2008-01-19

Principles for Good Design

Back to purity, back to simplicity


clipped from gizmodo.com
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When you look at the Braun products by Dieter Rams—many of them at New York's MoMA—and compare them to Ive's work at Apple, you can clearly see the similarities in their philosophies way beyond the sparse use of color, the selection of materials and how the products are shaped around the function with no artificial design, keeping the design "honest."

Dieter Rams, 1969 © Dieter Rams

Dieter Rams


Industrial Designer (1932-)
Selector for 25/25 - Celebrating 25 Years of Design
29 March - 22 June 2007

Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design helps us to understand a product.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is durable.
Good design is consequent to the last detail.
Good design is concerned with the environment.
Good design is as little design as possible.
Back to purity, back to simplicity.


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