Book Quote by Scott Westerfeld

When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

— Ettore Sottsass

I think design does evolve in a meaningful sense. I think if you look at design as a part of the continuum of communication,…

— Khoi Vinh

There's nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designing is just taking something that's existing…

— Yoon Ahn

Design has always been a driving force in my life: it's the lens through which I experience the world.

— Joe Gebbia

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

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

— Zaha Hadid

Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.

— Donald A. Norman

The thing is, 75 percent of design today is absolutely outdated. It all has to be redesigned with the materials and knowledge that we…

— Luigi Colani

I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing…

— Carrie Fulton Phillips

“Cars will need to be designed with whole new ways of thinking. The design of cars will need to adapt to a whole new…

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding…

— Kenya Hara

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

— David Bromstad