Good design is not an applied veneer.
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.
Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.
Design is too important to be left to designers.
The most reliable appliance has simplicity and quality, does what is demanded of it, is economical to use, easy to maintain, and just as easy to repair. ...It also sells best and looks good.