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Designers should only innovate as a last resort.

— Charles Eames

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Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

One could describe Design as a plan for arranging elements to accomplish a particular purpose.

I have never been forced to accept compromises but I have willingly accepted constraints.

Design may be a solution to some industrial problems.

The details are not the details. These make the design.

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