Mike Judge Quotes

I've experienced firsthand the disconnect between furniture, their environments, and the way people work.

As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.

I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

If ergonomists have their way, future products won't be built for some hypothetical average person but will conform to the biomechanical needs of whatever particular human body happens to come into contact with them.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.

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

Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.

With "The Office," they said, "We don't want anyone we recognize, so give us unknown actors," and I think that was the break that I needed. Because I went in and I got the role.

I don't think anyone knows anything and I don't trust people who say that they do. Don't give me a plan, give me action.

I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it.

Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.

Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give ~ with a few exceptions ~ generalize whatever they did. Don't over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.

Design means being good, not just looking good.

What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes technology and makes it understandable. Design is needed to make sense of information overload. It is why art and design will rise in importance during this century as we try to make sense of all the possibilities that digital technology now affords.