My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.

The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

But one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

Design is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come to mean nothing.