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. […]
Disruptors: An exhibition in Los Angeles
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Material matters – innovative materials for sustainable production
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 […]
Success in failure: Museum of Failure is now called »MOX«
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 […]
The concept of versatility – a visit to Besau Marguerre
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
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 […]
Bye Bye, Beetle: The final edition
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 […]
Life and living in transition: an exhibition in Stuttgart
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 […]
Frank Lloyd Wright buildings granted UNESCO World Heritage status
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 […]
People in design – Award: Sharon Gauci receives Women in Design Award
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 […]
Talking to: Gabriel Müller
Gabriel Müller, German Design Award Newcomer Finalist 2019, talking about his work and the importance of good design.
Shy, creative, destructive: Innovation – the paradoxical being
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 […]
A frame of mind – VanMoof rethinks bicycle design
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 […]
People in Design — Obituary: Klaus Jürgen Maack Dies Aged 81
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. […]
Exhibition Opens in Tokyo Celebrating 40 Years of Walkman
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. […]
Formgiving: Bjarke Ingels Group Opens Exhibition in Copenhagen
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 […]