"The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.”

Richard Saul Wurman, founder of TED, on Charles Eames

"A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it."

Brenda Laurel
Designer, Researcher, & Writer

"I grasped the notion that design was not about superficial styling but rather about a process, an investigation, a try-out, and a passion based in curiosity and discovery."

Rob Forbes
Founder, Design Within Reach