Top 13 Quotes by Dieter Rams

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

I sit, I think, I make some drawings. As a designer, you cannot retire totally.

Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.

I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

As designers, we have a great responsibility.

I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.