As we’ve often noted in these pages the eastern German town of Chemnitz markets itself as the “City of Modernism”,
Among the regional German design awards the Bavarian Design Award is particularly notable being as it is an award exclusively
Following on from the relative inactivity of August September saw us wind back up towards the 2014 autumn design festival
On Friday October 24th the winners of the Saxony Design Award 2014 – the Sächsischer Staatspreis für Design 2014 –
As is becoming customary Design Miami Basel 2014 provided the backdrop for the presentation of the Swiss Design Award. And
Back in November the winners of the 2013 German Federal Ecodesign Award – the Bundespreis Ecodesign – were announced at
As part of the build up to this year’s Kortrijk Design Biennale the winners of the Interieur Awards 2014 were announced
On the evening of Tuesday June 3rd the winners of the 2014 Designpreis Halle were announced at a ceremony in
We recently attended a very interesting talk from Munich based designer Stefan Diez at the Vitra Design Museum in which,
With DMY Berlin 2014 up and running the field is open for the 2014 DMY Award. An award that this
On Thursday February 13th the 2014 Designpreis Halle jury met to peruse the entries submitted for this years competition. And
What would IMM Cologne week be without the official enthronement of the A&W Designer of the Year? One day shorter
That furniture often has a cultural background can probably be best observed in chairs: the cultural background often defining, for
For us one of the stand-out projects submitted to the 2013 International Marianne Brandt Contest was without question 2tables by
What with the sweet afterglow of Vienna Design Week behind us we entered October 2013 full of enthusiasm – not
After the relative calm and civility of July and August, September sees a more than inconsequential upping of our professional
On Wednesday evening the winners of the Designpreis Brandenburg 2013 were announced in a ceremony held in the cavern-like grandeur
“Guten Abend Berlin” Boing Boing “Street’s like a jungle, so call the police…. ” That is how one opens an
“How did the elephant get its trunk?” “How do you get concrete and mortar on to the upper floors of
We’re not going to pretend everyone is enamoured with our constant pops at Chemnitz. Truth is for the majority our
On Saturday September 7th the winners of the International Marianne Brandt Contest 2013 were unveiled at an awards ceremony in
Having already been to Chemnitz once this year we really are loathed to go a second time. It somehow feels
Having recently publicly announced that the International Marianne Brandt Contest is “….without question one of our favourite international design competitions….”
Normally we don’t pay any heed to design contest exhibitions at design fairs. It just doesn’t feel right, looking at
As we noted in an earlier post, the team behind Depot Basel were recently awarded a highly coveted Swiss Design