2009
11.02

Dieter Rams – Design Inspiration

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Check out this short article by Jared Thompson(@JThompsondesign) about the iconic product designer Dieter Rams – Designers of Inspiration.

His 10 “principles of design” can easily be ported to graphic design-

  1. Good graphic design is innovative, even when stolen.
  2. Good graphic design makes an idea come to life on paper (and screen!).
  3. Good graphic design is aesthetic and ugly.
  4. Good graphic design helps us understand a concept.
  5. Good graphic design is unobtrusive, whilst standing out.
  6. Good graphic design lies.|| An homage to Fish.
  7. Good graphic design is everlasting in mind and forgotten immediately.
  8. Good graphic design is fulfilling even if seemingly unfinished.
  9. Good graphic design is concerned with the environment.(link forthcoming to SUNY New Paltz sustainable design BFA Thesis ’08)
  10. Good graphic design is as little design as possible.

 

 

Chris Trude

Chris is a twitter-head, blogger, and web/graphic designer by night, and an in-house graphic designer by day. Also happens to be an avid practitioner of awesomeness. Feel free to subscribe to my feed, or follow me on Twitter to keep in touch with my day to day.

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