Vitsœ’s designer, Dieter Rams.
Photograph by Abisag Tüllmann

Ten principles of good design

Back in the late 1970s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him: “An impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.”Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design?His answer is expressed in his ten principles for good design.