DESIGN Breath and Hermes12/12/2009Shop window decoration by artists and designers have a long-standing tradition. Now Tokujin Yoshioka has created an installation for Maison Hermès in Tokyo that plays superbly with the power of images.
DESIGN Light traces and tire tracks – how the auto industry presents itself 411/30/2009There's no escaping the impression that designers, engineers and ad men like to be seen as artists. Yet experience shows that art does not sit easy with the advertising world, which rarely produces anything other than bland me-too's.
COLUMN Green bulbs, and not for the garden9/1/2009The era of the energy-saving lamp has begun. But is it even ready for its new tasks? Many have in recent months warned about the health risks, even environmental associations are sceptical whether the energy savings are great and as regards disposal of the lamp as waste. And with reference to its design, it is not just a matter of taste, but also of drastic consequences for everyday culture and design.
DESIGN In memory of Pierre Paulin6/18/2009He created seating buds, mushrooms for the home and incomparable interiors. Pierre Paulin's upbeat creations have had a significant influence on design history. They are as alive as ever today. The visionary French interior designer died at the age of 81 last Saturday.
DESIGN In new contexts3/4/2009Concrete curtains, synthetic paper bags, knitted fabric seat covers - new materials inspire new products.
DESIGN Using timeless Design to counter the throw-away Mentality9/16/2008Iittala, a leading, Scandinavian design brand for homeware products, has opened a new flagship store in Berlin.
DESIGN George Nelson or design as a system9/9/2008Alongside Charles and Ray Eames, designer and architect George Nelson rates as one of the formative representatives of American design in the second half of the 20th century. He would have turned 100 this year - an occasion which the Vitra Design Museum has seized to devote a first, comprehensive retrospective to his oeuvre.
DESIGN Death of Hannes Wettstein7/7/2008It is with great sadness and shock that we learned of the death of architect and designer Hannes Wettstein.
DESIGN Addio to Ettore Sottsass1/8/2008Ettore Sottsass died in his home in Milan aged 90 on the very last day of 2007. Not only in Italy, and not only in the world of design and architecture are people mourning the loss of a designer of genius, as the world has lost a great humanist. For Sottsass, who construed design as the incessant search for a possible metaphor of existence, the search has come to a dramatic end.
DESIGN Fundstücke: In the land of plastics with Konstantin1/1/2008When an international chemical conglomerate, an Italian furniture manufacturer and a German designer collaborate on the development of new materials and their application then legends are born. For example the new plastic cantilever chair "Myto".
DESIGN A fighter to the end7/20/2007On the death of Dino Gavina, one of the last "great masters" of Italian design. Typical somehow, the tardiness in writing about the death of one of Italy's really greatest designers. All the more Dino Gavina retreated from the public eye in the last decades, all the less was published on his sudden death on April 6.
DESIGN MYTO Chair by Konstantin Grcic for Plank7/20/2007"MYTO", a fully synthetic cantilever-based chair was created in what has been an unparalleled cooperation between a designer, a furniture manufacturer and an industrial corporation.
DESIGN Achille - der Lichtmagier6/1/2007NASA-Experimente und andere Lichtspiele mit Achille Castiglioni
DESIGN Ludovica + Roberto Palomba: The New Bath World5/29/2007A book has been published just in time for the Milan Furniture Fair - on the oeuvre of Ludovica + Roberto Palomba.
DESIGN Wonderful World5/29/2007The young Spaniard Jaime Hayon is currently one of the most dazzling figures in the international design scene. Without taking existing styles into account, he drew the attention of the crowds and was omnipresent in Milan.
DESIGN Miura in New York4/17/2007New standards in product photography: the book about Konstantin Grcics stool Miura with photographs by Florian Böhm.
DESIGN Congratulations Fortuny!4/11/2007If there really are things, which are not apparent unless you are aware of them, then the Fortuny lamp is a good example of this. If you didn't know it had been designed exactly a century ago, you definitely wouldn't notice it.
DESIGN My private Sky7/20/2002The Kram Weisshaar office has designed a limited edition for porcelain manufacturer, Nymphenburg.
DESIGN Print, click, protect 5/1/2001With coatings, technical details and new production methods makers of carpets and floor coverings are offering a new approach to room design. An overview of selected innovations@Domotex.
DESIGN 2 + 2 = 6 Nature recalculates the automobile5/1/2001Walls becoming doors: Car concepts inspired by nature.
DESIGN Inspiration from your jacket pocket5/1/2001It needn’t always be digital. The good old notebook, without the upper case N, proves its worth in an age when everyone has to be permanently creative.