Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
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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
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
Charles Eames
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
Charles Eames
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
Charles Eames
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Charles Eames
The details are not the details. They make the design.
Charles Eames
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