Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it.
The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
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.
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.
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
