Designers

"The Eclisse lamp is beautiful to look at because the concepts are in themselves beautiful."

"They told me: architect, we need to design a night lamp because everyone goes to bed. And I thought of the blind lantern used by thieves in Victor Hugo's The Miserable."

"The Eclissi lamp. He called it concept design, a design so clear and simple it could even be explained in words, over the phone. Vico said he had learned from Latin to recognize the superfluous from the necessary, the indispensable and the useless. And when you design an object, he repeated, you have to know how to recognize what is indispensable. (Ernesto Gismondi)"

"Angelo Galasso is a sustainable brand because we don’t use any kind of mass production. All our garments are made exclusively in Italy and in small artisanal workshops. We do extensive background checks to ensure these workshops respect health and safety standards. We also operate a ‘zero-waste policy, we only buy fabrics based on the actual meters we need to maximize efficient production and minimize waste."

"All big projects, every time, they come when you are forced to do something when you are in the corner. Otherwise, if you need to take a decision, you will never take it."

"I am extravagant, but always with a particular piece: perhaps the shoes or the glasses… As the famous Italian actor Vittorio Gassman said: “You can just have one extravagant piece, more is not classy.”"

"When you discard yourself, real love comes into relief."

"In my house, I was surrounded by actors, by nothing but talk of plays and performances, so I felt it was more advantageous to go in that direction, now, I can’t quit."

"Overall the roller coaster of emotions games have — you know, fear or the feeling of running from something, or the high-strung tension of being in battle, or even going somewhere in a game that’s less tense and is kind of funny, that’s there in any part of game development. Everyone’s kind of in the same position."

"I think of the art of illustration as essentially one of collaboration. It’s a wonderful thing to work with a writer and to discuss ideas and make sure the writer is completely in harmony with and happy with the things I’ve added to the mix."

"I’m not free to do whatever I like stylistically, since my work is going to be wedded to the words. The responsibility is to help to tell the story, without interfering with the readers’ imagination. In a way it is a bit more akin to a sets designer or to providing music for a film. You are serving the text and you are serving the story. So that’s what I do. I’m an illustrator. But I think you have to be an artist to be able to do that as effectively I can."

"For me, the edges of a picture are the most important areas. I like to think of the image as a small segment of a much larger scene, so that you feel that, if you could see behind the edges of the "snapshot" there would be something equally, or more, interesting going on. It's a window into another world, but you don't necessarily have to see the window frame. You might even see more clearly without it."

"Students from everywhere come to this beautiful part of our country that we've lived in and know and love, and when they do, they find they love it too. I think part of it is that they find such a warm reception here in Savannah and at SCAD, and they find that anything is possible. It's the ultimate American dream to think that you can create whatever you want for yourself and your career."

"The thing is, a creative education—especially the elevated and professional degree programs offered at SCAD—is about intentionality. You build, you invent. There’s purpose to it."

"SCAD shows that we can educate students and prepare them for successful careers in creative fields. That was a revolutionary idea when SCAD began, but our students and alumni — who hail from over 100 countries — are proof positive that it's true. If I leave any kind of legacy, there's nothing more joyful than that."

"All around us, dreamers were dreaming up new ideas: Star Wars, The Clash, Apple. I was nearing thirty ... and wondered if I could do more."

"I think things that work well start to look good as well."

"When I was starting in the game industry, it wasn't common to be the only woman on the entire team...I always felt welcome, but it still felt awkward. In my years at Nintendo, I have come to discover that when there are women in a variety of roles on the project, you get a wider [range] of ideas."

"If Mondrian, with the omission of diagonals, modulation of colour and sensuality of material, moved into an increasingly life-alienated and Apollonian ideology, so Clarke explores the optical stability of forms with sensory Dionysiac temptations where here and there they give rise to menacing disturbances of order."

"[In Clarke's work] I see a possible enlivening of the jaded purity of Constructivism, an extension of geometry into the opposite, namely the emotional and incalculable as one of the answers to the conflicts and contradictions of our time. Art can only remain effective if it does not ignore the painful depth of unresolved antinomy."

"I am working class artist. I am very happy if my work pleases or engages intellectuals or professional people, but my art is an art for the mass: I want to communicate this idea of intimacy and poetic transcendence to as many people as possible, and the idea that it is confined to one social demographic is abhorrent to me."

"Black has the power to astonish. It absorbs and reflects colour stealing much from the prevailing chromatic landscape. It makes blue bluer and light lighter. There are as many variations of black as there are of green."

"I used to think that I somehow existed apart from making art and thus my work itself existed outside prevailing realities, uninfluenced by circumstance. I was wrong and that's clear to me now. Biography and art intertwine, strangling and oxygenating simultaneously."

"Fallen petals on the grass or scattered flowers across a field do unexpected things when you examine them – Primroses seem to cluster together in a shape that recalls a single flower; Bluebells become entirely anonymous in a hovering mist; Daffodils group together into crowns of thorns and barbed wire."

"Moving with frequency between the polarities of my experience is a fertile source of ideas. Somewhere between anguish and joy lies a region taut with further contradictions. If art speaks truth to power then in my view both compelling forces need to be addressed. The desolate truth carried in profundity is made even more striking when matched by the sublime energy of the decorative."

"Art is reimbued with its genuine power and profundity in the architectural realm. Its real power lies in the cathedral, the shopping center, the hospital. Not in the studios of Soho and Chelsea or the galleries of Madison Avenue or Bond Street."

"The Spitfire and the Porsche and the battleship have something of perfection in their design. They are anonymous in their beauty, like the fleur-de-lys, and compelling, like heraldic ciphers of the 20th century."

"There is a world that can be seen only through stained glass. It is like no other. The medium is thought to have been at its zenith in the Middle Ages – though the medievals had the advantage of Gothic architecture to respond to. I want to surpass the Middle Ages, not equal them. Surpass them with the new and irresistible: volumetric, spatial colour, transporting post-industrial godless man to the edge of ecstasy."

"When I am designing a stained glass window I am painting; when I am drawing a drawing, I am painting; when I am making the cartoon for a tapestry, I am painting; and when I am listening to music I am painting. It is the centre of everything that I do."

"It's not that painting is the medium with which I identify the most. Painting is the medium through which I am able to identify with anything external."

"My art is an art for the working class."

"It is through painting that I understand how to view architecture, appreciate the rhythm of a poem, draw pleasure from the structure of a well-composed sentence. And it is through painting that the complexity of music makes itself understood to me. It is through painting, in fact, that I am."

"Colour is the animator of my poetical ideal. It is the single most important device in my work, and the driving force behind its impact."

"Painting is a way for me to view the world as it exists and the world as it might be."

"The self-inflicted isolation of the contemporary artist and the mistrust levelled against the architect are both important contributing factors in the current situation of architectural art. The painter is anxious to keep intact the historical image of artist as loner, the intense sensitive, the genius and “maestro”; while the architect, feeling the watchful eye of his client constantly over his shoulder, approaches any extra-to-budget expense, such as art, with considerable trepidation, guarding jealously any intrusion into his building by potential glory-thieves. – Clarke in the essay 'Towards a New Constructivism', from his 1979 book Architectural Stained Glass."

"Punk articulated the vitriolic disapproval by the young of the sneaking complacency in music, art, politics and perhaps most important of all - the environment."

"As punk rock was able to sweep the board clean in music, so must the board be cleared in visual art."

"Aerith and Tifa are both heroines in this game. We kind of made them both represent Eastern and Western styles. We designed Tifa to look more fit and athletic. From the moral committee among our staff, they said that if she's going to be doing a ton of action and movement, we wanted to give her clothes that would fit naturally, hence the change in a double layered tank top."

"​Look I put gold balls in a vase and voila - I’m done right?? Ha ha ha I have to figure out to Tree or not to Tree. I’m torn. That’s the good thing about having a Jewish husband. He won’t care if I say Xnay on the tree…."

"In the time I've tried to write this, I've had to run up the stairs to A) Put Baby to Bed which included dressing him (Daddy is not allowed he doesn't do it right allegedly SIGH) B) Read 3 stores about Sushi, Dim Sum & Potty Training ( Yes, I read about it but now I want to eat sushi) C) Sit down to continue writing only to be summoned back upstairs due to a Tummy Ache (visit the potty, change a diaper - always the way - kiss the belly, tuck back in).... "Such a Glamourous Life You Lead Meredith...." (said in my best lil ol' Jewish Man voice...) But really, truthfully, am so very blessed."

"Seth your voice isn’t needed at this time. You aren’t helping. You aren’t being an ally to women. Why do you go and maybe bake a loaf of challah?? Because it is delicious and something one makes to share with others. It was akin to telling a woman to get into a Kitchen. My son is Jewish so nice try there but that’s not gonna fly. Given that I’m married to and have Jewish children nice try to make it about that. I was telling him to get in the kitchen. His misogyny flipped on him. You blinded by your own? Hardly. Sitting here with my Jewish son but nice try. You give him a pass on his blatant misogyny?? Go away troll. Hey winner I’m married into the tribe. Have Jewish kids. Nice try. Deflect his misogyny into some imaginary antisemitism. His misogyny. My crack was telling him to get back into the kitchen. It was dismissive the way he dismissed a sexual assault survivor. If you don’t recognize his misogyny you’re part of the problem."

"You mean the kids wearing the MAGA hats? That’s a rather Nazi take you’ve offered there. MAGA hats = Nazis. Nazis deserve to be punched."

"‘He tried to kill me,’ you say, as you scour the floor for your Silver Bow. ‘Foolish fellow,’ answers Paido, sardonically. ‘He’ll not try that again.’"

"Blessed is the giver, richer through the giving of a gift."

"We were driving and George stopped the car and said, 'Now look at the billboard.' It was a national campaign for McDonald‘s - 'Guess' which was very big on the left side, and small along the billboard, 'What is in a new Big Mac?' and then a picture of the new hamburger. The 'Guess' was gigantic and the rest was all small. George said, 'This is where I found the name.' We said, 'But it ‘s a hamburger.' He said, 'I love the name.' Then Maurice said, 'Okay, if you use Guess, grammatically you have to put a question mark.' Maurice put the question mark and designed the triangle."

"The ingredients are always the same: from the very beginnings, the Guess women have always been feminine, sensual, self-confident, independent, free and happy. This image is very far from that of traditional models, often too skinny and sad. Our campaigns express an intense yet smiling seduction, strongly different from the vulgarity dominating today’s world."

"We want women to feel more and more beautiful and self-confident. We don’t like to follow trends, we are loyal to our customers’ expectations, of people looking for high-quality products at a reasonable price"

"Belief, Follow your Instincts and Never Give Up!"

"I started from selling ties from the back of the car and from there to become an influencer in the fashion world. I’m happy my brothers and I could accomplish the American dream and I specifically making my mark in the advertising world- enjoying every day at work."

"Christ would be careful, Christ would be brave, but Christ he would never be anyone's slave."