Dutch - Designer | July 2, 1963 -
The very best design, I feel, is that which resonates so deeply that people can't help but discover something within themselves when they see it.
Marcel Wanders
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I think what makes me different is that... I am comfortable with expressing my vulnerability. I think designers often want to just put the loveable ideas out there. Ones that are imaginative but not very introspective. It is more rare for a designer to explore his or her disappointments and moments of disillusion and doubt.
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I want to create a body of work that is really, deeply important to people. One of the vehicles I use is business.
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If I look at my own growth, I started in product design. And we grew and created new products, and we were also able to change the idea of design a few times.
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There are many design companies, but there are few designers who organize their own business and open it up to other designers.
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A lot of companies are able to do without design. A few companies are able to do without creativity. A very few. Creativity is crucial to your business.
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Often, I'm sitting opposite a client, and I'm thinking, 'How do I convince him to not copy the best-selling product out there?' And sometimes I don't know. Really, it's smarter to be a thief.
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A lot of my work is intelligent, a lot of the work is beautiful, but I make ugly things, too.
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Beauty is very important, but it's not the most important thing in the world.
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I really feel that design has the capacity to communicate, and I really have concentrated on the communication of positive values.
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If I have any basic motivation, it's to inspire people to make their life a masterpiece.
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I love Milano. Historically, the city is the biggest intellectual design thinking container. It is the cradle of design as well as the hometown of the mothers of its important heroes.
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