In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
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The 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 Eames
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
Charles Eames
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Charles Eames
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
Charles Eames
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
Charles Eames
The 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 Eames
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