Gallery: Revisit the Design Genius of Braun in the 1960s, With These Tribute Posters
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A new exhibit in Paris called *Systems: A Retrospective of 1960s Braun Design* is celebrating Braun's midcentury design work, with a special focus on the company's packaging design.
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The exhibit features Braun products, the packaging materials that came with said products, and a series of new posters from designers around the world. This one, from Korean designer O Hezin, clearly takes cues from...
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The primary colored Braun hair dryer.
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The Braun RCS 9 + L 20, designed in 1961 by Dieter Rams, came with a separate control unit. It was an early example of modular audio equipment.
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Japanese firm Mr\_Design interpreted those knobs into an urban landscape.
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Braun's packaging design—groundbreaking for its time—was commissioned from the Ulm School of Design in Germany, where designers were working on new ideas about corporate visual identities.
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This poster, by Seoul-based designer Hey Joe, is a found object composition that echoes the Verstärker CSV 60 stereo (in the previous slide).
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Australian designer Mark Gowing played up the circular components of Braun products, knobs, dials, clockfaces, and all.
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Chinese studio Roots parlayed Braun-ian design elements into a Chinese character.
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Braun's perforated speaker grill gets plenty of love, like in this poster from the Swiss Studio Sport.
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Artiva, from Genoa, Italy.
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Early buyers of Braun products liked the packaging so much, many of them kept it along with the actual devices. This came with the Hi-Fi Plattenspieler PC 5 Stereo.
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As did this.
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It led Daniel Koh, a designer to Singapore, to ask: what if Braun had launched their own record label, too?
