With the exhibition 21 Common Things designer Thomas Schnur explores his personal relationship with everyday objects. And in doing so the concept of functionality.
With the exhibition Full House: Design by Stefan Diez the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Cologne, MAKK, present the first museal overview of the canon of the German designer Stefan Diez.
And an exhibition which in many respects also helps explain industrial design. Or at least the contemporary industrial design process.
Our pick of the new architecture and design exhibitions opening in January 2017, with showcases in Cologne, New York, Rotterdam, Atlanta and Helsinki.
Back in February we spoke with Richard Lampert and he told us he was planning exhibiting at Orgatec.
Had a few ideas he said.
Boy, did he have ideas………
Whereas 3D printing is omnipresent in the media, and a ubiquitous tool in contemporary research and development, in most daily
We must start with a confession . This High Five! is a High Four! Not because there weren’t good products
When we spoke with Vitra’s Chief Sales Officer Josef Kaiser at NeoCon Chicago he told us that at “Orgatec 2016
Continuing our series of posts on creativity in Cologne, historic and contemporary, we met up with product designer Felix Stark.
An important commercial, financial and administrative centre since the middle ages Cologne has contributed greatly to the development of European
The Swiss architect Fritz Haller famously developed a space colony as a means to allow him to explore his ideas
As more loyal readers will be aware, we are firmly of the opinion that increasing digital technology must be employed,
If the Light + Building trade fair in Frankfurt is home to exhibitors the majority of us have never heard
In addition to the exhibition of their work in Cologne, the A&W Designer of the Year crown also allows the
Back at Milan 2009 we stumbled by chance across “My Bauhaus is better than yours”, an exhibition featuring works by
2016 sees Augsburg based manufacturer Müller Möbelfabrikation celebrate their 20th anniversary, and to mark their round birthday the company have
According to Brigitte Eiermann her late husband, the German architect and designer Egon Eiermann, would work so long on a
For reasons known only to the IMM 2016 organisers the numerous segments composing the “Talents” section – that section of
As we noted in our post from the 2015 Garden Unique Youngstars competition, the contemporary outdoor furniture market is a
2016 sees the 20th anniversary of German architecture and design magazine A&W’s “Designer of the Year Award.” Following on from
There can be little argument that nature is, was and always will be the best designer, the most efficient designer:
Radio is without question the most universal and democratic of all media, in many ways we are all raised on
We first became aware of Florian Kallus and Sebastian Schneider a.k.a design studio kaschkasch before they were kaschkasch, when they
Cologne isn’t a city which creativity only visits every January in the form of the IMM Cologne furniture trade fair
December is famously a half month – no one does anything useful in the second half of the month, unless
We know. We know. It’s January. Everyone just wants to sit at home feeling poor, fat and unloved……. Much more