Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.
After the Great Depression and after public urging a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.
The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something put on a great show and say 'Okay my job is done.'
We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants placed in God's world to do his work and accordingly labour faithfully for him not with a design to grow rich and great but to glorify God and do all the good we possibly can.
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
Britain's great strength is its innovative design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.
For me unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure or design or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.
Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people other artists and I work with a great creative design team.
When I design a wedding dress with a bustle it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.