26 Quotes by Paola Antonelli

Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.

Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical things and concepts that are meaningful additions to—or sometimes subtractions from—the world we live in. Indeed, design deserves such thoughtful consideration.

While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.

Be yourself, be in the moment, you’re going to be modern

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.

We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.

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.