Dieter Rams Interview
Kinfolk s spring issue features the first interview with dieter rams in several years coinciding with the 2017 release of the documentary film rams about his life and work.
Dieter rams interview. His iconic commandments really did shape how we think about the industrial designer s mandate said colin fanning curator of dieter rams. Words by alex anderson. Dieter rams born 20 may 1932 in wiesbaden hessen is a german industrial designer and retired academic closely associated with the consumer products company braun the furniture company vitsœ and the functionalist school of industrial design. Dieter rams in unreleased video interview from 2000 treasures on tape.
Dieter rams talks about the ideas behind his system furniture design and about the challenges a younger generation of furniture designers will be confronted with in the future. The object dieter rams is showing in our video is the portable transistor radio and phonograph braun model tp1 of 1959 cover of less but better book published by gestalten released in. Dieter rams admits playing a crucial part in the global problem of overproduction in a new documentary film in an exclusive interview director gary hustwit says the german designer regrets not. The german language has a useful ability to unite ideas in a single word that somehow exceeds the capabilities of its parts.