Selected materials, a fine feeling for colours and clear strong contours make up Pauline Deltour’s signature. “A perfect balance between art and mathematics” is how the exceptional French designer described […]
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 […]
Ken Garland was born in Southampton in 1929. After studying design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London in the early 1950s, he worked for six years […]
Helmut Jahn, born on 4 January 1940 in Zirndorf near Nuremberg, became famous above all for his designs for high-rise buildings and office towers – including the Xerox Center in […]
Design as an undisciplined discipline and a new notion of collaborative competence: a homage to the life of Michael Erlhoff, design theorist and CEO of the German Design Council from […]
Professor Birgit Weller died suddenly on 18 April 2021. Weller became a professor of industrial design in Hanover in 1994 and was the first professor appointed for the industrial-design programme […]
Design for the hand: his leadership saw the Heidelberg pen manufacturer become an international design brand. Vale Dr Manfred Lamy. By Thomas Wagner. Manfred Lamy can be said to have […]
The furniture designs of Enzo Mari are characterised by a consistent, direct style. His book “Autoprogettazione?” is an epochal work for furniture styled by the consumer with simple tools, and […]
An exhibition about Enzo Mari at the Milan Triennial, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Francesca Giacomelli, is taking place until 18 April 2021 to showcase the oeuvre of the […]
With the loss of Enzo Mari in Milan last Monday, the design world has lost one of its original rebels, a radical proponent of a conceptual design that commits to […]
Finding joy in designing was his elixir of life, which renewed itself with every challenge. Terence Conran pursued multiple careers in parallel. There is likely no other designer of his […]
He was the first and, so far, the only designer to receive the National Medal of Arts, the greatest award for an American artist. It was presented to him by […]
Hamburg-based designer Rolf Heide passed away on 14 June 2020 at the age of 88. An obituary of the renowned furniture, interior and exhibition designer who made a name for […]
People in design: Rosemarie Baltensweiler (1927–2020) The Swiss Federal Office of Culture awarded her with the Grand Prix Design for her oeuvre early in the summer of 2019. Now Rosemarie […]
Obituary: Adolfo Natalini, co-founder of the design collective Superstudio, has passed away. Architect Adolfo Natalini died in Florence at the age of 78. The word most often used to describe […]