Paola Antonelli
Paola Antonelli
Paola Antonelliis an Italian author, editor, and curator. She is of Lombard ancestry. She is currently the Senior Curator of the Department of Architecture & Design as well as the Director of R&D at The Museum of Modern Art, New York City...
design good-design
Not all design is for the general good.
design thank-god tough
Life is tough; thank God there's design.
successful people design
Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.
design ugly conscious
Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It's a value.
games design important
I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the future, because it is a way we interact with machines and screens.
attitude design renaissance
Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.
artist definitions designer
While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.
ideas design able
The idea of being able to build things bottom up, atom by atom, has made [scientists] all into tinkerers. And all of a sudden scientists are seeking designers, just like designers are seeking scientists.
cute people design
I want people to understand that design is so much more than cute chairs - that it is first and foremost everything that is around us in our life.
design may graphic-artist
Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.
alone beauty inclusion justify
Beauty and usefulness alone were not enough to justify inclusion in this exhibition,
displaying equation form function ingenious large last meaning object outcome transcend
Each object had to transcend the outcome of the equation of its form and function by displaying meaning -- to an individual, to a community, to the world at large -- and last but not least, ingenious beauty.
absurdity ironic statements
They're ironic statements on the absurdity of our fears.
god heaven soul
Heaven is satisfied curiosity.