Jet Packs: Straight out of Q’s lab
Ideal for rescuers and fans of extreme sport, but perhaps less so for 00 agents, jet packs are being perfected all the time, allowing the user to take off at […]
Zheng Han: “Chinese entrepreneurs do not wait – if anything, for the customer”
To many German and European people, businesses and associations, China still comes across as distant and enigmatic, and often even threatening when it comes to technology and market power. Bernd […]
Digital heroes: Eckart Köhne of the Expothek
With the Expothek at Baden State Museum, Eckart Köhne has created a digitised exhibition that makes roughly 650,000 years of human history an experience to enjoy with the latest technology […]
Brand Relaunch: how a relaunch can strengthen a brand
Brands must keep developing, since target markets, industries, consumption patterns and values do change. Such development can be done in one large step with a brand relaunch. These three examples […]
The new Norwegian passports: Connecting landscapes
The passports of the Kongeriket Norge, as Norway is known in its official language Bokmål, recently began sporting a fresh new design. It took a long time for the design […]
Smart Medication: The winner of the Design Research Award
Up-and-coming designer Kilian Frieling came out on top in the public vote for the Design Research Award 2020 with his Smart Medication project. Smart Medication focuses on the possibilities of […]
Retail in flux – the art of smart networking
Bricks-and-mortar retail is dead – long live bricks-and-mortar retail! News of the sector’s death may well be premature, and I am sick of hearing that the high street is doomed […]
Medical Design: Designers in the operating theatre
The first Design Talk in 2020 on medical design There are various aspects to design research. Universities play an important role, but research is by no means restricted to academic […]
The new new. An opportunity or wishful thinking?
The new new. An opportunity or wishful thinking? Stephan Ott, Director of the Institute for Design Research and Appliance, spoke about this topic at the Kunstverein Familie Montez gallery in […]
Ecological transition right now: green construction projects with a future.
The climate crisis is and will remain one of the key concerns and challenges of the 21st century. The targets that have been set are ambitious. The European Union is […]
Covestro: Designers are emissaries of our capabilities
What part does a global manufacturer of recyclable materials such as Covestro play in driving innovation and the further development of materials? How can a sustainable circular economy be achieved? […]
Everything must go! Creating space for new living.
By Lutz Dietzold. You are bound to have noticed that the queues for recycling depots keep growing longer. In the past, the hordes usually gathered there in spring or on […]
Stimulating innovation for sectors.
Innovations create more than just business growth for individual companies – they also provide important stimuli for entire sectors and they change and shape various aspects of life. The following […]
Oona Strathern-Horx: The younger generation has a different approach when it comes to their homes.
Even as a child, Oona Strathern-Horx was fascinated by houses and architecture. Having later also developed an interest in urban planning and social interaction, she has made a career out […]
The new normal
The current circumstances are resulting in new processes, new ways of thinking and new developments in all areas of life. In conjunction with the jury meeting for the German Design […]
For more flexible space in urban design.
Interview with Professor WU Siegfried Zhiqiang. Professor WU Siegfried Zhiqiang is vice president of Tongji University and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Germany’s National Academy of […]
Of masters from the West and precious horses.
Western brand names in China. By Gina Dollen, GMK Markenberatung. Brand names: they are one of the first – if not the first – points of contact between an audience […]
Higher, faster, further?!
By Lutz Dietzold. High performance vs leisure cycling Do you remember “Bicycle Race”, that ode to bicycles by Queen? “I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride it […]
In conversation with Ross Lovegrove: A paradigm shift in design
On the occasion of the 3D Pioneers Challenge online awards ceremony, industrial designers Ross Lovegrove and Lin Kayser, CEO Hyperganic, talked about actual processes and former developments in the field […]
New interactions: the trade fair of the future
Trade fairs and industry events: they are places of exchange, meeting, trend analysis and inspiration. However, with new physical-distancing rules in effect, many people are asking some questions. How will […]