Victor Papanek Design Quotations

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

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.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don`t need, with money they don`t have, in order to impress others who don`t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.