Tadao Ando Quotes

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists

Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.

That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!

Only amazing designers think of the truly new.

A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren’t really there to begin with.

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

In terms of design, it's true the world has an influence. But, as a designer, you have to protect yourself. You have to look at the world and then forget it.

One of the criticisms we get is, 'Does the world need more plastic crap?' But you have to look beyond the plastic crap, to the design, to the experience, to the empowering nature of the MakerBot and the community.

Space is the breath of art.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

Janelle Monae, she has her own style, and it's specifically hers.

I have been working with Hive, part of British Gas, on reinventing the thermostat. Now you can control your heating at the press of a button on your phone. As I say, design should permeate every part of society.

Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

As a director, I design every movie to be true to itself, and damn it if they like it, and damn it if they don't.

I try to push design boundaries using new draping and fabric manipulation techniques every time I approach a new design.

Designers have been uncreative and very arrogant. They need to listen to people. People have always wanted more exciting, interesting design, but we designers didn't see it.

I don't see myself in competition with anyone, I am in my own space; I don't follow anyone, though I appreciate good work always.

With couture, the great thing is that each piece has its own character, and you have space to explore and continue themes season after season.

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.

If you want to come up with a really original design idea, and you want to capture a whole new design direction, perhaps the best way to arrive at that is not by acting and thinking and doing like everybody else. That's all.

I think one of the studio's characteristics is to embrace wholeheartedly what we feel is interesting; what we perceive to be worthwhile, cool, or beautiful; and to place these ideals at the foundation of the games we make.

I'm interested in bridging and filling in space that hasn't already been filled, so when it comes to making music, I've just always wanted to be able to reference things that producers in the big pop major label context do, without compromising the entire sound of the record.

There is no point in playing safe, because the audiences love different quirks: something that is crazy and out-of-the-box. I think that's what my space is, and if you are going to have your own space in the industry, this is where I want to be.