Eric Ishii Eckhardt > Eric Ishii Eckhardt's Quotes

“Good design is innovative. Good design must be useful. Good design is aesthetic design. Good design makes a product understandable. Good design is honest. Good design is unobtrusive. Good design is long-lasting. Good design is consistent in every detail. Good design is environmentally friendly. And last but not least, good design is as little design as possible.”
― Dieter Rams

“Good design is as little as possible. Less, but better, because it concentrates on the essential aspects, 
and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.”
― Dieter Rams, Less but Better / Weniger, aber besser

“Less, but better.”
― Dieter Rams

“Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design”
― Dieter Rams

“Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour”
― Dieter Rams

“Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
― Charles Eames

“Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects...the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se...I don't believe in this 'gifted few' concept, just in people doing things they are really interested in doing. They have a way of getting good at whatever it is.”
― Charles Eames

“Eventually Everything Connects - all the Pain, the Struggle & the People.”
― Charles Eames