Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
Victor PapanekDesign is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.
Victor PapanekDesign, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.
Victor Papanek