+++ NEWSTICKER #220 | 2012 +++ Design Museum: Sound Design
Juan Herreros: Dialogue Architecture
Museum der Dinge: Istanbul Alphabet
Braun Preis 2012: A Better Everyday


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What you need for building With around 1,300 exhibitors and more than 115,000 visitors, this year's "Swissbau" in Basle was an innovative and highly successful trade fair that satisfied exhibitors and visitors alike. In 2014 "Swissbau" will be held in the architects Herzog & de Meuron's new extension to the complex. In a series of images we present you with the highlights of this year's fair.

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Not so small, but nonetheless, wow! With sustainability and energy efficiency as its topics, the "Swissbau" trade fair in Basle has impressively positioned itself as a smaller Swiss alternative to "Bau" in Munich.


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All my socks are red, red, red On January 23 to great song and dance, and of course fireworks China welcomed in the Year of the Dragon. We can expect profound changes and plenty of luck. But only those who know the dress code.

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+++ NEWSTICKER #219 | 2012 +++ Trade fair: Object Rotterdam
Kunsthaus Zürich: Winter Tales
De Singel: Andrea Branzi
Guggenheim Museum: John Chamberlain
MAK: Chinese Stuff

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Design feeling What would be more fitting than to show contemporary industrial design in former industrial buildings? Between factory halls, parking lots and graffiti the organizers of Passagen at the Cologne Furniture Fair put on a great show, with high-grade design and local oddities.

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The news on what’s new in Cologne Trade fairs thrive on good products and interesting novelties. Only then will the trade fair be attractive in the long term. At the imm in Cologne in 2012 there was quite a lot waiting to be discovered. The Italian big-hitters were back, but the eye-catching designs were to be found at other booths.


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Purists in the country? What is "Pure Village" in Hall 3.2 at imm cologne? A new trade fair format with a strange name? A self-perpetuating village? However we interpret the "village of purists", it enables the trade fair to present both young companies and brands and established labels in one place.

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A world of imagery at your feet Something is going on in flooring, be it parquet or carpets. But in the traditional craft of carpet weaving little has changed in the techniques that have been in use for centuries now. Yet today colors, materials and patterns are also determined by designers – the reason that this year's Domotex in Hanover sought to unite artisanship and technology.

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A matter of home taste Not only the imm cologne is on track for consolidation in 2012. An increasing number of important manufacturers in the furniture trade is remembering their traditional strengths. And these are not rarely based on an ability to fuse tradition and innovation.

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Simply because it is simple Going by the name of "Neue Tische", Berlin-based Mathis Burandt and Frank Skupin design furniture that is at once simple and sophisticated. The two architects do not consider items of furniture objects that stand in the space, but as physical extensions of the space itself.

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+++ NEWSTICKER #218 | 2012 +++ CHAIRity: Swapping chairs
Munich: Creative business
Design Museum: Designs of 2012
Los Angeles: Design Bloggers Conference
MMK: Andy Warhol


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Patricia’s Bohemian Rhapsody Shortly before imm cologne opens its doors, the magazine A&W has elected its "Designer of the Year". A quite extraordinary designer has been chosen this year in the person of Patricia Urquiola who has changed the face of middle-class interiors to a greater extent than almost anyone else in the field.

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Read me! There's no point beating about the bush – instruction manuals don't enjoy a good reputation. All the better that more and more products can be assembled using our intuition alone, iPhones no longer even come with a manual. So perhaps this is the opportune moment for a more extensive consideration of the instruction manual, a retrospective if you will. The book "Read Me!" by Jasmin Meerhoff offers a surprisingly entertaining insight into an otherwise ignored genre of the printed word.

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Bear with us! Even bears enjoy a surprising level of popularity when it comes to advertising. At times they can be pretty fierce, but most of the time they are made as human as possible.

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Selected manufacturers at imm cologne 2012 As at the beginning of every year, imm cologne will soon be opening its doors – and this time you will again find a list of selected manufacturers at Stylepark.

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Sculptured chairs Designers are continually designing and developing new chairs. So is it really necessary for architects to also try their hand at furniture design? And are the objects possibly merely miniatures of their architecture? “Von Aalto bis Zumthor: Architektenmöbel” (From Aalto to Zumthor: Furniture by architects) in the Cologne Museum of Applied Art is a show that proves this is definitely not the case.

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+++ NEWSTICKER #217 | 2012 +++ KIT: Authenticity in architecture
UdK Berlin: Coop Himmelb(l)au
Ischgl: Skiing and ACF-conference
Aedes: Schmidt Hammer Lassen


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