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Good product design makes good typography!

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No company’s design language has been so lauded, so scrutinized, so institutionalized as Braun’s. Braun’s products have arguably inspired generation after generation of product designers and the 10 Principles of Good Design associated with their products has almost achieved Hippocratic-Oath-status with a large number of product designers.

Designer Gao Yang decided to pay homage to Braun’s legacy in the form of type! Taking real products from Braun’s vast catalog, Gao made small alterations to them (you can see which products he took by zooming into the close-up renders), maintaining their Braun-ness but turning products into characters… which works pretty well because Braun’s products do have character.

Honest, effective, functional, timeless, no-nonsense products and design details get turned into beautiful letters, and the resulting typeface is nothing less than an amazing map of Braun’s journey over the years as almost a design movement in their own right! BRB, looking for high-resolution prints…

Designer: Particle (Gao Yang)

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The best electric razor

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By Dan Koeppel This post was done in partnership with The Sweethome, a buyer's guide to the best homewares. When readers choose to buy The Sweethome's independently chosen editorial picks, it may earn affiliate commissions that support its work. Rea...

More than an air conditioner

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Air conditioners do the obvious. Cool the room. Dehumidifiers do much more. When you remove humidity, you pretty much kill bacteria, purify the air, make it more tolerable to be in the room, and also take care of malodorous elements in the air or the room.

Braun’s A-Fresh dehumidifier concept may look simple on the outside, but it’s capable of doing all these things. Shaped almost like a massive home button, the dehumidifier aims at making your home feel just right. The designer’s intent was to make a dehumidifier that looked less like an ugly contraption, and more like a sculptural piece of art that would look beautiful and make your home feel beautiful. Job well done, I say!

Designer: Chang ho Lee

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More than an air conditioner

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Air conditioners do the obvious. Cool the room. Dehumidifiers do much more. When you remove humidity, you pretty much kill bacteria, purify the air, make it more tolerable to be in the room, and also take care of malodorous elements in the air or the room.

Braun’s A-Fresh dehumidifier concept may look simple on the outside, but it’s capable of doing all these things. Shaped almost like a massive home button, the dehumidifier aims at making your home feel just right. The designer’s intent was to make a dehumidifier that looked less like an ugly contraption, and more like a sculptural piece of art that would look beautiful and make your home feel beautiful. Job well done, I say!

Designer: Chang ho Lee

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A Fan of Good Design!

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PDF Haus are back once again with their design hybrids. This time it’s Braun and its take on a standing fan. What if Braun made a standing fan, sounds like quite a plausible question, to be honest. Nevertheless, channeling Braun’s design style in a way is trying to attain Design Nirvana I believe, so the Standing Fan concept by DongOh Hwang and PDF Haus does achieve something truly unique.

The fan’s no-nonsense yet aesthetic styling shows how closely Dieter Rams’ ten principles have been listened to and followed. And the fact that I draw similarities between this fan, and Apple’s styling (because we all know of the Braun/Apple relationship, right?), just goes to prove what a great job PDF Haus has done!

Designers: Dong Oh Hwang & PDF Haus.

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The best electric shaver

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By Dan Koeppel This post was done in partnership with The Sweethome, a buyer's guide to the best things for your home. Read the full article here.After more than eight months of testing with a dozen different men and a dozen different shavers, we fou...

The Men’s Only Toothbrush

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The goal for designing the Braun Concept Electric Toothbrush was to clearly define and create a toothbrush that is targeted at men. Unisex designs in toothbrushes often tend to appeal to only one gender, so the task at hand was to see if a design could be created that identifies only with one gender. A look at this concept and it is clear that it’s a sexy men’s-only electric toothbrush! Mission accomplished!

As Aleksandar puts it, “The design of the electric toothbrush is also well connected to its performance – aesthetically designed but also functionally in terms of the requirement to take care of your teeth in the best possible way.”

Designer: Aleksandar Andreevski

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Oral-B Deep Sweep 5000 Review

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Three weeks ago I reached out to Oral-B to review the Deep Sweep 5000, their top of line electric toothbrush. After brushing twice a day, everyday for 2 minutes at a time, I sit here writing to you with whiter teeth, a brighter smile, and confidence to walk into my next dentist appointment with no fear of hearing, “oh you should brush more often.” Hit the jump for my review.

The start of the new year prompted my search for products that could make 2013 better than 2012 and part of that initiative is proper health and hygiene. I’ve always been an avid brusher but manual brushing requires proper form and execution. The Deep Sweep 5000 takes care of both those points by doing all the work for you. The head pulses 40,0000 times and conducts 8,800 sweeps per minute. Manually I could only manage 113 sweeps per minute. Add that to the recommended brushing time of 2 minutes and the Deep Sweep clearly out performs manual brushing.

Those 2 minutes are key to cleaner, whiter teeth. The Deep Sweep comes with a handy Wireless SmartGuide, a companion LCD display that conveniently divides up your mouth into 4 quadrants, brushing each one for 30 seconds before an audible beep tells you to move on. Standby time was excellent, working for nearly 8 days instead of the advertised 10 before juicing up on the included induction charger.

Of course that all depends on which of the 5 brushing modes you use. I generally kept mine on daily cleaning but other modes like deep clean and whitening use more power because the motor augments the speed at which the bristles sweep.

My official verdict? Love it. My teeth are definitely whiter just from 3 weeks of use. Of course there’s a tiny bit of staining that only a dentist equipped with bleach and lasers can remove but the Deep Sweep 5000 is the perfect mini dentist in between visits. It retails for $133 on Amazon and that’s a steal when you consider the comparable competitor is closer to $200.

Designer: Braun $133.00

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Modular Braun At It’s Best

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The MK 01 is a set of four speakers crammed into a unique square; it offers you the possibility to use each of the speakers to their full potential, individually or collectively. Basically any combination will do. The speaker connections are wireless and are truly portable. The speakers even host individual battery packs and you don’t need to worry about plugs and switches. It’s a complete pack of Braun design with minimalist approach.

Features:

  • Bluetooth 3.0: The speakers are connected to the Base by Bluetooth and they are also connected to other devices by the same way. You can use different devices at the same time with different speakers; It is also possible to connect your device with the Base to exchange files.
  • Airplay compatible for maximum quality when using Apple products.
  • TRS ¼ inches port: If you want to make your own music, just plug your electric guitar, bass or any other musical instrument that uses this type of connector and use the MK 01 as an amplifier.
  • 2 USB ports and 1 SD Card connector to increase the device´s connectivity with other products.
  • 5” touch screen interface to manage your device´s connections, battery levels and equalizer.
  • Integrated AC adapter with retractable cable to recharge the base and the speakers.
  • Wireless charging. With the base plugged, just place the speakers inside the Base and they are automatically charged with no need of wires.

Designer: Antônio Lucas Celestino da Silva

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