His design ethos was one of radical functionality and simplicity. Gary hustwits dieter rams documentary is finally here. In 2008, gary interviewed dieter for his documentary objectified, but was only. He wants his books and this film going out and doing the talking. Innovators in the field including braun consumer products giant dieter rams, apples jonathan ives, and ideos david kelley are unsurprisingly articulate about their vocations role in casting humanitys future, making intuitive observations about societal trends like the increasing separation of form and function in the digital era. Log in or sign up to leave a comment log in sign up. As little design as possible is an amazing book according to the design historian, photographer and film director gary hustwit. Hey guys so i here are some of the books in pdf from the cambridge free books. The cover is cleverly embossed with a texture reminiscent of a braun razor. Dieter rams is done giving interviews, and gary hustwit can only poke at his tempeh hash with a laugh here and a sigh there, hoping he did the legend justice. The worlds best gadget designers speak in objectified. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Objectified is a featurelength documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured.
And its served as a benchmark of sorts in his quest to make a film about the legendary braun and vitsoe designer. Objectified by gary hustwit gary hustwit, paola antonelli. Dieter rams, 1980 dieter rams, head of braun and its prominent designer for forty years, believed that exceptional design is simple design, both visually appealing and. Objectified is a featurelength documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. Preserving dieter rams design thinking for the future. Dieter rams born 20 may 1932 in wiesbaden, hessen is a german industrial designer and retired academic closely associated with the consumer products company braun, the furniture company vits. Eleven songs from the film on white vinyl includes a download code too, available exclusively in shops worldwide for record store day, which has been rescheduled to june 20. David kelley, bill moggridge, jane fulton suri, karim rashid, dieter rams, and rob walker. A fascinating essay places dieter rams in the context of modern design, from bauhaus to philip johnson. Dieter rams is done giving interviews, and gary hustwit can only poke at his. You might enjoy watching jonathan ives wipe shmutz off of his iphone screen, or hear people talk about the birth of user interface design. Nearly everyone spends their life surrounded by the work of industrial designers, but very few people understand the process by which your furniture, cell phone, or alarm clock came to look and feel the way they do, and how the elements of design interact with our own ideas and assumptions about. Dieter rams born 20 may 1932 in wiesbaden, hessen is a german industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company braun and the functionalist school of industrial design. The directors new film, rams, will be the first feature documentary about the german product designer dieter rams.
Dieter rams lists the 10 timeless principles of good design. Workplace well leave it up for a few more days here april 21 to 28 helvetica bonus footage 2007, 95 minutes. Dieter rams wants silicon valley to stop fast company. Gary hustwit, dieter rams, and designer erik spiekermann during filming. The complete interviews from all three films in the design trilogy, including 100 hours of neverbeforereleased conversations, with a foreword and notes on each interview by gary hustwit. Dieter rams in 1957 dieter rams, a german industrial designer, develops the mo dular atelier 1 series with l1 speakers separated from the receiver unit, an innovation that soon became an industry standard. A documentary about typography, graphic design, and global visual culture. Ramss evolution as a designer with a lessismore philosophy. Almost every day i passed a second hand shop specialized in religious books but they also sell other merchandise given to them. Photographer philip sinden has completed a series of environmental portraits and images of the home of legendary industrial designer, dieter rams. Its a partly clever, partly literalizing evocation of whats at stake in gary hustwits film, the everreceding process of. With his less, but better design philosophy, dieter rams has touched the lives of millionsif not billionsof people since he started his career as an industrial designer at braun in 1955.
Gary hustwit discusses his dieter rams documentary rams. Should one want a single book about this important desingner, dieter rams. New york based documentary filmmaker gary hustwit, director of the acclaimed helvetica, objectified and urbanized films, is working on a new project a film about iconic industrial design figure dieter rams. Although formally trained as an architect at the wiesbaden school of art during the 1940s, rams ended up at the german electronics company by chance. Dieter rams is one of the most influential designers on the planet, said hustwit, who first met rams in 2008, while filming a documentary called objectified about the creative minds behind. Dieter rams may have just celebrated his 79th birthday but he is still as passionate as ever about design and architecture as he was when starting out at german manufacturer braun back in 1955 at the age of 23. Rams began studies in architecture and interior decoration at wiesbaden school of art in 1947. Rams is a documentary portrait of dieter rams, one of the most influential designers alive, and a rumination on consumerism, sustainability, and the future of design. Dieter rams lists the 10 timeless principles of good designbacked by. Workplace well leave it up for a few more days here.
The complete interviews by gary hustwit the complete interviews from all three films in the design trilogy, including 100 hours of neverbefore released conversations, with a foreword and notes on each interview by gary hustwit. The book closes with a chronological overview of design icons, categorized by function, that show the enormous breadth of rams vision. In gary hustwits 2009 documentary film objectified, rams states that apple inc. Dieter rams author of weniger, aber besserless but better. The man who all but invented consumer product design as we know it today. A brief history of industrial and interaction design.
Rams has influenced many contemporary designers, and between 2008 and 2012 the less and more retrospective of his work traveled around the world, showcasing over 200 examples of his landmark designs for braun. Brian eno is releasing his original soundtrack to rams. Dieter rams as little design as possible front cover of sophie lovells dieter rams. Brauns watches are straight outta the dieter rams design books. Fukasawa design book publishers phaidon started to realize that there is a lot of good design activity beyond the u. Like many famous people and celebrities, dieter rams keeps his personal life private. Dieter rams was born on may 20, 1932 in wiesbaden, hesse, germany. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search.
Archival materials include photos of rams design team and excerpts from his publications and speeches. Dieter rams in rams gary hustwit the most influential designer of the twentieth century is finally getting his due gary hustwits documentary rams. My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage. Filmmaker gary hustwit is streaming his documentaries free worldwide during the global covid19 crisis. As head of design at braun for over 40 years, from 1961 to 1995, rams produced over 500 designs, ranging from furniture to coffee makers to radios. Helvetica, objectified, and urbanized, about typefaces, industrial design, and. As little design as possible phaidon by the british design historian sophie lovell, traces mr. Since 1959 we have made and evolved furniture that allows you to live better, with less, that lasts longer.
Dieter rams design ethos has shaped the way entire generations think about. Heres nearly an hour of bonus footage from objectified, gary hustwits 2009. Hustwit is sticking with the design community for the subject of his forthcoming film, though this time hes chosen to focus on just one individuals work. This exclusive clip from a recent documentary on dieter rams, offers a look into the home of the legendary german industrial designer. Dieter rams is the author of weniger, aber besserless but better 4. Gary hustwit, director of helvetica and objectified, is making a documentary about rams called rams. Wallpaper caught up with hustwit to discuss the making of rams, which hits screens this autumn. The complete interviews gary hustwit, jonathan ive, dieter rams, rem koolhaas, marc newson, massimo vignelli, norman foster. Dieter rams is one of the most ubiquitous and revered designers of the 20th century.
Released in late 2018, rams is the first ever documentary on. It is a documentary portrait of dieter rams, one of the most influential designers alive, and a rumination on consumerism, sustainability, and the future of design. So the design world was naturally excited when in 2016 it. The film is the first to ever document the now 84yearold designers life and career, which spans more than 50 years. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Helvetica director turns his camera on dieter rams design. The definitive product designer behind your toothbrush and coffeemaker director gary hustwit is not a designer, but he has introduced more people to the history of design and its.
His unobtrusive approach and belief in less but better design generated a timeless quality in his products and have influenced the design of many. Dieter rams ability to bring form to a product so that it clearly, concisely and immediately communicates its meaning is remarkable he remains utterly alone in producing a body of work so consistently beautiful, so right, and so accessible. Its a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. Dieter rams wanted to create a piece of upholstered furniture that was sumptuously comfortable but also visually light. Join us for a onenight screening of rams, hosted by director gary hustwit, and copresented by aiga portland. Dieter rams as little design as possible wallpaper. That is not to say that objectified is without value. If you know who dieter rams is, you might get a kick out of seeing him trim his bonzai. The book includes indepth discussions with designers and thinkers like paola antonelli, alejandro aravena, chris bangle, michael bierut, ronan and erwan bouroullec, neville brody, tim brown, amanda burden, david carson, matthew carter, candy chang, yung ho chang, noah chasin, james corner, wim crouwel, ellen dunhamjones, tobias frerejones, experimental jetset, dan formosa, sir norman foster, naoto fukasawa, jan gehl, jonathan hoefler, jonathan ive, hella jongerius, bruce katz, david. Exclusive clip from dieter rams documentary by gary. His current status as the star player in the design documentary firmament looks secure for some time with the release of his upcoming film, rams, about the pioneering german industrial designer dieter rams, accompanied by a soundtrack by brian eno. As he did for helveticas namesake typeface, gary hustwit gathered the worlds top designers for his forthcoming documentary objectified, telling the story of the magic behind the objects we use.
Gary hustwit documentaries for free this weeks feature. Once more details are available on who he is dating, we will update this section. Gary hustwit, the director of helvetica, talks with dieter rams, marc newson, jonathan ive, and other renowned designers behind some of the worlds most iconic products. The book includes indepth discussions with designers and thinkers like paola antonelli, alejandro aravena, chris bangle, michael bierut. As little design as possible book not many if any designers can lay claim to a body of work so far reaching that it has touched the lives of even those who have absolutely no idea who they are, let alone influenced virtually every contemporary. Through verite footage and indepth conversations, objectified documents the creative processes of some of the worlds most influential product designers, and looks at how the things they make impact our lives. Gary hustwit films events photography vr books screening info about shop. Helvetica, objectified and urbanized filmmaker gary hustwit shares a sneak peek at his upcoming documentary about legendary industrial designer dieter rams. Dieter rams is a german industrial designer and retired academic closely associated with the. The guardian to quantify his impact, you need only look at the millions of apple products in our pockets. His films include objectified, rams dieter rams bio, workplace, urbanized and others. We will continue to update information on dieter ramss parents.
Trailers reveal details of upcoming dieter rams documentary. How dieter rams made braun look cool the new york times. Join garys mailing list or buy posters, books and other film merch. Still from rams gary hustwit is the director best known for bringing design documentaries to the big screenincluding helvetica, the first only. Interviews and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Objectified and urbanised focuses on the 84yearold braun legend. Although it shows the state of affairs and different points of view, its scope is too narrow, mostly focusing in well known designers, curators, critics and studios from the us, europe and only one from asia n. The most influential designer of the twentieth century is. Helvetica director turns his camera on dieter rams.