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.

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

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.

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.

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

You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.