To celebrate the 93rd birthday of famed industrial designer Dieter Rams, you can watch Gary Hustwit's fascinating documentary ...

“Good design is as little design as possible.” These few words encapsulate the philosophy of German designer Dieter Rams, whose sleek and understated household products coined an aesthetic sensibility ...

ON A MIDSUMMER day at the Wright auction house in Chicago, iconic hair dryers, alarm clocks and toasters conceived by German industrial designer Dieter Rams for housewares firm Braun in the ’60s ...

On a recent weeknight at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, the celebrated German designer Dieter Rams ambled up to a podium in his uniform of a black shirt, thinning silver bowl cut ...

We hear quite often that less is more, but what about less is better? Those are the words of designer Dieter Rams. For more than 50 years, Rams made an indelible mark on product design ...

Even some of the lesser known work from Dieter Rams and his studio demonstrate his famous 10 principles of good design. Here’s how. “For sure the 10 principles are still true today and will be ...

Gary Hustwit: How did you get started as a designer? What was your training? Dieter Rams: I began my studies in architecture at the Wiesbaden School of Art in 1947. I was interested in interior ...

But a surprising number of his most striking creations bear a more than passing resemblance to the work of another design genius, Dieter Rams of Braun. Rams was an incredibly influential ...

“Good design is as little design as possible.” These few words encapsulate the philosophy of German designer Dieter Rams, whose sleek and understated household products coined an aesthetic ...

“Good design is as little design as possible.” These few words encapsulate the philosophy of German designer Dieter Rams, whose sleek and understated household products coined an aesthetic ...