Neri Oxman

I don't think of fashion as fashion or biology as biology.

— Neri Oxman

How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?

— Neri Oxman

It is only through hard work and awareness that we can truly own our identity.

— Neri Oxman

I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.

— Neri Oxman

The 3D-printing technology has been developing at a very rapid pace.

— Neri Oxman

I appreciate good tailoring as much as good details of construction.

— Neri Oxman

I like to mostly wear very simple clothes.

— Neri Oxman

Choice is a form of compromise, no? So why choose if you can have both?

— Neri Oxman

I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a…

— Neri Oxman

All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.

— Neri Oxman

I am inspired by alchemy and all things continuous, uninterrupted, and effortlessly fused into wholes.

— Neri Oxman

In many ways, I think I'm still forming my ideas about my own identity in this world.

— Neri Oxman

Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology.

— Neri Oxman

When you celebrate a new idea, it immediately comes through the way you hold yourself and the clothes you wear.

— Neri Oxman

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

— Neri Oxman

Gender is more of a continuum than we are willing to admit when we hit the restroom.

— Neri Oxman

If you believe in Cinderella, and if you can suspend your disbelief at midnight, then you can believe in the interdisciplinary midnight,…

— Neri Oxman

The second-most abundant biopolymer on the planet is called chitin, and some 100 million tons of it are produced every year by…

— Neri Oxman

I loathe categorization. I cherish my independence, and I treasure chivalry. I live just fine with ambiguity, and I welcome a good…

— Neri Oxman

When I came to MIT, there were four rubrics: science, art, design, and technology. And as you entered your degree, whether it…

— Neri Oxman

In traditional 3D printing, the gantry size poses an obvious limitation for the designer who wishes to print in larger scales and…

— Neri Oxman

I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the…

— Neri Oxman

Nature is a brilliant engineer and builder. It knows how to create seashells that are twice as strong as the most resistant…

— Neri Oxman

I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly…

— Neri Oxman

There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given…

— Neri Oxman

At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly…

— Neri Oxman

One cannot separate the spider web's form from the way in which it originated.

— Neri Oxman

I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses.

— Neri Oxman

Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.

— Neri Oxman

Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up.

— Neri Oxman

If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the…

— Neri Oxman

A great dream of mine would be to run a design studio full of scientists who think about science as creatively as…

— Neri Oxman

The most beautiful products or the most elegant or seductive products, in my mind, are those that tell a story of a…

— Neri Oxman

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.

— Neri Oxman

I am equally fascinated and awed by visiting an Alexander McQueen show as I am looking under a microscope.

— Neri Oxman

For the same reason we have the Brad Pitts and the George Clooneys, it's just part of human nature to idolize stereotypes.

— Neri Oxman

I often ask myself, 'What would design be like if objects were made of a single part? Would we return to a…

— Neri Oxman

In nature, there is no separation between design, engineering, and fabrication; the bone does it all.

— Neri Oxman

In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs…

— Neri Oxman

Although I often find that the feminist rhetoric - not feminism - can come across as simple-minded, self-regarding, nuance-averse and reductive -…

— Neri Oxman