Paola Antonelli Quotes
I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.
While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.
We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.
Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.
Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.
Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.
Designers 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.
I 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.
Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value.
