Quote of the Day: Phillipe Starck on the Role of Design
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA
on 10. 6.07

Designers should define their role broadly as agents of good in the world, and limit their work to 'legitimate' products: those that are needed, and those that can be made without damage to nature or -- through the unethical actions of manufacturers and investors -- damage to people.
-- Industrial designer Phillipe Starck, on the purpose of design
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