There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
Interpretation
Industrial design can have negative impacts, but it is not the worst profession.
Victor Papanek highlights the ethical responsibilities of industrial designers, suggesting that while their work has potential drawbacks, it is still less harmful than many other professions. This statement encourages a critical examination of how design can contribute positively to society and challenges designers to consider the broader implications of their work.
In practice
During a lecture on the importance of ethical design practices.
We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education.
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 stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.
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 works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.
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