"Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting."
- Sister Parish
"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"
- Charles Eames
"The personal touch... is shown, or should be, in the smaller articles
in the room, which by their choice and placement indicate the character
of the occupant."
- Frank A. Parson
“Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time
from individual bars of soap.”
-Howard Hughes
"With the pride of an artist, you must blow against the walls of every
power that exists,
the small trumpet of your defiance."
- Norman Mailer
"The life of a designer is a life of fight, fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us the visual disease is what we have around and what we try to do is to cure it somehow with design."
- Massimo Vignelli
"When the point of contact between the product and the people becomes
a point of friction, then the designer has failed. On the other hand,
if people are made safer, more efficient, more comfortable - or just
plain happier - by contact with the product, then the designer has
succeeded."
-Henry Dreyfus
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