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Design Quotes by Victor Papanek
- The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
- Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order
- If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.
- 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 works,…
- 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…
- 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, is…
- 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 discouraging…
- There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
- Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.
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- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
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- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
- Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks