Dieter Rams: Principles of Good Design

Learn about the life and work of Dieter Rams, as he ruminates on consumerism, sustainability, and the future of design in this feature-length documentary film.

Introduction

• What is good design?

1. Principles of Good Design

• Munich talk: Rams's thoughts on collaboration, design, and cars
• At home, World War II, early education, and Sophie Lovell biography
• Architecture school and his early design work
• His beginnings at Braun and the Ulm School
• Rams’s first major project: The Braun SK 4
• Inside the Braun design department
• Braun TP1 portable music player, designer Naoto Fukasawa on Rams
• Mr. Braun in the 1970s, Dietrich Lubs, and the ET 66 calculator
• Ten principles of good design
• Rams leaves Braun and focuses on furniture with Vitsoe
• Rams on technology today
• Design process: The new Vitsoe building
• Rams exhibit at Vitra Design Museum
• Chair design critique
• Rams and his garden and thoughts on consumerism and technology
• Rams’s 85th birthday event
• Finished Vitsoe building and Rams's thoughts on design and humanity