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That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!
We're not leaving here without Buster, man. Leave no crash-test dummy behind!
Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.
The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer.
I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.
An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in!
With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch
Minimalism is about creating complete harmony and not about making simple.
The American automobile has changed the habits of every member of modern society.
It's a simple exercise; a little logic, a little taste, and the will to cooperate.
I believe most in educated intuition, in what you get through profound experience.
In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure.
Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'
Creativity: that which wasn't there before, but which can be made simply and completely.
That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.
Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.
I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.
Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.
If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
I alienated the automotive industry by saying that cars should be lightweight and compact.
Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.
I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving.
A formally harmonious product needs no decoration, it should be elevated through pure form.
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.
Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.
Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!
I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.
Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.
My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists
You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.
Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?
Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.
This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'
My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.
Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.
I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.
Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other.
Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.
If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.
So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.
Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.