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.
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.
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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.
The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
Trends in fashion, design and pop culture are taking on more global influence, and of course, one thing that's always in style is color.
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 is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
