Art Nouveau drew inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus drew inspiration from engineering.

I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in.

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

Good design is good business.

Complexity mumbles. Simplicity speaks

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

The fact that the people who built the site didn't care enough to make things obvious-and easy-can erode our confidence in the site and the organization behind it.

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

Great designers produce pleasurable experiences.

Why do people buy an expensive, complicated toaster when a simpler, less-expensive toaster would work just as well? Why all the buttons and controls on steering wheels and rearview mirrors? Because...

For example, they recently had a piece on a character--I think his name was Ambrosio D'Urbervilles--whose design statement was to stuff an entire apartment from floor to ceiling with dark purple...

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.