Victor Papanek Quotes

Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who don't care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them

Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation.