"He thinks it's a compliment. He was really one of first to say that design is integral to creating a responsible corporate approach, long before we had these jargon terms around corporate responsibility that set are pretty familiar today," said Fanning.But can a man who doesn't own a computer and is not online fully grasp the extent of his own legacy? Their aesthetic isn't necessarily exciting, or arresting, but rather elegant, and still very contemporary even though the earliest designs are now over 60 years old. Dieter Rams, one of the most influential industrial designers of the last 50 years, has had a truly remarkable impact on the design industry and the overall concept of product design as we know it today. Back in the late 1970s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him: “An impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design? He's not interested in digital interfaces and user experience design and all these screens that we have to look at all day. "But what is in the film is the real Dieter Rams. It’s amazing to see how valid these principles are today, so much that we might feel than even more … Braun’s spontaneous answer was “Yes. Dieter believes effective designers should cut away the … Rams’s early awards for carpentry led to him training as an architect as Germany was rebuilt in the early 1950s.Prompted by an eagle-eyed friend, Rams applied for a job at the German electrical products company, Braun, in 1955. In a previous.Rams feels that he has played a role in pushing society towards materialism and away from sustainability, even though he's had a concern over the environmental impact of his products long before that became fashionable, or even rational.
Believing that good design can only come from an understanding of people, Rams asked designers – indeed, everyone – to take more responsibility for the state of the world around them.“I imagine our current situation will cause future generations to shudder at the thoughtlessness in the way in which we today fill our homes, our cities and our landscape with a chaos of assorted junk.”.Ever since Rams has been an outspoken voice calling for “an end to the era of wastefulness” and to consider how we can continue to live on a planet with finite resources if we simply throw everything away.Dieter Rams’s work has been widely exhibited worldwide via both touring and permanent exhibitions. About 50 years ago, in his quest to answer the question “Is my design a good design?”, he developed the 10 principles of good design, sometimes also known as 10 commandments. He's not on the Internet. It's a huge huge part of his philosophy but I think in some ways he feels that he hasn't done enough to get people to listen, especially outside of the design world. His move to industrial design was serendipitous and netted him the role of head of design from 1961 until 1995. According to him, "good design": That runs very counter to the philosophy that Rams has developed and advocated over his career. But he's written that these were never meant to be commandments in the way that they've kind of become. "A technology company like Apple relies on the principle of rapid obsolescence and releases a new iPhone every year.
".The appliances that Rams designed at Braun are functional, easy to use, and durable. They give an impression of an inflexible approach to design which is not what he's advocated in at all.
I think it was fairly easy to to get to him, because he's the same on camera or off camera. Their rounded edges and clean lines are very reminiscent of today's Apple devices.Follow the arrow: Hidden designs in famous logos,Apple has often paid homage to Rams' designs, for example in the looks of its,Hustwit asked Rams about Ive's admiration of his work and his influence on Apple products.
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"He thinks it's a compliment. He was really one of first to say that design is integral to creating a responsible corporate approach, long before we had these jargon terms around corporate responsibility that set are pretty familiar today," said Fanning.But can a man who doesn't own a computer and is not online fully grasp the extent of his own legacy? Their aesthetic isn't necessarily exciting, or arresting, but rather elegant, and still very contemporary even though the earliest designs are now over 60 years old. Dieter Rams, one of the most influential industrial designers of the last 50 years, has had a truly remarkable impact on the design industry and the overall concept of product design as we know it today. Back in the late 1970s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him: “An impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design? He's not interested in digital interfaces and user experience design and all these screens that we have to look at all day. "But what is in the film is the real Dieter Rams. It’s amazing to see how valid these principles are today, so much that we might feel than even more … Braun’s spontaneous answer was “Yes. Dieter believes effective designers should cut away the … Rams’s early awards for carpentry led to him training as an architect as Germany was rebuilt in the early 1950s.Prompted by an eagle-eyed friend, Rams applied for a job at the German electrical products company, Braun, in 1955. In a previous.Rams feels that he has played a role in pushing society towards materialism and away from sustainability, even though he's had a concern over the environmental impact of his products long before that became fashionable, or even rational.
Believing that good design can only come from an understanding of people, Rams asked designers – indeed, everyone – to take more responsibility for the state of the world around them.“I imagine our current situation will cause future generations to shudder at the thoughtlessness in the way in which we today fill our homes, our cities and our landscape with a chaos of assorted junk.”.Ever since Rams has been an outspoken voice calling for “an end to the era of wastefulness” and to consider how we can continue to live on a planet with finite resources if we simply throw everything away.Dieter Rams’s work has been widely exhibited worldwide via both touring and permanent exhibitions. About 50 years ago, in his quest to answer the question “Is my design a good design?”, he developed the 10 principles of good design, sometimes also known as 10 commandments. He's not on the Internet. It's a huge huge part of his philosophy but I think in some ways he feels that he hasn't done enough to get people to listen, especially outside of the design world. His move to industrial design was serendipitous and netted him the role of head of design from 1961 until 1995. According to him, "good design": That runs very counter to the philosophy that Rams has developed and advocated over his career. But he's written that these were never meant to be commandments in the way that they've kind of become. "A technology company like Apple relies on the principle of rapid obsolescence and releases a new iPhone every year.
".The appliances that Rams designed at Braun are functional, easy to use, and durable. They give an impression of an inflexible approach to design which is not what he's advocated in at all.
I think it was fairly easy to to get to him, because he's the same on camera or off camera. Their rounded edges and clean lines are very reminiscent of today's Apple devices.Follow the arrow: Hidden designs in famous logos,Apple has often paid homage to Rams' designs, for example in the looks of its,Hustwit asked Rams about Ive's admiration of his work and his influence on Apple products.
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"He thinks it's a compliment. He was really one of first to say that design is integral to creating a responsible corporate approach, long before we had these jargon terms around corporate responsibility that set are pretty familiar today," said Fanning.But can a man who doesn't own a computer and is not online fully grasp the extent of his own legacy? Their aesthetic isn't necessarily exciting, or arresting, but rather elegant, and still very contemporary even though the earliest designs are now over 60 years old. Dieter Rams, one of the most influential industrial designers of the last 50 years, has had a truly remarkable impact on the design industry and the overall concept of product design as we know it today. Back in the late 1970s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him: “An impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design? He's not interested in digital interfaces and user experience design and all these screens that we have to look at all day. "But what is in the film is the real Dieter Rams. It’s amazing to see how valid these principles are today, so much that we might feel than even more … Braun’s spontaneous answer was “Yes. Dieter believes effective designers should cut away the … Rams’s early awards for carpentry led to him training as an architect as Germany was rebuilt in the early 1950s.Prompted by an eagle-eyed friend, Rams applied for a job at the German electrical products company, Braun, in 1955. In a previous.Rams feels that he has played a role in pushing society towards materialism and away from sustainability, even though he's had a concern over the environmental impact of his products long before that became fashionable, or even rational.
Believing that good design can only come from an understanding of people, Rams asked designers – indeed, everyone – to take more responsibility for the state of the world around them.“I imagine our current situation will cause future generations to shudder at the thoughtlessness in the way in which we today fill our homes, our cities and our landscape with a chaos of assorted junk.”.Ever since Rams has been an outspoken voice calling for “an end to the era of wastefulness” and to consider how we can continue to live on a planet with finite resources if we simply throw everything away.Dieter Rams’s work has been widely exhibited worldwide via both touring and permanent exhibitions. About 50 years ago, in his quest to answer the question “Is my design a good design?”, he developed the 10 principles of good design, sometimes also known as 10 commandments. He's not on the Internet. It's a huge huge part of his philosophy but I think in some ways he feels that he hasn't done enough to get people to listen, especially outside of the design world. His move to industrial design was serendipitous and netted him the role of head of design from 1961 until 1995. According to him, "good design": That runs very counter to the philosophy that Rams has developed and advocated over his career. But he's written that these were never meant to be commandments in the way that they've kind of become. "A technology company like Apple relies on the principle of rapid obsolescence and releases a new iPhone every year.
".The appliances that Rams designed at Braun are functional, easy to use, and durable. They give an impression of an inflexible approach to design which is not what he's advocated in at all.
I think it was fairly easy to to get to him, because he's the same on camera or off camera. Their rounded edges and clean lines are very reminiscent of today's Apple devices.Follow the arrow: Hidden designs in famous logos,Apple has often paid homage to Rams' designs, for example in the looks of its,Hustwit asked Rams about Ive's admiration of his work and his influence on Apple products.
"I don't think so, he can't really put that into context," said Hustwit. Rams introduced the idea of sustainable development and of obsolescence being a crime in design in the 1970s. Despite all of that, Rams himself has spent his career avoiding the spotlight, seemingly trying to escape the role bestowed upon him of godfather of industrial design.Dieter Rams started his career as an architect, and joined German appliance manufacturer Braun in 1955 to work on the interior design of its offices. Purity is attractive. In the late 1970s, he distilled his design philosophy into ten principles:"His iconic commandments really did shape how we think about the industrial designer's mandate," said Colin Fanning, curator of "Dieter Rams: Principled Design," during a phone interview.The game-changing typeface made to go unnoticed,"I think they are enormously influential, still today. ".According to Fanning, while the influence is evident, it is also accompanied by a kind of tension. He quickly became involved in product design – famously adding the clear perspex lid to the SK4 phonogram in 1956 – and was appointed head of design at Braun from 1961 to 1995. He is much more on the side of a long lasting, durable design, things that can resist that impulse towards consumerism and wastefulness," he said.Consumerism is in fact a main theme of Hustwit's film, for the simple reason that it is a main theme in Rams' thoughts. **Formative Years** Dieter Rams was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1932.
"He thinks it's a compliment. He was really one of first to say that design is integral to creating a responsible corporate approach, long before we had these jargon terms around corporate responsibility that set are pretty familiar today," said Fanning.But can a man who doesn't own a computer and is not online fully grasp the extent of his own legacy? Their aesthetic isn't necessarily exciting, or arresting, but rather elegant, and still very contemporary even though the earliest designs are now over 60 years old. Dieter Rams, one of the most influential industrial designers of the last 50 years, has had a truly remarkable impact on the design industry and the overall concept of product design as we know it today. Back in the late 1970s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him: “An impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design? He's not interested in digital interfaces and user experience design and all these screens that we have to look at all day. "But what is in the film is the real Dieter Rams. It’s amazing to see how valid these principles are today, so much that we might feel than even more … Braun’s spontaneous answer was “Yes. Dieter believes effective designers should cut away the … Rams’s early awards for carpentry led to him training as an architect as Germany was rebuilt in the early 1950s.Prompted by an eagle-eyed friend, Rams applied for a job at the German electrical products company, Braun, in 1955. In a previous.Rams feels that he has played a role in pushing society towards materialism and away from sustainability, even though he's had a concern over the environmental impact of his products long before that became fashionable, or even rational.
Believing that good design can only come from an understanding of people, Rams asked designers – indeed, everyone – to take more responsibility for the state of the world around them.“I imagine our current situation will cause future generations to shudder at the thoughtlessness in the way in which we today fill our homes, our cities and our landscape with a chaos of assorted junk.”.Ever since Rams has been an outspoken voice calling for “an end to the era of wastefulness” and to consider how we can continue to live on a planet with finite resources if we simply throw everything away.Dieter Rams’s work has been widely exhibited worldwide via both touring and permanent exhibitions. About 50 years ago, in his quest to answer the question “Is my design a good design?”, he developed the 10 principles of good design, sometimes also known as 10 commandments. He's not on the Internet. It's a huge huge part of his philosophy but I think in some ways he feels that he hasn't done enough to get people to listen, especially outside of the design world. His move to industrial design was serendipitous and netted him the role of head of design from 1961 until 1995. According to him, "good design": That runs very counter to the philosophy that Rams has developed and advocated over his career. But he's written that these were never meant to be commandments in the way that they've kind of become. "A technology company like Apple relies on the principle of rapid obsolescence and releases a new iPhone every year.
".The appliances that Rams designed at Braun are functional, easy to use, and durable. They give an impression of an inflexible approach to design which is not what he's advocated in at all.
I think it was fairly easy to to get to him, because he's the same on camera or off camera. Their rounded edges and clean lines are very reminiscent of today's Apple devices.Follow the arrow: Hidden designs in famous logos,Apple has often paid homage to Rams' designs, for example in the looks of its,Hustwit asked Rams about Ive's admiration of his work and his influence on Apple products.
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