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View all →industrial · productsBraun SK41956 radio-phonograph combination by Dieter Rams and Hans Gugelot, nicknamed 'Snow White's Coffin', that established the template for modern hi-fi equipment.Read entry →industrial · productsiPhone (Original)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.Read entry →industrial · brandsBraunGerman 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.Read entry →industrial · conceptsForm Follows FunctionThe 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.Read entry →industrial · designersCharles and Ray EamesAmerican design duo whose experiments with molded plywood, fiberglass, and mass production produced some of the most influential furniture of the twentieth century.Read entry →industrial · designersDieter RamsGerman industrial designer (born 1932) whose forty-year tenure at Braun and his Ten Principles of Good Design shaped functionalist product design worldwide.Read entry →