While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical things and concepts that are meaningful additions to—or sometimes subtractions from—the world we live in. Indeed, design deserves such thoughtful consideration.

Be yourself, be in the moment, you’re going to be modern.

Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value.

Not all design is for the general good.

The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists.