Neri Oxman Quotes

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

Good design means as little design as possible.

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.

If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

I'm a traditionalist with suits. It doesn't need extra pockets, and I don't want headphone jacks in my jacket. I appreciate designers who do different things, but for me, the most basic version of that item is what I want.

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

Make each product the best it can be. Focus on form and materials. What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.

Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?

Balenciaga taught me everything I know. He taught me to care for the details, that it was not necessary to sew on a button where it had no use or to add a flower to make a dress beautiful... no unnecessary detail.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

Often I forget that design is really about removing things: optimizing the flow of information, the display, so there are the fewest elements possible, but still they preserve the essence of the subject.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

"Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step.

A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way.

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

Good design is as little design 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.