Dieter Rams' design-philosophy. Bulletin December/January 2008. IA Column Navigating the Long Tail by James Kalbach.
Dieter Rams and the products he designed for Braun and Vitsœ. Dieter Rams was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1932.
He was strongly influenced by the presence of his grandfather who was a carpenter. Rams’s early awards for carpentry led to him training as an architect as Germany was rebuilt in the early 1950s.