Ingvar Kamprad Quotes

Good design is good business.

A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.

A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

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

Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.

Good design doesn't date.

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

Accessible design is good design.

I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Good design should be honest.

I am always interested in designing things that have a great price point attached to it.

Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable.

Good design is good business.

Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Good design is good business.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

When we changed from Tiger to Nike, we had to have a design for the shoe. And where do you go to? There's no 'dial 9-1-1' for design.

It takes a real designer to design for real women.

I look at the money I'm about to spend on myself and ask if IKEA's customers could afford it.