Papanek Quotes

#1. In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation.

Victor Papanek

#2. 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 Papanek

#3. Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

Victor Papanek

#4. We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A ... student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education ...

Victor Papanek

#5. I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

Daniel Craig

#6. Design 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 Papanek

#7. 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.

Victor Papanek

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

Victor Papanek

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

Victor Papanek

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

Victor Papanek

#11. The more harried a customer, the more they purchased precooked or frozen food, the more likely they were to be poor. And I knew they were poor because of the clothes they wore or because they purchased their food with food stamps.

J.D. Vance

#12. I was approached personally by the Gibson Corporation.

Trini Lopez

#13. Suffering is an illusion.

Gautama Buddha

#14. I love X-Games music.

Jon Anderson

#15. Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Spike Milligan

#16. 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.

Victor Papanek

#17. I have wept in the night
At my shortness of sight
That to others' needs made me blind,
But I never have yet
Had a twinge of regret
For being a little too kind.

C.R. Gibson

#18. Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time ... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.

Carolyn Warner

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

Victor Papanek