Victor Papanek Quotes

• The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

  Victor Papanek

  People, Design, Important

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

  Victor Papanek

  Design, Revolutionary, Responsible

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• 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 probably the phoniest field in existence today.

  Victor Papanek

  Order, People, Design

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

  Victor Papanek

  Design, Profession, Industrial Design

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• 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.

  Victor Papanek

  Men, Design, Creative

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• 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

  Meaningful, Order, Design

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• Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

  Victor Papanek

  Meaningful, Order, Design

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• If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

  Victor Papanek

  Independent, Design, Responsible

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• 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.

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  Block, Teaching, Dark

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• 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.

  Victor Papanek

  Design, Facts, Planning

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• 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, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.

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  Country, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Space, Firsts, Los Angeles

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