Bruce Mau Professions : Designer Born : October 25, 1959 Browse All Authors Top 24 quotes by Bruce Mau 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. Bruce Mau outcomes want may Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future. Bruce Mau work time children You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you: You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth are the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them. Bruce Mau growth change inspirational The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Bruce Mau wrong-answers different answers Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day. Bruce Mau fun beautiful children When everything is connected to everything else, for better or for worse, everything matters. Bruce Mau connected matter The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place. Bruce Mau design fundamentals ideas 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. Bruce Mau working-it study answers 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. Bruce Mau design outcomes appearance For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails Bruce Mau invisible design failing Massive Change is not about the world of design; it's about the design of the world. Bruce Mau massive-change design world To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while. Bruce Mau liberty order needs I'm interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is. Bruce Mau moments two interesting Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight. Bruce Mau tonight morning might 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. Bruce Mau yield unique simple Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Bruce Mau being-cool conservative black Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable. Bruce Mau design shy trying Design the life that you want to live. Bruce Mau design want Now that we can do anything what will we do? Bruce Mau can-do Forget about good. Bruce Mau real inspirational long Similar Authors Brian Reynolds designer Bran Ferren designer Amy Butler Greenfield designer Alex Bogusky designer Alec Issigonis designer Bill Moggridge designer All Authors
