News & Stories
Four days of watching in wonder
by Thomas Wagner
Four days of “Showtime”, four days of flash-lit faces, flamenco and Disneyland, four days of going up and down in an elevator, stroking ponies and hearing parrots blabber, four days of marveling at bags, switches, shelves, kitchens, sofas, fireplaces, cars. Four days of cups and plates, slides and carpets, vases and sounds. Four days under counters, at toadstool tables and on the stage.News & Stories
Paul Cocksedge
Yesterday Paul Cocksedge has lectured on his view of light at The Design Annual - inside: showtime, presenting the intentions and methods that he brings to bear in his constant inquiry into light and luminaires.News & Stories
Come in – it’s almost Showtime!
by Thomas Wagner
There it is, finally hanging up there as though on a mountain face, this small labyrinth-like, bewitchingly colorful, madly flashing, tenderly romantic and miracle-working mountain village of the imagination, in which Tobias Rehberger and Claus Richter are staging an encounter between art and design, an interface between show and reality.News & Stories
Blinking, glittering, crunching
by Claudia Beckmann
Flying pies, weeping trees, confused giraffes, speaking clocks, precious lighthouses, owls that play the flute - in only 14 days time the waiting will be over, and the wonderland designed by Tobias Rehberger and Claus Richter will open its doors. It's showtime! To put it mildly!News & Stories
It’s showtime!
by Nancy Jehmlich
As in the past few years The Design Annual will once again be accompanied by an extremely varied interdisciplinary program of events. The motto for 2008 is “showtime” – a highly expressive and contradictory theme, which we shall be discussing in all its facets. This year as well current trends and the tasks design will face in the future will the subject of talks, lectures and presentations.News & Stories
The Design Annual - inside: showtime
by Nancy Jehmlich
And they’re off. Building started this Monday. This kicked off the countdown to our event The Design Annual. From Friday, July 4 until Monday, July 7, 2008, the showcase for high-end design will take place for the third time in the Festhalle in Frankfurt. And this time the motto is: it’s showtime!Tobias Rehberger and Claus Richter will be giving visual form to the theme.
















