Erik Adigard quotes

“Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.”
-- Erik Adigard

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“At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.”
-- Erik Adigard

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“Intrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research.”
-- Erik Adigard

Source : "A Conversation About The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly". Interview moderated by Chee Pearlman, www.wired.com. January 1, 2001.

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“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.”

“Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.”

Source : "The Doctrine of Chances: Or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play".

“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.”

Source : Adrian Bejan, J. Peder Zane (2012). “Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization”, p.9, Anchor

“The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.”

Source : "The Front Row: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan". Interview with Anupama Chopra, blogs.wsj.com. January 4, 2013.

“I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? . . . Whatever devices you use should always be there to serve the theme. If the theme has been overtaken by the device, then something's wrong.”

“To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.”

“Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.”

“First thought, best thought.”

Source : Allen Ginsberg (2015). “The Essential Ginsberg”, p.7, HarperCollins

“My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.”

“It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.”