Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
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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
To 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 Eames
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
Charles Eames
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
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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.
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