Design is a response to social change.

Unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate.

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

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

Design is a response to social change.

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What is this symbol? What is its name? Its name is Junk. Junk is the rusty, lovely, brilliant symbol of the dying years of your time. Junk is your ultimate landscape.