#functional-design

1956 radio-phonograph combination by Dieter Rams and Hans Gugelot, nicknamed 'Snow White's Coffin', that established the template for modern hi-fi equipment.

Apple's 2007 touchscreen smartphone — the product that consolidated the phone, camera, media player, and pocket computer into a single aluminium-and-glass object, and reset the visual language of consumer electronics.

German electronics manufacturer founded in Frankfurt in 1921, whose postwar partnership with Dieter Rams produced the most coherent product language of the twentieth century — and the ethical framework later codified as the Ten Principles of Good Design.

The principle — articulated by architect Louis Sullivan in 1896 — that an object's shape should derive from its purpose, material, and mode of production rather than applied ornament.

German industrial designer (born 1932) whose forty-year tenure at Braun and his Ten Principles of Good Design shaped functionalist product design worldwide.

British industrial designer (born 1967) whose two decades leading Apple's design team produced the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad — the most influential product designs of the digital era.

Franco-American industrial designer (1893–1986), the self-styled 'Father of Industrial Design,' whose streamlining work for Studebaker, Coca-Cola, and the Pennsylvania Railroad defined American commercial aesthetics in the mid-twentieth century.

Dieter Rams' ten principles define what makes a design good, from usefulness and honesty to environmental responsibility and minimalism.

German art and design school (1919–1933) whose fusion of craft, industry, and functionalism founded the modern design discipline.

German design school (1953–1968) that bridged Bauhaus craft ideals and industrial practice, and whose partnership with Braun established the template for systematic corporate design.