Design Expertise Quotes

I'm a creative guy, a designer, a customer.

Everyday people are not very good designers.

Louise Frogley is a brilliant designer. I always find her wardrobe fittings really informative and creative. Together, you kick images and ideas around.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

We really want to be the leading designer and integrator of tailored solutions.

My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of product.

Every team member who brings intelligence, experience and passion to their creations should be called an artist or designer.

It takes a real designer to design for real women.

To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best

One of the big failures for the big auto companies is that even the CEO and the top management often don't understand design and manufacturing. As a CEO, you have to make decisions; you need to have knowledge.

When we changed from Tiger to Nike, we had to have a design for the shoe. And where do you go to? There's no 'dial 9-1-1' for design.

The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

A lot of fashion might seem boring, but it is actually quite fun: the inside, the outside, the silhouette... All the different finishes. That's a skill.

It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.

I've learned a tremendous amount over the years by watching designers work. I now have a good understanding of what sits well on the body, not to mention the importance of a great cut and quality.

I've been a printmaker and designed objects. I've done 500 posters.

I never claimed to be a computer engineer, but I did train as an industrial designer, and I am a consumer marketer, and I am very comfortable dealing with complex businesses and complexity in general and simplifying it - basically a systems designer.

Interior design is a business of trust.

A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange.