Dieter Rams. Born 1932 in Wiesbaden. Trained as an architect. Joined Braun in 1955 and became head of design by 1961. Over the next three decades he shaped nearly every product the company made — radios, record players, calculators, shavers, clocks.

In 1964, he designed the FS 80 television — a minimalist white box with an asymmetric layout that placed the screen and controls in quiet balance. It remains one of the most celebrated television designs ever made.

His Ten Principles of Good Design, written in the late 1970s, became the most referenced framework in industrial design. Jony Ive cited Rams as his primary influence — the T 3 radio echoes in the iPod, the ET 66 calculator in iOS.