For designers, who ultimately manage their creative potential, it sounds like a truism: “An above-average degree of creativity actually makes many companies more economically successful,” write the authors of the […]
It goes together: At the Aedes Architekturforum in Berlin, where contemporary Chinese architectural culture was shown early on, there is currently an extensive exhibition by and about Neri&Hu. For their […]
It has a certain consequence that with Raumwelten, of all things, an established event that deals with communication in space at the intersection of scenography, architecture and media is shifting […]
Can good design increase the resilience of companies and entire economic sectors to crises? Are strong brands and companies with high design standards and adaptable products more resilient? The leitmotif […]
“You have to get out of your comfort zone” – a standard saying from advice literature and management seminars, which may have a certain validity for individual personality development. Design […]
Orgatec, which will take place in Cologne from 25 to 29 October 2022, is also one of the trade fairs that had to take a break due to Corona 2020. […]
“There’s nothing comic about Dyslexia”, loosely translated: “Comic Sans” is a joke, dyslexia is not – this is the name of the Dyslexia Scotland association’s new campaign, which is not […]
In the podcast series DDCast (link is in German) of the German Designer Club (DDC), not only designers have their say in detail, but also people who develop a relevant […]
[Advertorial] In the Circular Design Guidebook, polymer manufacturer Covestro presents approaches and strategies on how the transformation to a circular economy can succeed. Von Martina Metzner Covestro is one of […]
The tasks of design are becoming increasingly complex. This also opens up new spheres for design research. In the following, we present three current projects by design students that show […]
How do we want to live together? A question that concerns young designers at German universities. They try to find answers by working out different projects in the field of […]
From Francois Mitterand’s accession to power in 1981 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the 1980s have impressed themselves on the people of France as a period […]
It is impossible to imagine modern life without plastics, but in view of the worldwide flood of plastic waste it has an image problem – the industry is well aware […]
It was 3 October 1932, the day on which the British daily newspaper “The Times” appeared as usual – but with a completely revised layout and above all with a […]
GRACE is an acronym for the rather unwieldy project title “Geometry-based Actuators able to Contract and Elongate”, in German: Stellglieder, die sich aufgrund ihrer Geometrie ausdehnen und zusammenziehen können. The […]
Green City, Part 2: In times of climate crisis, sustainable forms of propulsion, comprehensive charging infrastructure for electromobility and safe route concepts for cyclists are needed to advance the transport […]
The building sector is considered one of the biggest polluters worldwide. But how can architecture become more sustainable? With her projects, Dorte Mandrup wants to encourage greater awareness of the […]
Even if there is always criticism, for example of the less than diverse composition of the authorship: the bottom line is that Wikipedia, the gigantic online encyclopaedia, is and remains […]
Study play and learning design? In Germany, that is only possible at the “Burg”. Just this July, the annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Designgeschichte 2022 (Society for Design History […]
“… not fast, not luxurious, not heavy” – this is how the project partners BASF and Citroen condense the essence of their jointly developed concept car oli (all-ë). By deliberately […]