Looking back in images Last weekend saw the 11th International Architecture Biennial in Venice draw to a close. "Out There: Architecture Beyond Building" was the motto, which tempted people to leave the architecture outside in the cold. To show just how urban thought, the architectural strategies and the design approaches were presented we offer you a few impressions from the country pavilions, the Giardini, and the thematic exhibition in the Arsenale.

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Letters, patterns and demontage The first monograph by Jürgen Mayer H. was published in the autumn. The cover probably already announced a new decorative style - natural numerals in the print colours CMYK reproduced over and over again, which when decoded from a distance turns out to be the Mensa Moltke student dining hall, the work, which made him famous. On the inside of the book, the game of figures and patterns goes on, on a page which separates practice from theory.

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Maybe there were too many… stories Moleskine in the box: The little book is the classic among notebooks, even though everything legendary about it is a marketing ploy. As part of the exhibition "Detour", which has been touring the world for years, 38 specimens were presented at the Museum der Dinge in Berlin - designed by artists, designers and writers.

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Designer and Manufacturer are like Mother and Father The designers Markus Jehs and Jürgen Laub have been working together under the name Jehs+Laub for over 14 years now. We met them at Orgatec in Cologne, and spoke to them about their relationship with manufacturers, the quality of entrances, trends, sustainability, and the strengths and weaknesses of the other.

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Big brother is having a drink with you The Kunstbar has opened under Cologne's remodelled Domplatte, which a different artist redesigns every year. Belgian Arne Quinze is the first.

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The miracle grass Bamboo has long since not just been an ingredient in Asian cooking; there are now laptops, bicycle frames and furniture made of the "wonder grass". It is one of the fasting growing renewable raw materials in the world and is currently the most popular, most loved ecological material.

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Zero G or the addiction of weightlessness He became famous for his VW ad, the "Bär im Mann" [the bear in man] and the spot "Sexy-mini-super-flower-pop-op-cola. Alles ist in Afri-Cola" [Sexy-mini-super-flower-pop-op-cola. Afri-Cola has it all]. Now the University of Art Braunschweig presents Charles Wilp "the artronaut" in addition to Charles Wilp, the advertising artist.

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Show me your house and I’ll tell you who you are It's about a presentation with our own interests at heart. At Designers' Saturday in Langenthal Stylepark presented itself with an installation comprising 800 boxes. Not that that was everything though.

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Joyful feelings awaken on arriving in the countryside The 12th Designers' Saturday in Langenthal - Suddenly you enjoy being in the factory on Saturday. But only because on Designers' Saturday tables, chairs, wallpaper, floor coverings, fittings, carpets, luminaires and much else besides enters the local design industry's workshops. The result: a festival for the design community, which presents the things embedded in the culture of how they are made.

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The best of the best DS Awards presented for the first time at the Designers' Saturday in Langenthal

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Can-Can or The dance of a thousand pieces of furniture What do you get when you combine a thousand pieces of miniature furniture from different epochs in a single installation? Carolina Kecskemethy tried it out in the "Museum der Dinge" in Berlin.

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Fundstücke: Tropical slot-together The basic element is simpler than a clothes peg: A piece of plastic the size of a finger which at first glance looks useless and yet can effect true miracles. Together with Foscarini, Milan-based designer Giulio Iacchetti has created a modular ceiling luminaire consisting purely of thermoplastic components.

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May it grow and prosper Flowers and trees grow - that you cannot deny, but chairs? The "Venus Chair" by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka is made of tiny crystals which form on a support structure. Design and nature could not be closer.

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Open for designers What do the hundred thousand designers do who have studied or not, who are not favored by large corporations and have to fight their way through the jungle of commerce alone? Well. You'll find some of them at an alternative design fair such as Designers' Open in Leipzig.

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Designers have to think of their career as a job, not a show In the past lots of things were much easier. Perhaps being Art Director as well. In an interview with Stylepark Rodolfo Dordoni, chief designer at Minotti, spoke about what it means to be in charge of the artistic side of a major company.

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A wonderful charity rubbish bin – reference to a classic What's important when it comes to so-called charity design, apart from well-intentioned social commitment, is seductive marketing. In recent years, Danish manufacturer Vipp has stood out from the rest, in relation to this type of creative event. In no time at all, Vipp has evolved from a small professional design company to an internationally successful lifestyle brand, with their incredibly simple but functional pedal bins.

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