Tag: Quotes
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Quote of the Day: Weil Arets on the Future of Architecture
As the Dutch architect takes over as dean of the Illinois Institute of Technology, he looks at how the profession is changing
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Quote of the Day: David Frum on Cities
The conservative columnist suggests 3 seeds for an economic boom, and gets at least one right.
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Quote of the Day: Newt Gingrich On Urbanity
Do Americans really still believe this after what they have been through in the last five years? This man is completely deluded.
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Quote of the Day: Pico Iyer on the Joy of Quiet
Quiet, as Iyer sums up in his beautifully serene New York Times editorial, is a commodity gaining greater ground in this LinkedIn age of Facebook, Twitter and smart phones.
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Quote of the Day: David Suzuki on the Occupy Wall Street Movement
The Occupy Wall Street protests are poised to spread worldwide during its fourth week. Many observers are making the links between financial malfeasance, government corruption, social injustice and
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Co-design, not ego-design! Some Thoughts on Contemporary Design
Designers should get away from ego-design and concentrate on eco-design, or even better, on co-design as Alastair Fuad-Luke believes.
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Quote of the Day: Project Runway's Nina Garcia on Not Following Fashion Trends
Photo credit: Barbara Nitke Project Runway judge and Marie Claire fashion director Nina Garcia recently sat down with Time Out New York's Lisa Freedman to stump for her new book, The Style Strategy: A Less-Is-More Approach to Staying Chic and Shopping
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Quote of the Day: Marion Nestle on the Elitism of Organic Food
Photo credit: Peter Menzel I once heard Eric Schlosser answer a similar question aimed at his book, "Fast Food Nation." He pointed out that social movements have to begin somewhere and that several began with elites but ended up helping the poor and
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Quote of the Day: Performer Dita Von Teese on Vintage Clothing and Becoming an Accidental Ecoista
Photo credit: Hollywood Celebrity Pictures I started buying vintage originally because I couldn’t afford the kinds of designer clothes that appealed to me, and I saw that many of the designers I liked best were referencing the 1930s, 40s and 50s. So for
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Quote of the Day: Bill Clinton on Earth Day
The science is clear. Virtually all climate experts agree that we must reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050. If we fail, the worst consequences of climate change threaten to increase the severity of health epidemics,
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Quote of the Day: Mark Dwight on Form, Function, and Footprint
Photo credit: Rickshaw Bagworks The marriage of form and function has yielded a generation of elegant, ergonomic, extraordinarily functional and economical products. Great design is no longer confined to high-end goods, as mass marketers such as Target
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Quote of the Day: Vivienne Westwood on Buying Nothing
There's this idea that somehow you've got to keep
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Quote of the Day: Charles Lindbergh on Urban Living
Photo credit: Getty Images How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made
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Quote of the Day: Model Erin Wasson on a Minimalist Wardrobe
Photo credit: Eduardo Sciammarella I'm working all day and I have a dinner or something, I'll go from jeans and T-shirt to maybe a simple black dress. Same heels. Same hair and makeup. I really like the idea of being utilitarian. My dream is to edit
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Quote of the Day: William Faulkner on Cars
William Faulkner, bane of every English student forced to read DWMs until they cry MEGO, had this to say about automobiles in his minor novel Pylon, "a dark and pessimistic novel, one that looks at the uncertainty of American society created by the
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Quote of the Day: Arthur Manuel on How Indigenous Peoples Subsidize Canadian Forest Industry
[The Indigenous Network of Environment and Trade] argued that Canada's policy of not recognizing aboriginal treaty rights [in the Canadian-US softwood lumber dispute] was a form of a cash subsidy, a real cash subsidy, because the only thing that the
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Quote of the Day: Robert Redford on Cleaner Energy
Photo credit: WireImage.com We know how to solve our energy problems and to fight global warming—all we lack is honest, bold leadership. We had better find that leadership quickly, and not just for the sake of bringing down energy prices, but because
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Quote of the Day: James Lovelock on Geoengineering & The "Practice of Planetary Medicine"
Whether you love him or dismiss him, James Lovelock may be the staunchest pessimist around for the future of humanity on a warming planet. But the iconic environmentalist and originator of the Gaia hypothesis has a couple of cautionary words about the
