Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. Theyโre able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.
Paola AntonelliGood design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.
Paola AntonelliI consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future, because it is a way we interact with machines and screens.
Paola AntonelliDesigners need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.
Paola AntonelliPeople think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.
Paola Antonelli