We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in desi…

- Victor Papanek

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, …

- Victor Papanek

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…

- Victor Papanek

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

- Victor Papanek

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…

- Victor Papanek

There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them

- Victor Papanek

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

- Victor Papanek

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.

- Victor Papanek

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.

- Victor Papanek