Ferdinand Alexander Porsche Quotes

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In design there is styling, art, and other terms intermingled.

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
You have to keep the identity. If there are technical developments, then you have to incorporate the shape to the new technology, but a Porsche will always look like a Porsche.

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
Designers need to be part engineer. Good design only exists in concert with engineering. That is because form has to follow function, so you focus on function and then give the object a shape to make it appealing.

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
Automotive design today lacks individuality. It is all melting together, and the different brands are copying each other. And also, they are all trying to go back into their own history.

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
It is nice to go with your roots, but it seems that it is a lack of creativity that forces them to do this. They go back because they don't know where to go forward.

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
Design means to me that every designing engineer has the opportunity to become at some stage an artist… that every craftsman who can do more than what he is trained to do is an artist.

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the headlamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of the frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
Good design must be honest. I enjoy making things better, because somehow I am always making them for myself, as well.

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche