* Design: Dieter Rams On Good Design As A Key Business Advantage

Design: Dieter Rams On Good Design As A Key Business Advantage: “..Dieter Rams is best-known for his work at Braun–where he revolutionized the design of electronics–and his indelible influence on Apple’s Jony Ive. But he has had a decisive hand in another, much smaller company: Vitsœ, a British manufacturer that has been producing Rams’s modular shelving system for 50 years. To mark his 80th birthday, the German master has allowed Vitsœ to release the transcript of the speech he delivered in New York in 1976, in which he articulates his ethos of user-centered design and some of his famous 10 commandments. In 2012, they feel as if they were written yesterday..”  Fast Company on fastcodesign.com offers us an historical and absolutely contemporary gem..

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Into the Fray – Humanitarian Design Imperialism?

The Hippo Water Roller

image: Hippo Water Roller Project

The design commentator (analyst? critic? observer?) Bruce Nussbaum (http://twitter.com/brucenussbaum) published a post, some time ago (7 July 2010, to be precise), to his blog on fastcodesign.com (a very interesting site), entitled “Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism?” which has served to bring to the fore a very deep and wide-ranging discussion of the motivations, implications, realisations, politics, etc. of humanitarian design, not to mention the language we use to discuss it (and design, in general).  Whatever you may think on the subject, the discussion, you must agree (we hope), following Nussbaum’s post has offered numerous opportunities to read thoughtful, at times provocactive, and, very often, very interesting writing on the subject of humanitarian design.

Frankly, however, there is now so (very) much out there that we certainly find ourselves unable to offer you all the necessary links and so have chosen to offer you just a few interesting ones, knowing you’ll go on from there…

“Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism” by Bruce Nussbaum on fastcodesign.com

“The Language of Design Imperialism” by Maria Popova in Change Observer on Design Observer

Project H Design, humanitarian design

Nussbaum on Design blog by Bruce Nussbaum on businessweek.com

The Design Revolution Road Show, here.

Architecture for Humanity, here.

Also consult one of our previous (though quite recent) posts on humanitarian design, here.

Also, feel free (as long as you are able to remain polite and relatively brief) to share your comments on the subject with your fellow designalog readers…or….

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