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The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in many ways, that describes the traditions of design.

— Jonathan Ive

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

— Margaret Heffernan

I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

— Jonathan Ive

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.

— Alexander McQueen

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

— Paul Rand

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

— Frank Darabont

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

— Olivier Theyskens

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

— John Hockenberry

Even in high school, I was keenly aware of this remarkable tradition that the U.K. had of designing and making.

— Jonathan Ive

The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.

— Yves Behar

✗Opposing Perspectives

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

— Walter Gropius