The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
I have a notebook, and I know what decisions will be made in pre-production. Everything is pre-determined in the pre-production period. I visually design the whole thing, and I know when things will happen.
The primary factor is proportions.
My actual first summer internship was in the design department of Clinique.
I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff.
Summer blockbusters are very expensive to make. They have things that have to be expensive, such as 600 effects shots or CG characters that have to go a certain way, or a film design that is different but expensive.
Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.
I can design a collection in a day and I always do, cause I've always got a load of Italians on my back, moaning that it's late.
I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.
I've teamed up with BaubleBar to curate a collection of gorgeous jewelry pieces. I worked closely with the BaubleBar team to design a collection that encompasses my style and all of my go to pieces.
I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.
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.
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
Don't feel you have to buy something to sit in or at. Buy something you are emotionally attached to and build your design around that. One Matisse cutout poster could provide you with your whole color scheme!
By fundamentally changing how we design the places and systems that enable our daily lives, we can slash emissions way beyond the immediate carbon savings - because our own personal emissions are just the tip of a vast iceberg of energy and resources...
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.
It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.
We design our world, while our world acts back on us and designs us.
