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Dieter Rams [1932-0] German

Rank: 101
Designer, Industrial designer

Dieter Rams is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design.

Design, Architecture, Computers, Good, Great

Quote	Tags	Rank
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.	Design, Good, Great	101
Quiet is better than loud.		102
Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.		103
All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.		104
I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.		105
I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 o'clock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 o'clock.		106
I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.		107
Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.	Design	108
I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.		109
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.	Architecture	110
As designers, we have a great responsibility.		111
I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.	Computers	112
Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.		113

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