Victor Papanek
Victor Papanek
Victor Joseph Papanekwas a designer and educator who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures. He disapproved of manufactured products that were unsafe, showy, maladapted, or essentially useless. His products, writings, and lectures were collectively considered an example and spur by many designers. Papanek was a philosopher of design and as such he was an untiring, eloquent promoter of design aims and approaches that would be sensitive to social and...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth22 November 1923
CountryAustria
Victor Papanek quotes about
Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.
Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order
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 patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them
There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.