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resource-saving system design will have a decisive influence on product development in the future.
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Systemdesign / HFG Ulm
the world as a design In the FRG, Hans Gugelot designed the M 125 furniture system at the HFG Ulm in 1959. Otl Aicher, who was a co-founder of…
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Systemdesign / the open principle
the open principle In the GDR, Bauhaus Modernism was condemned in a formalism debate in 1949. Walter Ulbricht personally condemned Bauhaus furniture together with the Bauhaus…
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System design / ART or CRATE?
ART or CRATE? As precursor of system design the typecast would qualify that had caused a fierce dispute in 1914. On the occasion…
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Systemdesign / the LEGO principle
ecological System design . An important building block for an environmentally friendly economy is the development of and…
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The search for quality / obsolescence
planned Obsolescence Products with planned shortened lifetime expectancy, technically called planned obsolescence, should clearly be criticised more harshly for ecological reasons than now is the case.…
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the search for quality / standards
a surge of standards and cachets and continued less quality. What is the reason? In the November issue of the magazine ‘brand eins’ the focus topic was quality.…
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the search for quality / secure knowledge
„Those are things, I do not wish to know about” The song from the band „Die Ärzte“ possibly befitted in advance those responsible in the management of the car manufacturers as…
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the search for quality / development
who looks for quality should ask questions, a good question would be ‘why is the product as it is?’ Who has responsibility, the designer or the trader? As a little footnote:…
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the search for quality / “imperfect”
Eddy Yu and Hung Lam, two designers from Hong Kong, are also looking for quality on more than just the surface. The designer Hung Lam was asked to create a new…
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the search for quality / materials
Quality is a concept that is hard to define. Different requirements of customers and priorities of manufacturers are only part of the picture. Although there can’t be a generally valid concept…