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Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

~Dieter Rams

Topics: Design Good Great Intelligible Making Meaningful Memorable Something

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I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 o'clock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 o'clock.

~Dieter Rams

Topics: Am Around Bed Between Bird Cannot Early Early Bird Go Midnight Normally Understandable Up Wake Wake Up I Am

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Quiet is better than loud.

~Dieter Rams

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Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

~Dieter Rams

Topics: Design Dominate Help Help People People Role Should Things

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As designers, we have a great responsibility.

~Dieter Rams

Topics: Designers Great Great Responsibility Responsibility

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Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

~Dieter Rams

Topics: Comprehensible Designed Products Way

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All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

~Dieter Rams

Topics: Chaos Depressing Inefficient Man-Made Much Too Too Much Ugly

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Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.

~Dieter Rams

Topics: Future Important Important Things Spectacular Things

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I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.

~Dieter Rams

Topics: Catastrophe Inspiring Like New New York Still Wonderful York 1930S

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I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.

~Dieter Rams

Topics: Cannot Designer Drawings Make Retire Sit Some Think Totally You I Think

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Designer

Born: May 20th, 1932

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