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Davin Stowell - CEO & Founder, Smart Design:
If I think of my admiration for Eames, it was an admiration for his ability to identify the qualities of new materials, which could be used to create new objects, but nobody worried about whether fiberglass was going to cause disease or going to be difficult to dispose of. I mean, life was a little simpler for him, in that regard. He could just think about using those materials for their best design attributes. But now, we have to face this idea that what we do is not just the way we create some individual design, it's what happens afterwards, when we've finished our design, [after] Davin Stowell - CEO & Founder, Smart Design:
people have used it
If I think of my admiration for Eames, it was an admiration for his ability to identify the qualities of new materials, which could be used to create new objects, but nobody worried about whether fiberglass was going to cause disease or going to be difficult to dispose of. I mean, life was a little simpler for him, in that regard. He could just think about using those materials for their best design attributes. But now, we have to face this idea that what we do is not just the way we create some individual design, it's what happens afterwards, when we've finished our design, [after] Davin Stowell - CEO & Founder, Smart Design:
people have used it
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If I think about my admiration for Eames it was an admiration for his ability to identify
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the qualities of new materials which could be used to create new objects But nobody worried about
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whether fiberglass was going to cause disease or be difficult to dispose of
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Life was a little bit simpler for him in that regard He could just think about using the materials
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for their best design attributes
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But now we have to face this idea that what we do is not just the way we create some
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individual design
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It's what happens afterwards when we've finished our design and people have used it
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Movie Summary
A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them.