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Industrial Designer Inspirational Quotes (321)

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One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.
James Dyson
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Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.
James Dyson
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Nobody wants the expenditure of a lease on a factory which lasts 21 years. You can't plan 21 years ahead.
James Dyson
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I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
Marc Newson
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Good design means as little design as possible.
Dieter Rams
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Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
Marc Newson
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I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.
Adam Savage
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Being superficially different is the goal of so many of the products we see... rather than trying to innovate and genuinely taking the time, investing the resources and caring enough to try and make something better.
Jonathan Ive
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If I can feel freedom then I can create.
Marc Newson
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Regardless of what the object of design is, humans need design. For anything humans use in their day to day life, they need design and it is a clear and concrete proof of the fundamental human right to live.
Kenji Ekuan
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The most reliable appliance has simplicity and quality, does what is demanded of it, is economical to use, easy to maintain, and just as easy to repair. ...It also sells best and looks good.
Raymond Loewy
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We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer.
Jonathan Ive
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Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.
James Dyson
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If you're not trying to do something better, then you're not focused on the customer and you'll miss the possibility of making your business great.
Jonathan Ive
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I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 oclock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 oclock.
Dieter Rams
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Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with their hands and their brains. They're experts in design, engineering and business.
James Dyson
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Am I about to feel really, really stupid?
Adam Savage
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Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
James Dyson
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The explosions, like the urban legends, are a great way of bringing people in to watch, because it's really fun, and you know we're always going to give you a satisfying ending.
Adam Savage
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I was 3 years old, and we had a very rich neighbor in Berlin who drove a Mercedes sports car. I remember standing behind this car, admiring the trunk, how nicely shaped it was, for an hour. That shape has never left me - I could design it today!
Luigi Colani
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It is absolutely the central theme in my design philosophy - that life is erotic, period. The female body is one of the most extraordinary designs ever done in this universe.
Luigi Colani
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I think the whole thing that Jamie [Hyneman] and I have in working together is that we are constantly simplifying each other's designs, and we both appreciate that the quickest and the dirtiest solution is usually the most elegant, the least expensive, and the fastest.
Adam Savage
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When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
Eva Zeisel
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Creativity: that which wasn't there before, but which can be made simply and completely.
Bruno Munari
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