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Genevieve Gorder

"Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods."

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Akiroq Brost

"Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance."

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Akiroq Brost

"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."

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Akiroq Brost

"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."

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"We must carefully consider card security solutions, such as adding photographs or machine-readable electronic strips, so to prevent further breaches of individual privacy that could result from changes to the design of Social Security Cards."

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Akiroq Brost

"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."

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Akiroq Brost

"All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it."

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"Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design."

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"I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks."

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Akiroq Brost

"I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings."

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Akiroq Brost

"Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually."

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

Difference

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Genevieve Gorder
"And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you."

Appreciation

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Genevieve Gorder
"That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them."

Design

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Genevieve Gorder
"I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested."

Being

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Genevieve Gorder
"So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward."

Design

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Genevieve Gorder
"I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work."

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Genevieve Gorder
"I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked."

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Genevieve Gorder
"It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people."

Design

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Genevieve Gorder
"I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country."

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Genevieve Gorder
"You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers."

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