Let this list of 1 quotations by the German designer Dieter Rams lead you to an inspirational day. Recharge yourself with motivational making, intelligible, design sayings, and satisfy your hunger for a better life.
What are the best Dieter Rams quotes?
We've made this hand-picked collection of quotes to show you what is Dieter Rams truly willing to say and leave for generations. Whether an inspirational quote or a motivational message about giving your best, we can all benefit from the wisdom, captured within these words.
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable.
Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
Good design is as little design as possible.
Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.
Good design is as little design as possible.
An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers.
It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.
Good design is innovative
2. Good design makes a product useful
3. Good design is aesthetic
4. Good design makes a product understandable
5. Good design is unobtrusive
6. Good design is honest
7. Good design is long-lasting
8. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail
9. Good design is environmentally friendly
10. Good design is as little design as possible
The design should make the product speak to you.
I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.
One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.
Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people.
It should help people. That's its role.
Good design is honest.
People react positively when things are clear and understandable.
A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
As designers we have a great responsibility.
Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.
Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should – and must – question everything generally thought to be obvious. They must have an intuition for people’s changing attitudes. For the reality in which they live, for their dreams, their desires, their worries, their needs, their living habits. They must also be able to assess realistically the opportunities and bounds of technology.
Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality
All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.
Good design is innovative Gives a product utility Is aesthetic Makes a product easy to understand Is unobtrusive Is honest Is long-lived Is consistent down to the smallest detail Protects the environment Good design is as little design as possible.
Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.
Good design means as little design as possible.
My worry is that the world is becoming more chaotic every day.
My excitement is that more people paying attention to 'Less but better' could help solve our growing problems.
I hate everything that is driven by fashion.
As designers we have a great responsibility.
I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.
My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage.
Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches.
Thinking cannot be done by a computer.
Good design is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.
We designers, we don't work in a vacuum.
We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.
I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 oclock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 oclock.
Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.
Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
Good design makes a product understandable.
I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.
My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality.
Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.
Question everything generally thought to be obvious.
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.
