ChangYu's sentences from book

The quote from What is the designer

1. As for design, there are time when to say no is a constructive act; to say yes, as a designer looking to the future, is to join social commitment to a mastery of particulars. In education, all we can do is make good work possible, and be alter to its coming; never fooling ourselves that all good things come easily. To work well is to work with love.

It was cited from page 30 in chapter 3 “design education: principle”

I like this phrase because it fully describe as a designer criticize an object, he or she should be objective and base on constructive perspective. Furthermore, in the end of sentience “To work well is to work with love” is my favorite because if I don’t like what I do, how can I persuade other people like my design. These reasons are why I chose the phrase.


2. For the designer, good design is the generous and pertinent response to full context of a design opportunity, whether large or small, and quality of outcome resides in close and truthful correspondence between form and meaning. The meaning of a good garden spade is seen in its behaviour, that it performs well; in its look and feel, its strength and required durability; in a directness of address through the simple expression of its function.

It was cited from page 31 in chapter 4 “What is good design?”

3. A product must not only be capatable of realization through manufacture, but in its very nature must respect all human and economic constraints that surround production and effective distribution.

It was cited from page 32 in chapter 4 “What is good design?”

4. One way to get the mature of a job, and to get close to it, is to project its life to absurdity ( in all direction: scale, function, material, etc.) and then to pull back to some sense of boundary in what you propose to do.

It was cited from page 48 in chapter 5 “Problem with method”

5. A socially adaptive view of design practice take the view that a designer accepts what he is given, and makes the best of it, by knowing how to weigh up his constraints shrewdly and logically.

It was cited from page 64 in chapter 5 “Problem with method”