Ralph Caplan Quotes
- Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.
- A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it…
- Attention must be paid’ is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation at…
- If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.
- All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid.
- Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.
- We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things…
- It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is quite different. The…