4425 quotes by designers for you to enjoy

You could summarize everything I did at Apple was making tools to empower creative people. 'QuickDraw' empowered all these other programmers to now be able to sling stuff on the screen. The 'Window Manager,' 'Event Manager,' and 'Menu Manager.' Those are things that I worked on that were empowering other people. Bill Atkinson

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I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14. Bill Atkinson

I'm not interested in pleasing color; I'm interested in exact color. Bill Atkinson

Pleasing Exact Color Not Interested Interested

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette. Bill Blass

Me Women Cocktail Cigarette Drawings About Something Glamour Had Interested

Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe. Bill Blass

Women Add Entice Individual Attempt Calculated Piece Wardrobe Each Each Individual

People don't realize that lighting can change the whole look of a place and the feel. Bobby Berk

Change People Feel Lighting Look Place Realize Whole

When we think about the trends that millennials are taking toward simplicity, I think it's indicative of a cultural shift toward less of the 'more is more' for materialism sake and more of an emphasis on efficiency, value, and sustainability. Bobby Berk

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Lighting is a good way to change the look of a place without spending much. Bobby Berk

Good Change Spending Way Good Way Lighting Look Without Place Much

De-cluttering can be overwhelming, so start with that one small thing. Clean out your junk drawers. It can lead to so many more beautiful things. Start there, and you'll find yourself cleaning the whole rest of the house. Bobby Berk

You can really have a no-holds-barred relationship to materials with mixed metals and colorful schemes or more controlled palettes that are more tonal or restricted to a single accent color or metal finish. There are really no rules, and that is what makes contemporary design so limitless and enjoyable. Bobby Berk

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