Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it. — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share
Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share
The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share
Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention. — Paola Antonelli Copy Share
While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be. — Paola Antonelli Copy Share
In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share
Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share
Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value. — Paola Antonelli Copy Share
Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness. — Paola Antonelli Copy Share
Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something. — Paola Antonelli Copy Share
