Birth: November 22, 1927 Death: January 10, 1998
In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation..
All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, ….
Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself wo….
Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it..
There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them.
Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must….
We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in desi….
Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical..
If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product..
Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is pro….
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people..
Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order.