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  • Tim Lawrence

    Hold On to Your Dreams. Arthur Russell and the Downtown…

  • Adam Phillips, Barbara Taylor

    On Kindness

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    The Faber Book of Utopias

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    Total Trattoria

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    12 Sun Songs

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    The Wire. Urban Decay and American Television

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    Insurgencies. Constituent Power and the Modern State

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    Rock/Music Writings

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    The Urban Connection. An Actor-Relational Approach to Urban…

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    -arium. Weather and Architecture

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    Never Use White Type on a Black Background

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    The Situationists and the City

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    Echo of Space / Space of Echo

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    85 Zeichnungen

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    Stagings. Kabul, Film & Production of Representation

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    Supercritical. Peter Eisenman & Rem Koolhaas

  • Albena Yaneva

    Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture

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    Harun Farocki. Against What? Against Whom?

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    Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean

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    Lecture Performance

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    Sonic Warfare. Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear

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    Bernhard Willhelm & Jutta Kraus

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    Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice

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    For the Love of Vinyl. The Album Art of Hipgnosis

  • Alex Ross

    The Rest is Noise. Das 20. Jahrhundert hören

  • Helene Sommer

    I was (t)here.

  • Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz

    Metasprache des Raums / Metalanguage of Space

  • Keiko Nomura

    Red Water

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    Weiss

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    Colour Mania

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    Graphic Europe. An Alternative Guide to 31 European Cities

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    Krautrock. Cosmic Rock and its Legacy

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    Self-Fab House. 2nd Advanced Architecture Contest

  • Christopher Dell

    Tacit Urbanism

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    First Works. Emerging Architectural Experimentation of the…

  • Franco "Bifo" Berardi

    The Soul At Work. From Alienation to Autonomy

  • Britt Salvesen

    New Topographics

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    Now is the Time. Art and Theory in the 21st Century

  • Dexter Sinister

    Portable Document Format

  • Nadine Scharfenort

    Urbane Visionen am Arabischen Golf. Die "Post-Oil-…

  • Jacques Rancière

    The Emancipated Spectator

  • Bjarke Ingels Group

    Yes is More. An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution

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    Institutional Critique. An Anthology of Artists'…

  • Valerie Viscardi

    Louis Vuitton. Art, Fashion and Architecture

  • Boris Buden

    Zone des Übergangs. Vom Ende des Postkommunismus

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    Souto de Moura 2005-2009. Theatres of the World.

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    Architecture's Desire. Reading the Late Avant-Garde

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    Class Works. Weitere Beiträge zu vermittelnder,…

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    Colour in Contemporary Architecture

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    Blue Peter. Sixth Book

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    Wahrheit der Demokratie

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    Everywhere and All at Once. Performa 07

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    Being an Artist in Post-Fordist Times. Arts in Society

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    Open City. Designing Coexistence

  • Fredric Jameson

    Valences of the Dialectic

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    ABÉCÉDAIRE – Gilles Deleuze von A bis Z (3 DVD)

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    Crossmappings. Essays zur visuellen Kultur

  • Stephen Willats

    Doppelgänger

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    Kino des Minimalismus

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    Der Wind, das Licht ECM und das Bild

  • Ulrike Felsing

    Dynamische Erscheinungsbilder im kulturellen und…

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    Commonwealth

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    Education Automation: Comprehensive Learning for Emergent…

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    Ideas and Integrities. A Spontaneous Autobiographical…

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    Utopics. Systems and Landmarks

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    Art and Contemporary Critical Practice

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    Archivologie. Exterioritäten des Wissens in Philosophie,…

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  • Franziska Morlok, Till Beckmann

    Extra. Enzyklopädie der experimentellen Druckveredelung

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    AA Book. Projects Review 2009

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    The SANAA Studios 2006-2008. Learning from Japan

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    Totally Wired. Postpunk Interviews and Overviews

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    Situation. Documents of Contemporary Art

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    Adventures of Perception. Cinema as Exploration. Essays/…

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    157 - September/October 2009

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    My Wonderful World of Fashion. A Book for Drawing, Creating…

  • Claudia Basrawi

    Mittelmeer Anämie - Damaskus, Beirut, Kairo

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    The Wire Primers. A Guide to Modern Music

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    Spaces of Experience. Art Gallery Interiors from 1800 to…

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    Papercraft. Design and Art with Paper

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    def - drafts establishing future

  • Vince Aletti

    The Disco Files 1973-78. New York's Underground, Week…

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    A Precarious Existence. Vulnerability in the Public Domain

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    Christian Kerez 2000-2009

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    Avantgarden und Politik. Künstlerischer Aktivismus von Dada…

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    Displayer 03

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    Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

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    Des-/Orientierung, Dis-/Orientation, Dés-/Orientation 2

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    Unfolded. Papier in Design, Kunst, Architektur und Industrie

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    Dissolving Absolute Structures

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    Geometrie des Verfahrens. Schriften zur Methode

Less but better. Weniger, aber besser

Wenige Produktdesigns sind so haltbar wie die von Dieter Rams. Nahezu alles was der einflussreichste Designer des 20. Jahrhunderts entworfen hat, gilt heute als Klassiker. Die überarbeitete Neuauflage von Weniger, aber besser zeigt einmal mehr warum Dieter Rams Designverständnis auch in Zukunft nicht an Aktualität verlieren wird.
Die Vorstellungen davon, was gutes Design kann, soll und muss, ändern sich stetig mit technischen Möglichkeiten und kulturellen Entwicklungen. Dieter Rams zehn Thesen zum Design befürworten puristisches, beinahe unmerkliches Design und gelten deshalb in Lehre und Praxis als zeitlose Grundüberlegungen: Gutes Design ist innovativ. Gutes Design macht ein Produkt verständlich. Gutes Design ist ästhetisch. Gutes Design macht ein Produkt brauchbar. Gutes Design ist unaufdringlich. Gutes Design ist ehrlich. Gutes Design ist langlebig. Gutes Design ist konsequent bis ins letzte Detail. Gutes Design ist umweltfreundlich. Gutes Design ist so wenig Design wie möglich.
Weniger, aber besser hat nicht den Anspruch, eine lückenlose Rams-Werkschau zu sein oder die vollständige Firmengeschichte von Braun zu erzählen. Vielmehr zeigt dieses Buch, welche Ideen, Kriterien und Methoden hinter den großen Produktdesigns von Dieter Rams stehen und wie sich anhand einer sich wandelnden Produktkultur universale Designmaßstäbe ableiten lassen. Aus Dieter Rams Überlegungen zu Ethik und Werten im Design lassen sich klare Strukturen für zukünftiges Gestalten ableiten. Denn eins hat sich über viele Jahre bewiesen: weniger ist einfach besser.
Few product designs have the staying power of creations by Dieter Rams. Almost everything produced by the most influential designer of the twentieth century is today considered a classic. This new and revised edition of Less but better shows once again why Dieter Rams’s approach to design will be relevant for the foreseeable future.
Ideas of what can and must be achieved by good design are in a constant state of flux as a result of cultural and technological developments. Dieter Rams, however, came up with ten principles that advocate for a purist, almost imperceptible design. These principles are still considered timeless fundaments of design theory and practice today: Good design is innovative. Good design makes a product useful. Good design is aesthetic. Good design is helps a product to be understood. Good design is unobtrusive. Good design is honest. Good design is durable. Good design is consistent to the last detail. Good design is environmentally friendly. Good design is as little design as possible.
Less but better does not set out to be a complete documentation of Dieter Rams’s body of work, nor does it claim to tell the full story of the company Braun. Rather the book explores the ideas, criteria, and methods behind Rams’s creations and reveals how a shifting culture of product manufacturing gave rise to universal design benchmarks. From his reflections on design ethics and values we can distill a clear paradigm for future design—because one principle has remained firm over the years: less is simply better.
Dieter Rams, born in Wiesbaden in 1932, initially studied architecture. He is widely considered one of the most significant industrial designers of the twentieth century. In the more than 40 years that he spent working at the electrical appliance manufacturer Braun, Rams turned out a wealth of pioneering creations that continue to influence designers around the world today. He has also generated a new awareness of the social function of design in Germany.
Jo Klatt is an acknowledged connoisseur and collector of Braun products. For many years he worked at the magazine Design+Design and was the publisher of numerous works, including the first edition of Less but better.
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Dieter Rams
Less but better. Weniger, aber besser
DGV, 2014, 978-3-89955-525-7