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From the everyday things. To a better future.
Simple.
Design that doesn’t get in the way of life. With that simple application of pressure - click - you get what you want. Nothing more than what it needs to be. Which means you can get on with what you want to be.
Useful.
Everything has a purpose. A human problem to solve. Down to the finest details. Because good design shouldn’t leave anything behind, it’s thorough and has a reason for being. There is no design for design’s sake.
Built to Last.
When something has been designed well. It doesn’t need anything new, there is no obsolescence - it doesn’t dominate or take over. It lasts. Better for the environment, better for people.
1 Good design is innovative.
The possibilities for innovation are not, by any means, exhausted. Technological development is always offering new opportunities for innovative design.
2 Good design makes a product useful.
A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
3 美的である
製品の美しさは有用性の一部である。なぜなら私たちが毎日使う製品は、私たちの個性や幸せに影響を与えるからだ。美しいものは、よく考えられて作られたものだけである。
4 理解をもたらす
良いデザインは製品の構造を明確にする。さらに、製品自体に語らせることができる。説明の必要がないこと、これがベストだ。
5 謙虚である
目的を持った製品というものは、道具と似たところがある。それは、装飾的なものでも芸術品でもない。だから、製品のデザインは使う者に自己表現の余地を与えられるよう、中立的であり、主張してはいけない。
6 誠実である
製品を実際以上に革新的に、パワフルに、あるいは価値のあるものに見せない。守ることができない約束で消費者を操ろうとしない。
7 Good design is long-lasting.
It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable design, it lasts many years - even in today’s throwaway society.
8 最終的にディティールへと帰結する
すべて、思いつきや偶然にゆだねられてはいけない。設計プロセスにおける細部への注意と正確さは、消費者に対する敬意の表れである。
9 環境への配慮とともにある
デザインは環境の保全に大きく貢献する。製品のライフサイクル全体を通じて資源を大切に扱い、物理的および視覚的な汚染を最小限に抑える。
10 Good design is as little design as possible.
Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with nonessentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
1953 | Braun Factory
Braun Multimix Blender
The 50's established the milkshake as a western staple, enabled in part by the Multimix, the state-of-the-art blender with a detachable mixing glass container. It cuts ingredients with industrial-grade efficacy. Still widely in use today.
1957 | Gerd Alfred Müller
KM3/31
A hugely influential blender or “food processor” as it was known that birthed a whole new product category: “kitchen machines” or appliances. With its hyper-reduced, simple and useful design one of the most influential industrial products of all time.
1963 | Reinhold Weiss
KSM 1/11
Design doesn’t get much more minimalistic than this: a coffee grinder so purpose-built it needed just one, centrallyplaced button to operate. Finely ground beans were just a finger click away.
1963 | Reinhold Weiss
HT 2
This toaster’s sleek, reduced design so inspired renowned artist Richard Hamilton that he based one of his works (aptly titled ‘Toaster’) on it. Oh, and it also browned bread to perfection.
1972 | Florian Seiffert
KF 20
With a stacked, vertical design that resembled a water tower, the KF 20 was known as the Aromaster. Instantlyrecognizable for its unciventional shape, this coffee maker added a touch of the exrtaordinary to everyday morning filter coffee.
1972 | Jürgen Greubel, Dieter Rams
MPZ 22
This electric juicer, also known as the citromatic, was a dependable and incredibly easy-to-clean staple of kitchens across the world for decades. It took over two decades before Braun decided an update to the original design was due.
1981 | Ludwig Littmann
MR 6
A precursor of the more sophisticated MR 500, the MR 6 was sturdy and tough, meaning it could blend foods that´other products couldn't handle. An important stepping stone on the way to perfecting the handheld blender.
1984 | Hartwig Kahlcke
KF 40
This coffeemaker was somehow controversial within Braun, being made of cost-efficient polypropylene rather than sturdier polycarbonate, Braun's go-to plastic. Hence the KF 40's corrugated surface states a design solution that won over Dieter Rams.
2016 | Markus Orthey, Ludwig Littmann
MultiQuick 9
An all-round food blender that condensed the functionalities of devices many times its size into a simple, handheld 'wand'. The definition of reduced design: compact, yet powerful.
