If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.
Ralph CaplanAll our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid.
Ralph CaplanWe should plead not guilty by reason of inanity…
Ralph CaplanDesigners shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.
Ralph CaplanTags: design
…no industrial designer worth his salt, or our attention, has been trained to work exclusively on any particular product, unless by accident. What he has been trained to do is practice a process called design, a process that includes esthetic choices but does not consist only of them.
Ralph CaplanTags: design industrial-design
A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.
Ralph CaplanTags: civilization design industrial-design
Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.
Ralph CaplanTags: design
Attention must be paid’ is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation at hand.
Ralph CaplanTags: design
We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do not love things or even possess them: they pass through our lives as barium passes through the digestive tract, unassimilated, their function merely to flash signals along the way.
Ralph CaplanNothing is more to the point than a good digression.
Ralph CaplanTags: digression
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