Five is blue

Less and more

Another good exhibition to see if you’re in London is “Less and More – the design ethos of dieter rams” at the Design Museum. It “showcases Rams’ landmark designs for Braun and furniture manufacturer Vitsœ, examines how Rams’ design ethos inspired Braun’s entire product range for over 40 years, and assesses his lasting influence on today’s design landscape.”

Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles of good design:

Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design makes a product understandable.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is long-lasting.
Good design is thorough down to the last detail.
Good design is environmentally friendly.
Good design is as little design as possible.

London based design agency Bibliothèque, have designed two posters on Dieter Rams, one about the ten principles of design and another one on the T1000 Screen Print. Coinciding with the event Gestalten realeased a book and video interview with Dieter Rams.




Decode :: Recode

If you’re in London there’s a new exhibition at the V&A (in collaboration with onedotzero called Decode: Digital Design Sensations. It includes work by Sennep, Karsten Schmidt, Daniel Brown, Golan Levin, Daniel Rozin and Troika.

The exhibition is split into three sections: Code, Interactivity and Network. From the V&A site: “The exhibition explores three themes: Code presents pieces that use computer code to create new works and looks at how code can be programmed to create constantly fluid and ever-changing works. Interactivity looks at works that are directly influenced by the viewer. Visitors will be invited to interact with and contribute to the development of the exhibits. Network focuses on works that comment on and utilise the digital traces left behind by everyday communications and looks at how advanced technologies and the internet have enabled new types of social interaction and mediums of self-expression.”

The V&A has commissioned artist Karsten Schmidt to design the digital identity for the exhibition and they have provided it as open source code. You can download the original source code and recode it yourself. Find out more here.

Sennep have re-developed their and Digital Dandelion 2006 with Danish interaction designers Yoke.

Find out more at onedotzero and here’s the grafik magazine article on the exhibition.