The team captain: An obituary for Dr Manfred Lamy
Design for the hand: his leadership saw the Heidelberg pen manufacturer become an international design brand. Vale Dr Manfred Lamy. By Thomas Wagner. Manfred Lamy can be said to have […]
Design for the hand: his leadership saw the Heidelberg pen manufacturer become an international design brand. Vale Dr Manfred Lamy. By Thomas Wagner. Manfred Lamy can be said to have […]
Designer Gerd Lange is celebrating his 90th birthday this year. Cor is rereleasing the 1965 Farmer Chair just in time for this milestone. Leo Lübke explains how this came to […]
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced the New European Bauhaus initiative in her 2020 State of the Union address. The design stage has now been launched […]
Generating power from the sun is taken for granted these days. Photovoltaic panels have also long established themselves as a standard technology. Unlike 20 years ago, they are now produced […]
German design achieved worldwide renown at the beginning of the 20th century, after having been shaped by the Bauhaus and Werkbund. After 1949, it underwent a development as surprising as […]
Ken Adam, or more accurately Sir Kenneth Adam, was born as Klaus Hugo Adam in Berlin on 5 February 1921, the son of an upper-class Jewish family. He died in […]
Blanco has reorganised its communications management. Daniela Römgens became Managing Director / Head of Global Brand & Market Communications and Global Group Communications in early December, taking charge of the […]
Picture an avocado-shaped armchair. Or picture the outlandish creature created by crossing a tortoise with a giraffe. People, for example, are able to vividly picture things that are described in […]
Emblazoned with the motto “Don’t Waste the Crisis”, the Association of German Architects (BDA) is using its “BDA-Denklabor” (“thinking lab”) to explore current design issues through podcasts. Be it climate […]
Developing and designing products is becoming increasingly demanding. Not only are the quality, developer and designer requirements skyrocketing, criteria such as sustainability and energy efficiency must also be considered. The […]
Live like a Bosch? Admittedly, a special taste is needed for the humour in the company’s advertisement for the internet of things (IoT). Whether IoT hero Shawn is discovering the […]
“Der Markentag” at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences has in recent years developed into the German-speaking world’s leading discussion platform for the future of branding. At this academic conference, […]
We are increasingly asking ourselves where our products are produced and what ecological footprint we leave behind with their purchase. The coronavirus pandemic has further increased awareness of the scarcity […]
To many German and European people, businesses and associations, China still comes across as distant and enigmatic, and often even threatening when it comes to technology and market power. Bernd […]
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the focus has shifted to our homes. Prolonged periods spent at home are awakening new expectations. It is clear that quality and durability […]
Right way up or wrong way down? Mirror or selfie? What is behind companies using an inverted logo or a mirrored brand name? By Thomas Wagner. There is an unrelenting […]
For billions of years, both on land and in water, plants and animals have evolved to make materials with a particular set of components that other organisms know how to […]
Robot manufacturer Boston Dynamics came up with a special marketing gag for the new year which gained attention among netizens. The company had a few of its robots take to […]
Rammstein (the band) and the vegan lifestyle? How do these two go together? Well, Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann is seen indulging in a meat-free burger in a video for Düsseldorf […]
Printed design magazines continue to become rarer. As an international specialist magazine published in German and English, novum has for 96 years presented outstanding work in the fields of graphic […]