1 Good design is innovative.
The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design.
2 Good design makes a product useful.
A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
3 Good design is aesthetic.
The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products we use every day affect our person and our well-being. But only well-executed objects can be beautiful.
4 Good design makes a product understandable.
It clarifies the product’s structure. Better still, it can make the product talk. At best, it is self-explanatory.
5 Good design is unobtrusive.
Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the user’s self-expression.
6 O bom design é honesto.
Não torna um produto mais inovador, mais potente ou valioso para além do que realmente é. Não tenta manipular o consumidor com promessas que não podem ser cumpridas.
7 O bom design é duradouro.
Evita seguir tendências e nunca se torna antiquado. Ao contrário do design moderno, perdura no tempo, até mesmo na atual sociedade em que tudo é descartável.
8 O bom design é minucioso até ao último detalhe.
Nada deve ser arbitrário ou deixado ao acaso. O cuidado e a precisão no processo de criação mostram total respeito pelo consumidor.
9 O bom design é amigo do ambiente.
O design tem um papel importante na preservação do meio ambiente. Contribui para a conservação dos recursos e minimiza a poluição física e visual ao longo do ciclo de vida do produto.
10 O bom design é o mais simples possível.
Menos, mas melhor - concentra-se nos requisitos essenciais, os produtos não são sobrecarregados de caraterísticas sem utilidade. O retorno à pureza e à simplicidade.
1953 | Braun Factory
Braun Multimix Blender
The 50's established the milkshake as a western staple, enabled in part by the Multimix, the state-of-the-art blender with a detachable mixing glass container. It cuts ingredients with industrial-grade efficacy. Still widely in use today.
1957 | Gerd Alfred Müller
KM3/31
A hugely influential blender or “food processor” as it was known that birthed a whole new product category: “kitchen machines” or appliances. With its hyper-reduced, simple and useful design one of the most influential industrial products of all time.
1963 | Reinhold Weiss
KSM 1/11
Design doesn’t get much more minimalistic than this: a coffee grinder so purpose-built it needed just one, centrally placed button to operate. Finely ground beans were just a finger click away.
1963 | Reinhold Weiss
HT 2
This toaster’s sleek, reduced design so inspired renowned artist Richard Hamilton that he based one of his works (aptly titled ‘Toaster’) on it. Oh, and it also browned bread to perfection.
1972 | Florian Seiffert
KF 20
With a stacked, vertical design that resembled a water tower, the KF 20 was known as the Aromaster. Instantly recognizable for its unconventional shape, this coffee maker added a touch of the extraordinary to everyday morning filter coffee.
1972 | Jürgen GIndien reubel, Dieter Rams
MPZ 22
Deze elektrische sapcentrifuge was al tientallen jaren een betrouwbaar item in te keuken en tevens gemakkelijk te reinigen. Het duurde meer dan twee decennia voordat Braun besloot het ontwerp bij te werken.
1981 | Ludwig Littmann
MR 6
De MR 6 was een voorloper van de meer verfijnde MR 500. Hij was stevig en sterk, en kon zo het voedsel mengen waar andere producten moeite mee hadden. Een belangrijke opstap naar het perfectioneren van de staafmixer.
1984 | Hartwig Kahlcke
KF 40
Dit koffiezetapparaat was ietwat controversieel, omdat het gemaakt werd van kostenefficiënt polypropyleen in plaats van steviger polycarbonaat. Vandaar dat het golvende oppervlak van de KF 40 een ontwerpoplossing was die Dieter Rams heeft overtuigd.
2013 | Markus Orthey, Ludwig Littmann
MultiQuick 9
Een allround blender die de functionaliteiten van veel grotere apparaten heeft gecombineerd in een eenvoudige, handige 'staaf'. De definitie van gereduceerd ontwerp: compact, maar toch krachtig.
