
The Necessary and the Appropriate
As CEO of ERCO, Klaus Jürgen Maack wasn’t just a passionate champion of design and technology – he was also committed to developing the best possible solutions for building lighting. […]
As CEO of ERCO, Klaus Jürgen Maack wasn’t just a passionate champion of design and technology – he was also committed to developing the best possible solutions for building lighting. […]
Disruptors: An exhibition in Los Angeles The fact that cars, bicycles, shoes and other products look the way they do isn’t the result of design alone. In large part, the […]
Setting an example for mobility: An exhibition in Zurich Swiss design is synonymous with high-quality products. And rail-based mobility is no exception: with the highest traffic density in Europe and […]
Braun Audio is making a comeback with the LE speakers First introduced in the late 1950s, the «LE speakers» designed by Dieter Rams and his team at Braun were considered […]
People in Design – staff news: Jessica Walsh founds her own agency Jessica Walsh, a 2008 graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design, has held design positions at Pentagram […]
People in Design – Award:Wim Crouwel receives TDC Medal Wim Crouwel was born in 1928 in the Netherlands. He studied art at the Minerva Art Academy in Groningen, followed by […]
The problems caused by conventional petroleum-based plastics and the high levels of energy and resources required to make them are becoming increasingly apparent. For years now, commerce and industry have […]
Do mistakes really make us smarter? The Museum of Failure is home to roughly 100 examples of failed products from renowned companies – many of which have gone on to […]
by Jasmin Jouhar. It’s impossible to pin them down: Hamburg design duo Besau Marguerre works in all sorts of creative disciplines at once, including product and graphic design, interior styling […]
Birkenstock: A film about the cult brand Gesundheitslatschen, an expression meaning »health slippers«, was the nickname for Birkenstock shoes in Germany for decades, and those who wore the distinctive sandals […]
It all began 80 years ago: on 22 June 1934, Ferdinand Porsche received a contract from the Reichsverband der Deutschen Automobilindustrie (Reich Association of the German Automobile Industry) to develop […]
In an increasingly ageing society in which urban spaces are changing and being ethnically reshaped by the digitalisation of all areas of life and a lack of affordable housing, and […]
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee announced in early July that eight works designed and constructed in the United States by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the first half of the […]
Amidst the ongoing discussion about the place of women in design, the 2019 Australian Good Design Awards gave out its first ever Women in Design Award, for which there were […]
Gabriel Müller, German Design Award Newcomer Finalist 2019, talking about his work and the importance of good design.
By Lutz Dietzold. Innovation – a paradoxical phenomenon: in common parlance, particularly of advertising and marketing, its presence already is inflationary – at the same time, it is in truth […]
The city bikes from Dutch brand VanMoof are easy to recognise by the thick top tube that transitions into the front and back lights. But there’s a lot more to […]
For Klaus Jürgen Maack, becoming managing director of ERCO, the company founded by his stepfather Arnold Reininghaus in 1934, was no easy task – especially at the age of 25. […]
The 1959 Braun TP1 portable radio and record player, as inventor Dieter Rams proudly keeps reminding us, was actually the first Walkman – and he’s not entirely wrong about that. […]
Formgivning – the Danish word for “design” – means to give form to that which as yet has none. In other words: to give form to the future. The title […]