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design is a travesty of the architectural process and a
frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and
gullibility of the most formidable consumers -- the rich.
-- Stephen Bayley
1951-, British Design Critic
Why kick the
man downstream who can't put the parts together because the
parts really weren't designed properly?
-- Philip Caldwell
American Business Executive,
CEO of Ford Motor Co.
Perhaps
believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes
you an optimist.
-- Sir Terence Conran
1931-, British Businessman,
Designer
Retail is
detail.
-- James Gulliver
American Business Executive,
Chairman of Argyll Group
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Art has to
move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for
a bus.
-- David Hockney
1937-, British Artist
Design in art,
is a recognition of the relation between various things,
various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a
design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is,
with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
-- D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author
Design is not
for philosophy -- it's for life.
-- Issey Miyake
The complaint
about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern
red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all
these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in
themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated.
It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing
much about changing its own appearance to conform to the
form and texture of its appurtenances.
-- E
lwyn) B(rooks) White
(1899-1985, American Author, Editor
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