There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'
As architects we have a responsibility to society
Good design should be honest.
Good design is honest.
I don't think there is a particular responsibility on designers that is not on other professions... I think there's a responsibility for all of us to engage on all levels.
An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.
I don't think you can be a designer if you don't care.
I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.
There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.
That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.
We need to encourage designers and agencies to be responsible. We need to make sure everyone is sensitive to the issues. But to calculate the girls' body mass - I personally think it is demeaning.
Over 95% of the designers who have ever lived are alive today. Together, we have the power to define what professionalism in the communications industry will be about: helping increase market share or helping repair the World.
If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.
It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.
As designers, we have a great responsibility.
Designers must be increasingly sensitive to our Earth's dwindling resources. It is our responsibility.
A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .
Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.
We are buying stuff we know we don't need, and that is a problem we should face in design. It starts with creating an object that transports through time a valuable idea: that it can live forever.
It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.
It became very important for me to stand up and design with a conscience for environment, you know? Just because you like clothes doesn't mean that you have to throw your principles out the window.
Good design should follow looking into the products and reputation of clients who approach you, but this does not mean you have to follow them into bed.
I don't believe in morality in architecture.
