The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment.

I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were

Design is a response to social change.

The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.

Unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate.