Monobloc. What matters is that you sit
The best-selling piece of furniture of all time: With “Monobloc”, Hauke Wendler has succeeded in making a great documentary that is much more than a film about design. He tracks […]
Going Circular: Why wait?
With the transformation to a circular economy, we are facing a necessary paradigm shift, which will only succeed if everyone participates: politics, business and society. Design plays a decisive role […]
Gio Ponti. Cheerful, Mediterranean, modern
Ornament and pleasure: He designed the Pirelli skyscraper in Milan, breathtaking villas in Caracas, a super-light chair and interiors of shimmering elegance. Now publisher Taschen-Verlag celebrates Gio Ponti’s versatile oeuvre […]
Design Research Nomination 2021 for planet-centered design: “Spree&Berlin” by Jakob Kukula
Jakob Kukula developed a buoy at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin that uses various tools and media to make the actual state of a river visible. We asked him four questions […]
“Africa has always viewed resources as finite and tried to maximize utility”. Interview with Prof. Mugendi M’Rithaa
Mugendi M’Rithaa is an industrial designer, professor and educator from Kenya. He has travelled, worked, and taught across the globe, and was the first African President of the World Design […]
3D printing – new technologies in design and architecture in the age of Tectonism
New technologies, digital processes and forward-thinking manufacturing methods make entirely new ways in design possible. Architect and designer Patrik Schumacher examines the potential of 3D printing. By Patrik Schumacher. 3D […]
Karl Clauss Dietel. The five great L’s. An obituary for the industrial designer
He developed principles for ethical design under GDR conditions: obituary for the industrial designer Karl Clauss Dietel who passed away on 2 January at the age of 87. By Thomas […]
Founders Fight Club: Innovation in companies
With PunchOut.Tech, the Founders Fight Club offers companies the opportunity to pose current challenges to interdisciplinary innovative teams. Moritz Rose talks to Jan Küster about the format. Episode 17 of […]
ICE designer Alexander Neumeister turns 80. Design on a large scale
He shaped the ICE, worked on the design of the Transrapid, brought a new travel culture to life at Deutsche Bahn and helped design a Shinkansen in Japan: On 17 […]
Children’s book highlights about design: Sparkly words, strange machines and many colourful suns
Children are always designing something. Design is basically a matter of course for them. So they are happy when they can play with letters, words and pictures and learn something […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Design Networking Hub – Kick-off trip to Nairobi
After a summer full of virtual events, the Design Networking Hub becomes a physical experience for all participants for the first time. An initial workshop at the Get Together in […]
Terravision: The whole earth in view
What began as an art project ended with Google Earth: In 1994, the digital and interactive globe “Terravision” was developed at Art+Com in Berlin. In the fictional series “The Billion […]
Design Research Nomination 2021 for Gender Equitable Design: “Divided by Design” by Daphne Braun
What can give design students orientation in gender-neutral design? With her website “Divided by Design”, Daphne Braun has developed a low-threshold introduction to the topic of gender and design. We […]
Anna Alex: “The best time to become climate neutral is always now”
Anna Alex is co-founder of Planetly, a company that supports the business community in becoming climate neutral. There she concentrates the know-how of experts in business, environment and technology. We […]
“It’s a design flaw if devices are not repairable”: Shiftphone designers Carsten and Samuel Waldeck
The brothers Carsten and Samuel Waldeck founded SHIFT GmbH together in 2014. With the sustainable m-series of the SHIFTPHONE, the startup introduced the world’s most modular smartphone in 2016. SHIFT’s […]