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Inspirational Product Designer
Best known as head of design for Braun Industries — the consumer electronics manufacturer — during the 50s and 60s as well as for his influence on Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple.Here are some side-by-side comparisons of Rams' and Ive's work.
Top row: Braun LE1 speaker ,Braun T1000 radio and Braun T3 pocket radio
Bottom row: Apple iMac, PowerMac G5/Mac Pro and Apple iPod
Dieter Rams' 10 rules for good design:
- 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.
