Paola Antonelli famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Elegance in objects is everybodyâ€™s right, and it shouldnâ€™t cost more than ugliness.
-- Paola Antonelli

#Cost #Elegance #Ugliness
Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.
-- Paola Antonelli

#Design #May #Designer
The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists.
-- Paola Antonelli

#Ideas #Design #Able
Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. Theyâ€™re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.
-- Paola Antonelli

#Technology #Ideas #People
Be yourself, be in the moment, youâ€™re going to be modern
-- Paola Antonelli

#Being Yourself #Moments #Modern
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.
-- Paola Antonelli

#Attitude #Technology #Bad Ass
I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.
-- Paola Antonelli

#Cute #People #Design
Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.
-- Paola Antonelli

#Attitude #Design #Renaissance
Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.
-- Paola Antonelli

#Successful #People #Design
Life is tough; thank God there's design.
-- Paola Antonelli

#Design #Thank God #Tough
While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.
-- Paola Antonelli

#Artist #Definitions #Designer
I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future, because it is a way we interact with machines and screens.
-- Paola Antonelli

#Games #Design #Important
In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical things and concepts that are meaningful additions toâ€”or sometimes subtractions fromâ€”the world we live in. Indeed, design deserves such thoughtful consideration.
-- Paola Antonelli

#Beautiful #Meaningful #Responsibility
Not all design is for the general good.
-- Paola Antonelli

#Design #Good Design
Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.
-- Paola Antonelli

#Technology #Ipods #Space
We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.
-- Paola Antonelli

#Technology #Two #Mind
Heaven is satisfied curiosity.
-- Paola Antonelli

#God #Heaven #Soul

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