Burkhardt Leitner: „Design starts with listening“
Where everything is perfectly in place: Design history using modular systems was written by Burkhardt Leitner. On Tuesday, February 19, he turned 80. By Adrienne Braun If someone accused them […]
Laura Rohloff is the new director of the Design Zentrum Hamburg
According to a statement from the Design Zentrum Hamburg, Frances Uckermann has announced her departure from the center. As the new director, Laura Rohloff will be “responsible for the conceptual […]
Jaime Hayon: Designing with a third eye
Please, no Bauhaus puritanism: whatever he does, it is bursting with fantasy, colour, patterns and ornaments. Jaime Hayon, one of the most distinguished Spanish designers, pays homage to a Mediterranean […]
Birgit Lohmann is no longer designbooms editor-in-chief
The online publication designboom announced that Birgit Lohmann is leaving her position as editor-in-chief. She now feels it is appropriate to step back from day-to-day operations and concentrate more on […]
Gender and Design: Why Shouldn’t a Woman Design a Rim?
Women in design are still underrepresented. We talked to the designers, design theorists and brand experts Katja Lis, Uta Brandes, Joa Herrenknecht and Katrin Menne about the reasons for this, […]
Rope Dancer on the Kampenwand: Nils Holger Moormann on his Seventieth Birthday
Consistency, transparency, attitude: Nils Holger Moormann is regarded as a likeable oddball who likes to step out of line. Based in Aschau in Chiemgau, he has achieved amazing things in […]
Jessica Walsh: ”I try to expand my experiences”
Ten years ago, the American graphic designer and art director Jessica Walsh rose to international fame when Stefan Sagmeister asked her to be his creative and business partner, resulting in […]
Tassilo von Grolman: At home in all disciplines
He is undoubtedly one of the most committed personalities of the German design scene: Tassilo von Grolman. As a designer, he thought transdisciplinarily early on and worked in many design […]
Change in design leadership at Porsche Lifestyle Group
This year, the Porsche Design brand celebrates its 50th anniversary. At the same time, Porsche Lifestyle GmbH & Co. KG has filled the position of Chief Designer as of 1 […]
Sibylle Hoiman becomes the new director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Prof. Dr Sabine Thümmler had retired at the end of May 2022. Now the Foundation Council of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) has decided: Dr Sibylle Hoiman will become […]
Some Never Forget. On the 100th Birthday of Kurt Weidemann
He was quite a controversial jack-of-all-trades: on 15 December, the typographer, graphic designer, consultant, typeface scholar, essayist, speaker and university lecturer Kurt Weidemann would have turned 100. By Thomas Wagner […]
Personnel. The design and innovation company IDEO has named a new CEO
Global design and innovation firm IDEO, best known for human-centred design and the application of the concept of design thinking, has announced that Derek Robson has been appointed as its […]
Brazilian designer Fernando Campana has died
Their materials are ropes, cords, pieces of wood, leather scraps, stuffed animals and much more. They make armchairs, cupboards and chests of drawers out of all this: the brothers Humberto […]
Stefan Diez appointed honorary Royal Designer for Industry
The illustrious circle of Royal Designers for Industry (RDI) has grown. The Royal Society for Arts (RSA) has announced nine appointments for 2022. According to the RSA, the title is […]
Following the death of Marcus Fairs. Benedict Hobson and Wai Shin take over the management of Dezeen
JP/Politiken Media Group, the owner of Dezeen, has appointed Benedict Hobson and Wai Shin Li as co-CEOs of the magazine. This means that a dual leadership now succeeds founder, former […]
Karl Schwanzer: A Modernist – Cosmopolitan And Dance-like
He has been an architect of world class. The Viennese Karl Schwanzer was a visionary, an artist, a university lecturer, even a poet. His BMW high-rise in Munich is still […]
Traces in fresh snow. “Roots and Wings” – Peter Schreyer
„Roots and Wings“ is the name of an opulent volume about the automobile designer Peter Schreyer, who, after designing the TT and A2 for Audi, the New Beetle and Golf […]
Franco Clivio – Manifolds. Exhibition at the Museum Ulm
Several weeks ago – just in time for his 80th birthday on 7 July – we already paid tribute to the designer Franco Clivio in detail here. Not only his […]
German Design Graduates 2022 – Awards, Exhibition & Talks
More than 40 graduates from over 20 German design and art colleges will present their final projects at the Design Campus of the Dresden State Art Collections in the Water […]
People in design. Beatrice Leanza succeeds Chantal Prod’Hom as director of mudac
The Plateforme 10 Foundation, which brings together three Vaud cantonal museums in the new Quartier des Arts in Lausanne, has announced that Italian museum director Beatrice Leanza will become the […]