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Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don t need, with money they don t have, in order to impress others who don t care, is probably the phoniest field in existence today.

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If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

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There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them

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We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education...

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Victor Papanek

Victor Papanek

Born: November 23, 1923
Died: January 10, 1998 (aged 74)
Bio: Victor Joseph Papanek was a designer and educator who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures.
Known for:
  1. Design for human scale (1983)
  2. The green imperative (1995)
  3. How things don't work (1977)

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