The Magic Three Three basic shapes: circle, triangle, square. An investigation in three volumes. Published by the Italian designer Bruno Munari. A book review.

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An essential truth in the chaos of multiplicity The fifth collection of the Japanese design company “plusminuszero” - As for its design maxim, the company has traded in the good old “Form follows function” principle which is always trundled out when a rationale for minimalism is needed, and has exchanged it for a new mantra of industrial design: “Things that seem to have existed already but didn’t”.

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The liberation of the box: Jacob Jensen and Bang & Olufsen design They are well thought out, long lasting, elegant, ultramodern and pretty cool down to the last detail. And they have written design history. We are referring to Jacob Jensen’s hi-fi systems for the top Danish brand Bang & Olufsen. Of course, he has designed more than that; indeed, his studio “Jacob Jensen Design” is already celebrating its 50th birthday.

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Wild salmon with design dressing The culinary result was more than delicious at 'The Design Annual - inside: showtime' – and so that you can recreate the show on a smaller scale in your own kitchen, here is chef Tim Raue’s recipe.

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In Search of German Design In Nuremberg, on July 25, 2008 a new show opens entitled “design deutschland. case study 08”. It offers a thematic cross-section of classic and contemporary ideas by German designers and companies.

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Remembering Hannes Wettstein When I think of Hannes Wettstein I always have his hand before my eyes, the way it started to draw with a pencil on any material available. You got gooseflesh just watching him, the way he gave ideas a shape at the spur of a moment.

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Turin – A city shaped by design How the northern Italian metropolis is making impressive use of its title of “World Design Capital 2008” - Those who are going to the northern Italian city of Turin in the coming months, which this year bears the title of World Design Capital, will experience a city which has fully committed itself to the themes of design and architecture.

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The Annual Tour of Weimar “Summary” is the name given the annual end-of-summer-term event at Bauhaus University Weimar, presenting what its four faculties have come up with during the academic year. “Summary” is not only a major event in the city, as “Weimar is actually a university in which a city lies”, as Rector Gerd Zimmermann puts it. As it is also an attempt to invite Weimar’s inhabitants to study the students’ efforts and may be even be filled with enthusiasm.

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Houses on a flight back to the Baroque Sometimes all it needs is a small twist, a simple change of perspective, and you have a completely new world. Christoph Brech does not only make films. He shows us things which normally escape us. When the artist spent last year at Villa Massimo in Rome as a scholarship holder, he produced works including the film “Punto”, from which we will show you an excerpt.

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Four days of watching in wonder 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.

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Mats Theselius’ DESIGNSHOW “Mies van der Rohe’s famous pavilion in Barcelona is a copy. Where did the original stand?” At The Design Annual - inside: showtime Mats Theselius offered a brilliant stage show that with guests and guests of honor, with musical backup and dance sets. And a quiz show. All the questions relate to design, architecture, and associated topics.

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Death of Hannes Wettstein It is with great sadness and shock that we learned of the death of architect and designer Hannes Wettstein.

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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.

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Gerrit Terstiege talks to Tobias Rehberger and Claus Richter How did you ever come up with the idea of building a Disneyland/Favela installation and what notion of “showtime” is at work there? Yesterday Editor-in-Chief of form Gerrit Terstiege has asked Tobias Rehberger and Claus Richter about their artistic efforts for The Design Annual – on the Festhalle viewer’s gallery at Messe Frankfurt.

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Come in – it’s almost Showtime! 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.

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Nonstop entertainment! It's showtime, for four whole days of nine hours each, nonstop entertainment!

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Fundstücke: Primordial Hut & Bird’s House Modernist concrete cube or Baroque farmhouse – terraced house or readymade: When designers start working for birds, the outlook offered is surprising. And not just for the ornithologists.

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