Bruce Mau (born October 25, 1959) is a Canadian designer. He started as a graphic designer but later focused on architecture, art, museums, film, eco-environmental design, and conceptual philosophy.
No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.
Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. As long as you stick to good, you'll never have real growth.
Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.
When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go where we've already been. If process drives the outcome we may not know where we're going, but we will know we want to be there.
The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.
I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is.
The word ‘studio’ is derives from ‘study’. Our object is not to know the answers before we do the work. It’s to know them after we do it.
Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.
Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.
For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails
What is the focus of the new image infrastructure? Attention. It's all designed for capturing, tracking, quantifying, manipulating, holding, buying, selling and controlling attention.
Most of the time, we live our lives within these invisible systems, blissfully unaware of the artificial life, the intensely designed infrastructures that support them.
Now that we can do anything what will we do?
Design the life that you want to live.
The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question.
Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world.