“Our furniture is a statement”
Philipp Mainzer could have celebrated the 25-year anniversary of his company e15 last year. However, the pandemic prevented any sort of large celebration. We spoke with Mainzer about how the […]
3D Pioneers Challenge 2021: pushing boundaries
At the 3D Pioneers Challenge 2021, professionals, young professionals, start-ups and students from 32 countries and five continents inspired with innovations in additive manufacturing and advanced technologies. The 3D Pioneers […]
Design is successful when it lets us make a difference together
Designit was founded in Aarhus, Denmark, in 1991 as an agency for industrial design. Today it is a company with studios across the world, working internationally for design-led innovation. We […]
Campbell quits pop: a new design for the world’s most famous soup
Andy Warhol transformed Campbell’s soups into pop art and made them world-famous beyond any supermarket shelves with his “Campbell’s Soup Cans” in 1962. Campbell has now changed its soup design […]
Designing for a Changing Climate: Three Key Strategies
Designers are under mounting pressure to provide resilience for consumers facing volatile weather. Stylus trend expert Dewi Pinatih outlines key strategies to respond with products that provide protection and reassurance. […]
Impact reporting has an impact itself
Businesses perform better when they define clearly what they stand for socially. Future-proof impact reporting reconciles the true values of a company and puts them on display in a communicative […]
Shaping a Circular Economy together
Designers and architects have a major role in the transformation into a circular economy. While this calls for interdisciplinary collaboration and holistic design, what we need above all is an […]
Automania: Time expired?
From individual transport to mass congestion: the Automania exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York takes its name from an animated film from the 1960s. The film, […]
Bionics at Festo – Show vs. business
Whether mechanical swallows or floating jellyfish – Philipp Eberl and Dr Elias Knubben from Festo develop innovative machines that are modelled on living creatures. In their interview with Moritz Rose, […]
Digital design, an elite discipline: for good or bad?
Humans are not rational beings. Let us be clear: most of the decisions we make every day are for irrational reasons. This is a behavioural pattern as old as time […]
Media, Spaces, Installations: An obituary for Joachim Sauter
He combined technology, art and design and distinguished himself in Germany as a pioneer of digital design: Obituary of Joachim Sauter, co-founder of ART + COM and professor at the Berlin […]
The bungalow – an idealist in suburbia
A single storey, green surroundings, relaxed, modern: it is originally from Asia, is seen by the French as a holiday home and was regarded as a modern dacha in the […]
Women in Architecture festival in Berlin: Equality under construction
Women in Architecture 2021 is the first festival for women architects in Berlin. Almost 100 events at various locations throughout the city were held for a period of four weeks […]
What makes media brands special?
Digitalisation – a term that brand makers can hardly get around. But there are certain brands that have to deal especially with the topics of digitalisation and permanent innovation: Media […]
New European Bauhaus: The path to a sustainable future
As partners in the European Commission’s New European Bauhaus initiative, member-companies from the German Design Council’s network are researching how industry and business can contribute to making Europe climate-neutral by […]