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Charles Eames
American
Designer
About the author
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
Charles Eames,
American
Designer
#Architecture
#Idea
#Design
Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
Charles Eames,
American
Designer
#Pleasure
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
Charles Eames,
American
Designer
#Class
#Design
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Charles Eames,
American
Designer
#Years
#Questions
The details are not the details. They make the design.
Charles Eames,
American
Designer
#Design
The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
Charles Eames,
American
Designer
#Life
#Will
#End
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Charles Eames,
American
Designer
#Design
It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.
Charles Eames,
American
Designer
#Time
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
Charles Eames,
American
Designer
#Act
#Self
#Expression
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
Charles Eames,
American
Designer
#Ideas
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
Charles Eames,
American
Designer
#People
#Ideas
#Key
#Quality
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Charles Eames,
American
Designer
#Purpose
#Design
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
Charles Eames,
American
Designer
#World
#Ability
#Change
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
Charles Eames,
American
Designer
#Art
#Magic
#Quality
We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
Charles Eames,
American
Designer
#Work
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
Charles Eames,
American
Designer