The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.

The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.

In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings of form and material, of the way a material behaves--'I press too hard here, and it breaks here' and so on. Some of the digital rendering tools are impressive, but it's important that people still really try and figure out a way of gaining direct experience with the materials.

I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.

Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something thats genuinely better is very hard.