Playful exploration, playful building and role play those are some of the ways that designers use play in their work.

And that actually isn t necessarily really playful.

Eva Zeisel on the playful search for beauty

It was playful, allusive, and edgy in short, post modern.

You re either playful or you re serious, and you can t be both.

Construction play it s playful, obviously, but also a powerful way to learn.

Sarah Smith, who was a mathematics professor at MIT, wrote, The playful search for beauty was Man's first activity that all useful qualities and all material qualities were developed from the playful search for beauty.

They lose this stuff that facilitates this sort of playful and building mode of thinking.

If you're creative enough, playful enough, fun enough, can you get through to anybody? Yes or no?

But that s not really true you can be a serious professional adult and, at times, be playful.

Regarding the readiness of the police and military to combat terrorism, Twitter users expressed a playful belligerence

I'm doing this as a demo, and it's more playful, but inevitably, all of this can be used.

Whenever a new revelation comes to them from their Lord , they listen to it in a playful manner ,

Whenever a new revelation comes to them from their Lord , they listen to it in a playful manner ,

Did you think that We had created you for a playful purpose and that you were not to return to Us ?

Did you think that We had created you for a playful purpose and that you were not to return to Us ?

So again, this is another one of those playful activities that, as we get older, we tend to forget and we have to relearn.

So slowly I began to realize that what started out as a rather playful attempt to try to annoy fruit flies might actually have some relevance to a human psychiatric disorder.

The High Line used to be covered in billboards, and so we've taken a playful take where, instead of framing advertisements, it's going to frame people in views of the city.

The French have treated themselves to a month of crisis more playful and poetic than social or political to express their refusal of a world where money has too much influence.

It takes more than decor, but I think we ve all seen that creative companies do often have symbols in the workplace that remind people to be playful, and that it s a permissive environment.

Showing a series of inspiring, unusual and playful products, British branding and design guru Paul Bennett explains that design doesn't have to be about grand gestures, but can solve small, universal and overlooked problems.

Should you question them what they were talking about , they would certainly say We were merely jesting and being playful . Tell them Was it Allah and His revelation and His Messenger that you were mocking ?

Should you question them what they were talking about , they would certainly say We were merely jesting and being playful . Tell them Was it Allah and His revelation and His Messenger that you were mocking ?

These are tiles. The word, playful is a necessary aspect of our work because, actually, one of our problems is that we have to make, produce, lovely things throughout all of life, and this for me is now 75 years.

So what I would encourage on an individual level to do, is to explore backwards as far as you can go to the most clear, joyful, playful image that you have, whether it's with a toy, on a birthday or on a vacation.

The French have treated themselves to a month of crisis more playful and poetic than social or political to express their refusal of a world where money has too much influence. Much of an entire generation in the West feels the same way.

And those who didn't die lived often very tethered to the ground, could not experience pleasure, could not trust, because when you're vigilant, worried, anxious, and insecure, you can't lift your head to go and take off in space and be playful and safe and imaginative.

And then finally, Kelly's play of brilliants attitude, that really some play of the skyline of Hong Kong, or perhaps the chandelier in the opera house, or in the theater here, which is a decoration, the icing on the cake, something playful, something that is just an addition to the architectural environment, I would say.

At the time, Invader, named after the arcade game from the late 1970s that was his inspiration, also included Budapest on that map and labeled it with capital letters as a sign that, over just a few years after the fall of the Eastern block, a new, playful, youthfully rebelious and alternative Budapest was born.