Dieter Rams (born 20 May 1932 in Wiesbaden, Hessen) is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design. Rams introduced the idea of sustainable development and of obsolescence being a crime in design in the 1970s.

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Stefan Sagmeister (born August 6, 1962 in Bregenz, Austria) is a New York-based graphic designer and lettering artist. Sagmeister co-founded a design firm called Sagmeister & Walsh Inc. with Jessica Walsh in New York City. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, and Aerosmith. Photo by Ryan McGuire used under the Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) license.