I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
Good design is innovative 2. Good design makes a product useful 3. Good design is aesthetic 4. Good design makes a product understandable 5.… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe,… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should – and must – question everything generally thought to… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
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… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future. — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
As designers we have a great responsibility. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind… — Dieter Rams Copy Share Image
