“Design is a tool of change.” Interview with Prof. Dr. Lilac Osanjo
Prof. Dr. Lilac Osanjo is the Director of the School of the Arts and Design at the University of Nairobi. She has been developing projects in the field of design […]
Victor Papanek: Against Rhinestone-Studded Shoehorns
How does social design change the perspective on design processes? What criteria need to be considered? And what role does the concept of responsibility play in this? Anyone who reads […]
Brazilian designer Fernando Campana has died
Their materials are ropes, cords, pieces of wood, leather scraps, stuffed animals and much more. They make armchairs, cupboards and chests of drawers out of all this: the brothers Humberto […]
Stefan Diez appointed honorary Royal Designer for Industry
The illustrious circle of Royal Designers for Industry (RDI) has grown. The Royal Society for Arts (RSA) has announced nine appointments for 2022. According to the RSA, the title is […]
Shape Society! Social Sustainability through Design
Initial design processes are being applied in almost all areas – designers will have a decisive task in shaping a sustainable world in the future. The services, concepts and products […]
Matter. Non-Matter. Anti-Matter. Experience past exhibitions at the ZKM digitally anew
Anyone who has visited an exhibition, possibly one with a legendary reputation, may remember this or that. But they will hardly have remembered everything. Those who missed the show can […]
Care for the stock. Ten strategies for architecture in Hamburg’s MK&G
The world is built on, even if there are still small and large gaps here and there. Can it be creative to stop building? Is it sometimes even better to […]
Following the death of Marcus Fairs. Benedict Hobson and Wai Shin take over the management of Dezeen
JP/Politiken Media Group, the owner of Dezeen, has appointed Benedict Hobson and Wai Shin Li as co-CEOs of the magazine. This means that a dual leadership now succeeds founder, former […]
Mareike Gast: “Products will grow in labs” – the BurgLabs
Two years ago, BurgLabs was established as a platform for cross-disciplinary research on materials and technologies at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, funded by the state of Saxony-Anhalt and the European […]
Brands in transformation: Midgard – traditional brand and pioneer for the lighting industry
The engineer Curt Fischer pioneered the development of movable work lights with steerable light. In 1923, he began producing his luminaires, for which he had previously launched the Midgard brand. […]
ATBT 2022. Atelier Brückner has designed a typeface especially for the exhibition design
Presenting and conveying content of any kind in an appealing way is one of the central tasks of scenography and exhibition design. Where experiential visual design, exhibition graphics, signage or […]
Deep-Seated. The Secret Art of Upholstery at the Grassimuseum in Leipzig
Sitting on a hard bench can quickly become an ordeal. And many a chair becomes a painful imposition without a support. Only one thing can help here: upholstery. It seems […]
Co-designed by BIG. The largest 3D-printed residential area to date is being built in Texas
Innovative processes are more in demand than ever in the construction industry. However, many of them have hardly progressed beyond the status of prototypes or experiments, including industrial 3D printing […]
The Design Age Institute of the Royal College of Art calls for a standard for inclusive packaging design
The Design Age Institute of the Royal College of Art (RCA) and the member group University of the Third Age (u3a) have launched an official petition to the British government […]
Podcast. Helge Aszmoneit on research and knowledge management in design
“Every research is different”, Helge Aszmoneit states right at the beginning of the conversation with Dr Jonas Rehn-Groenendijk. The podcast in the series “Healthy Design” (podcast is in German) is […]
Industry platform for additive manufacturing and industrial 3D printing. The Formnext trade fair in Frankfurt am Main
Additive manufacturing methods open up many new design possibilities for designers. Moreover, they have long since successfully found their way into more and more industrial sectors, with new applications and […]
Brands as Acts of Leadership. The Interbrand “Best Global Brands 2022″ Ranking
In the summary of the current study “Best Global Brands 2022”, the agency Interbrand states: “The top 10 brands account for 53% of the total value of the table. For […]
Project Summoner. Mercedes-Benz presents a virtual show car for the first time
The exclusive partnership between Mercedes-Benz and the global “League of Legends Esports Events” by Riot Games has been in place since 2020. According to their own statements, the two partners […]
Hans (Nick) Roericht – Design as a “holistic problem-solving tool”
As a student of industrial design at the Ulm School of Design (HfG Ulm), Hans (Nick) Roericht achieved great fame with his TC 100 stacking tableware for the porcelain manufacturer […]
Karl Schwanzer: A Modernist – Cosmopolitan And Dance-like
He has been an architect of world class. The Viennese Karl Schwanzer was a visionary, an artist, a university lecturer, even a poet. His BMW high-rise in Munich is still […]