Berlin Design Week 2013: Hermann August Weizenegger – HAW Concept Store
We’ve probably only got ourselves to blame. Having complained loudly about the awarding of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Wolfgang Joop at the 2012 Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, one of...
View ArticleBerlin Design Week 2013: Bettenbartmann. Bett- und Bartgeschichten
The last thing, honestly the very, very last thing, that the Hasenheide at its junction with Hermannplatz needs is another cafe. Despite that, Bettenbartmann’s temporary hinterhof cafe is a genuine...
View ArticleDMY Berlin 2013: Philipp Weber – Creation of a strange Symphony
Back in the mists of time we knew one of the best glass swan makers in Europe. We know, rock and roll. The fact that we no longer know one of the best glass swan makers in Europe is because he retired....
View ArticleDMY Awards 2013: Winners
At the risk of stealing the spotlight from those that actually deserve it, on Friday we wrote, We suspect that when the 2013 DMY Awards winners are announced Philipp Weber will be one of the Three from...
View ArticleDMY Berlin 2013: Plat’eau by Lisa Keller
Reflecting on the DMY Berlin 2013 posts we’ve published until now, we realise that a lot concern conceptual, experimental design. But as the DMY Awards for Ribbon by Jan Lutyk and the “Glass Blower...
View ArticleDesign Miami/Basel 2013: Judith Seng – Acting Things IV Material Flow
For Design Basel 2013 Berlin designer Judith Seng was commissioned to produce the fourth volume of her “Acting Things” series, and the dance performance Material Flow can be viewed at Design Basel...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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