Memphis. A Blues for Dinos
Historic, but by no means finished: the Memphis design movement is forty. What has become of the impulse that was revolutionary and nice at the same time and changed design […]
IKEA wants to say goodbye to plastic packaging
Something is happening with packaging waste. At Ikea, much of whose furniture has to be unpacked, assembled and set up at home or in the office, the often ingenious packaging […]
Collection online. Mobile Phone Museum opens
It is astonishing to realise that it is not that long ago that mobile phones and smartphones changed the way we communicate by means of a small portable device – […]
10 years of Pressed Chair at Moormann
Less is hardly possible. A piece of aluminium sheet just 2.5 millimetres thick is pressed into a chair that can withstand a lot. All-round recesses and curves provide stability and […]
Virgil Abloh. Design, for purists and tourists
From American suburbia to the fashion Olympus: Virgil Abloh’s rise to become one of the last decade’s most influential personalities in the design world of was meteoric. On 28 November, […]
The “BioMedia” exhibition at the ZKM in Karlsruhe
Our organic life is more and more determined by a coexistence with artificial life forms that we develop and design ourselves. For centuries, man has been trying to create machines […]
The key to successful collaboration with designers
Andreas Diefenbach is Managing Partner of the design agency PHOENIX and part of the leadership team that replaced Andreas Haug and Tom Schönherr. He talks to Moritz Rose about customer […]
Design for Circular Economy. 21st India Design Summit
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has long sought to drive India’s development. In doing so, the CII not only works closely with the government to improve industry efficiency, competitiveness […]
A matter of transfer. Connecting design graduates and companies
How do design graduates and companies come together? The discussion round “Transfer performance. How ideas come out of the design universities’ realm of possibilities into practice” addressed this question on […]
James Dyson Award 2021 Winning Projects
The James Dyson Award is an international design prize that aims to celebrate, encourage and inspire the next generation of design engineers. The multi-stage competition is aimed at students in […]
Jetson ONE. Electrically powered small aircraft from Sweden
Anyone watching the video of the flying scooter whizzing through the air will involuntarily think of some science fiction film or a gadget that Q developed for Agent 007 James […]
SpinLaunch. Start-up has launched a rocket into the air with a giant centrifuge
Access to space is becoming increasingly important – for nations as well as for companies. As a result, the demand for satellites is constantly growing. Whoever then wants to launch […]
Icelandverse. The Icelandic Tourist Board parodies Mark Zuckerberg
Renaming is one of those things. Often it’s like the global product harmonisation of a chocolate bar in 1976, which was announced with the slogan: “Raider is now called Twix, […]
The 2nd Transformation. Visible brand sustainability
Digitalisation is still in full swing as the first major transformation, but it is already being overshadowed by a second one: sustainability. It is not only politicians who are demanding […]
Solar mini-refinery. CO2-neutral fuel from sunlight and ambient air
The demand for energy, it is predicted, will continue to rise both in industry and in private households. This also affects the mobility sector, among others. At the same time, […]
Happy Birthday: The Gucci fashion brand turns 100
Lots of glamour, wealth, intrigue, family feuds – the Gucci fashion brand almost broke down from too much of it. Now it is celebrating its 100th birthday. Numerous activities are […]
Pazzi Robotics. In Paris, a robot plays the pizza maker
The zeitgeist likes robots, even if the relationship between humans and their machines still needs further clarification. The fact that love for machines apparently also goes through the stomach is […]
Digital Life Index: Good user experience is the be-all and end-all of online shopping
The trend to shop online and have goods delivered to one’s home is unbroken. Not least the Corona pandemic has made it impressively clear how important digital sales channels are […]
Division of the Oetker Group completed
After a dispute that has lasted for decades, the owners of Oetker have now split the Bielefeld-based company into two parts. As both parts of the family have announced, corresponding […]
Charlotte Perriand – It’s not about the object, it’s about the person
The French designer and architect Charlotte Perriand argued passionately for modernism and put the art of living in bare, plain spaces to the test. A documentary on Arte hears from […]