Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do.
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they’re designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.
You know what I really want to get into? I’m really artistic, so I really want to get into fashion designing and fashion styling. That’s, like, something I’m really, really interested in.
I’d always been acutely sensitive to my surroundings – and aware that I could make them rather than just observe them. So I began by designing interiors for myself, for friends, for clients – I just felt that I’d discovered my element, and those who really looked at what I was doing liked it – and the rest followed.
Going back to the technical track of my life, note that I have been designing electronic products, both of the consumer and defense electronics variety, since Pluto was a pup. Many of these products broke new ground… creativity at work!
I do like designing clothes that are – not exactly lofty but intellectual in their sexiness.
My general premise is not about selling clothes. If that’s your end goal, then all of a sudden everything looks the same, you know – you start designing by numbers.
I like painting, I think it’s relaxing. I also like designing; I don’t really like the manual labor, to be honest.
It is sad that so many designers don’t know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage.
Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design – Gecko’s homecare robot looks rather like the Star Wars robot R2-D2. Honda and Sony are designing robots that look more like the same movie’s ‘android’ C-3PO.
There’s nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designing is just taking something that’s existing and introducing it in a way that hasn’t been done.
The major change was going from ‘Black and White’ to ‘Fable,’ because I was no longer programming, and I had spent most of my time designing through programming, and only working with people I knew well.
With my job, I am designing spaces for families on a weekly basis, and that is where I get my creative outlet.
I have worn saris a lot over the years, so designing them was like a natural progression.
When I was designing my clothing line, I would find a print that I love and then decide what to make with it.
I simply do the things that inspire me, be that snowboarding, designing clothing, or dancing.
I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.
What we found while making Milo, is that part of the skill of designing this whole new experience is in making people comfortable with the fact that they can be seen.
Do I miss shoes? I miss the designing, but I don’t miss the fashion industry. Those people eat their children.
I think the hardest thing is to design for plus-size women. I enjoyed designing for straight-size because there’s no limits. They can basically wear anything, and that’s where I was able to have creative freedom with it.
The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don’t realize are computers at all.
In the end, it’s clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are inspired by nature to designs made with and by nature to, possibly, designing nature herself.
Because my friends and family are real people, and they wear all sizes, I couldn’t imagine designing something that my loved ones could not wear.
Even in high school, I was keenly aware of this remarkable tradition that the U.K. had of designing and making.
To me, ‘design thinking’ is another way of saying empathize with the customer. It’s consideration for the person you’re designing for.
I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I’m doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.
Designing my shoes, I’m thinking timeless. Not trendy.
I love white shirts because they feel like a security blanket. You can wear them with anything. It’s the person and the way that they wear it that makes it different. I have been designing white shirts forever, but I don’t get tired of it.
When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn’t go beyond that aspiration at that point.
When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs’ clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.
In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
When I first started designing sportswear, I felt that women weren’t represented in sports performance. I felt that men were dressed really well both technically and visually, and women were almost like an afterthought.
When designing algorithms as a business owner, your incentive is your profit, something for your business, it’s not an incentive to maximise something for the individual.
Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.
When you have the blue screen, you’ve got another set of eyes, eight months down the track, designing what you should have been designing on stage with the actor.
It’s a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
Civil engineers build bridges. Electrical engineers, power grids. Software engineers, apps. From the engineers who created the Great Pyramids to the engineers who are designing and developing tomorrow’s autonomous vehicles, these visionaries and their tangible creations are inextricably linked.
Growing up, I had trouble finding clothes because I was curvy, and so I would end up designing my own things.
But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It’s about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth – intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It’s actually a beautiful feeling.
Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to ‘crowdsource’ ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.
My biggest word of advice that I could give to people that are dealing with a home renovation or decoration is to not think about design as it’s been presented to you before. I think everybody needs to start designing based on the moments they imagine having in their home and that is what has guided me as a decorator.
I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn’t start acting.
When you’re designing a monster, there’s kind of no rules.
I was the Playmate editor for ‘Playboy’ for two years. I produced two years’ worth of centerfolds. I did everything on that, from picking the girls to designing the sets to picking the wardrobe, coming up with themes, assigning the photographer, down to editing the photos and approving the retouching.
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.
Designing comes easy and quickly to me. I don’t need to spend hours to complete an X amount of work for me. I feel designing is in me.
I’m designing for women between the ages of 20 and 40.
Well, for me, it’s never just been fashion designing. It’s the creative challenge that keeps me going be it for my label, styling projects or interior designing.
I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I’ve discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and I got knocked out twice in the first round.
I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.
We know the cyclones will come because we are in the wind sector. It cannot be consistent high wind; sometimes, it can be low wind. We are designing our turbines assuming that one day even a cyclone will come.
Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine’s beauty and Renee’s frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.
In designing my bridal collections, I love mixing luxe fabrics, which give the most beautiful texture and dimension to my creations.
When I wake up, I think, ‘What can I do to help others?’ I think we all owe the world something. That’s the way I am when I’m designing a product.
