Bom design: 10 princípios

bom design: 10 princípios

Preocupado com a situação mundial do design no início da década de 80, “uma confusão impenetrável de cores, formas e sons”, Dieter Rams (designer alemão que desenvolveu projetos para a Braun), ciente de sua parcela de contribuição, perguntou a si mesmo se seus projetos seriam bons designs.

Como é extremamente difícil mensurar todos os aspectos de um bom design, ele se propôs a apontar dez princípios mais importantes para o que ele considerava o bom design.

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BOM DESIGN É INOVADOR

As possibilidades para inovação não estão, de forma alguma, saturadas. O desenvolvimento tecnológico está sempre oferecendo novas oportunidades para inovação no design. Porém o design inovador sempre se desenvolve paralelamente à tecnologia inovadora, e nunca pode ser um fim em si mesmo.

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BOM DESIGN TORNA O PRODUTO ÚTIL

Um produto é comprado para ser usado. Ele tem de satisfazer determinados critérios, não apenas funcionais, mas também psicológicos e estéticos. O bom design realça a utilidade de um produto sem desrespeitar nada que possivelmente possa afastar-se disso.

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BOM DESIGN É ESTÉTICO

A qualidade estética de um produto é parte integrante da sua utilidade, pois os produtos que usamos em nosso dia-a-dia afetam a nossa pessoa e o nosso bem-estar. Mas somente objetos bem executado podem ser belos.

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BOM DESIGN TORNA O PRODUTO COMPREENSÍVEL

Ele esclarece a estrutura do produto. Melhor ainda, pode fazer o produto falar. Na melhor das hipóteses, é auto-explicativo.

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BOM DESIGN É DISCRETO

Produtos que satisfazem um propósito são como ferramentas. Eles não são objetos de decoração nem obras de arte. Seu design deve ser neutro e contido, para deixar espaço à auto-expressão do usuário.

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BOM DESIGN É HONESTO

Não se faz um produto mais inovador, poderoso ou valioso do que ele realmente é. Ele não tenta manipular o consumidor com promessas que não podem ser cumpridas.

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BOM DESIGN É DURADOURO

Ele evita estar na moda e por isso nunca parece antiquado. Ao contrário do design de moda, dura muitos anos – até mesmo na atual sociedade do descarte.

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BOM DESIGN É MINUCIOSO, ATÉ O ÚLTIMO DETALHE

Nada deve ser arbitrário ou deixado ao acaso. Cuidado e rigor no processo de design, mostram respeito para com o consumidor.

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BOM DESIGN É AMIGO DO MEIO AMBIENTE

O design tem uma importante contribuição na preservação do meio ambiente. Conserva os recursos e reduz a poluição física e visual durante todo o ciclo de vida do produto.

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BOM DESIGN É O MÍNIMO DESIGN POSSÍVEL

Menos, porém melhor – pois se concentra em aspectos essenciais, e os produtos não estão sobrecarregados de supérfluos.
De volta à pureza, de volta à simplicidade.

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Dieter Rams, designer – Cold War Modern retirado de Victoria and Albert Museum no Vimeo.

Transcrição:

Every company makes the same design; with dark brown wooden housings. They called that in Germany Gelsenkirchener Baroque. [laughs]… It’s always a compliment when some products we have designed become a nickname. Like, the snow-white cover. Nobody knows exactly where it’s coming from. Comes from the competition or it comes from the inside. But the first thing, was not only the cover, that was only the base, the main base, in method.

I was influenced by my grandfather who was a carpenter. And he was a specialist for surfaces, and I learned that from him but I had in mind to study architecture. And after that I … finished my studies. That was a time where, in Germany I was massive, so the things come back from the, Untied States, for example, with architecture, … things from Mies Van der Rohe, from Gropius, from Marcel Breuer; all these things come and it was for us just to look in a new brave world.

Somebody said that there is an announcement in the newspaper, that there is a company called Braun. And then I get an answer from Erwin Braun. I met him first and he taught [?] me about his ideas… His vision was to change the product line, that was at this time unbelievable. Total[ly] new approach in, … as a company. But that was thinking behind that, that was not only concentrated on design, design was one part. He organised in the company the possibilities that people could have… Gymnastics. It’s because… Even secretaries doing always the same thing the whole day, so they need something to stay healthy.

The first exhibition that’s[?] the new design of the radios was very successful … also, the media and everything was, surprised about that and that, so, Braun becomes more known. So nobody had this idea, that by the help of design you also could be very successful.

I did it, because I became a teacher at the academy of fine arts in Hamburg. So it was necessary to do something which you could tell the students, and could tell to the press and also to keep together, our own, behaviour in the design department at Braun. The last one was: as little design as possible – which is similar: less is better.

I hate everything what is driven by fashion. From the beginning it was hating, in the sixties the American way of styling. Especially the cars. They changed their styling things every two years to sell new ones. Which has nothing to do with good design. So end of the sixties, the whole programme was looking like that.

In the beginning was the first writing machines, it was also monochrome. Why should it not be in a colour. That is, it’s a difference between a kitchen machine which stays permanent[ly] in the kitchen and has to be in the background, like, that was Erwin Braun he formulate[d] that: “Our products should look like [an] English butler: be there, when you need them, but in the background when you don’t need them. So it[] depends on the product, if you make a colour or not.

I was involved always still in the field of furniture. And then I met Otto Zapf and Niels Vitsœ. I had in my mind, always thinking not on one appliance alone, always thinking: how can I add some[thing]. And [e]specially developing furniture that people could change there, they could add something after using them awhile.

Somebody[’s] once written: ” I’m the designers’ designer” … and I take that as a compliment and I also take it as a compliment that Jonathan Ive is taking some of the ideas I had in the sixties and that it for me again the best compliment you can get as a designer.

They called it later the first Walkman, because it was the first one, you could have it with earphones and walking with it. It also was designed as a system, ja, it has the separate radios, they made a[n] exhibition with the title “less but better” and they ma[d]e this poster.

I think that design has a great, great responsibility for the future. I’m always optimistic, as a designer we have to be… a[n] optimist. Otherwise you should… not stay as a designer anymore.

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