Mad Man

 Peter Arnell designs things you probably use.

contemporary minimalists

taste

"Have nothing in your home that isn't beautiful or useful."
- William Morris

on history

"I'm not interested in my own past. Perhaps today, maybe tomorrow."
- Karl Lagerfeld

creativity

"What I love about the creative process, and this may sound naive, but it is this idea that one day there is no idea, and no solution, but the next day there is an idea. I find that incredibly exciting and conceptually actually remarkable."
- Sir Jonathan Ive

"I'm not ashamed to call myself a redesigner."
- Tommy Hilfiger

nature enthusiast

"My car should look like a beetle."
- Adolph Hitler

on kitchens

"The easier it is to use the greater the likelihood that it'll be used."
- Guy Fieri

1980s

"The greed of that decade is expressed by its architecture."
- Douglas Coupland

- Attributed to a "wise media theorist" not Aaron Koblin

"Have nothing in it that you know not to be beautiful or useful."
- William Morris

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"When we look at history ... the objects traditionally tell us about the civility of the time."
- Karim Rashid

"You know a design is good if you want to lick it."
- Steve Jobs

Criticism of the pre-modern movement: excessive use of resources.

born in the 1960s and 1970s

"It's the idea; not the mode of expression."
- Author, visual artist, furniture designer Douglas Coupland [born 1961]

745i

Chris Bangle [born 1956] is BMW's design chief. Many think he shouldn't be.