Design Culture

I felt like a chameleon

12/6/2016

Hamburg‘s Designxport design center is dedicating a retrospective to designer Peter Maly on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Thomas Edelmann talked with him about his own career path and industry trends in recent decades.

DESIGN

The Magnificent Seven Friends

7/22/2016

Dresden’s Kunstgewerbemuseum has invited seven international designers to Schloss Pillnitz to contemplate friendship in design in an age of omnipresent rivalry.

DESIGN

Not just the ball is round

7/5/2016

How football ornamentalizes people

FAIRS & EVENTS

Déjà-vu in Basel

6/27/2016

The Design Miami trade fair takes place parallel to Art Basel – but this year only featured very few highlights. There was a lack of real innovations or an exciting exhibition.

DESIGN

They know what they are doing

10/9/2015

What is involved, what needs to happen for a few thoughts and sketches to get turned into a chair, a table or a sofa? Want to know more? Then the monographs on the respective oeuvres of James Irvine and Jasper Morrison are a great place to start.

FAIRS & EVENTS

Flashy, and with a steering wheel

9/21/2015

So what does it look like, the automobile inner world of the outer world of the world of interiors? Everyone’s talking about digitalization, yet the interior fit-outs remain surprisingly conventional.

DESIGN

Pocket cars

9/18/2015

What do car keys look like in the age of digitalization? Have they finally ceased to be status symbols? We checked out a few of the latest examples at the Frankfurt International Motor Show.

INTERVIEWS

What counts: Playability

9/4/2015

It’s not easy to design furniture and toys for kids. In conversation with Sara Bertsche, Karin Schmidt-Ruhland, who teaches Playing and Learning Design at Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, explains why this is the face.

DESIGN

Out on the roof, too

7/15/2015

Product Design students of École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne had a go at outfitting “Appartement 50” in Marseille’s “Cité Radieuse”. The result is an homage to Le Corbusier that uses plenty of color and adaptable furniture.

INTERVIEWS

Only the watercolors burned to nothing

6/29/2015

How to live in orbit? Adeline Seidel talked with Galina Balashova, the interior designer of the Russian space capsules, about green floors, blue ceilings and creating a sense of homeliness in space.

DESIGN

Four legs and a seat shell

6/13/2015

Yes, folks, it really does exist: the universal chair of 2015. It was designed by various hands, comes in numerous versions and yet still follows a typology going back to a famous forebear. Ultimately, it is the subtle differences that count.

DESIGN

No perspicacity

6/4/2015

What happens if we simply believe our eyes and always go by the images we see?

INTERVIEWS

Industry is not a dinosaur

5/11/2015

On irony, provocative designs, Chair One as a grill, finding treasure troves, the necessity of securing contracts and the fun of advancing existing designs.

Konstantin Grcic in conversation with Thomas Wagner – part 3

FAIRS & EVENTS

Design, backstage

5/7/2015

Interzum in Cologne rounds up all the big names from the furniture making and interior fittings industry, making the trade fair a treasure trove for all those in the fields of design, planning and building.

INTERVIEWS

Work where you have the freedom do to so

5/4/2015

On art and design as a way of life, public places, the designer’s responsibility, the culture of Italian manufacturers, taste and breather Marcel Duchamp.

Konstantin Grcic in conversation with Thomas Wagner – part 2