D-Rev Let’s start a Design Revolution

Paul Polak is my latest hero. I don’t know him personally, but anyone who starts a movement in their seventies has to have something special. Something Paul once said continues to stick with me. Now this is not an exact quote but it goes some thing like this.

“It is that infernal question that has been following me all these years. Why are people poor and how can they get out of poverty.”

Something about the word infernal has just stuck with me. It’s his journey of seeing a big problem and finding the best levers to pull. It’s the simple ideas that are sometimes the most powerful.

Some of us just don’t get it. We miss the simple truth right in front of us. If one person can move out of poverty then so can two. If one person can invent a product that empowers people then so can two.

Their is an excitement that is building around a simple though and that is that designers can serve those who live on less the one or two dollars a day and create a huge lasting impact.

So thank you Dr. Polak for starting a Revolution in Design.