design is...
How many times have you tried to define what is design? How many times have you heard somebody trying?
Here you will find some examples selected by
Guim Espelt i Estopà
. Always beginning with "Design is..." We want to be specific! ;)
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"Design is for us an open discipline. It does not and must not countenance restrictions, but evolve and mutate according tot he changing culture in which it develops."
Formafantasma
Domus 956, p.IV
— 2 months ago
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Industrial Design
"Design is a question of substance, not just form. It’s a tool a company uses through its products, graphics, and architecture to convey an image that is not just simply appearance but a tangible reflection of a way of being and operating."
Adriano Olivetti
— 2 months ago with 5 notes
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Industrial Design
"Design is about navigating the relationship between people and things. It should be emotional."
Jiří Pelcl
Blueprint #312, p.28
— 2 months ago with 4 notes
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Industrial Design
"Design is a combination of market analysis, logical conclusions and finally the talent and expertise to convert all these elements into an aesthetically successful result"
Luciana Silvares
— 2 months ago
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Industrial Design
"Design is problem-solving."
Friso Kramer
Frame Magazine 85, 2012, p.188.
— 2 months ago with 5 notes
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Industrial Design
"Design is the conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order."
Victor Papanek
— 3 months ago
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Industrial Design
"Design is the reduction of things to their bare essentials."
Peter Thonet
— 3 months ago with 6 notes
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Industrial Design
"Design is 98 per cent common sense. What makes design so interesting is the other two per cent; what one might call aesthetics…"
Terence Conran
Terence Conran on Design
, 1996
— 3 months ago with 1 note
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Industrial Design
"Design is to invent with intent. If you take away the ‘invent’ bit, you have an engineer. If you take away the ‘intent’ bit, you have an artist."
Rebecca Reubens
— 3 months ago with 7 notes
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Industrial Design
"Design is a question of substance, not just form. It’s a tool a company uses through its products, graphics, and architecture to convey an image that is not just simply appearance but a tangible reflection of a way of being and operating."
Adriano
Olivetti
— 4 months ago
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Industrial Design
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"Design is a commercial art - that’s perfectly bloody straightforward as far as I’m concerned."
Kenneth Grange
— 4 months ago with 2 notes
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Industrial Design
"Design is taking a thought-line for a walk"
Alfredo Häberli
— 4 months ago with 2 notes
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Industrial Design
"Design is more evolution than innovation."
Konstantin Grcic
— 4 months ago with 1 note
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Industrial Design
"Design is the embodiment of progress"
Paola Antonelli
— 5 months ago
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"Design is not something you do on a piece of paper. Design is how you think, how you see, how you act… is a kind of way of life, and perhaps a substitute for any other kind of religion."
Burton Kramer
— 5 months ago with 5 notes
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