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

Design,

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

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"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."

Books, Grandparents, Paris, Sisters

"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."

Time,

"I translated Beatles songs for my English class."

Language, Class, English, Songs

"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."

Design,

"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."

Cultural, Elegance, Individualism, Italy, Taste

"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."

Books, Clothes, Grandparents, Old

"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."

Creativity, Idea, Tea

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"There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens."

Douglas Trumbull, American Director

Design, Computer, Film

"We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world."

Jim Henson, American Entertainer

Design, Work, Thought, Selling

"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

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"Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?"

Robert Shea, American Author

Design, Society, May

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

Calvin Klein, American Designer

Design, People, Company, Production

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Design, Mistake, People, Fools

"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting."

Jim Henson, American Entertainer

Design, Acting, Theatre

"I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design."

Yukihiro Matsumoto, Japanese Scientist

Design, Consistency, Goal, Tools

"I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response."

Liz Phair, American Musician

Design, Public

"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate."

Mike Davidson, American Designer

Design, Successful, Communication, Project

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"Italy is a divided country without a center."

"There's always some kind of hidden logic."

"But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry."

"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."

"The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed."

"I translated Beatles songs for my English class."

"French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism."

"In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism."

"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."

"The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea."

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"There were IBM logos designed for the film, and there were IBM design consultants working with Kubrick on the layout of the controls and computer screens."

"We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world."

"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."

"Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?"

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

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

"I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting."

"I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design."

"I mean, I think about it, but I don't design my record to get a certain public response."

"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate."