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Collaborate with our experienced, attentive team to design a space that enriches your wellbeing and cultivates an authentic feeling of home. Professors Hans Gugelot and Otl Aicher came on board and, with the Braun team, designed a completely new radio and phonographic line. I used Panasonic best shavers for many years- Braun is a serious upgrade in feeling, quality, shave time and maintenance. For over 100 years, Braun has been designing grooming products that are simple, useful, and build to last. From epilators to electric razors, discover Braun's extensive product range for all your grooming and hair removal needs. Picking up on what Braun has been doing for 100 years, the Series 9 is a piece of craftsmanship that fits flawlessly onto Braun's timeline of timeless design.
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Thousands of people visit this research facility each year to help us realize completely novel ideas, ensuring that the people who ultimately use our products are part of the development process every step of the way. This proximity to the R&D labs enables us to test technologies and prototypes at a very early stage. In fact, most of our test devices do not look like the final product at all – they merely help us understand if an idea is technically feasible or not.At the same time, Braun scientists all over the world go to visit consumers in their homes.
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I had been contemplating going to a salon for IPL hair removal for a while as my friend goes, but I am so glad I put it off and got the Silk-expert Pro 5. Get permanent hair reduction from the comfort of home in just 4 weeks. Surely does the job while coming in a handy size, with little yet meaningful design. The list of Braun products that changed the game is extensive, but we reached out to a handful of self-proclaimed Highsnobiety Braun fans to help narrow it down to five. And, while the Braun audio system’s connections were concealed in the system’s underside so that it could be hung on a wall, each of the components featured a smooth, clean reverse so that it could also be situated free-standing in a room. Nothing was left to chance, the design is characteristically thorough.
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In 1981 he became professor of industrial design at the Hochschule fϋr bildende Kϋnste, in Hamburg. Juggling between his design obligations at Braun and his teaching duties at the Art College he offered terms of up to five months for students to work with him in the Braun’s product design department. These ten principles defined Dieter Rams’ approach to “good design”. Each of the hundreds of products he developed during forty years with Braun, was unerringly elegant and supremely versatile. Units were made in modular sizes to be stacked vertically or horizontally. Buttons, switches and dials were reduced to a minimum and arranged in an orderly manner.
Eight Braun products that demonstrate its good design principles of "simple, useful and built to last"
Just take a closer look at some of today’s entertainment electronics and you'll be able to spot the similarities. Sometimes a brand comes along with an outlook so refreshingly new that it revolutionizes an art. While for some that means bringing extra qualities to the table, for Braun, it meant taking things away. Under the motto, “Less but better,” Braun set about altering the face of modern product design with a steadfast set of values that revolved around efficiency. Now, on Braun’s 100th anniversary, we look back at some of the designs that forged an icon.
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Forty Years at BraunDieter Rams remained design director of Braun until 1995 when he was succeeded by Peter Schneider. Between 1995 and 1997 he became the Executive Director of corporate identity affairs at Braun. In 1997 he left the company and retired emeritus from his position at Hochschule fϋr bildende Kϋnste. During his forty years at Braun, along with numerous colleagues and a core design team, he developed products to be manufactured at vast scale and used daily by millions of people. The product range Braun offers today spans from personal grooming devices to household utensils, from watches to products for dental care. The entertainment electronics and film/photo product, which were once extremely successful items, have been abandoned making the surviving designs prised collectable objects.
It is a minimalist design that is in keeping with the Braun principles with a focus on simplicity and increasing the flexibility and freedom of the user. As part of its centenary, the brand has opened this year's BraunPrize. Through this year's challenge to "shape tomorrow," it asks the next generation of designers to develop concepts that drive behavioural change intending to solve the challenges of the future.
He then placed the L2 speaker on a slender metal stand – another innovation which was swiftly copied by Braun’s competitors. Erwin & Artur Braun and Dr. Fritz EichlerOn Max Braun’s death in 1951, his sons Artur (1) and Erwin (2) assumed the company leadership until 1961. Artur Braun “designed” the Radio SK 1/2 (3) together with Dr. Fritz Eichler (4) in 1955. This portable vinyl and radio player stood out at a time when most electronic products coming out of the US were clunky and BIG. Step in Dieter, whose miniaturization and decluttering of the record player flipped the industry on its head. At Braun, we have a different take on developing electromechanical devices.
Dieter Rams. Modular World
The competition is open to anyone with less than five years of design work experience. For more details on how to enter the 21st BraunPrize, visit the BraunPrize website. As part of the centenary, Dezeen has collaborated with Braun to present their three-episode masterclass series hosted by Ilse Crawford, which encourages designers and users to consider "good design for a better future". Designed to Keep makes a valiant effort to chronicle the Braun of today, covering mistakes and setbacks and, more recently, reinventions, while suggesting it could again influence an industry with its innovations. Maybe, but the book’s appeal is unquestionably in looking backward, and there are benefits in doing that for Braun and the entire consumer electronics industry.
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For the first time Rams could design a complete set of modular components, including the L45 speaker and TG60 tape recorder. All the units, except the record player, could be displayed horizontally and vertically or wall-mounted. Eventually becoming head of Braun's design staff, Rams' influence was soon evidenced in many products.
Also during the 1960s, Braun created the Rams-designed T3 pocket radio. By this time, Braun's film slide projectors were featuring high-quality optics and all-metal construction combined with sleek functionalist styling, and competed with higher-end Eastman Kodak and Leitz products in the global market. Braun also started distributing in Germany high-end medium-format SLR system cameras produced by Japanese camera manufacturer Zenza Bronica, as well as Braun-Nizo brand cameras and Super 8 film cameras (formerly of Niezoldi & Krämer GmbH; purchased by Braun in 1962). In 1967, the Boston, Massachusetts-based conglomerate Gillette Group acquired a majority share of the company.
Instead Rams divided the responsibility for the development of different products among the young designers in his team. Gerd A. Müller was responsible for kitchen appliances, Roland Weigend for scales, model-making and product graphics, while Rams concentrated on radios, record players, torches and projectors. In 1963, the company started distributing microphones by U.S. manufacturer Shure in Germany.
Rams and his team applied it to other products throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, including clocks, calculators and watches. Rams’ design rubricBy 1963, when he developed the TS45 control unit, TG60 tape recorder and L450 loudspeaker, Rams had perfected the codification of Braun design in terms of structure and colour. Each unit was exactly the same size to give the user maximum flexibility in deciding how to combine and display them, either vertically or horizontally. In terms of colour coding, the steel plate case of the audio units was in white or charcoal grey with an aluminium coverlid. The operating elements were pale or dark grey except for the green on/off switch. Adhering to these codes ensured that, at a time when technology was changing rapidly, consumers could be confident of learning how to use each new Braun product quickly and efficiently.
A range of carefully organized switches and toggles, combined with astute use of color meant that the T 1000 could be a complicated machine that worked for everyone. Visually, the matt black housing gave an instant value impression of the SM 31, underpinning the superior shaving experience. The product was highly popular, establishing matt black as part of regular bathroom décor and reaching over 10 million units sold. The Braun x Highsnobiety collection celebrates Braun’s longevity and the impact its designs continue to have on our culture. For the project, we perfected the silhouettes of our favorite basics so they will become wardrobe staples years down the road, because good design always stays in style.
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