Nick Harkaway Quotes

I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

I am an architect at heart. I designed every home I've ever had, plus my studio.

We're at a moment where people are rediscovering their ability to design, to create (engineer)and in essence, to become a true maker.

Every time I work with a star, I learn a lot. Also, I teach a lot because I'm a shoemaker, a designer. I'm born with a pencil in my hand. For old teenagers like me it's good to learn.

Deep in the culture of Apple is this sense and understanding of design, developing, and making. Form and the material and process - they are beautifully intertwined - completely connected.

I ended up going to do a matches program at the state for industrial design. And from there, I got hired at IDEO to joint their design team there - and basically, you are starting as an industrial designer to design products - and then kept asking the question, 'What else can design accomplish? What else can design do?'

I think in the same way when I'm cooking, when I'm gardening, when I'm choosing fabrics. It's a way of living.

Yeah, the majority of Brit+Co users are women, but DIY? You see kids DIY, adult men geeking out hardcore with anything related to woodworking and all these cool new technologies, metalwork, leatherworking, concrete making. Everyone has a passion. I truly believe it's in our DNA literally to build things.

The do-it-yourself lifestyle is something that I've translated into wrestling.

Video games are an exciting medium. The creativity of design, the technology and the interaction represent the best of American innovation.

The most beautiful products or the most elegant or seductive products, in my mind, are those that tell a story of a process.

I used to draw and design my own furniture in college but never had the means to build them.

My mom's a collector and my dad is also into jewelry. When I was young, my dad would buy my mom loose stones and she would design them and do the settings and everything. So I kinda grew up with that kind of love for anything sparkly.

I am not an artist.

I think my love of form is especially informed by my background, whether this is creating a wonderful silhouette in a dress or finding the perfect shape for a bowl or the 'just so' angle of a table leg.

I am not an artist. I am not a painter.

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.

It turns out that a lot of gamers love design, love to create in digital.

A shirt's not just a shirt. It's the experience of what goes into that shirt.

I'm not a designer, nor do I fancy myself a designer.

The architect works for so many years building it, and the moment you deliver it to the people is the moment when you are unnecessary.

Sculpture and seams are like boxers and broken noses: They go hand in hand.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.