#design

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bible #british #british museum #collection #complete

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. ↗

— Jim Henson

#because #design #first #i #interested

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ↗

— George Orwell

#design

Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with world-conquering designs. Not cacklikng demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#design

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design. ↗

— Gianfranco Ferre

#design #express #flat #forms #i

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing. ↗

— Jonathan Ive

#come #design #mean #much #nothing

I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#designer #how #i #like #match

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#feels #how #just #like #looks

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour. ↗

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

#designed #flour #grain #had #i

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies. ↗

— Leon Kass

#babies #designer #fear #hype #lot