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Babadum: le vocabulaire anglais courant sous forme de jeu.

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Babadum: le vocabulaire anglais courant sous forme de jeu.

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TED Talk Don Norman_ The three ways that good design makes you happy

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Don Norman and his theory of emotional design

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Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

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Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

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Steve Jobs - Good artists copy great artists steal (2008)-FLUVORE

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Minimalism  -Japan's growing 'less is more' trend

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Dieter Rams admits playing a crucial part in the global problem of overproduction in a new documentary film. In an exclusive interview, director Gary Hustwit says the German designer regrets not promoting his ideas about sustainable design to the masses.

Released in late 2018, Rams is the first ever documentary on the prolific designer who spent more than three decades as chief design officer at German electronics company Braun and whose work was a major influence on the designs of Apple.

According to Hustwit, Rams feels responsible for the fact that mass production of products is one of the biggest causes of climate change.

"Dieter recognises that he did play an instrumental part in driving the culture of overconsumption that we're currently in, from his time at Braun," the director told Dezeen.

"I think that's one of the things he looks back at with regret," he continued, "regret that he wasn't able to spread his ideas about sustainability further or that perhaps they weren't understood in the right way."
Rams regrets becoming a designer
Hustwit thinks Rams, 86, might not have even become a designer if he'd realised the impact of his work on the planet.

"He says himself that if he could have done it all over again, he would not have chosen to become a designer," he said. "He really wanted to be a landscape architect or an urban planner."

To produce the film, Hustwit spent three years with Rams, both at the house in Kronberg, Germany, that he shares with his wife Ingeborg, and following him on his travels. It offers an unprecedented look at the life and legacy of the designer, who is famously very private and rarely agrees to interviews.

"I think the reason why he agreed to this film was because he saw an opportunity to push his philosophy further and to re-engage a new generation of designers with his ideas about what good design is," said Hustwit.

"As a legend in the design world, of course I wanted to celebrate him as a key part of its history," he continued.

"Dieter's impact on the world of design is undeniable. Most people will have owned a Rams-designed product at some point in their life - be it a chair, a toothbrush, a radio or a calculator."
Rams' principles "more relevant now than ever"
Among the many successful products Rams developed at Braun, between 1961 and 1995, were the SK 4 radio, the RT66 calculator and the S60 razor. He also developed iconic designs for London-based furniture brand Vitsoe, including the Model 601 chair and the 606 Universal Shelving System.

He is perhaps best-known for his Ten Principles of Good Design published in the 1970s, which called for all design objects to be functional, long-lasting, beautiful and environmentally-friendly.

These principles defined the "less but better" aesthetic that came to define all of Rams' work. Hustwit thinks that, with today's focus on sustainability, Rams' philosophy is "more relevant now than ever".

Trailers reveal snippets of upcoming Dieter Rams documentary

"We live in a culture of overconsumption and mass production of objects and technology, most of which we don't actually need," Hustwit said.

"We need to start designing things with a sense of responsibility and consider whether we really need some of the products we're producing so much of."
Documentary designed to be "as simple as possible"
The visual look of the film is intended to follow Rams' principles. Its production is simple, with pared-back editing and only a few additional interviews. These are: Vitsœ managing director Mark Adams, Japanese designer Naoto Fukasawa, writer Sophie Lovell, Vitra Design Museum director Mateo Kries and designer Dietrich Lubs, who is Rams' former Braun colleague.

"The goal was to keep it as simple as possible," said Hustwit. "It just wouldn't be appropriate to make a cluttered film about Dieter Rams. Less but better, as Dieter would say."

"We had a copy of the principles tacked to the wall of the editing room during the editing process. It was something we kept coming back to," he added.
The visual look of the film, as shown in this exclusive clip, is intended to follow Rams' principles
Hustwit enlisted ambient musician Brian Eno to create original music to accompany the film, in line with the minimal aesthetic of the film.

"I felt there was a connection between Dieter's design sensibility and Brians music," he said. "But even though this film is about design, it touches on some really urgent topics such as materialism and sustainability."

"Simplicity is the key to excellence" says Dieter Rams

Hustwit has previously directed three documentaries on design including Helvetica, exploring graphic design and typography, and Urbanized, which looked at the design of cities. The director previously featured Rams in Objectified, which looks at our relationship with objects.

These films and Rams are all available to stream on pay-per-view from Hustwit's website.

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Dieter Rams "regrets contributing to culture of overconsumption" says documentary director

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Dieter Rams admits playing a crucial part in the global problem of overproduction in a new documentary film. In an exclusive interview, director Gary Hustwit says the German designer regrets not promoting his ideas about sustainable design to the masses.

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Grammar Basics (grammaire de base) rempli

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Blame your ‘environment’ for your taste in music

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Blame your ‘environment’ for your taste in music

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Blame your ‘environment’ for your taste in music

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Minimalism  -Japan's growing 'less is more' trend

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Source: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5th Edition (For Advanced Learners)

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98% of people can't figure out these woodworking tools from an image! Can you?

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The art of woodworking goes back thousands of years to the Ancient Egyptian Empire. What people may find surprising is that many of the tools used back then are the same, or similar to, what woodworkers use today. See how many of these woodworking tools you can name from their image.

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Fill in the correct substitute form for the modal in brackets into the gaps.

Example:

The students swim in the lake yesterday. (must not)

Answer:

The students were not allowed to swim in the lake yesterday. oder
The students weren't allowed to swim in the lake yesterday.

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Modals and their substitute forms in the Simple Past and the will-future - Exercise

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Fill in the correct substitute form for the modal in brackets into the gaps. Example: The students swim in the lake yesterday. (must not) Answer: The students were not allowed to swim in the lake yesterday. oder The students weren't allowed to swim in the lake yesterday.

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Online Exercise on Modals in English with detailed explanation