The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.
Tesla is changing the paradigm. We're going to turn the world on its ear and create high demand through design.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.
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.
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.
