Category: Interview

smow blog Interview: Alain Gilles – For me the benchmark is never to lose the functionality, I like to create works which have a very graphic character, but they need to work as intended and to work well

Whereas the careers of most product and furniture designers follow a very similar path and pattern over apprenticeship, internships and

smow Blog Interview: Glen Oliver Löw – I have always been of the opinion that design begins with a problem.

Born in Leverkusen Glen Oliver Löw initially studied Industrial Design at the University of Wuppertal before moving to Milan in

Heimat Lamp by Birgit Severin and Guillaume Neu-Rinaudo

The question as to what “home” means has never been an easy one to answer, and in our global age

smow Blog Interview: Thomas Lommée – as designers our job is to generate solutions

In the past we’ve often noted the number of “classic” furniture designers currently working in Belgium, and how in comparison

Creative Frankfurt: Kai Linke

Internationally known for its financial district, airport, financial institutions and sausages, Frankfurt am Main is less well understood as a

smow blog Interview: Architecture Uncomfortable Workshop – We don’t believe form and function are closed, there is always a degree of personal freedom and personal interpretation.

As we’ve noted in the past, Hungarian architects and designers made a valuable contribution to the development of post war

A&W Mentor Prize 2016: Michel Charlot

In addition to the exhibition of their work in Cologne, the A&W Designer of the Year crown also allows the

Passagen Cologne 2016: A&W Designer of the Year 2016 – Jasper Morrison. The Exhibition.

2016 sees the 20th anniversary of German architecture and design magazine A&W’s “Designer of the Year Award.” Following on from

Cologne Creative: kaschkasch

We first became aware of Florian Kallus and Sebastian Schneider a.k.a design studio kaschkasch before they were kaschkasch, when they

Cologne Creative: Thomas Schnur

Cologne isn’t a city which creativity only visits every January in the form of the IMM Cologne furniture trade fair

smow Blog Interview: Wolfgang Laubersheimer – Making is back, that is fantastic and is something I’m certain will change design

In our post from the exhibition Schrill Bizarr Brachial. Das Neue Deutsche Design der 80er Jahre at the Bröhan Museum

smow blog Interview: Eames Demetrios – I don’t think Charles and Ray were ever satisfied with their own work, they were always trying to make it better

In our post from the Barbican Art Gallery exhibition “The World of Charles and Ray Eames” we noted the disappointing

smow Blog Interview: András Kerékgyártó – We need a more open, honest discussion around design in Hungary

The history of furniture design has an unignorable, if subtle and background, Hungarian accent; Marcel Breuer was one of the driving forces at Bauhaus and through his work with steel tubing, moulded plywood and sheet steel he helped advance ideas of contemporary furniture design, and continues to inspire; Paul László was one of the genuine pioneers of American industrial design and contributed to George Nelson’s first Hermann Miller collection in 1948; and while Ernő Goldfinger may be best known for his brutalist architecture, and being the name giver for James Bond’s most aureate and alluring adversary, his experimental furniture works very neatly predict the development of post-modernism.

More recently Hungarian designers have had less to say, have been conspicuous by their absence on the international scene; however, as we noted in our post from the exhibition madeinhungary at Budapest Design Week 2014, that may be slowly changing.

Or rather Hungarian designer András Kerékgyártó noted that things may be slowly changing. We merely quoted him.

smow blog Interview: Uli Budde

We were first introduced to the work of Berlin based designer Uli Budde when we saw his “Reading Table” project

smow blog interview: Jean Angelats, Ateliers J&J – I want to make the most simple furniture possible

Established in Brussels in 2011 by the French born, Belgian based craftsmen Jean Angelats and Jonathan Renou, Ateliers J&J released

smow blog Interview: Gunnar Søren Petersen – I believe that the design schools need to work much more closely with industry and with producers

In our recent review of contemporary Berlin creativity we noted that one of the problems increasingly being faced by Berlin

smow blog Interview: Margret Hoppe – As a photographer you can influence appreciation for and understanding of architecture.

Buildings are, somewhat logically, 3D. Photographs 2D. The challenge of architecture photography is transforming the 3D to 2D in such

Pepe Heykoop for Tiny Miracles – It is extremely satisfying to see what can be achieved with little more than a piece of folded paper.

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Pepe Heykoop first reached an international audience when his flexible chair project, A Restless Chairacter, won

Garden Unique Youngstars Cologne 2015 Winner: snak by Gunnar Søren Petersen

It is a fact, if not a universally known fact, that the New York Museum of Modern Art’s 1940 “Organic

smow blog Interview: Sigurd Larsen – I think as architects and designers we have got a lot to thank the Berlin art scene for !

As we noted in our recent review of contemporary creativity in Berlin, the creative landscape in the German capital is

smow blog Interview: Fabian Burns, DMY Design Festival Berlin – We believe it is a festival format for which there is a continuing demand and interest.

As previously reported, the company DMY Berlin GmbH & Co. KG, who for the past decade or so has run

smow Interview: Annemoon Geurts, Kazerne Eindhoven – One of our principle objectives is to explain the added value of creative industries.

As we noted in our post on the exhibition Open World at Kazerne Eindhoven, for a city that is often

Michael Geldmacher: “I would always encourage any designer to at least attempt to get paid for the development of a project.”

It being early April Milan furniture fair once again stands before us and with it the promise of untold column

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Egon Eiermann Chair 2014 awarded for restoration of Wohnhaus Matthies, Potsdam. An interview with architect Eberhard Lange.

On Friday September 26th the Egon Eiermann Society will present the inaugural “Egon Eiermann Chair” Award at a ceremony in