Ideas
1. Modern design is relation-seeking. (p. 9)
2. A designer works through and for other people. (p. 16)
3. The designer is highly problem conscious. (p. 17)
4. The goodness of a design cannot be easily estimated outside a knoledge of its purpose (p.31)
5. Products can not be evaluated against absolute standards
Quotes
1. Good work was always difficult... (p. 9)
2. Should a designer be a conformist or an agent of change? (p. 14)
3. At every stage of design there will be discussion, questions and argument; the final design will have to be demonstrated and if necessary defended to the client, who will not understand what the final result will look like, but will naturally tend to assume that he knows more about his own problems than the designer - despite having called him in to solve them. (p. 18)
4. A man must reserve his right to say 'I like that; to me it is beautiful and satisfying and more so than that one other there that works so much better' - or, 'this is a good workmanlike solution, thank God it has no pretensions to Art' (p. 31)
5. Those who elect to put their work before everything else, which is merely one of the conditions for complete mastery in any field, must fairly expect life to present some difficulties. (p. 35)
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