
The media is looking every season for a designer to tell a story. I have a long story I have to tell, continuing fluently year after year.
Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.
The ego wants to rule, but the heart will quietly prevail." -Jennifer Ritchie Payette, co-author, "Modular Career Design
We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.
My style has definitely grown since moving to New York and working on 'Gossip Girl.' I'm more aware of a lot of designers and I'm more aware of fashion.
I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces.
All of the monsters in my head were created by people who thought they could make me a porcelain doll marionette of their own design.
When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.
Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.
We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.
I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.
The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.
I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.
Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment.
In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit. The more you add, the more computer memory you need.
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.
Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.
I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.
I'm sure every designer has a certain person in mind who they would ideally like to wear their clothes, but the problem is that a lot of the time that person doesn't actually exist, unless she is a 15-year-old model.
