I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.
Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.
When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.
A product can live on one great idea. An interior needs 1,000 great ideas to really live, which makes interior design a whole orchestration of this art of juxtaposition, placement, and combination.
So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.
The Peninsula - it's a combination of great service and good design.
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.'
From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.
Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason is because no one leaves. In the last 15 years, not one of the 18 designers has ditched Apple for greener pastures.
When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing - the existing landowners wanted things as they had been.
I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
I love design; to create stuff from ground zero is the best for me. I'm always so intense when I talk about that.
A bridge is born of necessity, but it must establish its own identity. It should harmonize with its surroundings, and the design must transcend the purely local and transform the setting.
We want to design interventions to teach people how to harness their considerable willpower.
I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.
Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.
I have been working with Hive, part of British Gas, on reinventing the thermostat. Now you can control your heating at the press of a button on your phone. As I say, design should permeate every part of society.
Everybody in Hollywood has to beat the 'no' - and if you write code in Silicon Valley, or if you design cars in Detroit, if you manage hedge funds in Lower Manhattan, you also have to learn to beat the 'no.'
Steve Jobs was the greatest manufacturer of consumer products of his age. His marketing vision put him on par with Henry Ford, and his grasp of the aesthetic component to industrial design far surpassed Ford's.
I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design - not making it, just looking at it. I'm always kind of trying to spread my interests around and try new things.
