Norman Potter quotes

“Every human being is a designer”
-- Norman Potter

Source : Norman Potter (1969). “What is a designer: education and practice: a guide for students and teachers”

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“Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into three simple categories, though the distinctions are in no way absolute, nor are they always so described: product design (things), environment design (places) and communication design (messages).”
-- Norman Potter

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“The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so.”
-- Norman Potter

Source : Norman Potter (2002). “What Is a Designer: Things, Places, Messages”, Hyphen Press

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“My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.”

“Every time you make the user make a decision they don’t care about, you have failed as a designer.”

“I couldn't live if I wasn't a designer.”

“If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.”

“I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.”

“No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.”

Source : "Possession". www.imdb.com. 2002.

“Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives”

“The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.179, Thomas Nelson Inc

“We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.”

“Why.. is human desire so unsatisfying?”