
Building Your Own World – When Memphis Meets Bauhaus
By Jasmin Jouhar. How do you establish a furniture company? Berlin’s Moritz Bannach, at least, started with a real statement five years ago and has been growing his Bannach brand […]
By Jasmin Jouhar. How do you establish a furniture company? Berlin’s Moritz Bannach, at least, started with a real statement five years ago and has been growing his Bannach brand […]
First Norway, then Belgium, now Canada: New passports should not only be more secure, their graphic design should also be original and appealing. This arouses sympathy and serves nation branding. […]
Bicycles have been used for over 150 years. As a sports and leisure device, as a lifestyle product, as a sustainable means of transport in the course of a mobility […]
The connection of two elements is not only a functional but also an aesthetic challenge for designers and architects. The book “U-Joints – A taxonomy of connections” helps in the […]
Germany is one of the markets where furniture is renewed most often. With new circular business models, the industry now wants to become more sustainable. The principle of “circular furniture” […]
In a globalized economy with diverse markets, digital communication, cross-border online trade and often confusing supply chains, product and brand piracy is a lucrative billion-dollar business. As far as plagiarism […]
Used cooking oil from restaurants and snack bars usually has to be disposed of at collection points and usually ends up in incineration plants where it is thermally recycled and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hardly any cutlery has become as much the epitome of its product category as the Mono A, designed by Peter Raacke in 1959, which secured its place in New York’s […]
Specializing in luminaires and lighting installations, designer Ingo Maurer (1932 to 2019) was regarded worldwide as a poet of lighting design. Made famous by “Bulb”, one of his first designs […]
The Belgian passport has a new design. Proudly parading in the official document are scenes and characters from famous Belgian comics – from the moon rocket from Tintin to Lucky […]
Less is hardly possible. A piece of aluminium sheet just 2.5 millimetres thick is pressed into a chair that can withstand a lot. All-round recesses and curves provide stability and […]
He worked in conjunction with Dieter Rams at Braun, designed for brands such as Lamy and Wega; and developed the logo for Friends of the Earth Germany. Nevertheless, people still […]
Vienna Design Week is Austria’s largest curated design festival and has been making Vienna and a rotating “focus district” a venue for numerous events since 2007. This year’s festival, its […]
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 […]
Andy Warhol transformed Campbell’s soups into pop art and made them world-famous beyond any supermarket shelves with his “Campbell’s Soup Cans” in 1962. Campbell has now changed its soup design […]
Developing and designing products is becoming increasingly demanding. Not only are the quality, developer and designer requirements skyrocketing, criteria such as sustainability and energy efficiency must also be considered. The […]
Paul Smith is considered a charismatic designer who produces more than fashion. A new monograph published just in time for his brand’s 50th anniversary captures the spirit and coolness of […]
The passports of the Kongeriket Norge, as Norway is known in its official language Bokmål, recently began sporting a fresh new design. It took a long time for the design […]