Dieter Rams @ The Design Museum
I went to see the Dieter Rams show @ Design Museum today and it was good.
Its a great collection of products from his time at Braun and furniture manufacturer Vitsœ, this is the design that we have had in our homes for many years and has a heavy influence on todays product design.
If you go, walk round with Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles of good design in mind:
- Good design is innovative.
- Good design makes a product useful.
- Good design is aesthetic.
- Good design makes a product understandable.
- Good design is unobtrusive.
- Good design is honest.
- Good design is long-lasting.
- Good design is thorough down to the last detail.
- Good design is environmentally friendly.
- Good design is as little design as possible.
Principles that can directly translate to designing online and digital products.
Then I came out of the show to the pretty clunky looking Dyson Airblade in the loos, I think they missed points 3, 5, 8 and 10
I’ll be working round the corner from the Design Museum from Monday and with my new annual membership I will be back there, a lot.
