26 Quotes by Paola Antonelli

People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.

Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.

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.

Life is tough; thank God there’s design.

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

Ugly design should be rejected, just like nonfunctional design is rejected, just like nonenvironmentally conscious design should be rejected. It’s a value.