Steal From The Best

Steal From The Best

Dieter Rams

Legendary Braun industrial designer

Ideas

Legendary Braun industrial designer Dieter Rams explains why products should be like butlers

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Intro

▶️Minimalism is Getting Absurd: Updating Dieter Rams' 10 Principles — Design Theory23:56 · 28 Jul 2023

▶️The Father of Industrial Design | Dieter Rams — Design Docs16:25 · 28 Nov 2025

▶️The 10 Principles of Good Design — Daniel Titchener11:04 · 15 Jun 2021

Deep

📄The 10 Principles for Good Design — Rams Foundation2002

🎤Capsule: Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews Dieter Rams — Rams FoundationApr 2023

📄What We've Learned from Dieter Rams, and What We've Ignored — The New Yorker (Alexandra Lange)28 Nov 2018

✍️Dieter Rams: Less but Better — BYU Design Review8 min read · 27 May 2020

📕Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams — Gestaltenover 250 pages · Jul 2015

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