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Design Manifestos

Collection of design manifestos, indexed from the page and searchable in the browser

Aboutdesignmanifestos.org

Design Manifestos is a collection of design manifestos. The page says Dieter Rams's Ten Principles for Good Design inspired the collection, and that you can search with the browser's find command. The index includes entries such as the Ahmedabad Declaration on Industrial Design for Development (1979), Otl Aicher's guide to good grip, Apple's Think Different (1997), the UK Architects Declare statement (2021), and Archizoom / Superstudio's Superarchitettura (1966). http://designmanifestos.org/ timed out. https://designmanifestos.org/ returned the index. https://designmanifestos.org/about returned 404. A manifesto count and a license for the collected texts were not stated.

For an agent

Search the index when you need the text of a named design manifesto. The page is a collection of other people's writing. Read the manifesto page for authorship before you quote it. No site license was stated. Do not assume the collected texts are free to republish.

Why it is here. It gathers design manifestos in one alphabetical index, which is hard to reconstruct from search alone.

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Notable for
  • alphabetical manifesto index
  • credits Dieter Rams as the inspiration
  • browser find is the search
Provenance

Verified 2026-10-25. HTTP 200. Checked https://designmanifestos.org/ on 2026-10-25 after http://designmanifestos.org/ timed out. The HTML is the manifesto index and names Dieter Rams as the inspiration. /about returned 404. No count or license was stated. Source tweet: https://x.com/clarejtbirch/status/2104066028775022696.

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