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title: "YOUNG TALENTS"
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# YOUNG TALENTS

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## YOUNG TALENTS

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What subjects are currently at the top of the agenda for young creatives? What ideas do they have for shaping our future through design and architecture? In our Stylepark special on the theme of young talent, we highlight personalities of the new generation whose work has particularly caught our eye recently and provide an insight into debates, research, experiments and projects around the concept of education.

[YOUNG TALENTS Straight through the middle 9/16/2026 Scandinavian design is generally associated with Sweden, Denmark or Finland. Two young designers from Oslo are determined to change that Norway plays hardly any part in this. We visited Christian Sandbye and Jonas Oppedal in their studio and found that they certainly have no shortage of ambition, drive and talent.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/kogl-design-young-talents-norway-furniture-lighting-stylepark-magazine)

[INTERVIEWS A boost for young trees 7/21/2026 For his thesis on circular deep irrigation for urban landscaping, Lennard Ludig, a graduate of the Industrial Design Department at the Offenbach University of Art and Design, received the 2026 Circular Design Young Talent Award from the Frankfurt Arts and Crafts Association. He explains the concept to us.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/lennard-ludig-hfg-circular-design-frankfurt-arts-and-crafts-association-young-design-talents-nature-city-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Thinking contextually 6/23/2026 Johanna Seelemann views design as a system. She conducts continuous, in-depth research, considering forms, materials, and craft techniques as part of an ecological, social, and cultural whole. This approach results in the creation of aesthetically pleasing, tactile, and meaningful objects.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/johanna-seelemann-design-research-experiment-nature-stylepark-magazine)

[STYLEPARK TEXPERTISE Knitted City 4/30/2026 Textile designer Izabelle Francis graduated last year from Buckinghamshire New University in England with a First Class BA (Hons) – her first works were exhibited in the ‘New Talent Area’ at Heimtextil 2026 in Frankfurt/Main. In this interview, she tells us why she is inspired by architectural structures and what her goals are.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/textile-design-izabelle-francis-architecture-heimtextil-young-talents-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Luxury redefined 1/5/2026 Emanuele Ferraro, founder of Atelier Ferraro, does not just design houses, rooms and objects. He creates lasting values that stand the test of time. What drives him? Beauty, a love of craftsmanship and a sunny spirit.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/emanuele-ferraro-design-architecture-craftsmanship-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Sunbeams for the cityscape 12/8/2025 The “Main Light” project is literally bringing light into the gloom for WDC 2026 – with solar-powered street lighting that democratically incorporates design and responsibility in public spaces.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/main-light-tobias-truebenbacher-andreas-lang-wdc-2026-design-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS The joy of the process 10/2/2025 The designer duo Jacobo Cuesta Wolf and Robert Hahn form Hahn&CuestaWolf. Together, they develop furniture, product and lighting designs as well as tailor-made solutions for interior design. In this interview, they give us an insight into their work.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/hahncuestawolf-design-salonesatellite-interview-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Successful experiment 9/25/2025 A table made of fabric? Industrial designer Steven Dahlinger thinks it's a solid idea. With ‘Tens’, he brings the characteristics of different materials to bear in a forward-looking and circular way. In this interview, he tells us how the collaboration with Wagner Living came about.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/steven-dahlinger-tens-design-young-talents-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Attitude over hype 7/23/2025 Designer Alexander von Dombois made a remarkable debut at SaloneSatellite with furniture such as the ‘Scala’ rolling stool, the “Raam” chair and the ‘Eli’ lamp. In this interview, the Cologne-based creative explains how simple principles drive his designs, why materials should be allowed to age with dignity – and why he uses bark beetle wood in his work.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/alexander-von-dombois-young-talents-design-interview-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Energy and movement 7/21/2025 Multidisciplinary designer Chialing Chang demonstrated just how elegant industrial raw materials can appear at the ‘Optical Flow: Objects and Perception in Light’ exhibition during the 3daysofdesign event in Copenhagen.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/chialing-chang-fanzi-gallery-design-art-3daysofdesign-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS More than just wood 7/18/2025 Marcus Götschl was one of the exciting new discoveries at this year's SaloneSatellite in Milan. In this interview, he tells us why he is fascinated by sophisticated designs and when design becomes relevant to him.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/young-talents-marcus-goetschl-salonesatellite-design-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Modest everyday objects 7/9/2025 Danish designer Alvilde Holm talks to us about the value of experimentation, the limits of materials and why she considers the end result early on in the creative process.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/alvilde-holm-3-day-design-craftsmanship-young-talent-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Researching for wings 1/28/2025 The young designer Kateryna Basiuk works on new and sustainable textiles in Lucerne. For her ‘Silent Canvas’ project, she investigated the sound-absorbing structure of insects and transferred it to knitwear. A conversation about virtual textiles, local natural materials and what moth wings have to do with fibres.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/kateryna-basiuk-silent-canvas--acoustics-sound-knit-textiles-design-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Freshly unsealed 12/11/2024 The semester project “now\_unsealed” by students of the Integrative Design course at the Offenbach University of Art and Design addresses urgent environmental issues such as climate change, resource consumption and soil sealing. We present a selection of the projects.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/hfg-offenbach-now-unsealed-design-sustainability-nature-water-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Inventive double 1/16/2025 Since studying at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, Frederik Weber & Gustav Dupont have played a formative and illuminating role in the Danish capital's art and design scene as the duo Frederik Gustav. In this interview, the two reveal what inspires their love of experimentation and why they have a special bond with a chair back.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/frederik-gustav-copenhagen-design-art-interview-experiment-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS New typologies 10/25/2024 Moritz Walter is an industrial designer and lives in Berlin. His extensive portfolio does not show that he only completed his studies last year. In this interview, he tells us what his idea for the heating system of the future is and why he is fascinated by designing luminaires.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/moritz-walter-young-talents-design-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Interweaving tradition and future 12/2/2024 British designer Sophie Earp has designed stools made of ash with a seat in green paracord – the "Woven Collection" – for the graduation of her studies in three-dimensional furniture and product design at Northumbria University. She explains the idea in an interview.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/sophie-earp-furniture-design-product-northumbria-university-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS "Design is work" 9/10/2024 With cardboard and tenacity: Berlin designer Pascal Hien founded his own studio last year after ten years at the Fabrica Research Centre, Steelcase and Konstantin Grcic. Hien's first designs for Tecta and Le Klint have just been launched on the market.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/pascal-hien-design-young-talents-design-interior-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Surprisingly different 10/8/2024 Oscar Parkinson recently completed his degree in Product and Furniture Design at Kingston University in London and already has some exciting prototypes to show for it. In this interview he gives us an insight into his practice.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/oscar-parkinson-young-talents-design-interview-london-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Designing for everyday life 8/16/2024 For his master’s thesis on “Compostable Devices” Eric Geissler researched alternative materials for small electric appliances. Accordingly, his casing for a hairdryer was made of compostable fungus mycelium. In the interview, he tells us about the benefits of the material.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/eric-gei%C3%9Fler-design-sustainability-young-talents-interview-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Many Facets 8/12/2024 Aaron Wessels is an architect and designer, realizes interiors, small-scale architecture, and spatial concepts, creates both product designs and sculptural objects. In our conversation he reveals how he came to have his own practice, discusses his creative roles, and why Copenhagen is not an easy place for young creative people.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/aaron-wessels-studio-wes-design-architecture-art-copenhagen-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Being Versatile 8/8/2024 Sonia Bąk-Tokarska and Michał Tokarski founded Studio Tok four years ago. In addition to their surname, "Tok" also stands for ways of thinking, and thought processes in the Polish language. In this interview, they talk about the role that painting played in their childhood and what a lamp has to do with a sumo wrestler.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/studio-tok-interior-design-poland-young-talents-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Launched from the Sea 7/10/2024 "I've always been fascinated by natural materials and how they interact in an ecosystem," reflects Lotte Wigman, who runs Studio Lotek with Ludo Poot. We spoke to both about seaweed, shells and other ecological building materials.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/studio-lotek-sustainable-building-material-research-sea-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Entering Business Mode 6/10/2024 Octavio Asensio founded his studio ten years ago in Madrid. In this interview we talked to the designer about SaloneSatellite and the possibilities of design.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/interview-octavio-asensio-design-furniture-madrid-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Designing with Foresight 7/2/2024 Industrial designer Marc Gerber lives in Bern and designs products for which he likes to think outside the box. He talks to us about what he aims to change with his designs, the ways of working he learnt from Konstantin Grcic, and what he is currently chiseling away at.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/interview-marc-gerber-bern-industrial-design-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS A winning combination 7/2/2024 Lukas Heintschel designs furniture that combines conceptual approaches with practical development anchored in industrial design. Despite their high functional requirements, they should be pleasant and fun to use. In this interview, he gives us an insight into his approach.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/lukas-heintschel-product-industry-design-young-talents-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS The force of choice 4/25/2024 Working together as Estúdio Rain, Mariana Ramos and Ricardo Innecco handle the kind of projects and products that offer us new insights. In the process, they explore the very limits of various materials. In this interview, they explain what is important to them.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/estudio-rain-young-talents-material-design-installation-scenography-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Creating Rituals 5/14/2024 The interdisciplinary design studio Bitsch was founded in 2021 by Arthur Bitsch in Strasbourg, France. This year he exhibited at Milan’s SaloneSatellite. In the following interview he explains his concept to us.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/studio-bitsch-arthur-bitsch-design-salonesatellite-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Between Art and Architecture 3/25/2024 Sarah Behrens and Ina Westheiden from The Baukunst Dynamites in Stuttgart see their office as an architecture label that operates at the interface of art and architecture. Their "Doppelgänger reloaded" project, for which they designed an extension for the home of an art foundation, provides a good illustration of the approach.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-baukunst-dynamites-architecture-art-stuttgart-interview-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Symbiotic Ornaments 3/18/2024 Line & Raphaël combine traditional carpentry with the possibilities of 3D printing for their furniture and objects: using contemporary tools, they revitalise the art of marquetry.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/object-design-france-furniture-intarsia-3d-printing-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Two in one 3/19/2024 Sam Lombardo recently completed his studies at écal – his graduation project is "The table of the future", which can also be used as a stovetop. In this interview, he tells us how his idea differs from those of established manufacturers.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/sam-lombardo-kitchen-induction-plate-cooking-young-designer-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Smooth transitions 2/23/2024 A lot has happened for the Budde design studio since it was founded four years ago. Our author Kathrin Spohr has researched the common essence of their designs and what they are planning this year.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/designstudio-budde-collectable-design--unique-concept-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS At Home on the Road 2/28/2024 Anton Defant has attracted the attention of the design world with his Viennese thesis project entitled "Ballast". And that's not all he has to offer.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/anton-defant-ballast-design-folding-sofa-furniture-experimental-park-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Design Without Frills 2/19/2024 Kerstin Pfleger and Peter Paulhart founded Studio RE.D in Vienna in 2022, with their own experimental workshop and office. We spoke to the two to find out what moves, inspires, motivates them and what they expect from the future.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/interview-studio-red-vienna-sustainability-resource-design-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Building Bridges 2/20/2024 The WINT Design Lab develops sustainable futures. Based at Tegel Airport in Berlin, on the basis of practical work, the team explores holistic design strategies, new hybrid tools, and generating interdisciplinary knowledge. In the following interview they tell us what they are currently working on.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/wint-design-lab-research-design-technology-science-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Brewed Furniture 1/29/2024 Judith Burgard studies industrial design at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle and has designed the "Instant" furniture series. Hot water is used to give it the final shape. We asked her how the design process works and what characteristics the wood-based material for the "brewing furniture" must have.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/industrial-design-university-of-art-halle-judith-burgard-wood-furniture-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Re-thinking Foam 2/5/2024 With the vision of making the world a better place, Oslo-based designer Kim Lund is researching what a sustainable sofa could look like. To this aim, he is questioning petroleum-based furniture upholstery.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/foam-sustainable-circular-upholstery-design-sofa-young-talents-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS All-embracing 12/4/2023 With Office of Tangible Space, Michael Yarinsky and Kelley Perumbeti design on a wide variety of scales and project types. A portrait of the interdisciplinary studio from Brooklyn.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/office-for-tangible-space-michael-yarinsky-kelley-perumbeti-design-interior-brooklyn-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Shining future 10/16/2023 Elena Kayser recently attracted attention to herself as part of the "Mono Residency" when she reinterpreted a classic: the teapot from the Mono manufactory. For her jewellery label Studio Èna, the up-and-coming designer works with a traditional material that has lately had a shadowy existence in design: pewter.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/elena-kayser-young-talent-tin-design-product-design-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS "There is no culture of criticism in design" 11/8/2023 He leads interviews and designs situations: A conversation with the young German designer Silvio Rebholz.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/silvio-rebholz-design-interview-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Transparency of Origins 8/25/2023 Xenia Watson is studying Product Design at the HfG Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach. The result of “Within – A Shadow in Knitwear” – her term project – is a cardigan with integrated codes and every fiber of it attests to the appreciation of wool as a material.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/xenia-watson-within-a-shadow-in-knitwear-textile-wool-hfg-offenbach-interview-stylepark-magazin)

[YOUNG TALENTS Materials, crafts and community 9/29/2023 Lærke Ryom is a Copenhagen based furniture designer, curator and co-founder of the exhibition platform Ukurant. We spoke about the magic of working with hands, new aesthetic perspectives on materials, and finding your way as a designer in a post-graduate world.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/laerke-ryom-furniture-design-young-designer-platform-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Desirable Deviations 7/25/2023 A visit to Berlin’s Lichtenberg district to meet young designer Matthias Gschwendtner, who is confidently at home in both the digital and analog worlds – and is happy to leave part of his design work to chance.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/matthias-gschwendtner-digital-analog-design-furniture-luminaire-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Open space 7/20/2023 What can an inclusive sports and culture park look like that has its place under a motorway bridge? Students from the Urban Design department at HfG Offenbach answered this question for the non-profit association Vair e.V. under the project name "Vairplay" with designs that were recently presented during the HfG Offenbach tour.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/hfg-offenbach-architecture-design-city-space-design-culture-sport-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Tradition from the 3D printer 6/13/2023 Honoka Lab, a design collective from Japan, was honoured with first place at this year's SaloneSatellite Award. For their Tatami ReFAB Project, they use 3D printing technology and recycled materials to bring a centuries-old tradition into the modern age: discarded tatami mats serve as the base material for furniture.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/tatami-refab-project-honoka-3d-furniture-luminaires-interiodesign-stylepark-magazine)

[INTERVIEWS Transfer of knowledge 6/27/2023 The designer and architect Patricia Urquiola is one of the mentors of the project "Mentorship Milano": The project, conceived and promoted by the city councillor Alessia Cappello and the city of Milan, is the first public and free mentoring project by women for women between the ages of 16 and 30 in the region. She explains the concept to us in an interview.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/patricia-urquiola-mentorship-milano-design-architecture-mentor-interview-stylepark-magazine)

[INTERVIEWS All under control? 5/15/2023 What would it be like if our society were controlled exclusively by algorithms? Under the direction of Prof. Fabian Hemmert, students from the Industrial Design department at the University of Wuppertal have developed dystopian products that are intended to sharpen our view of undesirable futures.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/aicracy-dystopia-design-control-wuppertal-algorithms-responsibility-society-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Connecting the dots 5/20/2023 Levitating between art, sculpture and functional design, the works of Simon Mattisson are challenging outdated perceptions about form and function and what a piece of furniture is and can be.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/simon-mattisson-sustainability-wood-design-interview-stylepark-magazine)

[INTERVIEWS Design that supports people 4/18/2023 Lise Vester is a young, up-and-coming designer from Denmark. In her work, she prefers to focus on lighting objects and design that have a positive effect on people’s well-being. She explains her concept in an interview.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/lise-vester-design-light-interview-euroluce-3daysofdesign-stylepark-magazin)

[REVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE 2023: SALONESATELLITE Leap forward 5/1/2023 Since its foundation by Marva Griffin, SaloneSatellite has given maximum visibility to the work of young designers, many of whom are now internationally renowned. Stylepark had the great honour of being part of the jury for the SaloneSatellite Award 2023. These are the winners.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/salonesatellite-award-winner-salonedelmobile-marva-griffin-stylepark-magazine)

[DESIGN A piece of her 4/14/2023 Viola Beuscher has an unmistakable design language: pure, minimalist, and elegant. The ceramics designer places great importance on ensuring that this is consistently reflected in her products. Hardly anyone would suspect that Beuscher actually taught herself the craft of pottery.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/viola-beuscher-crafts-atelier-ceramics-frankfurt-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS No limits 4/20/2023 Hong Kong and Istanbul, technology and design: Studio Yellowdot’s projects frequently blend opposites – with quite exceptional results.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/yellowdot-design-furniture-technology-design-stylepark-magazine)

[DESIGN Perfect crafts for Idealists 2/2/2023 People like Robert Comploj are hard to find. At his studio he combines art and design with the craft of glassblowing. It is currently sidewalks, manholes, hydrants and tram tracks that represent the inspiration for his work.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/handcraft-studio-comploj-glass-art-design-city-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Rethinking systems 2/9/2023 Changing the way we understand, perceive and relate to materials: That’s the aim of Bonnie Hvillum, who’s focus is on human interaction with the world. The interdisciplinary projects she tackles straddle science, biology, chemistry, design and art.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/bonnie-hvillum-sustainability-natural-material-studio-stylepark-magazine)

[YOUNG TALENTS Passion for light 12/12/2022 They go by the name From Industrial Design: Cesare Bizzotto and Tobias Nitsche focus on the industrial design process involved in furniture and luminaires. Under the label From Lighting the latter are proving hugely successful at finding their way onto the wider market at present.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/from-industrial-design-from-lighting-daniele-klausas-tobias-nitsche-cesare-bizzotto-lighting-stylepark)

[SUSTAINABILITY The Good in Beauty 1/11/2023 Dominique Béolet’s work as a designer ranges from specific objects to several hundred square meters of exhibition space. He focuses not only on an attractive appearance and practicality but also and primarily on sustainability.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/dominique-beolet-nkm-everdrop-sustainability-recycling-product-design-stylepark)

[YOUNG TALENTS Alternators 12/22/2022 He works somewhere between design, sculpture and puppetry, says Simon Schmitz about his work as a luminaire designer. One thing is certain: The Berliner-by-choice is a tinkerer who stages light like a material.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/lighting-designer-simon-schmitz-berlin-sculpture-interview-stylepark)

[YOUNG TALENTS Of Chandeliers and Everyday Things 11/29/2022 Young Vienna-based designer Anna Zimmermann takes a holistic approach to design – for everything from objects to space to the pictorial idiom she uses.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/anna-zimmermann-young-designer-vienna-product-design-vienna-design-week-bakalowits-manufactory--stylepark)

[INTERVIEWS Designing with the sun 11/21/2022 Marjan van Aubel Studio creates solar design that translates complex technology into aesthetic objects that can enrich our everyday lives – like "Sunne", a self-powered solar lamp that captures, stores and generates light indoors. She gives us an insight into her work in the interview.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/marjan-van-aubel-studio-solar-design-sun-energy-alternative-light-stylepark)

[YOUNG TALENTS The new self-evidence 10/27/2022 Design has always been a discipline of questioning, experimenting and reinterpreting. For some years now, a particularly critical generation of designers has been entering the labour market. Ronja Reuber is an example of young designers who want to offer an alternative to the throwaway mentality.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/ronja-reuber-design-sustainability-experiment-young-designer-stylepark)

[INTERVIEWS At the interface 10/12/2022 Antrei Hartikainen realises projects from Fiskars Village in southern Finland which can be product design as well as sculpture or installation. The designer, master carpenter and sculptor translates the transitions between the disciplines into extraordinary works.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/antrei-hartikainen-finland-design-art-sculpture-stylepark)

[YOUNG TALENTS Not made to stay in the shop window 10/7/2022 Benedikt Stonawski and Hauke Unterburg founded ante up – a studio for circular product and furniture design – in 2020. In addition to design, they have since worked as consultants for companies on the topic of eco-design principles, sustainable materials and production methods. We met them for an interview.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/ante-up-product-design-consulting-sustainability-design-thinking-vienna-stylepark)

[INTERVIEWS Impetus for change 4/30/2021 “Designing Design Education. White Book on the Future of Design Education” is the name of the latest publication from the iF Design Foundation – a reference work that raises questions on the form design education should take in future. In an interview, its author Prof. René Spitz gives us his summary.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/if-design-foundation-rene-spitz-education-future)

[REVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE 2022: SALONESATELLITE Diverse in the future 7/21/2022 Spot on for six young female designers whose work caught our attention at the SaloneSatellite and Milan Design Week.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/young-designers-salone-del-mobile-salone-satellite-milan-design-week-female-designers-stylepark)

[INTERVIEWS Shaping the future 5/4/2022 The design studio and social enterprise Weserholz from Bremen uses design as a tool: From educational programmes to classic cooperation with companies, the team offers ecological and socially sustainable design. Industrial and product designer Armando Cornejo Chavez tells us in an interview what that means exactly.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/weserholz-bremen-social-education-collective)

[SUSTAINABILITY Search for meaning in design 3/7/2022 Studying sustainable design – how does it work? Prof. Jörg Gätjens, lecturer at the public school ecosign/Akademie für Gestaltung in Cologne explains to us the concept for a design education that focuses on a sense of responsibility for the environment and society.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/ecosign-sustainability-design)

[YOUNG TALENTS Overcoming boundaries 2/9/2022 For Palermo’s Studio Marginal design is a participatory undertaking. Together with students and migrants they explore material cultures.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/marginal-studio-palermo-design-education-material-cultures)

[INTERVIEWS Drawing Circles 2/3/2022 The exhibition “The Circle. The most iconic shape redesigned” recently opened at Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Cologne (MAKK). The curator is Wendy Plomp, founder of Dutch design collective Dutch Invertuals. In this interview, she explains the concept to us.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-circle-makk-dutch-invertuals-wendy-plomp)

[YOUNG TALENTS Good Intuition 1/3/2022 With her creations, designer Tanita Klein offers practicable answers to complex questions. Current example: Her modular kitchen system "POSSI", which can be flexibly adapted to rooms and living situations.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/tanita-klein-portrait-designerin-possi-modular-kitchen)

[SALONE DEL MOBILE & MILAN DESIGN WEEK Courage for the new 12/10/2021 What distinguishes young lighting design today? It’s the desire to experiment, sensitivity for materials and traditions – and pursuing one’s own path with conviction. Including in times of crisis.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-lost-graduation-show-tes-marianna-dantimo-sungkoon-kim-filippo-salis-supersalone-fontanaarte)

[PORTRAIT Intuitive mediation 10/26/2021 Hemmo Honkonen designs furniture with a surprising component – preferably made of wood. Sometimes it serves as an instrument as well.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/hemmo-honkonen-designer-portrait)

[STYLEPARK WAGNER Sustained dialogue 10/12/2021 With the exhibition "Workspace in progress" at the MAKK, Wagner Living, in collaboration with Stefan Diez, Matylda Krzykowski and students from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, offers a variety of approaches to the topic of New Work.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/wagner-living-workspace-in-progress-stefan-diez-matylda-krzykowski-makk)

[PORTRAIT Design as a tool 8/16/2021 As a young graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven, Paulien Nabben sees her task in the careful design of her environment in order to strengthen the well-being of all of us in this way. The designer is not only fascinated by the complexity of natural systems, she also wants to explore their behaviour and interactions.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/paulien-nabben-sustainability)

[DESIGN Reflective and discerning 8/4/2021 Four young designers we want to see, read and hear more of in the future.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/young-designers-erin-turkoglu-valerio-somella-alexandra-gerber-giuseppe-arezzi)

[INTERVIEWS In the area of tension 5/12/2021 Industrial designer Maria Jeglinska-Adamczewska has been running her own studio in Warsaw for almost ten years now. Alongside designing products and furniture, she works as a curator and participates in research-based design projects. She gave us an insight into her current projects in an interview.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/interview-maria-jeglinska-adamczewska-designer-warsaw)

[INTERVIEWS Impetus for change 4/30/2021 “Designing Design Education. White Book on the Future of Design Education” is the name of the latest publication from the iF Design Foundation – a reference work that raises questions on the form design education should take in future. In an interview, its author Prof. René Spitz gives us his summary.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/if-design-foundation-rene-spitz-education-future)

[DESIGN Fresh design from Sweden 2/12/2021 "Room Service": final-year students at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm have collaborated with Sweden's leading furniture manufacturers to develop product prototypes that are being presented as a hybrid exhibition during the current Stockholm Design Week.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/beckmans-stockholm-design-week)

[DESIGN Glass in motion 2/8/2021 Jonathan Radetz is currently experimenting with solid-colored cast glass, which he uses to create a fascinating sense of dynamism, one which allows the apparent solidity of his materials to appear more diffuse.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/jonathan-radetz-liquids-glass)

[DESIGN Anti-work furniture 2/4/2021 The studio chmara.rosinke from Berlin and Vienna has designed its first office furnishings with the OFIS Collection. Five constructivist anti-designs that question old work typologies - and literally demand a new attitude.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/chmara.rosinke-ofis-kitchen)

[NEW WORK In the process 11/11/2020 Which products for new work are currently being developed by young designers? Which concepts do they see as forward-looking? Stylepark has selected 15 ideas for you.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/young-designer-new-work-industrial-design-product-design)

[INTERVIEWS Precision work 7/8/2020 The works by Guglielmo Poletti strike a balance between aesthetics and construction. In the interview the designer explains how he treads the fine line and giving us insights about the new table collection "L45" born from his ongoing collaboration with Desalto.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/guglielmo-poletti-desalto-l45-table-balance)

[PORTRAIT Harmony in contrast 5/19/2020 Dimitri Bähler likes balance – between a personal and a user-oriented approach, between simple and complex, decorative and functional. Since 2014 he has been walking the line within the different poles of design from his studio in the Swiss town of Biel.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/dimitri-baehler-switzerland-atelier-pfister-malleray)

[PORTRAIT Boundless creativity 4/29/2020 “We have a great urge to experiment,” says Yael Mer. She and Shay Alkalay founded the studio “Raw Edges” back in 2007 and have been coming up with unusual approaches in design ever since.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/raw-edges-experiment-yael-mer-shay-alkalay)

[INTERVIEWS STYLEPARK ZOOM IN with RelvãoKellermann 4/24/2020 Ana Relvão and Gerhardt Kellermann are among the most remarkable young designers in Germany. Their work is firmly rooted in the tradition of German industrial design, which always develops the form from the function of the respective object.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/stylepark-zoom-in-with-relvaeokellermann)

[YOUNG TALENTS A solid start 2/28/2020 With the “UNO” table collection, Moritz Bannach has launched his own studio in style. We talked to him about pie in the sky and those “wow” moments.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/moritz-bannach-uno-tables-berlin--youngdesigner)

[STYLEPARK IMM COLOGNE 2020 Open for everything 1/7/2020 The young studio MUT Design from Valencia has designed “Das Haus” for imm cologne 2020. It is inspired by the fair’s focal topic of “Indoors and Outdoors”.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/mut-design-imm-cologne-2020-the-house)

[DESIGN Let’s become more sophisticated! 4/22/2012 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.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/lets-become-more-sophisticated)

[MAGAZINE Proximity and distance to social circumstances 4/20/2012 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.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/proximity-and-distance-to-social-circumstances)

[DESIGN Plagues by the idea of rebellion 3/16/2012 Art has a problem with design, proposes Michael Erlhoff, Professor of Design Theory and History at Cologne's International School of Design. He focuses on the social perception of design and hopes that the technocrats will get worn down.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/plagues-by-the-idea-of-rebellion)

[DESIGN Design as a social force? 3/11/2012 Encouraged by this teaching experiences at European design academies, Harald Gründl of Eoos Design Studio contributes four hypotheses on design to the debate on design training](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/design-as-a-social-force)

[MAGAZINE Thought comes first 3/8/2012 For Helmut Staubach, Professor of Product and Transportation Design at Universität Berlin Weißensee the ambiguity of the boundaries between art and design constitutes an opportunity for both disciplines.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/thought-comes-first)

[DESIGN It’s obviously just too complicated for some people 3/6/2012 Georg-Christof Bertsch, Honorary Professor for Intercultural Design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach, warns designers against making a laughing stock of themselves by striving to be auxiliary artists. It is in fact the increasing complexity of industrial design as a profession itself that is presenting the challenges facing this sector today.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/its-obviously-just-too-complicated-for-some-people)

[DESIGN What can design do? Response to a banana critic 3/2/2012 Evidently Friedrich von Borries has the one or other problem with bananas. That being so it cannot harm to read exactly what the fruit has to do with design, low sensations and art – and which concept of design will pop out of the banana skin in the end.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/what-can-design-do-response-to-a-banana-critic)

[DESIGN New formats? Yes please! 2/28/2012 Are teachers who are themselves barely able to lay claim to noteworthy practical experience in design in a position to train others? This is a question that has been raised by Egon Chemaitis, retired Professor of Design Foundations at Universität der Künste Berlin. He cites four reasons, which from his point of view have contributed to the shift in design education in the direction of art.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/new-formats-yes-please)

[MAGAZINE Ways out of “voluntary self-restriction” 2/26/2012 Design education at HfbK Hamburg has been reorganized, and we reported on the implications. In the highly diversified event entitled "Warum gestalten?" (Why design?) the Design department explored various perspectives from radical urban criticism through to multi-perspective developing.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/ways-out-of-voluntary-self-restriction)

[DESIGN Why are bananas curved? or “What is design?” 2/15/2012 "Is design becoming the auxiliary of art?" Thomas Edelmann asked in an article in the Stylepark Magazine where he debated the practice of design training at art academies. Among other things, he specifically addressed current changes at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts. Friedrich von Borries was prompted by the article to outline his ideas on design.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/why-are-bananas-curved-or-what-is-design)

[DESIGN Design because a sub-discipline of art 2/5/2012 New trends in teaching and curricula are influencing future design. In Hamburg design is now only part of art courses. At other art academies, it is becoming a marginal subject. But there's no sign of designers putting up a fight.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/design-because-a-sub-discipline-of-art)