In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
About Charles Eames
Charles Ormond Eames Jr.was an American designer, architect and filmmaker.
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Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
American designer (1907-1978)
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
American designer (1907-1978)
Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
American designer (1907-1978)
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
American designer (1907-1978)
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.
American designer (1907-1978)
We work because it’s a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
American designer (1907-1978)
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
American designer (1907-1978)
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
American designer (1907-1978)
It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.
American designer (1907-1978)
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
American designer (1907-1978)
The details are not the details. They make the design.
American designer (1907-1978)
Who ever said that pleasure wasn’t functional?
American designer (1907-1978)
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.
American designer (1907-1978)
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
American designer (1907-1978)
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
American designer (1907-1978)
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
American designer (1907-1978)