Orgatec Cologne 2016: Richard Lampert

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………

Orgatec Cologne 2016: PrintStool by Thorsten Franck for Wilkhahn

Whereas 3D printing is omnipresent in the media, and a ubiquitous tool in contemporary research and development, in most daily

Orgatec Cologne 2016: High Five!!

We must start with a confession . This High Five! is a High Four! Not because there weren’t good products

Orgatec Cologne 2016: Vitra – Work

When we spoke with Vitra’s Chief Sales Officer Josef Kaiser at NeoCon Chicago he told us that at “Orgatec 2016

Cologne Creative: Felix Stark – As a designer you always have to make it clear what you stand for

Continuing our series of posts on creativity in Cologne, historic and contemporary, we met up with product designer Felix Stark.

Köln International School of Design – KISDparcours 2016

An important commercial, financial and administrative centre since the middle ages Cologne has contributed greatly to the development of European

Passenger Terminal Expo 2016 Cologne: USM Airportsystems

The Swiss architect Fritz Haller famously developed a space colony as a means to allow him to explore his ideas

Passenger Terminal Expo 2016 Cologne: Rimowa Electronic Tag

As more loyal readers will be aware, we are firmly of the opinion that increasing digital technology must be employed,

Passenger Terminal Expo 2016 Cologne: Vitra

If the Light + Building trade fair in Frankfurt is home to exhibitors the majority of us have never heard

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

IMM Cologne 2016: New Tendency

Back at Milan 2009 we stumbled by chance across “My Bauhaus is better than yours”, an exhibition featuring works by

IMM Cologne 2016: Müller Möbelfabrikation

2016 sees Augsburg based manufacturer Müller Möbelfabrikation celebrate their 20th anniversary, and to mark their round birthday the company have

IMM Cologne 2016: Richard Lampert

According to Brigitte Eiermann her late husband, the German architect and designer Egon Eiermann, would work so long on a

IMM Cologne 2016: Pure Talents Contest

For reasons known only to the IMM 2016 organisers the numerous segments composing the “Talents” section – that section of

IMM Cologne 2016: Thonet All Seasons Collection

As we noted in our post from the 2015 Garden Unique Youngstars competition, the contemporary outdoor furniture market is a

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

Passagen Cologne 2016: Sven Lützenkirchen & Thomas Schnur – Funktionsraum

There can be little argument that nature is, was and always will be the best designer, the most efficient designer:

RADIO Days. Tube Radios, Design Classics, Internet Radio at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Cologne

Radio is without question the most universal and democratic of all media, in many ways we are all raised on

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 2015. A pictorial review: December

December is famously a half month – no one does anything useful in the second half of the month, unless

5 New Design Exhibitions for January 2016

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

smow blog 2015. A pictorial review: August

As we noted in our 5 New Design Exhibitions for August 2015 post “Everyone, but everyone, it would appear is

smow blog 2015. A pictorial review: January

January being what it is we spent most of the month in Cologne attending the 2015 IMM Cologne Furniture Fair

Endstation Ubierring 40 at the Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne

When is a terminus not an end station? When it is the exhibition Endstation Ubierring 40 – Terminus Ubierring 40