Dieter ram's 10 principles of good design

Fantastic guidelines for those who need some thinking food for your designs:

* Good design is innovative
* Good design makes a product useful
* Good design is aesthetic
* Good design helps us to understand a product
* Good design is unobtrusive
* Good design is honest
* Good design is durable
* Good design is consequent to the last detail
* Good design is concerned with the environment
* Good design is as little design as possible

An inspiring design for a bench

You can read up on this here:

http://design-milk.com/mishmash-by-jeremy-petrus/