Architecture Quote by Victor Papanek

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our…

— Michael Shannon

The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.

— Bruce Mau

“Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be it product, communication or system—is a result of the process…

— Maggie Macnab

Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs…

— Gianfranco Frattini

Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.

— Yves Behar

Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

— Victor Papanek

Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos…

— John Hockenberry

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

— Marcel Wanders

Regardless of what the object of design is, humans need design. For anything humans use in their day to day life, they need design…

— Kenji Ekuan

To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design is to…

— Robert Bringhurst

I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed--that every building…

— Bill Moggridge