The „Dutch Design Week“ (DDW), the largest design festival in the Netherlands, will take place this year from Saturday 21 to Sunday 29 October, as always in Eindhoven. Once again, […]
The world population continues to grow rapidly. By 2050, an estimated ten billion people will be living on earth. It is not only climate change with all its consequences that […]
Many people are familiar with Bernard Rudofsky (1905-1988) as the author of books such as “Sparta/Sybaris. No new way of building, a new way of living is needed” or exhibitions […]
The American textile designer, weaver and colour expert Dorothy Liebes (1897 to 1972) is little known in this country. Nevertheless, with her fabrics and designs, she influenced, and often even […]
Sneakers with a suit? In sweatpants to the opera? Karl Lagerfeld, for one, thought little of even walking down the street in sweatpants. Nevertheless, fashion and sport have long been […]
The Heidelberg-based writing utensil manufacturer Lamy has long been committed to promoting the benefits of writing and drawing by hand and their creative possibilities in the field of education. From […]
The “Vienna Design Week” has been taking place since 2007. Year after year, over ten days in late summer, the festival shows that Vienna is a “City Full of Design”. […]
Protests, it says in the announcement for the exhibition „Protest / Architecture“, which the Deutsches Architekturmuseum is presenting from 16 September to 14 January 2024 in its interim quarters at […]
Due to climate change and global warming, the risk of natural disasters is increasing around the globe. Possible consequence in an emergency: the terrestrial communication infrastructure is damaged or fails […]
Soon, London will once again be under the sign of design. Then the 21st edition of the London Design Festivals invites visitors to numerous design districts and consumer and trade […]
Delicate ornamental plants harbour toxic power, colours unfold manipulative effects, light is unmasked as a political instrument. Kapwani Kiwanga, according to the announcement of her exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, […]
Fashion means more than just clothing that protects you from strangers’ glances, cold or warmth. Fashion thrives on going far beyond all aspects of utility, both aesthetically and culturally. With […]
Mobility is a core area when it comes to reducing CO2 emissions – and the attractiveness of networked transport systems is just as much a part of this as the […]
The “Internationale Funkausstellung” (IFA) in Berlin is the world’s largest trade fair for consumer electronics and household appliances. Founded in 1924 as the “Große Deutsche Funkausstellung” (Great German Consumer Electronics […]
With the theme “Transition”, the second edition of Zurich Design Weeks is dedicated to a world in transition. From 31 August to 19 September, studios and shops will open their […]
The Evoluon in Eindhoven looks like a flying saucer that has just landed. Designed in 1966 by architect Louis Christiaan Kalff for the 75th anniversary of the Philips company, it […]
“Functional clothing” is not a nice word. “Workwear” sounds better, especially more clearly like work. What was originally a kind of tool for dressing has long since broken away from […]
Chairs, always different chairs. Many, but not the one, perfect chair. Martino Gamper, born in 1971 in Merano and based in London, caused a sensation in 2007 with his project […]
It is impossible to imagine human life without textiles. They not only reflect cultural traditions and social currents, they were also important sources of inspiration for the development of artistic […]
Their best-known building is certainly the GSW high-rise in Berlin from 1999 with its rotating sunshades in gradations of pink, orange and red. But the three-dimensional shell of the Brandhorst […]