Marcel Wanders Quotes

I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones.

In this fast-developing world, particularly in the fast-transforming China market, we really need to take this opportunity and offer a modern interpretation of Scandinavian design which fits people's demands perfectly.

A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do.

What got me really excited about Tylko is the fact that it bridges the gap between tradition and technology. It expands the designer's ability to create a language, to create ideas, to create a set of proportions, a set of details, and to apply those across a really wide range of applications.

We stay on top of design styles and aren't afraid to take on new challenges.

If I look at my own growth, I started in product design. And we grew and created new products, and we were also able to change the idea of design a few times.

The thing is, if you're a designer, then you want to constantly push yourself and your designs. When we make a new collection, we're changing shapes, we're changing patterns. We get a dress on a model, and it's our first time seeing what the dress really looks like on a woman's body.

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

Yet, that's what studios do. If one thing works, they'll keep doing it till it runs its course and people aren't interested anymore.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.

Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth.

The thing is, if you're a designer, then you want to constantly push yourself and your designs.

I've been combing through the Wolverine archives and advertisements from the sixties and seventies. I'm looking to take inspiration from designs of the past and bring them into the future.

Design has long gone from tinkering and sketching of auteurs in isolation to a powerful catalyzer of growth.

Rarely do we see immediate use of innovative technologies. I believe that the future is built by small pieces that add up.

How can we reinterpret 3-D printing in a way that suggests a new design language?

My place in design history is to sort of interpret youth culture, and I think we've seen that done in fashion before - it's not a new concept - but it hasn't been done with the same vigour in a modern context.

I think, as a designer, what you have to do is challenge yourself to do what you do, but better.

We have lots to learn in India when it comes to design, and that includes me! I'm constantly learning; that never stops.

Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.

Architects love to rethink a project - that's what we do. If something is successful, like a house or a kettle, in this case, it's a great compliment when someone wants another one.