Design Background Quotes

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn't particularly helpful.

I have a background in graphic design and have been designing t-shirt graphics for years.

I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the fabric industry, and even my grandfather and my great-grandfather were lace manufacturers.

I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.

I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work.

I am very aware that I'm the product of growing up in England and the tradition of designing and making, of England industrialising first.

So I swear to God, I took one year where I just said, This year, I'm just going to cop to it and say to people, 'Okay, where did we meet?' But it just got worse. People were more offended. Every now and then, someone will give me context, and I'll say, 'Thank you for helping me.' But I piss more people off. You get this thing, like, 'You're being egotistical. You're being conceited.' But it's a mystery to me, man. I can't grasp a face and yet I come from such a design/aesthetic point of view. I am going to get it tested.

I didn't grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.

I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects.

The original Heart logo was made back in the real early '70s by Mike Fisher, who I used to be in a relationship with. He was first our manager and then our soundman. When I met him, he was in design school for architecture, so he was always drawing.

My mother was an art school teacher and my father was an interior designer. So we've been relatively open minded as opposed to my conservative maternal side.

Perhaps because of my background as a graphic designer, I'm drawn to rich and beautiful colors.

I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It's something I just fell into and really liked.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.

I grew up in a very visual household. My dad is a designer; my sister is a designer. My brother is an amazing architect who does music. But I think in the Chung household, how things looked was an important part of who you are.

My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break.

I always loved fashion. My mother was a fashion designer, so it was always in my blood.

I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.