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Good design is long-lasting: it avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.

Drawn from what Dieter Rams said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

designunder our current: It is honest and it is felt: speed, behaviour and truth matter more than looks What makes a design good?under our view: Good design is honest, and it outlasts fashion

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What Dieter Rams actually said

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    Industrial designer; head of design at Braun from 1961 to…

    It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable design, it lasts many years – even in today’s throwaway society.

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