“In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical things and concepts that are meaningful additions to—or sometimes subtractions from—the world we live in. Indeed, design deserves such thoughtful consideration.” – Paola Antonelli

Read more from Paola, senior curator of design and architecture at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, in her article “Core Principles” from Seed Magazine.

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1. Good design produces something the world didn’t know it was missing
2. Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life.
3. Good designers have the trained ability to represent the world as others expect to see it
4. Designers are gifted with a certain perspective of the world that can cause much frustration and wonderment
5. Good designers want to be proved wrong, bad designers hope to be proved right