American - Designer | June 17, 1907 - August 21, 1978
The details are not the details. They make the design.
Charles Eames
DetailsDesignMake
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
DesignNeedRecognizingPrimary
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
QualityPeopleIdeasKeyConnections
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
ChangeBestChange The WorldWorld
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
BestPurposeDesignPlanAccomplish
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
QuestionsProblemLookRealYears
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.
DesignClassMatterNeedGreatest
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
IdeasYouOthersPassionateCheap
The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
LifeEndConnectionsDetailsWill
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
ArtQualityProcessDoingMagic
We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
WorkReactionNextBecauseChain
Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
SaidPleasureWhoEverFunctional
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