http://abduzeedo.com/taxonomy/term/296/all en http://abduzeedo.com/design-history-diert-rams-less-better <h3>Pablo Picasso once said "Good Artists Copy Great Artists Steal" then Steve Jobs mention that in one interview long ago. We all know that Apple products are the best out there, there's no doubt about it, and the main reason about that is because they have the best design. Jonhathan Ive, the chief industrial designer at Apple is a fantastic designer but it's always good to know what and who inspired him to come up with the Apple product designs. We might think that they are pretty unique and new but when we look at Dieter Rams the Pablo Picasso's quote makes even more sense.</h3> <h2>About Dieter Rams (Wikipedia)</h2> <p>Dieter Rams (born May 20, 1932 in Wiesbaden, Hesse) is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design.</p> <p>Rams studied architecture at the Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden as well as learning carpentry from 1943 to 1957. After working for the architect Otto Apel between 1953 and 1955 he joined the electronic devices manufacturer Braun where he became chief of design in 1961, a position he kept until 1995.</p> <p>Rams once explained his design approach in the phrase "Weniger, aber besser" which freely translates as "Less, but better". Rams and his staff designed many memorable products for Braun including the famous SK-4 record player and the high-quality 'D'-series (D45, D46) of 35 mm film slide projectors. He is also known for designing the 606 Universal Shelving System by Vitsœ in 1960. </p> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/atimg/1700422/dieter0_rect540.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <h3>Rams' ten principles to "good design"</h3> <ul> <li>is innovative</li> <li>makes a product useful</li> <li>is aesthetic</li> <li>makes a product understandable</li> <li>is unobtrusive</li> <li>is honest</li> <li>is long-lasting</li> <li>is thorough down to the last detail</li> <li>is environmentally friendly</li> <li>is as little design as possible</li> </ul> <h3>Video About Dieter Rams</h3> <p class="imgC" ><iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/7917568" width="690" height="388" frameborder="0"></iframe></p> <h3>Works</h3> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/post-dieter/rams1.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/post-dieter/testuser5-sep2007-1956-sk4-jc100907-g-ijayqo-qeaarx1.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/post-dieter/cri_597961.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/post-dieter/562225941_4fe39ebed61.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/post-dieter/low02dailyicon1.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/post-dieter/braun1.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/post-dieter/ipodradio11.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/post-dieter/iphone_braun1.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/post-dieter/dieter-rams_apple_design1.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/post-dieter/4991386140_5dcba355d4_z.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/post-dieter/4991385962_06dedd2251_z.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/post-dieter/4991386394_da2e2e6c81_z.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/post-dieter/5172187444_3246a6692d_z.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/post-dieter/4942603819_4db5c48214_z.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/post-dieter/4845991228_6a4d60c95f_z.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <p class="imgC" ><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/post-dieter/4631226545_b6c89520b8_z.jpg" width="500" alt="Design History: Diert Rams - Less But Better" /></p> <h3>Further reading</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://5magazine.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/dieter-rams-less-but-better/">DIETER RAMS: Less But Better</a></li> <li><a href="http://studiosmith.blogspot.com/2007/12/seperated-at-birth-deiter-rams-and.html">Seperated At Birth? Dieter Rams and Apple’s Ive</a></li> <li><a href="http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/the_man_behind_apples_design_magic.php">“The man behind Apple’s design magic”</a></li> <li><a href="http://designmuseum.org/design/dieter-rams">Dieter Rams - Design Museum</a></li> <li><a href="http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/dieter_rams_less_but_better.php">Dieter Rams: “Less, but better.”</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/rams.html">Designboom - dieter rams</a></li> </ul> <div class="nodeauthor-info"><h2 class="title">About the author</h2><div class="content"><div class="desc"><p>Abduzeedo is a blog about design. There are all sorts of articles for those who want to look for inspiration. Also you will find very useful tutorials for the most used applications out there, with a special selection of Photoshop Tutorials and Illustrator Tutorials. You can get in follow us via Twitter at <a href="http://twitter.com/abduzeedo">@abduzeedo</a> </p> </div><div class="clear"></div></div><h4>Sponsored Links:</h4><div class='author_banner'><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-7764262396280460"; /* Author 336x280 */ google_ad_slot = "0020356584"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div></div><!--b1229df49e254d558b48cf6a7d7b099a--> <a href="http://book.abduzeedo.com/"><img src="http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/misc/abdz-book-banner.jpg" alt="Abduzeedo Inspiration Guide for Designers at Amazon" border="0" /></a><br/> apple design history germany great designers history minimalistic Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:10:25 +0000 abduzeedo 47675 at http://abduzeedo.com http://abduzeedo.com/olympic-poster-design-over-last-112-years <h3>As the Summer Olympics draws near every aspect of popular culture tends to involve itself in it. The design world especially plays an important part in inspiring people to get excited about the games. Recently there was a book released called "<a href="http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2008/06/a_century_of_ol.php">A Century of Olympic Posters</a>" (which was mentioned in Fabiano's <a href="http://abduzeedo.com/best-week-18">Best of the Week #18</a> post back in June). I've actually never seen the book, but I found that I didn't actually need it to see all the posters. Wikipedia has them all easily accessible.</h3> <p>Looking through these posters is great because it's like looking at a timeline of the changes and innovations in Graphic Design.<br /> Some of my favorites are:<br /> <strong>1912 </strong>- I love the 1912 one because it has a sort of Art Nouveau look to it, which is pretty appropriate for the time.<br /> <strong>1924 </strong>- This poster almost seems like a German or Soviet propaganda poster.<br /> <strong>1956 </strong>- Here we see a departure from depicting the usual roman statuesque male form that was part of the posters since 1908. In fact in completely removes any natural form.<br /> <strong>1968 </strong>- I'm totally digging this Mexico '68 poster.<br /> <strong>1988 </strong>- this one is in almost classic 1980's style. It looks like they actually used early computer graphics to make this.</p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1896_Summer_Olympics">1896<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1338/816809026_f4ab5188f6_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Summer_Olympics">1900<br /> <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Paris_1900_Olympics_Games_Poster.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904_Summer_Olympics">1904<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1050/815920035_0be33b564d_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_Summer_Olympics">1908<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1320/815924183_508a16cfb3_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_Summer_Olympics">1912<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1060/816802648_0b05163a48_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Summer_Olympics">1920<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1237/815928057_2e3f66e210_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_Summer_Olympics">1924<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1331/815921857_50e5c5b19c_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_Summer_Olympics">1928<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1100/816808148_72547e2ff0_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_Summer_Olympics">1932<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1074/815925121_fb5e6686f9_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Summer_Olympics">1936<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1415/815929979_33d26995a6_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Summer_Olympics">1948<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1235/815922387_b675fd5d4c_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Summer_Olympics">1952<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1257/816808688_090fb7cddd_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Summer_Olympics">1956<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1291/816807502_208c78a245_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Summer_Olympics">1960<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1305/816803546_9a4db0c9f1_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Summer_Olympics">1964<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1059/816800944_2dbb452d0a_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Summer_Olympics">1968<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1273/815929019_08f0edfbb2_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Summer_Olympics">1972<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1162/816805112_df91d45df8_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Summer_Olympics">1976<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1334/816803248_6b35fbe353_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Summer_Olympics">1980<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1040/815920333_1408e09c20_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Summer_Olympics">1984<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1212/815928665_80bc580a57_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Summer_Olympics">1988<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1338/815918697_f146576360_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Summer_Olympics">1992<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1129/815930579_1b87f11765_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics">1996<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1074/815928341_051982b80e_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics">2000<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1045/816809412_c6590afc7d_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Summer_Olympics">2004<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1347/815927745_ecc2ead502_o.gif" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Summer_Olympics">2008<br /> <img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1309/816811802_e63106868b_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p class="imgC"><a target=_Blank href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics">2012</a><br /> <a href="http://haha.nu/misc/london-olympic-2012-logo/"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1066/670554030_a5fff43352_o.jpg" /></a></p> <p>source: <a href="http://haha.nu/beautiful/history-of-olympic-posters/">haha.nu</a></p> <div class="nodeauthor-info"><h2 class="title">About the author</h2><div class="content"><div class="desc"><p>Hi readers!<br /> I'm a Graphic Designer in New York City (Brooklyn!). NY is a hub for design and my posts will <em>try </em>to focus on, but will not be limited to, design related things happening in NY, such as museum exhibits, architecture, events, local artist interviews, galleries, etc. I'm very much into technology and art and how they intersect to make multimedia art installations. 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