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Dieter Rams

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Dieter Rams (born 1932) is a German industrial designer most closely associated with the consumer products company Braun, the furniture company Vitsoe, and the functionalist school of industrial design. His unobtrusive approach and belief in "less, but better" design has influenced design practice as well as twentieth-century aesthetics and culture broadly, and he has been quoted as saying that indifference toward people and the reality in which they live is the one and only cardinal sin in design.

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Nationality
German 1
Birthplace
Wiesbaden, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany 1
Active From Year
1953 1
Classification
Gender
Male 1
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Germany

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Dieter Rams (born 20 May 1932) is a German industrial designer who is most closely associated with the consumer products company Braun, the furniture company Vitsœ, and the functionalist school of industrial design.

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1. Wikipedia: Dieter Rams
  • Intro, first sentence
    German industrial designer
  • Infobox, birth_place
    Wiesbaden, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, Germany
  • Article text
    His unobtrusive approach and belief in "less, but better" (German: Weniger, aber besser) design has influenced the practice of design, as well as 20th century aesthetics and culture. He is quoted as stating that "Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design."
  • Early life
    He returned to the Wiesbaden School of Art in 1948 and graduated in architecture with honours in 1953, after which he began working for Frankfurt-based architect Otto Apel.
  • Wikipedia sections
    He began his studies in architecture and interior decoration at Wiesbaden School of Art (now part of the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences) in 1947.
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