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 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.
Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.
Constant slumping increases the stress on the spine and joints, and can lead to headaches, neck and shoulder tension, and lower-back pain.
Playing the drums hurts my back.
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 spend some time raising a child in London, carrying it around on one side of your body - it puts your back out!
I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.
Design has to work. Art does not.
I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.
Design means being good, not just looking good.
I would never encourage anyone to adopt a contractive posture. It's not good for you physically. It's not good for you psychologically.
It's like carrying a bowling ball! Almost done.
The office building is a building for work, organization, lucidity and economy. Light, spacious working rooms, clearly arranged, undivided, only organized according to the pattern of the firm.
Literally, these [heels] slow you down.
Because of poor posture, practically 95% of our population suffers from varying degrees of spinal curvature, not to mention more serious ailments. Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.
When competing a lot and traveling, I have problems with my lower back because I'm always on the plane or sitting. That's something that does bother me from time to time, but I try to stay on top of it.
A recent study shows that standing at work for long periods of time is bad for you, after earlier research indicated that sitting for too long at work is bad for you. So really the only thing we know is, work is bad for you.
I've urged employers to address ergonomics and adopt ergonomics measures.
It's extremely important for my sit ski to be perfectly fit to me. If it's too big, and I shift around, the energy and strength I put into propelling myself forward will be lost. The right fit is everything in my sport.
Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board.
I have very bad posture.
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.
I've taken pains to acknowledge that ergonomic pain is real and that ergonomics is valid.
