Dieter Rams Quotes
- Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
- You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.
- I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.
- Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.
- A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the…
- One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.
- I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.
- There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.
- I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.
- As designers, we have a great responsibility.
- All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.
- Quiet is better than loud.
- Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.