Bröhan Museum Berlin: Schrill Bizarr Brachial. Das Neue Deutsche Design der...
In our post on the 1984 Hochschule der Künste project/exhibition “Kaufhaus des Ostens” we opined that it represented the moment when Berlin design began to rebel. The exhibition Schrill Bizarr...
View ArticleDesign aus Berlin in minimum kreuzberg
What, one could/should, ask is the point in being a contemporary furniture dealer in Berlin if you don’t deal in contemporary furniture from Berlin? Back in the day we argued that the 2013 “Berlin...
View ArticleReview Salone del Mobile 2014 / Part 1 Fuori Salone
The international design scene met again for the annual Design Week in Milan between April 8th until the 13th and minimum could not miss out on the opportunity to mingle. In our first part of our...
View ArticleSpree meets Rhein: IMM Cologne and Passagen Cologne 2014
For reasons far too technical to go into, we’re somewhat late with our IMM Cologne and Passagen Cologne coverage this year. However, in the coming days we will bring you a few posts from the banks of...
View ArticleWerner Aisslinger A&W Designer of the Year 2014 Exhibition in stilwerk Berlin
Nothing against Werner Aisslinger exhibitions. Indeed nothing against Werner Aisslinger. Or exhibitions. But sometimes it seems that all we do is visit Werner Aisslinger exhibitions. Without a word of...
View ArticleGeblüt – Positionen zum Design @ Villa Schöningen Potsdam
In what we believe is their first venture into the world of contemporary product design the Villa Schöningen Potsdam is presenting an exhibition of works by graduates of the product design department...
View ArticleVienna Design Week 2013: Construisine by Johanna Dehio and Dominik Hehl
What do you get if you mix construction and cuisine? In the darker recesses of our past you get a despairing attempt to open a can of beans with a pick axe. You think we’re joking….. We never joke! In...
View ArticleUnited Nations North Delegates’ Lounge New York by Hella Jongerius and Team
On Wednesday September 25th 2013 the United Nations in New York formally took possession of their newly renovated North Delegates’ Lounge in New York. An original feature of the United Nations New York...
View ArticleGalerie HELMRINDERKNECHT: This is the House that Jack
They may not technically be a Berlin design gallery as such any more, but Galerie HELMRINDERKNECHT remain one of our favourite design galleries. And one of the more proactive. For their latest project,...
View ArticleNordic Design Talk @ Nordic Embassies Felleshus Berlin
On the evening of Monday September 2nd the Nordic Embassies in Berlin hosted, by way of a finissage to the Nordic Design Today exhibition, a “Nordic Design Talk” featuring 12 Nordic design...
View ArticleWe Create Berlin Interview: Hopf, Nordin
We first became aware of the work of Lund/Berlin design studio Hopf, Nordin back at DMY Berlin 2012. And were fascinated and overtaxed in equal measure. Axel Nordin is a Swedish mechanical engineer,...
View ArticleMelbourne Collection by Sigurd Larsen
Just to make this clear from the beginning, we believe MINI have a little too much influence on global design at the moment. And really aren’t that keen on giving them any more publicity. The scunner...
View ArticleGap by Kolja Vennewald
Practical as bikes unquestionably are for getting around, the complexity of transporting goods by bike can occasionally limit their overall usefulness. Especially in context of free-time activities...
View ArticleCreate Berlin presents We Create Berlin
On the corner of Unter den Linden and Friedrichstrasse in Berlin stands a graphic warning of what can happen when design is celebrated for itself rather than for its function. The Ampelmännchen shop. A...
View ArticleUniversität der Künste Berlin and Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee: Rundgang...
Nuts! Or at least how to crack nuts is obviously a question that has been troubling the design students and academics at both the Universität der Künste Berlin and Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee of...
View ArticleDAD Gallery Berlin: Cycled Up!
At the risk of repeating ourselves once too often, the future of design lies in better use of better materials, a reality which of course also encompasses making better use of old, broken and generally...
View ArticleDesignpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 2013: Nominations
During DMY Berlin 2013 the, now almost, traditional, exhibition was staged presenting all entries for this years Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. An exhibition which also served as the...
View ArticleFH Potsdam Werkschau 2012: Anna Stolz – Alternative London 2012 Olympic...
Back in July 2012 one of our highlights at the FH Potsdam Werkschau exhibition was the Alternative London 2012 Olympic Pictograms, or as we said back then: Showing a non-abusive lack of respect that...
View ArticleDepot Basel: Craft and Drawing
We’ve not only seen two shows this week that combine contemporary dance with design; but two that juxtaposition art with handicrafts. Moritzgrautextile during Berlin Design Week. And Depot Basel’s new...
View ArticleBerlin Design Week 2013: Moritzgrautextiles
Who says that high-quality textiles have to graced by high-minded designs. Certainly not Berlin studio Moritzgrautextiles. A collaboration between tailor/costume designer Julia Moritz and artist Juro...
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