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I used to do design before I was actually rapping. I went to art and design high school. -- ASAP Ferg
I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator. -- Trudi Canavan
In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science. -- John Maeda
I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for animals and things like that. -- Georgia May Jagger
I began doing writing projects and art and design projects to explore a new way of seeing Canada. Roots is one more way of continuing this exploration. I want to present a wide-open Canadian sense of color, adventure, communication and openness that defines our country. -- Douglas Coupland
I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design. -- William Landay
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. -- David Hockney
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process. -- Francisco Costa
I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it. -- Douglas Coupland
Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work. -- Cynthia Rowley
My wife Victoria Harwood was art director on 'Far North,' and she had designed my student film, 'The Sheep Thief.' -- Asif Kapadia
I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design. -- Len Wein
Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool. -- Malcolm Mclaren
The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes. -- David Rockefeller
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways. -- Barbara Kruger
I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world. -- Mick Ebeling
I'd already decided I wanted to design shoes after I saw a sign in the Museum of African and Oceanic Art forbidding high heels. Well, who could resist? -- Christian Louboutin
I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures. -- Tony Kaye
While 'The Endless Summer' poster was designed at the Art Center College of Design in the contemporary style of its time, the image grew out of my relationship with Rick Griffin and our deep relationship to surf images. -- John Van Hamersveld
Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started. -- Marc Newson
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. -- Paul Rand
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering! -- Diane von Furstenberg
Design provides solutions, art asks questions. -- John Maeda
Design is art that people use, -- Ellen Lupton
Good art inspires; Good design motivates. -- Otl Aicher
Design has to work. Art does not. -- Donald Judd
If design isn't profitable, then it's art. -- Henrik Fisker
Design is where science and art break even. -- Robin Mathews
Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not. -- Massimo Vignelli
The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design. -- Steven Johnson
Design is an art, creative artist must have a beautiful mind -- Bhupesh B. Patil
Technology makes possibilities. Design makes solutions. Art makes questions. Leadership makes actions. -- John Maeda
Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art. -- Kenyon Cox
Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art. -- Robert Hughes
Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas. -- Chip Kidd
Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering, -- Bran Ferren
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. -- Philip Johnson
Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art -- Robert Hughes
Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem. -- John Maeda
The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture. -- Jeff Smith
Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible. -- Paula Scher
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. -- Paul Rand
I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design. -- Ai Weiwei
Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs. -- Temple Grandin
We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist. -- Douglas Wilson
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized. -- James Wolcott
You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design. -- Stefan Sagmeister
Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art. -- Leonard Baskin
Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation . -- Ansel Adams
I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously. -- Jeff Smith
I always want to design a frame thatâ??s open to everyone. I donâ??t see art as a secret code. -- Ai Weiwei
I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more. -- Paula Scher
I was attracted to things that combined art and science equally. I've always been equally interested in art design, science and engineering. -- Bran Ferren
A richer present I design, A finished form, of work divine, Surpassing all the power of art; A thinking head, a grateful heart. -- Mary Barber
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging! -- Delia Smith
So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design. -- Theodora Goss
The art of automobile design has progressed, until today it is regarded as one of the most important factors in the marketing of the automobile. -- Harley Earl
Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose. -- Ben Hunt
I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe it's more segregated between those different disciplines I think. -- Marco Brambilla
Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas. -- Jessica Helfand
I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think. -- Marco Brambilla
Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication. -- Clyde Butcher
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
I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an art. I'm a graphic designer. -- Vaughan Oliver
It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global. -- Mike Mills
Being a student in an art & design school, that was the moment for me, that was when I began to develop a lot of self-confidence and really come into my own. -- Tim Gunn
Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict. -- Malcolm Mclaren

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