Anyone who has injured themselves usually needs a plaster to protect the wound and promote healing. While conventional plasters do a good job with minor abrasions on the skin, it […]
How will we use resources responsibly in the future? What contribution can visionary design make to this? More and more start-ups, up-and-coming designers and product developers around the world are […]
The skin is the largest sensory organ of the human being. It functions as a protective coat and allows us to feel touch and other sensory impressions. In the process, […]
Cooling consumes up a lot of electricity and generates high CO2 emissions. Young designers have tackled the question of how energy consumption in design can be reduced right from the […]
To this day, the name Peter Ghyczy is inseparably linked with his “Egg Chair” from 1968. The furniture of the pop era hides more than just the spirit of a […]
Wind turbines that are being renewed or have reached the end of their useful life are difficult to recycle or reuse. The Re-Wind Network is working on the reuse of […]
According to the United Nations, plastics production has grown from two million tonnes in 1950 to 348 million tonnes in 2017. In the process, it has become a global industry […]
Workshop & Talk at Design Post Cologne and online on Zoom “Materials and Future Technologies”: 24 and 25 March 2022, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Future Materials Talk”: 24 […]
Focus 2022: “Materials and Future Technologies The fifth edition of materials.cologne, the well-known platform for knowledge exchange, dialogue and networking on the topic of material innovation, will focus this year […]
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 […]
With FOND OF, Sven-Oliver Pink, Florian Michajlezko and Dr. Oliver Steinki have managed to conjure fantastic, successful brands from scratch and consistently develop them. New ideas, openness, persistence, sustainability and […]
Not only can you eat popcorn, puffed corn can also be used in a completely different way. Pressed into special sheets, the maize product can be used in furniture construction, […]
The fibre material, the textile structure, the density, the colour and the type of post-treatment influence the optical properties of textiles. In principle, they can be designed to transmit sunlight. […]
“Turn disposable products into heirlooms or build houses for just one generation! Practice professional disobedience against design briefings of the linear economy!”, it says in the intro. Many agree that […]
Concrete consists of cement, water and different aggregates. It is cheap, available in large quantities, easy to process and durable. Reasons enough why no other material is used so frequently […]
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 […]
How will we live together? It is a question that is as simple as it is fundamental. Chief curator Hashim Sarkis is asking it at the 17th International Architecture Biennale […]
If materials are both stretchable and conductive, multifunctional electronic sensor systems can be more easily integrated into clothing or attached to three-dimensional surfaces. To make this possible, a team from […]
Antje von Dewitz, entrepreneur and CEO of the mountain sports outfitter VAUDE, talks to Jörg Thadeusz about her very own way of acting as sustainably as possible with her company: […]
To close the circle, products and systems must not only be designed differently, but infrastructures and services must also be offered. We present best practice examples for circular design from […]