Learn about the life and work of Dieter Rams, as he ruminates on consumerism, sustainability, and the future of design in this feature-length documentary film.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- What is good design?
- Munich talk: Rams's thoughts on collaboration, design, and cars
- At home, World War II, early education, and Sophie Lovell biography
- Architecture school and his early design work
- His beginnings at Braun and the Ulm School
- Rams’s first major project: The Braun SK 4
- Inside the Braun design department
- Braun TP1 portable music player, designer Naoto Fukasawa on Rams
- Mr. Braun in the 1970s, Dietrich Lubs, and the ET 66 calculator
- Ten principles of good design
- Rams leaves Braun and focuses on furniture with Vitsoe
- Rams on technology today
- Design process: The new Vitsoe building
- Rams exhibit at Vitra Design Museum
- Chair design critique
- Rams and his garden and thoughts on consumerism and technology
- Rams’s 85th birthday event
- Finished Vitsoe building and Rams's thoughts on design and humanity
Taught by
Gary Hustwit
