This has been mentioned here before, but I feel it deserves another airing.
"Imagine this design assignment: design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, accrues solar energy as fuel and makes complex sugars as food, creates microclimates, changes sugars with the seasons, and self-replicates... why don't we knock that down and write on it?"
William McDonough of Cradle to Cradle fame, at TED.
Via Noisy Decent Graphics.
Kimmo Alkio, President of F-Secure, Monocle, October 2007, p72.
"Unfortunately I see design today becoming hostage to strategy and market research data. I believe that if you want true differentiation in the market you can't rely on what the market already knows, which is what you get when market strategists drive the creative process."
Fabio Ongarato, Design Hub.
"The term greenwashing applies when companies (or governments) spend more money or time advertising being green, than on investing in environmentally sound practices.
In business, greenwashing often means changing the name and/or label. Early warning signs that a product is probably toxic include images of trees, birds, or dew drops. If all three are on the box, the product will probably make your skin peel off in seconds..."
John Thackara at the Doors of Perception Blog.
A vaguely similar thread (in the context of architecture) is at Building Blog.
"...I'm fine about record sleeves becoming obsolete. Music doesn't have as important a role to play in social culture as it did in the 1950s and '60s."
"Design is too beautiful, too important and too creative to leave out of art galleries. It expresses the spirit of its epoch and sometimes reflects social conditions more reliably than the more ambiguous fine arts, such as painting, installation or photography."
Robert Nelson, art critic of The Age. From a review of a retrospective exhibition of pioneering Australian designer Douglas Annand. More on Annand.
"In London my work was very black. I now have Day-Glo stationery. Canada and Australia are far more graphic than England, with full-on brash typography and graphics".
Vince Frost (celebrated ex-UK designer, now in Australia) in The Age Good Weekend, May 19.
"A magazine must be like a human being. If it comes into the home it must contribute. It can’t just lie around. A magazine must have blood and brains and pizzazz."
From the movie Funny Face, as reported by 2×4, as mentioned on magCulture, and found via Design Observer.
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“Newspapers tell you about the world; magazines tell you about their world.”
Graydon Carter, GOOD magazine: The 51 Best* Magazines Ever.
"I'm not interested in watching TV on my phone for the same reason I'm not interested in having a shit in my tumble-dryer."
