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Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

— Paola Antonelli

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I studied architecture but it was not my mission.

It’s impossible to define what is design. You know, it’s like trying to define what art is. It’s everything that we make, if you wish. And some of it is good, and some of it is bad.

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If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

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I have always believed that fashion was not made only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.

Yves Saint-Laurent

When any great design thou dost intend,
Think of the means, the manner, and the end.

John Denham Of Prudence (1668)

Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.

Donald Norman The Design of Everyday Things (1988)

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