Carl Magnusson Quotes

Sweden, Designer
March 8, 1940

Carl Gustav Magnusson is an industrial designer, inventor, design juror and lecturer. Carl Gustav Magnusson was born in Malmö, Sweden and grew up in Toronto, Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia in Canada. He studied engineering and architecture at the University of Idaho and architecture at the Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 1966 he joined the Office of Charles and Ray Eames in California and shortly thereafter opened his own design practice in Rudolf Schindler's studio on Kings Road in West Hollywood, California.

Also known as Inventor

Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design - which is function with cultural content.

Carl Magnusson
- Design
- Logic
- Definition
Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function," objects cease to be finite or predictable. Maybe the right way to interpret the dictum is to first acknowledge that the function needs to be clearly understood before the form is considered.

Carl Magnusson
- Design
- Function
- Content

Innovation is a unique combination of existing ideas

Carl Magnusson