A Quote by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. It is the intergration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Thinking in relationships.
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Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.
Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function.
Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.
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