guest editor: Dieter Rams is the most important and influential designer of the post war era. As head of design at Braun, the German consumer electronics manufacturer, he revolutionised the design of domestic technology and developed a design language that married technical innovation with a strict formal and functional elegance.
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Born in Wiesbaden in Germany in 1932, he first joined Braun in 1954 as an architect and interior designer but soon moved into product design. In his forty-year stretch at Braun he designed (or oversaw the design of) hundreds of products from audio equipment, coffee makers, calculators and cigarette lighters to electric shavers. For Vitsoe he designed the 606 shelving system and 620 chair.
When did Braun start their heavy marketing in North America?
70's or 80's?
the 70's with travel clocks and coffee makers and some in the 60's too with electric shavers.
didnt they do some nasty stuff in hitlers time??
i think braun just made radios durring wwII per here. you may be thinking of krupp.
another article mentions the 1962 success of the sixtant razor prompting moma to showcase the entire braun line. i recall the desk fans being available in local scandinavian furniture shops mid-late 60's.
ulm school functionalism
the semantic turn
Science, Semiotics and Society: The Ulm Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Retrospect
the industrial design reader (pg.169)
The Authority of Everyday Objects, Or: Style Matters
Design: History, Theory and Practice of Product Design (pg.41)
Functionalism vs. Planned Obsolescence, A comparative study of German & American Design.
Maybe he's thinking of Eva Braun
Krupp is it.....
what a start to the family....
.....Krupp family first appeared in the historical record in 1587, when Arndt Krupp joined the merchants' guild in Essen. Arndt, a trader, arrived in town just before an epidemic of plague and became one of the city's wealthiest men by purchasing the property of families who fled the epidemic.....
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- bill 12-05-2007 1:08 am
When did Braun start their heavy marketing in North America?
70's or 80's?
- L.M. 12-05-2007 1:41 am [add a comment]
the 70's with travel clocks and coffee makers and some in the 60's too with electric shavers.
- bill 12-05-2007 2:13 am [add a comment]
didnt they do some nasty stuff in hitlers time??
- Skinny 12-05-2007 2:17 pm [add a comment]
i think braun just made radios durring wwII per here. you may be thinking of krupp.
another article mentions the 1962 success of the sixtant razor prompting moma to showcase the entire braun line. i recall the desk fans being available in local scandinavian furniture shops mid-late 60's.
- bill 12-05-2007 5:35 pm [add a comment]
ulm school functionalism
the semantic turn
Science, Semiotics and Society: The Ulm Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Retrospect
the industrial design reader (pg.169)
The Authority of Everyday Objects, Or: Style Matters
Design: History, Theory and Practice of Product Design (pg.41)
- bill 12-05-2007 5:41 pm [add a comment]
Functionalism vs. Planned Obsolescence, A comparative study of German & American Design.
- bill 12-05-2007 7:24 pm [add a comment]
Maybe he's thinking of Eva Braun
- Adman (guest) 12-06-2007 2:00 am [add a comment]
Krupp is it.....
what a start to the family....
.....Krupp family first appeared in the historical record in 1587, when Arndt Krupp joined the merchants' guild in Essen. Arndt, a trader, arrived in town just before an epidemic of plague and became one of the city's wealthiest men by purchasing the property of families who fled the epidemic.....
- Skinny 12-06-2007 5:25 pm [add a comment]