George Nelson Quotes

United States, Designer
May 29, 1908 – March, 5, 1986.

George Nelson was an American industrial designer of American Modernism. While Director of Design for the Herman Miller furniture company, Nelson and his design studio, George Nelson Associates, Inc., designed 20th century modernist furniture.

No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment.

George Nelson
You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

George Nelson
- Work
- Way
- Creative

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

George Nelson
Design is a response to social change.

George Nelson
- Change
- Design
- Response
The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

George Nelson
- Simple
- Idea
- Hands