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"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."
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"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."

"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."
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"To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need."

"Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world."

"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."

"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."

"The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?"

"The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life."

"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do."

"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
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