who would you like to design something for?
I’d like to design things for children. I think it's a good area.

when you are working, do you discuss or exchange ideas with your colleagues?
actually no. no, I work myself. I sort of sit and stew a bit.
my time is very limited.

describe your style, like a good friend of yours would describe it.
I try to keep changing. I don’t like to be labeled as a certain style, so I continue to
destroy everything I did. maybe every few months.
my wife is the reason why, she always says, doesn’t that look the same?
she's the pressure that keeps me changing.

when you were a child, what did you want to be?
my dream was to support my family.
my father was very practical minded and that is all he talked about.
...yes, how to support my family, that was all I thought about it.

which of your projects have given you the most satisfaction?
the most satisfaction is from my recent book (maeda@media),
that book was merely meant to make me stop with everything what I'm doing,
I thought about everything I've done, so I wrote it down.
now I'm a baby again, kind of fresh...

is there any architect or designer from past you appreciate a lot?
bruno munari, paul rand.
but it's definetely the every day life, seeing things and patterns, what inspires me.

and those still active, are there any particular ones you appreciate?
all the people I admire are dead, how sad.

do you believe in sharing knowledge via internet or
do you think that the internet has more negative effects on us ?
I think it depends who you are. if you are in younger generation,
I see it’s a very vital part of their life, sending messages and all.
I prefer to talk to people face to face...

on the news broadcast they said that italians are afraid ofunemployment,
criminality and pollution. what are you afraid of regarding the future ?
I am afraid that technology will make us stop imagining and we’ll get stuck