About depth and shy deer: product designer Nils Holger Moormann
Nils Holger Moormann is a brand in his own right among furniture makers. As an industry outsider who came to design in a roundabout way, he successfully worked together with […]
Home-compostable paper laminate for flexible packaging
New packaging materials are attracting more and more attention in the effort to reduce plastic waste and establish a circular economy – “particularly as the goals of the European Strategy […]
High-tech fashion. Art and science join forces to design the clothing of tomorrow
As we reported in August of this year, the Re-FREAM project was created in order to design smart clothing for the digital age. Scientists and artists work together on the […]
Piero Lissoni joins B&B Italia as Artistic Director from January 2021
Two big names in the furniture sector are joining forces: B&B Italia and Piero Lissoni. From 1 January 2021, Lissoni will take on the role of artistic director at B&B […]
Asklepios Klinikum Hospital in Harburg introduces recycling project for surgical instruments
Every year, Germany’s hospitals produce 1.2 million tonnes of waste. Single-use surgical instruments make up 8,000 tonnes of this total. A joint recycling project by the Asklepios Klinikum hospital in […]
IKEA Catalogue – Time for a change
It’s official: the current IKEA catalogue for the year 2021 will be the last of its kind. Having just celebrated its 70th birthday last summer, the catalogue – at times […]
Brands can turn christmas into their Brand-Mas – now more than ever!
Christmas is an emotional time by its very nature. This year, in the midst of the pandemic, everything is a bit different. More intense. We are more receptive to emotive […]
Holistic branding: Challenges and trends
Strong brands offer a point of orientation in times of uncertainty, for both customers as well as the brand’s employees, and the crisis has demonstrated this too. Trust is created […]
Digital heroes: Eckart Köhne of the Expothek
With the Expothek at Baden State Museum, Eckart Köhne has created a digitised exhibition that makes roughly 650,000 years of human history an experience to enjoy with the latest technology […]
Study. Empathetic branding in the age of the new normal
Consumers in Germany are discerning and expect the highest quality at the lowest price. It is difficult for brands to differentiate themselves from their competitors solely through performance. There is […]
Study. Implementing effective climate protection with AI
There are many dangers out there, and climate change is intensifying the situation even more. In just the last 20 years alone, there were 7,348 large-scale catastrophic events recorded around […]
Real-world laboratories for autonomous public transport planned in Mannheim and Friedrichshafen
Autonomous driving will play a role for more than just individual transport in the future. When it comes to climate neutrality and multimode/intermodal transport, it is even more relevant to […]
2020 James Dyson Award International Winner announced
Judit Giró Benet, a 23-year-old from Spain, won the international 2020 James Dyson Award with her Blue Box project. The device offers a new possibility for at-home breast cancer screening. […]
Tadao Ando is the 2021 guest editor of Domus Magazine
Architecture and design magazine Domus is welcoming Japanese architect Tadao Ando, its fourth guest editor in a series of ten internationally renowned architects who for one year decide on the […]
Social architecture: Ideas for open communities in the 21st century
Architecture is not only a formal and aesthetic practice, but also a social one. While modern urban planning neglected this aspect of space for a long time, the call for […]
From Know-How to Wow. Bosch starts a podcast on research and tech
From the fuel cell and automated driving to energy management and the internet of things as well as rapid Covid tests, a globally active company such as Bosch hosts research […]
teo or TYPY. Germany’s first digital supermarkets
Since early November, there has been a new, fully automated supermarket in Fulda that represents the launch of a new sales format by organics pioneer and food retailer Tegut. The […]
Design & Bildung. Call for Papers on design aesthetics and semiotics
Authors are invited to submit articles for the fourth edition of Design & Bildung, a series of essay anthologies about design pedagogy. This edition’s declared focus is the “Aesthetics and […]
Ulrike von Mirbach to head Mini Germany from January 2021
Ulrike von Mirbach will take over the leadership of MINI Germany on 1 January 2021. This makes her the successor of Wolfgang Büchel, who will be taking over the leadership […]
Frank Lloyd Wright: Building with nature, not against it
Many consider Frank Lloyd Wright to be the greatest architect of the 20th century. Sigrid Faltin’s documentary “The Phoenix from the Ashes” examines his visionary architecture as much as it […]