Industrial designer Quotes

To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated.

... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.

Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.

Min­i­mal­ism is about cre­at­ing com­plete har­mony and not about making simple.

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

Never say 'I could have done that,' because you didn't.

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

I want industrial design to be a public subject.

I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.

Only he who has a different visual opening can see the world in another way and can pass on to his neighbour the information required to broaden his field of view...let us get used to looking at the world through the eyes of others.

Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.

An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it.

We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking at the sunset, the people over there are looking at the dawn.

The most beautiful curve is a rising sales graph.

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.

The most reliable appliance has simplicity and quality, does what is demanded of it, is economical to use, easy to maintain, and just as easy to repair. ...It also sells best and looks good.

The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

Good design is not an applied veneer.

A Porsche will always look like a Porsche.

My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?

The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer.

There are no boundaries or borders in the digital age.

The cost of a model is more than compensated for by future savings.

It not only presents an accurate picture of the product for the executives, but it also gives the tool-makers and production men an opportunity to criticize and to present manufacturing problems.

People will turn to you, follow you, support you only as long as they are confident that you are doing your best.

Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.

As a boy I had liked both drawing and physics, and I always abhorred the role of being a spectator. In 1908, when I was 15, I designed, built and flew a toy model airplane which won the then-famous James Gordon Bennett Cup. By 16 I had discovered that design could be fun and profitable, and this lesson has never been lost on me.

If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth.

They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.

There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration, it should be elevated through pure form.

I don't like to design single objects.

I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction.

Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy.

Today is what's thought about long ago.

Now today we have to project, think, experiment, prototype the future.

No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer.

When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.

They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter.

Well, sex is life. You know, if you don't do it anymore, you can take a spoon and go into the woods and dig yourself a hole and be finished! Eroticism is the driving force behind everything in the world.

It is absolutely the central theme in my design philosophy - that life is erotic, period. The female body is one of the most extraordinary designs ever done in this universe.

If I had been president, I would have come out and declared: "Nothing there, ever! This place stays as it is. We make a big place there where people can pray about the errors we have made that those two towers had to fall."

The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure from what they have been conditioned into accepting as the norm.

It isn't easy for me to have contact with the industry, because it is so outdated. Look at General Motors, look at -Mercedes, look at Chrysler, look at Porsche, look at BMW . . . They are all building cars from yesterday! Nobody has an idea how the car of tomorrow should look. I've built them already. I have the prototypes in my exhibition, but they won't do it.

I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.

Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.

People shouldn't really have to think about an object when they are using it.

Not having to think about it makes the relationship between a person and an object run more smoothly.

We should tell more young designers not to worry about what they're going to do with their design careers. They should start their own brands. Designers should create their own beautiful brands that can change the world.

If you analyse the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious.

Progress means simplifying, not complicating