Kenji Ekuan quotes

Regardless of what the object of design is, humans need design. For anything humans use in their day to day life, they need design and it is a clear and concrete proof of the fundamental human right to live.
-- Kenji Ekuan

#Design #Needs #Use

The ultimate design is little different from the natural world.
-- Kenji Ekuan

#Design #Different #World

Making an object means imbuing it with its own spirit.
-- Kenji Ekuan

#Mean #Spirit #Objects

As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.

You don't need vision to be a visionary.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.

Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.