Quotes on Design

The act of designing a book, or anything else, must carry with it a conscious responsibility towards life.

So when, instead of thinking of himself or herself as the protagonist, the designer keeps in mind all the other people who are actors in the process as well, the design of a book can turn out very different.

To design is, after all, to touch something with one's own hands, to blow one's breath into it and give life to it.

One can describe the genesis of technological artifacts as a network of transformations (goods to be distributed, contents in advertisements, merchandise, etc.).

Design finds itself in an endless cycle of solving problems that cause new problems to be solved.

The energy that propels the revival of cultural traditions is the power of memory. The physical memory of those traditions retained by people who still live in, and are themselves products of, the environment that produced the traditions.

Traditions are the best, most state-of-the-art creations of any given era, rigorously distilled and polished in the currents of history, and passed on to the present.

When we bring discrete elements together, they should create an impact even while retaining their individuality.