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Dieter Rams: Principles of Good Design

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Learn about the life and work of Dieter Rams, as he ruminates on consumerism, sustainability, and the future of design in this feature-length documentary film.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • What is good design?
1. Principles of Good Design
  • Munich talk: Rams's thoughts on collaboration, design, and cars
  • At home, World War II, early education, and Sophie Lovell biography
  • Architecture school and his early design work
  • His beginnings at Braun and the Ulm School
  • Rams’s first major project: The Braun SK 4
  • Inside the Braun design department
  • Braun TP1 portable music player, designer Naoto Fukasawa on Rams
  • Mr. Braun in the 1970s, Dietrich Lubs, and the ET 66 calculator
  • Ten principles of good design
  • Rams leaves Braun and focuses on furniture with Vitsoe
  • Rams on technology today
  • Design process: The new Vitsoe building
  • Rams exhibit at Vitra Design Museum
  • Chair design critique
  • Rams and his garden and thoughts on consumerism and technology
  • Rams’s 85th birthday event
  • Finished Vitsoe building and Rams's thoughts on design and humanity

Taught by

Gary Hustwit

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