Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures. — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care,… — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself… — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few. — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an… — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical. — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates… — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both… — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop… — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product. — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
