Fewer Briquettes, More Smartphones
Enlightening info design in the spirit of Isotype: With “Joy and Fear”, Theo Deutinger presents a picture-statistical illustrated report on the present with which he wants to continue Otto Neurath’s […]
Green is Hope
Since this summer, “VERD°” has been standing in Frankfurt am Main: as a prototype of a serial, tree-like structure that is supposed to provide cooling in cities plagued by increasing […]
GDC SUMMIT 2023 — “connect. collaborate. continue”
How does a brand manage to be included in museum collections and still remain suitable for daily use and attractive for the younger generation?How can collaborations renew a traditional brand?What […]
Design and Young Talents – Webinar with the World Design Organisation
In cooperation with the World Design Organisation (WDO), the German Design Council is organising a webinar on “Design & Young Talents – Resources of German Design Council” on 15 November […]
The Great Repair. Exhibition at the Akademie der Künste Berlin
“The Great Repair”, they say, “is an oxymoron”. In the title, two seemingly contradictory principles collide: “The revolutionary ambition of radical system change, a characteristic of great solutions, collides with […]
Lyonel Feininger Retrospective at the Schirn Kunsthalle
The German-American artist Lyonel Feininger (1871 to 1956) has long been considered one of the classics of modern art. As early as 1919, when the State Bauhaus was founded, he […]
The “Formnext” Trade Fair Shows How Ideas Can Take Shape
Industrial 3D printing processes at a wide range of scales have become an integral part of design and production, as have other additive processes. As product cycles become shorter, established […]
Exhibition in Zurich. Talking Bodies – Body Images in the Poster
In advertising, human bodies are an attractive and popular motif. Especially where representations are produced for quick consumption, body images are oriented towards a supposed norm. Impaired bodies or bodies […]
High Quality Design. The London Transport Museum opens a “Global Poster Gallery”.
When Frank Pick, the first “Chief Executive” of the London Transport Authority, took over responsibility for advertising on the Underground in 1908, he revolutionised poster design. Pick, who was actually […]