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I think the Russian government is right to be concerned with propaganda on teenagers who are at the age of struggling through sexual identity issue and we should help to channel these urges in productive behavior. Heterosexuality is God’s design. Policies that encourage young people to think this are good ideas.

I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that.

Design truly is a contact sport. It demands that we bring all of our senses to the task, and that we apply the very best of our thinking, our feeling and our doing to the challenge that we have at hand.

In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it is immensely refreshing to encounter such serious and sustained attention to the building blocks of inquiry—and to the responsibilities thereby incurred. Designs on the Contemporary is a work of profound importance to the philosophy of anthropology. In conjunction with Rabinow’s other works, it creates a nonpareil, a configuration of thought with no equal.

A piece of jewelry is in a sense an object that is not complete in itself. Jewelry is a ‘what is it?’ until you relate it to the body. The body is a component in design just as air and space are. Like line, form, and color, the body is a material to work with. It is one of the basic inspirations in creating form.

For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails

Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.

Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace.

I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.

I simply love classic design when it's reinterpreted. These collections reflect the spirit of this design philosophy; clean pared down lines and forms rooted in tradition yet made to feel new and modern with unexpected or stylized scale, finishes and detailing. This contemporary take on tradition creates a look that's at once current yet timeless, fresh yet familiar…the essence of both beautiful design and a beautifully designed home.

Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores.

A book cover is a distillation. It is a haiku of the story.

Kiddies, Graphic Design, if you wield it effectively, is Power. Power to transmit ideas that change everything. Power that can destroy an entire race or save a nation from despair. In this century, Germany chose to do the former with the swastika, and America opted for the latter with Mickey Mouse and Superman.

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history. _x000D_ Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots _x000D_ of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.

To touch somebody’s heart with design.