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Touch
Touch Collection for Nespresso by Geckeler Michels. A choice of black pigmented porcelain guarantees...
Urban Robot: The early works of 伊東 豊雄 Toyo Ito
Toyo Ito (伊東 豊雄) was born 1 June 1941 in Seoul, Korea to Japanese parents. In 1943, he moved...
Versuchsaufbau A
Die Grundidee des Versuchsaufbaus–A beruht auf dem System der astronomischen Sonnenuhr. Sonnenuhre...
Russian Modernism
Russian architectural sketches from the nineteen-twenties.
Laucke Siebein, Amsterdam and Berlin
Studio Laucke Siebein is a design studio based in Amsterdam and Berlin. Dirk Laucke (1965) – born ...
B3 / Wassily
An icon of 20th century design, the Model B3 or Wassily chair was designed by Marcel Breuer between ...
Permanent Objects
Simon Freund of Simon&Me is a young German artist working in the field of consumable goods. Each obj...
Hans Poelzig: Architecture as Gesamtkunstwerk
Architect Hans Poelzig (1869 – 1936) was an eclectic visionary. He worked with sculptural effects,...
New York by Louis Faurer
Louis Faurer (1916 – 2001) was an American fashion and street photographer. The significance of h...
Sebastian Stoskopff the Painter of Vessels
Sebastian (or Sébastien) Stoskopff (Strasbourg, July 13, 1597 – Idstein February 10, 1657) was an...
Jean Arp: Randomness
Randomness was a key part of Jean Arp’s work right from the creation of the first dadaist group in...
Ginzburg and Milinis: Narkomfin
Narkomfin Apartment Building, 25 Novinskii Boulevard, Moscow. Architects: Moisei Ginzburg and Ignati...
Material zur elementaren Gestaltung
1G Material zur Elementaren Gestaltung. Published by Graeff, El Lissitzky, Hans Richter. Contributio...
Time Bandits
Visual communication artist Sabine Marx-Nieder is based in Munich, Germany.
Schlör car
The Schlörwagen, named for it’s developer, German engineer Karl Schlör, was an experimental car ...
Bob Noorda
Bob Noorda was one of the most international Italian graphic designers. He created iconic covers for...
The medium is the message
World records: a tribute to ana­log acoustic art by Kai Schäfer. The great albums in music history...
Édouard Vuillard: Turn of the Century Paris
A painter of interiors and park landscapes, Vuillard created his first lithograph series in black-an...
Eisenschokolade
Sculptures by Thomas Rentmeister. 1964 born in Reken / Westphalia, lives in Berlin ...
Deutschland
Design of painted wall texts by Rasmus Koch studio for artist Jens Haaning. In 2004, Jens Haaning wr...
Heinrich Hoerle, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and Anton Raederscheidt
Paintings by Heinrich Hoerle, born 1895, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, born 1894, and Anton Räderscheidt, ...
Peak Oil
"I create sculptures based on sublime moments. These are moments that fill a person with amazement, ...
Modigliani: Your real duty is to save your dream
"What I am searching for is neither the real nor the unreal, but the subconscious, the mystery of wh...
Neighborhood
A bi-annual competition organised by architekturbild e.v. and Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfu...
Daniel Lorch
Daniel Lorch, born 1980 in Baden-Baden, Germany, studied Communication Design at HTWG Konstanz. Dani...
Minoru Yamasaki and Jean Baudrillard
Minoru Yamasaki, best known as the architect of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, created several...
Gernot Oberfell and Jan Wertel
WertelOberfell was founded in 2007 by Gernot Oberfell and Jan Wertel. Both studied Industrial Design...
László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy was born 1895 in Bácsborsód, Austria-Hungary. He attended Gymnasium in the ci...
The New Social
From April 1st to Mary 31st 2015, twelve outstanding young European photographers will be presenting...
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Chromointerference
"Color is not simply the color of things or the color of form, but an evolving situation, a reality ...
Structure and Movement: Gerhard von Graevenitz
Gerhard von Graevenitz (1934 - 1983 ) was a German kinetic artist, representative of Op-Art and earl...
Cine-Teatro Garrett
In designing the proposal for the new identity and branding system for Cine-Teatro Garrett, one of t...
Paul Rand
A selection of work by eminent American graphic designer Paul Rand.
Public Paper
Paper craft by art director Bartek Elsner, Berlin.
Noam Weiner
Noam Weiner is an illustrator from Tel Aviv, currently living in Hamburg, Germany. She graduated wit...
Imminent Reality
Maiko Gubler is a visual artist working with digital modeling tools in imagery and sculpture. After ...
Din ディン Futura フーツラ
Fonts as glasses: Type glasses, Tokyo.
Welcome to Wonderland
Born in Hamburg, TOMAAS has lived in NYC for 18 years and is now based in Paris. His images have bee...
Klas & Schenk-Mischke
Klas & Schenk-Mischke is Matthias Klas and Philipp Schenk-Mischke, both graduates from the Universit...
佐藤 卓 Taku Satoh
佐藤 卓 Taku Satoh 東京生まれ。東京都練馬区立関町北小学校、東京都練馬...
Terraform
Josef Schulz studied at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie where he encountered both Bernd and Hilla Bech...
Borgward: The Steve Jobs of German cars
The Borgward Group was founded in 1919 by Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward. Borgward produced a wide ...
This damned city is a big mirror
Ruine is Neven Allgeier and Benedikt Fischer, German photographers working between Frankfurt and Ber...
Geckeler Michels
GECKELER MICHELS is an industrial design studio founded in 2013 by David Geckeler and Frank Michels....
Weapons of Mass Distraction
Since 2001 The artist duo //////////fur//// (Voker Morawe/TilmanReiff) creates multi-sensory artefac...
Thomas Lohr
Thomas Lohr was born in the south of Germany in the early 80s. After his photo design studies in Ber...
MA/U
Studio MA/U is Mikal Harrsen and Adam Hall. With more than a decade of experience in the design indu...
Best Highrises 2014/15
DAM - Deutsches Architektur Zentrum in Frankfurt, Germany has selected the winners of best best desi...
18 classic chairs
The chair is one of the most fascinating design objects of all time. An exhibition at the Gorcums Mu...
Jason Munn
Jason Munn (1975) grew up in Neenah, Wisconsin, but now calls Oakland, California home. He began mak...
Where Do I End And The World Begins: Hubert & Fischer
Founded by Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer, Hubert & Fischer is a design studio with offices in...
20th Century Avantgarde Magazines: Bauhaus, Blok, Mecano
Selected pages and illustrations from 20th century avant-garde magazines: Bauhaus No. 2, Germany 192...
Studio FIELD: Marcus Wendt and Vera-Maria Glahn
Studio FIELD is Marcus Wendt and Vera-Maria Glahn, both of which studied at the School of Arts and D...
William Glackens
Glackens was a boyhood friend of Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951), the Philadelphia-born pharmaceutica...
A Feast Of Colours
Expressionism, an artistic movement in which pictorial imagery is depicted through dramatically expr...
Room Portraits
Through challenging camera angles Menno Aden abstracts most familiar actual living environments and ...
Gegenwartskunst
Lamm & Kirch is a graphic design studio in Leipzig, Germany, focusing on the creation of books, visu...
Matteo Imbriani: Italian Interior
Innamorato della fotografia fin da quando era un adolescente, Matteo Imbriani (Milano, 1980) e cresc...
Haubitz+Zoche: Movie Theatres
"In three journeys between 2010 and 2013 we have photographed movie theatres from the ‘Thirties to...
Melanie Homann
Melanie Homann 2004–09 studies in communication design at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts in Ki...
Posters from Germany, Austria, Switzerland
In the spirit of media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s widely known book The Medium is the Massage: An...
Don't pay the ferryman
Series "La Gondola" by German photographer Dirk Broemmel. Dirk was born 1968 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg. ...
German Pop
Was there Pop Art in Germany? Pop, which began in Great Britain and the USA and was quickly establis...
Timo Meyer
Timo Meyer is a graphic artist and illustrator, currently living and working in Bonn, Germany. Clien...
The Dubai
Tor Seidel lives in Berlin and Dubai. Tor specialises in photography, but works also with installati...
Studio Tonique
The activities of Studio Tonique include graphic design, publishing, editing, research and curatoria...
Auf den Hund gekommen
Paul Philippe Raabe is a graphic designer and photographer based in Darmstadt, Germany. He studied a...
American Spirits
Noah Love studied at Orange Coast College and Academy of Art University San Francisco. He is art dir...
Superpaper
Jan Lichte studied at Fachhochschule Muenster. He works in his studio in Munich and for Gruner and ...
Mehr Licht
Lighting design by Reinhard Dienes. Reinhard Dienes studied at Offenbach Academy of Arts and Design....
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Casa Sperimentale
One of the most visionary built experiments of 20th century architecture was created through the per...
Haribo Centennial
Haribo, the company behind the bear-shaped fruit-flavored jelly candy from Germany, is 100 years old...
chair_ONE
chair_ONE is the best known design by Konstantin Grcic, a German furniture designer whose work is eq...
Rudolf Belling
Rudolf Belling was sculptor, designer, architect and stage designer. In 1908, he founded a studio fo...
penccil
Concept, branding, design and coding of penccil, the site for creative people, studios and gallerie...
The e-scooter Boom
The German Ministry of Transport announced that it will legalize e-scooters as road vehicles. All Ge...
Private Labels are soaring
On August 1, AP News reported the closing of stores at the New York and Chicago Magnificent Mile sho...
Who made this chair????
mystery chair...metal work reminds me of Robert Slezák. Limited chair production by Dupre-Perrin in...
VAW
In late 2018, we proposed a strategic repositioning of Vienna Art Week. We suggested a fundamental...
Kunio Makaewa
Kunio Maekawa was a master of Japanese modernist architecture. He learned under Le Corbusier and was...
Jerszy Seymour Amateurtopia
Berlin born and –based designer Jerszy Seymour studied engineering at South Bank Polytechnic 1987 ...
Cutting the edges
Arctic Paper launches new swatch books for the brands Arctic, Amber and G-Print, as well as the two ...
Le Drugstore Brand Identity
Design&Practice designed the brand identity for the newly opened restaurant "Le Drugstore," with int...
Franz Kline
Around 1950, Franz Kline radically simplified painting: “Instead of making a sign you can read, yo...
Brand
Brand and product development project for a series of Korean premium specialty food products. (C) Ma...
Identity
Corporate Identity development for Qatar Foundation, 2007. Public facing spaces: interiors, exterior...
klub katarakt 12
klub katarakt, the festival for experimental music, takes place for the twelfth time at Kampnagel, H...
Memphis Posters
4 posters by the legendary Italian design collective Memphis Milano.
Kippenberger
Martin Kippenberger (born 1953 in Dortmund, died 1997 in Vienna) is one of the foremost and simultan...
German Art since 1960
German ‘paragons of painting’ such as Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff and Markus Lüpertz have ...
The Bauhaus Revolution
The Bauhaus was the most influential design school of the 20th century. See more in the new magazin...
In Orbit
"When I look at these complex layers of translucent lines and spheres, I am reminded of models of th...
Une Cité Industrielle by Tony Garnier
Tony Garnier designed the plans of an ideal city during his stay at the Villa Médicis from 1899 to ...
20th Century Italian Tables
A collection of 20th century Italian table designs.
Robert Slezak
A trained locksmith from Bystrice pod Hostýnem, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Robert Sl...
Jorge Zalszupin and L'Atelier
Jorge Zalszupin (b. 1922), a native of Warsaw, Poland, studied architecture at Bucharest's Ecole des...
Luigi Colani
Colani studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Arts, Berlin and aerodynamics at the Sorbonn...
Harrison and Abramovitz
Architects Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz, who worked independently in New York in a partnershi...
Man. Kiki. Lee.
The muses of Emmanuel Radnitzky (Man Ray) "All I need is an onion, a bit of bread, and a bottle of ...
Attachment
Chairs by German designers Yvonne Fehling & Jennie Peiz.
Sketching: Bellini, Castiglioni, Colombo, Mari, Magistretti, Munari, Ponti, Sottsass
The essence of a classic design is best seen in its very first sketch. A unique selection of sketche...
Erwin Poell: Naturwissenschaft + Technik
Erwin Poell (1930) is a German graphic designer. From 1951 he studied with Walter Brudi at the State...
101 x 101
AFTER STUDYING GRAPHIC AND PRODUCT DESIGN AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY FOR ART AND DESIGN KARLSRUHE IN GE...
German Painting after the 1960s
What is so 'German' about the art made by German painters and sculptors after the 1960s to now? The ...
Merzbau
"The Merzbau is the construction of an interior from sculptural forms and colours. In the glazed gro...
Harry Seidler
Harry Seidler was born in Vienna in 1923 as son of Rose and Max Seidler. Rose was able to pursue her...
Symphonie
Posters for the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Bureau Mirko Borsche is a graphic desi...
constructing meaning in 3 steps
Frank Hülsbömer was born 1968 in Münster/Germany.
Oskar Schlemmer: Das Triadische Ballett
After Walter Gropius founded the stage workshop in 1921, Oskar Schlemmer, the head of the stage work...
The Sea by Emil Nolde
Born in the village of Nolde in 1902, Emil Hansen came from a family of peasants. Nolde completed an...
Bender Chair
The human body is not built for rigid sitting on a chair over an extended period. In fact, moving an...
Antonio Sant´Elia: The house of concrete, glass and steel
"No architecture has existed since 1700. A moronic mixture of the most various stylistic elements us...