It is astounding how much stuff is all around us. They have increased almost infinitely in number since industrialization. Franco Clivio, a Swiss designer who just turned 80 (ndion of […]
Trees are of fundamental importance for urban space and greenery in the city: they clean the air, provide shade and cooling, regulate the rainwater balance, prevent soil erosion, provide habitats […]
Whether in production, in use, when something is lost or needs to be repaired, a thing always grows a kind of destiny: “Objects are given away, sold and auctioned, loved […]
“Excellent Product Design”, “Excellent Communications Design” and “Excellent Architecture”: the German Design Council honours groundbreaking products and innovative projects in these three subject areas at the German Design Awards. The […]
Experience has shown that architecture is difficult to present in exhibitions. Buildings are not transportable; plans and photographs can only give an approximate impression of rooms, materials and surroundings. What […]
With the exhibition “Folds”, the MAK Collection Asia wants to decipher the complexity of the phenomenon, according to the announcement, “with regard to technical, design, physical, symbolic and cultural dimensions”. […]
The popular exhibition has a long tradition. And since colours play a major role for us humans, the motto of this year’s 67th International Children’s Book Exhibition at the Klingspor […]
Who doesn’t like to celebrate! Festivals and festive cultures have always played an important role in history and the present. Whether private or public, whether celebrated for family, religious or […]
Whether it is the design of furniture, fashion, graphic or industrial design, women have contributed significantly to the development of modern design. They were and are just as successful as […]
Willy Guhl (1915 to 2004) is undoubtedly one of Switzerland’s design pioneers. He not only designed world-famous seating furniture such as the beach chair made of Eternit or Europe’s first […]
Anyone who has visited an exhibition, possibly one with a legendary reputation, may remember this or that. But they will hardly have remembered everything. Those who missed the show can […]
The world is built on, even if there are still small and large gaps here and there. Can it be creative to stop building? Is it sometimes even better to […]
Sitting on a hard bench can quickly become an ordeal. And many a chair becomes a painful imposition without a support. Only one thing can help here: upholstery. It seems […]
How is a poster actually created? What is important when designing a website? What about a magazine? In the exhibition “audio – graphic. 16 designs and their creation”, which can […]
For a long time, it seemed as if the bicycle was a means of transport of the past, used – beyond sport – mainly by those who could not afford […]
If you want to make an impact, you have to think about how best to design your action – even when it comes to political protest or forms of civil […]
Seventy years ago, the modern windows of Frankfurt’s Kaiserdom were created. It is usually overlooked that their creator, Hans Leistikow (1892 to 1962), was the most important graphic artist of […]
It goes together: At the Aedes Architekturforum in Berlin, where contemporary Chinese architectural culture was shown early on, there is currently an extensive exhibition by and about Neri&Hu. For their […]
It has a certain consequence that with Raumwelten, of all things, an established event that deals with communication in space at the intersection of scenography, architecture and media is shifting […]
From Francois Mitterand’s accession to power in 1981 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the 1980s have impressed themselves on the people of France as a period […]