Victor Papanek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Victor Papanek

American designer and educator

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1923

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 14-Jan-1998

Profession: designer

Nationality: United States, Austria

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Victor Joseph Papanek (22 November 1923 – 10 January 1998) was an Austrian-American designer and educator who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures.
He disapproved of manufactured products that were unsafe, showy, maladapted, or essentially useless.
His products, writings, and lectures were collectively considered an example and inspired many designers.
Papanek was a philosopher of design and as such he was an untiring, eloquent promoter of design aims and approaches that would be sensitive to social and ecological considerations.
He wrote that "design has become the most powerful tool with which man shapes his tools and environments (and, by extension, society and himself)."