With fashion you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

I've never mentioned this but when I was at Parsons teaching the other design disciplines they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

I design for myself and the first question I ask is 'Would I wear it?'

After the Great Depression and after public urging a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.

User-centered design means understanding what your users need how they think and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something put on a great show and say 'Okay my job is done.'

The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry and most of the gays are pretty creative in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy fun show and there are also always lots of gay boys on it and you know that's fun.

You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program and you can do a lot of - there's other ways other than physically to develop your weaponization program to get you very close to the real deal.

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.

The architect Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

For me I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

French design hardly exists except as artificial modernism.

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

I won't give up my day job of design.

Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it meaning I have an urge to wear it.

I'm not a size 0 and I'm nowhere close to it. But I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art design culture stuff film - online and how in the online world you're instantly global.

I am always locked in my design studio.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

I have an all-Japanese design team and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

Design my own line? No I just like the culture.