Design Quotes
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Charles Eames Quotes
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Charles EamesRecognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Charles EamesThe details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
Charles EamesThe details are not the details. They make the design.
Charles EamesThe recognition and understanding of the need was the primary condition of the creative act. When people feel they had to express themselves for originality for its own sake, that tends not to be creativity. Only when you get into the problem and the problem becomes clear, can creativity take over.
Charles EamesTo whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles EamesWho ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
Charles Eames