Strategy of refinement In conversation with Norbert Wangen about his new "k20", what you learn from snagging your fingers, and the slowness required when designing.

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Leading lights Clear the stage for stars of lighting trade fair "Light+Building" in Frankfurt: Shadows, sphere lights and glass tubes all stole the show at this display of new products.

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Hegel’s Holiday
Checking out Milan, part 2 You certainly get your money's worth in Milan even when venturing beyond the trade fair halls. Well, more or less, as is always the case. In Ventura Lambrate, hard-nosed rationality seems to be on vacation, while in Milan's Museum of Science and Technology it is back to work.

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The new is not per se the good
Checking out Milan, part 1 The 51st Salone del Mobile and all its side shows remains one huge cultural event. By contrast, the exhibitors at the trade-fair halls in Rho prefer restraint and no longer try to parade their novelties at any price.

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+++ NEWSTICKER #232 | 2012 +++ NRW Forum: Gender Studies
Hamburg: Lost Modernism
Harvard: Arts First Festival
Boston: Alex Katz


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Spotlighting greater efficiency At the Frankfurt lighting trade fair, Light+Building, everything revolved around LED technology and its advancement. But it was those lighting manufacturers who had more to offer by the way of technical features that stole the limelight.

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Let there be sight! LEDs wherever you look! The technology, still very young, has already firmly established itself. But what does that mean for the designs? A commentary on the Light+Building.

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Encounters During the Salone del Mobile, Milan turns itself into a unique location for discussions on design. With a great deal of pride, designers expound their new ideas right across the city and thus create an ideal environment for interaction among the professionals. Here we present a small selection of encounters with designers both at the trade fair and in the city's showrooms.

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Let’s become more sophisticated! Volker Albus, who teaches Product Design at HfG Karlsruhe, makes the case for offering a range of subjects with an extremely broad focus. In his opinion, this is the only way to cope with the diversity of social, technical, ecological and economic circumstances, which nowadays present a challenge to design. In his opinion, merely calling for greater artistic freedom does notachieve anything.

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Proximity and distance to social circumstances Jesko Fezer has been Professor of Experimental Design at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg since the winter semester 2011-2. In his opinion design is no more and no less than the projective exploration of the world in creative terms, and a university of art the right place for teaching it.

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Serving ideas The success of Japanese designer Oki Sato is closely bound up with the Milan Salone Satellite. The straightforward approach to various design disciplines he experienced there was his inspiration when he set up his company Nendo. Ayako Kamozawa discusses this with Oki Sato.

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+++ NEWSTICKER #231 | 2012 +++ Munich: Resonance and SilenceKlang und Stille
Milan: Ventura Lambrate
Cologne: Art CologneFair
RAY 2012: Making History

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Clearing out the comfy corner Architect Ferdinand Kramer not only made his name with modern, unadorned buildings and urban planning, but also, throughout his life, designed furniture whose formal vocabulary was clear and functional. At the Salone des Mobile in Milan e15 is showing a re-edition of Kramer's furniture, featuring eight of his designs.

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Like small poltergeists Wanton act or successful appropriation? For the Salone del Mobile designer Mike Meiré gave the "60" stool, a classic by Alvar Aalto, a colorful, coat of paint applied by hand. Jörg Zimmermann spoke to him about the concept.

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On the death of Ferdinand Alexander Porsche Chief designer, founder of the Porsche Design Studio as well as Chairman of the Supervisory Board – these are just some of the outstanding stages in the life of Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, who died in Salzburg on April 5.

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I am happy when they are happy Marva Griffin is one of those dazzling figures on the international design scene. Venezuelan by birth, she used her curatorial skills to make Salone Satellite one of the most important platforms for up-and-coming designers from the outset. Some may think that she is thinking about retirement but for a long time now she has been turning her thoughts to South America. An interview by Robert Volhard and Jörg Zimmermann.

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2 questions to Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec also presented new furniture in Milan. For the "Osso" series for Mattiazzi they focused on the potential wood offers as a material. The entire collection on offer by the company, which specializes in processing wood, is on show at Hall 20, booth F06.

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2 questions to Nitzan Cohen Among other things, in Milan Mattiazzi presented a chair designed by Nitzan Cohen along with a matching coffeehouse table. The entire collection on offer by the company, which specializes in processing wood, is on show at Hall 20, booth F06.

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