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Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design

by oseres (via)

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Good design: Dieter Rams' ten commandments

by karlcow

Back in the early 1980s, 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?
As good design cannot be measured in a finite way he set about expressing the ten most important criteria for what he considered was good design. Subsequently they have become known as the ‘Ten commandments’.

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Dieter Rams, designer - Cold War Modern

by sbrothier (via)

Dieter Rams talks about the 'SK4 record player' (as part of the V&A's Cold War Modern exhibition).

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The Future Of Apple Is In 1960s Braun: 1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's Future

by sbrothier & 3 others

The year 2008 marks the 10th Anniversary of the iMac, the computer that changed everything at Apple, hailing a new design era spearheaded by design genius Jonathan Ive. What most people don't know is that there's another man whose products are at the heart of Ive's design philosophy, an influence that permeates every single product at Apple, from hardware to user-interface design. That man is Dieter Rams, and his old designs for Braun during the '50s and '60s hold all the clues not only for past and present Apple products, but their future as well:

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