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Good design is criticized: Look at the many definitions of quality
Netherlands Architecture News - Jan 18, 2016 - 12:23 4473 views
Sensory Deprivation Skull chair by Atelier Van Lieshout, 2007. image © Atelier Van Lieshout.
Good design,” once said Dieter Rams, “is as little design as possible.” Easy. Problem solved. The German designer’s work for Braun stripped away the superfluous and brought Bauhaus ideas into the media age. It ultimately inspired the iPhone — a smooth, enigmatic tablet that appeared in our hands like the black monolith appeared to the apes in Standley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Suddenly we understood what good design was. Rams had been right. Or had he?....Continue reading
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