The exhi­bi­tion at the Vic­to­ria & Albert Museum in Lon­don is titled Cold War Mod­ern, the »first exhi­bi­tion that exam­ines the inter­na­tional devel­op­ment in mod­ern art, design, archi­tec­ture and film in the con­text of the Cold Ware«. The con­nec­tion between Dieter Rams and Jonathan Ive’s Design for Apple has been men­tioned before, also in the Spiekerblog:
Braun Apple

Braun T1000, designer Dieter Rams — Cold War Mod­ern from Vic­to­ria & Albert Museum on Vimeo.

Here is an inter­view I gave to Eric Kar­jalu­oto from idea­sonideas. You can read it below.

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These are not exten­sive list­ings of all my achieve­ments and fail­ings, nor the com­plete story of my life (who would want to know?). Just the sort of cv peo­ple need to pub­lish for events and pub­li­ca­tions.
There are two ver­sions; a very short one in Ger­man and a short one in Eng­lish.
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More from my col­umn in form, the Ger­man design magazine.

Pitched out
A pitch is the pre­sen­ta­tion of design ideas to a client by com­pet­ing agen­cies or stu­dios.
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More from my monthly col­umn in form, the Ger­man design magazine.

Logos to go.

Who needs graphic design­ers when you can just get logos online for a few dollars?

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From my monthly col­umn in form. The Ger­man design mag­a­zine.
Of Chief Pen­cil Sharp­en­ers and Senior Meet­ing Conveners.

About mean­ing­less titles and unnec­es­sary hierarchies

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My short answer to a fre­quent ques­tion:
How do you define what you do?”

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Leica – the brand. A myth brought into focus.
An essay on Leica, part of a series called Views of Brand Culture

ISBN 3−87584−106−9
leica.pdf

From my monthly col­umn in form magazine.

You are what you wear.

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From my monthly col­umn in form mag­a­zine. About con­trollers tak­ing over design studios.

Effec­tive, not efficient

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