Brand purpose: the brand as an answer
Crises make people question what they are familiar with and put it under scrutiny. What is truly tenable? What can disappear? The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the term »brand […]
Mobility Design: Freedom of movement with design
The second Design Talk in 2020: on mobility design When it comes to research projects and the study of other complex questions, the quality of the results always improves when […]
Sustainability audit. Is the furniture industry shutting its eyes to environmental issues?
Design consultancy Dodds & Shute is dedicated to the issue of sustainability and presents conscientiously manufactured furniture and lighting on its website. They take the optimistic view that “the design […]
Kar-go. Delivering autonomously with zero emissions
It is difficult, bad for the environment and expensive to deliver online shopping when it is transported from depots to its recipient. Emissions and costs on the final few kilometres […]
Vehicle hire service DiDi Chuxing and carmaker BYD present the D1 electric car
German carmakers have been recording record sales in the Middle Kingdom for years. In contrast, major Chinese brands such as BAIC Motors, Dongfeng, Geely and Zoyte remain virtually unknown in […]
Back to tomorrow. Porsche exhibits previously unpublished design studies
Porsche is opening the gates to its development centre’s archives with a series entitled “Porsche Unseen”. For the first time ever, it is presenting 15 previously secret design studies and […]
London’s V&A Museum is holding an exhibition called Bags: Inside Out
Handbags, shopping bags, rucksacks: there is no other accessory that is as practical and has such a fashionable, indispensable and expressive place in everyday life. Bags, whatever their type or […]
“Enzo Mari Costellazione” – podcasts honour design legend
The furniture designs of Enzo Mari are characterised by a consistent, direct style. His book “Autoprogettazione?” is an epochal work for furniture styled by the consumer with simple tools, and […]
2020 Cultural and Creative Industries Monitoring Report
Germany, among other countries, has imposed a temporary shutdown of museums, theatres, concert halls and other event venues for November due to fast-increasing Covid-19 infections. As a consequence of this […]
A Loon balloons record-making flight
What does a balloon do when it drifts through the stratosphere for almost a year? A Loon system set a new flight time record of 312 days at the start […]
Earthquake-proof. Muji opens its “plain house” for those interested
Japan is afflicted by earthquakes particularly often owing to its geographical location on an unstable part of the earth’s crust where continental plates collide against each other. The inhabitants of […]
2020 Julius Posener Award. Werkbund Berlin presents title to Annemarie Jaeggi
Awarded for the first time in 2016, Deutscher Werkbund Berlin presents the Julius Posener Award in cooperation with Berlin University of the Arts every two years for outstanding contributions to […]
VDM: Elmar Duffner elected new president
The Association of the German Furniture Industry (VDM) has a new president: Elmar Duffner, who was elected to succeed Michael Stiehl at a video conference of members. Sixty-year-old Duffner is […]
Paul Smith – Cheerful and stripy
Paul Smith is considered a charismatic designer who produces more than fashion. A new monograph published just in time for his brand’s 50th anniversary captures the spirit and coolness of […]
Brand Relaunch: how a relaunch can strengthen a brand
Brands must keep developing, since target markets, industries, consumption patterns and values do change. Such development can be done in one large step with a brand relaunch. These three examples […]
The new Norwegian passports: Connecting landscapes
The passports of the Kongeriket Norge, as Norway is known in its official language Bokmål, recently began sporting a fresh new design. It took a long time for the design […]
BER signage: A special font, pictographs and an unusual red provide orientation
After a nine-year delay, the new major Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) opened on 31 October. Anyone who moves within an airport, especially a new one, wants to get to their […]
Integrated into the keyboard. The Raspberry Pi 400 is a computer for all
Whether for lessons at school or learning at home, the coronavirus pandemic has clearly shown how important it is to equip school students with computers that are as high-performing as […]
Environmental Action Germany criticises campaigns about plastic-bottle-recycling
The first German Reusable Packaging Conference took place recently and delivered a message: disposable packaging can be replaced by climate-friendly reusable alternatives in almost all situations and places. Roughly 200 […]
A series of podcasts about Enzo Mari
An exhibition about Enzo Mari at the Milan Triennial, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Francesca Giacomelli, is taking place until 18 April 2021 to showcase the oeuvre of the […]