With a new name, but a familiar format, the 2018 Kölner Design Preis once again celebrates the city’s design students and creative colleges, including an exhibition of all nominated projects in the Cologne Museum für Angewandte Kunst.

1st Prize: Unfolding Space by Jakob Kilian (KISD), as seen at Kölner Design Preis/Toby E. Rodes Award 2018 Exhibition, MAKK Cologne

Wega Stereobar 3300 by Verner Panton for Wega Radio (Photo © Saša Fuis Photographie, Köln, Courtesy of MAKK)

We know. We know. It’s January. Everyone just wants to sit at home feeling poor, fat and unloved……. Much more

Enamel Experiment by AnHsu, as seen at the Kölner DESIGN Preis 2015 exhibition

On Thursday October 29th the winners of the Kölner DESIGN Preis 2015 were announced in a ceremony at the Museum

SYSTEM DESIGN Über 100 Jahre Chaos im Alltag at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln

The history of civilisation is in many respects a history of man understanding natural systems, for example, the inner workings

Postmodernism 1980-1995 Designmuseo Helsinki Jouko Jarvisalo

Nothing scares us quite like January. It wouldn’t be so bad if convention didn’t insist on the additive progression of

Valentine typewriter Ettore Sottsass Perry King Olivetti

As we noted in our 5 New Design Exhibitions for July 2014 post, July and August tend to be quiet

IMM Cologne 2013 Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln Isn’t it romantic Contemporary Design balancing between Poetry and Provocation Ocean Hermann August Weizenegger Julia Lohmann Lasting Void

The Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln (MAKK) opened in 1888, and so it is somehow fitting that it should start

Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln Thonet Ron Arad

In addition to showing “From Aalto to Zumthor Furniture by Architects” the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln is also showing

Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln From Aalto to Zumthor Furniture by Architects

As tradition demands the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln (MAKK) have organised a furniture themed, special exhibition to coincide with