Best quotes by Marcel Wanders on Design

Checkout quotes by Marcel Wanders on Design

• ‟ That word 'fantasy' - I hardly ever hear it in the world of design. And that's very strange. You should hear it a lot. I think fantasy is a very important value that designers and artists should bring to the world.

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• ‟ Designers have been uncreative and very arrogant. They need to listen to people. People have always wanted more exciting, interesting design, but we designers didn't see it.

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• ‟ I am quite familiar with Dubai and its design scene. I have been a regular visitor for more than 10 years. It is hard to name an area where hospitality, friendship, culture, ambition, and beauty are so highly regarded.

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• ‟ I have a long list of how people call me: 'The Prince of Design,' 'Beethoven of Design,' 'the Dutch Prince of Design' and the list goes on and on and on... and also the 'Lady Gaga of Design!' I am fine with it. I think she is an amazing character who has innovated the music scene and is respected by so many people; she is surprising.

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• ‟ Great design is so many things all at the same time. It is emotional, functional, and responsive. It creates an unwritten dialogue, a connection, between itself and those who experience it. It is open to interpretation yet created for a specific purpose. It creates meaning and value.

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• ‟ The very best design, I feel, is that which resonates so deeply that people can't help but discover something within themselves when they see it.

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• ‟ I like to find areas where design has not yet gone.

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• ‟ There are many design companies, but there are few designers who organize their own business and open it up to other designers.

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• ‟ A lot of companies are able to do without design. A few companies are able to do without creativity. A very few. Creativity is crucial to your business.

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• ‟ I have been a designer all my life, and design, for me, is to share love and trust and show the future in a beautiful way. I have worked on this principle all my life.

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• ‟ Function is fundamental to design, of course. If something doesn't work, it's a bad product, and I certainly get frustrated by things that aren't functional. But there has to be more than function. A house has to function, but if that's all it does, you don't love it.

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• ‟ My design always has a political agenda. When I borrow components from various cultures and juxtapose them in an object, it is a message that co-existence is indeed possible. Design creates an ideal world where different ideas live close to each other in perfect harmony.

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• ‟ When I wrote my book about Amsterdam, the main objective was to talk about the city's creativity rather than just its design.

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• ‟ I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore.

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• ‟ I'm 100 percent sure the love and energy we give to a project will end up inside of it. I think it's important that when we work on something, we do it with positive intentions, because this energy will be sensed in the design.

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• ‟ If I look at my own growth, I started in product design. And we grew and created new products, and we were also able to change the idea of design a few times.

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• ‟ I really feel that design has the capacity to communicate, and I really have concentrated on the communication of positive values.

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• ‟ I love Milano. Historically, the city is the biggest intellectual design thinking container. It is the cradle of design as well as the hometown of the mothers of its important heroes.

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• ‟ I wanted to go beyond the sentiments and needs of daily life to create a sense of wonder and find a new space for design.

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