I design for myself and the first question I ask is 'Would I wear it?'

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.

User-centered design means understanding what your users need how they think and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

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.'

The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry and most of the gays are pretty creative in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy fun show and there are also always lots of gay boys on it and you know that's fun.

You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program and you can do a lot of - there's other ways other than physically to develop your weaponization program to get you very close to the real deal.

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

The architect Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

For me I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

French design hardly exists except as artificial modernism.