The phrase "looks designed" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when something looks as though it has been intentionally created to look a certain way. For example, "The wallpaper in the living room looks designed to complement the couch."
It looks designed to provoke sectarian or ethnic tensions".
But the ballet progresses from one anticlimax to another, with transitions and stage business that are awkward and dance that looks designed to fill the music prettily.
Italy resists radical stagings of opera; this production looks designed more with La Scala in mind, where it appears in April, than Berlin.
Putting together a working model that looks designed and slick, rather than a scrappy development version, is an important factor in getting the idea across to non-techies, said Wright.
Stitching up closer trade relations elsewhere for example letting Bangladesh's booming garment industry export 10m pieces duty-free to India, or bidding for a big Indian investment to extract iron ore in Afghanistan also looks designed to win friends.A similar strategy is even at play with Pakistan, India's arch-antagonist.
Though Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbullah's leader, said that this week's raid had nothing to do with events in Gaza, it looks designed to take pressure off Hamas by showing Israel that its actions in Gaza have more than local consequences, and to force Israel into a dangerous escalation on two fronts.For Hizbullah, that is a big gamble.
Sir Peter's comments look designed to accelerate that process.
This fixture looked designed for attackers in each team.
China's long-running close ties to Pakistan look designed to antagonise India.
The promised arrests, especially if Mr Rahman is included, as senior officers say he will be, look designed for this.
The period look, designed by Christopher Oram, is somewhat drab and sleepy, as 18th-century Seville may well have been.
