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Marcel Wanders
Marcel Wanders
Dutch Designer
Born: Jul 2, 1963
Design Like Me People Think You
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Whatever you put around yourself, you will be the mirror of it. Surround yourself with things you love. Marcel Wanders
Love You Yourself Surround Yourself Will Mirror Whatever Put Around Surround Things
Amsterdam lives and breathes creativity. One moment you walk into a building from the 17th century, and the next you find yourself in a hub of creative start-up companies. Marcel Wanders
You Creative Yourself Creativity Walk Building Find Hub Century Breathes Next Moment Companies Lives Start-Up Amsterdam
Design, by definition, is an eco-friendly activity, as its aim is to create objects which are meaningful and durable. Trends always cost resources, but a true designer creates wares which will remain relevant forever. Marcel Wanders
Will Design Aim Resources Trends Definition Relevant Cost Objects Remain True Always Forever Durable Which Meaningful Create Creates Activity Designer
The fundamental dogma of Modernism - that, if the past is irrelevant to the future, then today is irrelevant to tomorrow - has created a throwaway society of disposable objects. That is sick. Marcel Wanders
Today Future Tomorrow Past Society Sick Objects Dogma Irrelevant Modernism Then Created Disposable Fundamental
I wanted to go beyond the sentiments and needs of daily life to create a sense of wonder and find a new space for design. Marcel Wanders
Life Needs Daily Space Sense Design Find New Beyond Go Wonder Wanted Create Sentiments Daily Life
I like transparency. I love to have views throughout the house. Marcel Wanders
Love Throughout Like House Transparency Views
Beauty is very important, but it's not the most important thing in the world. Marcel Wanders
World Important Beauty Most Most Important Thing Important Thing Very The Most Important Thing
If I have any basic motivation, it's to inspire people to make their life a masterpiece. Marcel Wanders
Life People Inspire Make Masterpiece Motivation Any Basic
Every project has its own logic and parameters. In some objects, functionality is primary, and in others, it is rather inconsequential. Marcel Wanders
Own Every Others Project Logic Parameters Some Objects Rather Primary Functionality Inconsequential
To me, relaxing doesn't mean that we play ding-dong songs and look at a wall of bamboo. It's just completely unoriginal. Marcel Wanders
Me Relaxing Songs Look Bamboo Wall Just Mean Play
In tech, people want an object for what's inside it, what it does. You need to make a defensive design that people won't walk away from. A chair is aggressive - you want a customer to choose it from many others. Marcel Wanders
You People Walk Aggressive Design Defensive Others Inside Object Make Does Want Customer Choose Many Chair Tech Away Need
I think design is the expression of its time and culture. Marcel Wanders
Time Culture Design Think Expression
When you look at the work you do every day, you do see things. But if you look at the work you did for 25 years, suddenly you start to get a more complete picture. Marcel Wanders
Work Day You Every Day Picture Every Complete See More Look Years Get Did Suddenly Things Start
I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore. Marcel Wanders
Building Design Think Architects Outside Get Anymore Basically
That word 'fantasy' - I hardly ever hear it in the world of design. And that's very strange. You should hear it a lot. I think fantasy is a very important value that designers and artists should bring to the world. Marcel Wanders
You Strange World Word Value Important Design Think Hear Lot Very Artists Fantasy Should Ever Hardly Designers Bring
Humor has the tendency to be funny once. If I tell you a joke, we're going to have a big laugh. But the second time I tell the joke, it's going to be a bit strange, and the third time you're going to ask if there's something wrong with me. So I am very cautious with jokes, but there is a lightness in my work. Marcel Wanders
Work Funny Time Me You Jokes Strange Humor Joke Big Once Bit Laugh Tell Something Tendency Wrong Lightness Am Cautious Very Going Ask Second Third
If you acquire things, you have to let them go. Marcel Wanders
You Go Them Acquire Things
In my studio, I forbid people to work if they have a down day. Marcel Wanders
Work Day People Down Studio Forbid
I'm 100 percent sure the love and energy we give to a project will end up inside of it. I think it's important that when we work on something, we do it with positive intentions, because this energy will be sensed in the design. Marcel Wanders
Positive Work Love Will Important Energy Design Think Project Inside Percent Give Something Sure Because End Up Intentions Sensed
The very best design, I feel, is that which resonates so deeply that people can't help but discover something within themselves when they see it. Marcel Wanders
Best People Design Resonates See Something Feel Within Discover Very Which Themselves Help Deeply
I think what makes me different is that... I am comfortable with expressing my vulnerability. I think designers often want to just put the loveable ideas out there. Ones that are imaginative but not very introspective. It is more rare for a designer to explore his or her disappointments and moments of disillusion and doubt. Marcel Wanders
Me Rare Doubt Think Out Introspective More Put Disappointments Ideas Comfortable Vulnerability Makes Am His Very Often Just Different Want Disillusion Explore Moments Expressing Her Designer Designers Imaginative
A lot of my work is intelligent, a lot of the work is beautiful, but I make ugly things, too. Marcel Wanders
Work Beautiful Ugly Too Make Lot Intelligent Things
I really feel that design has the capacity to communicate, and I really have concentrated on the communication of positive values. Marcel Wanders
Positive Communication Communicate Values Design Feel Concentrated Capacity Really
Everything has been done. It's not possible to create something completely new, something that has never been seen before. It's only possible to make new combinations, establish new connections between things we usually take for granted. Marcel Wanders
Take For Granted Seen Before Everything Possible Has-Been Something Only Take Never Between Combinations New Make Been Done Establish Create Granted Connections Things
I've turned into something of a health nut. Marcel Wanders
Health Nut Something Turned
When I had just finished my degree show, I wrote down the 10 companies that I most wanted to work with, and B&B Italia was on the top of the list. Marcel Wanders
Work Degree Finished Down Top Had Most Wrote Most Wanted List Just Wanted Show Companies
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