Dear readers,
At the beginning of February, Berlin Fashion Week will again offer wonderful inspiration without disregarding important topics such as inclusion and sustainability. If you would like to actively participate in Berlin Design Week in April/May, you can apply for a place in the program until the end of February.
The see-Conference in Wiesbaden, initiated by our member Scholz & Volkmer, is an excellent opportunity to visit the Rhine-Main region. Something is growing and thriving there - and not just Riesling. Make sure you get your tickets soon!
Naturally, we also look forward to seeing you again soon in Berlin.
Your IDZ Team
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IDZ Member of the Month
Theresa Werner
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Our member of the month for February 2024 is engineer and industrial designer Theresa Werner. Since last year, she has been working as a product designer at Karl Storz in Berlin, where she is involved in developing innovative and user-centered medical technology solutions at the interface between design and technology.
Theresa completed her Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at Ruhr University Bochum. She then went on to complete her Master's degree in industrial engineering with a focus on medical technology in Berlin. After visiting an exhibition at HTW, she was inspired to pursue a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design in 2019 - again, with great success: Dia+, the inclusive therapy concept for children with type 1 diabetes, which she developed for her final thesis, won the UX Design Award | New Talent in 2023, among others.
Theresa's Inspiration
Rutger Bregman: “Humankind – A Hopeful History”
All contributions to our “Member of the Month” series can be found on the IDZ website!
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A look back at the IDZ Member Circle:
Gen AI & Experience Design
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Last Thursday, together with the digital agency Experience One, we hosted an exclusive networking event and talk in Berlin-Mitte. The event marked the start of our new Member Circle series, with which we want to offer our members even more regular opportunities for networking and professional exchange. This time, the focus was on technology and experience design. Corporate members of the IDZ as well as former, current and future jurors of the UX Design Awards were invited.
Jens Fauth, Managing Director of Experience One in Berlin, presented some current cases to show how Generative AI is changing workflows within the agency and what prospects are opening up for companies.
You can find a brief review of the event with the three most important takeaways from Jens Fauth on Linkedin.
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German Ecodesign Award 2024
Participate until April 15!
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Companies of all sectors and sizes, designers and students from all over Europe have until 15 April to submit their projects for the German Ecodesign Award!
Participation is open to market-ready products and services as well as concepts and student projects. The focus is on progressive ideas that are not only convincing in terms of design, but also ecologically. In addition to design innovations, technical and social innovations are also in demand.
Do you know someone or are you working on a pioneering project yourself? Then recommend the German Ecodesign Award to others and apply for the highest state award for ecological design in Germany at bundespreis-ecodesign.de
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UX Design Awards – Spring 2024
And the Nominees are ...
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The UX Design Awards – Spring 2024 nominees were unveiled last week. After a meticulous evaluation process, the jury selected 118 outstanding projects from a competitive pool of 412 participants representing 53 countries.
We invite you to visit the online exhibition on the UX Design Awards website to discover the nominees and their impressive work.
You can also actively support your favorite project by voting in the online poll for the UX Design Award | Public Choice before it concludes on 25 February. The competition winners will be announced on 1 March. Registration for the announcement is already open!
In our next Deep Dive on 14 February, Silvano D’Orazio, Group Head of User Experience and Brand at Tyme Group, will walk us through their two award-winning projects, “GoTyme Bank Kiosk” and “GoTyme Bank App.” Please register here.
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Berlin Showroom
goes Paris Fashion Week
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From 29 February to 3 March, Berlin Showroom will present five Berlin labels at the Tranoï fashion fair during Paris Fashion Week: Pugnat, Vladimir Karaleev, CCY Currency, Dennis Chuene, and W1P will show their Autumn/Winter 24/25 collections.
Berlin Showroom was initiated by Projekt Zukunft / Senate Department for Economics, Energy, and Public Enterprises. It is financed mainly by the “Programme for Internationalization” and the ERDF fund.
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Society for Design History
Call for Papers Annual Conference 2024
In 2024, the GfDg's annual conference will focus on the history of performance-enhancing textiles - from workwear and polar gear to performance wear in elite sports. The developments in materials, production processes and joining and cutting techniques will be examined, as well as the resulting garments and their diverse functions. Papers can be submitted up to and including 29 February.
PLEXGROUP
Letting brands shine
The magic of light in brand design works. Unusual light installations help to attract attention in a completely new way, beyond the glowing logo at the entrance. An office with a glass façade? How about a light show in the foyer with the brand visual that is also visible on the street? The façade is in the dark? Light accents with a long-distance effect draw the eye to your headquarters. The PLEXGROUP not only illuminates the Hasso Plattner Institute.
Scholz & Volkmer
see-conference 2024
Gaining knowledge through visualization is the core of “see” at the Kulturzentrum Schlachthof Wiesbaden e.V., one of the largest design conferences in Germany with over 800 participants. Since 2006, the see conference has been dedicated to data and information visualization. And increasingly in the context of sustainable concepts because only good staging makes social truths visible amidst the flood of information. Get your tickets now for 6 and 7 April !
SIBB
Forum Artificial Intelligence & Quantum Computing (AI & QC)
At the kick-off of the SIBB Forum, various questions relating to artificial intelligence and how quantum computing will ignite the next level of AI will be discussed. The current AI ecosystem in Berlin will also be presented. A fishbowl discussion, “One year after ChatGPT - Expectations for AI and QC in 2024,” and a get-together will round off the event on 20 February.
wirDesign
New brand identity for KoWo
For a mission statement to be understood, accepted, and lived, it must be authentic. That's why wirDesign worked together with the employees of Kommunale Wohnungsgesellschaft mbH Erfurt (KoWo) to develop various levels and areas. It describes the self-image according to which KoWo acts, is actively directed inwards, and presents a clear image to the outside world: by people for people.
The temporary bauhaus archive
design history(ies)
From 3 February, contemporary design meets the Bauhaus in five short films in which collector and publicist Wolfgang Binder presents cleverly designed everyday objects from the past 60 years. Animated drawings tell the stories behind the designs in an entertaining and informative way, and the short films will be shown together with the corresponding objects in the gallery of the temporary bauhaus-archiv.
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Berlin
Berlin Design Week
Applications and registration for BERLIN DESIGN WEEK are open until the end of February. From 27 April to 5 May, designers, institutions and companies will be presenting visionary concepts and exhibitions over a period of eleven days, with live talks and networking events. If you would like to be part of the diverse program in Berlin, you need to apply now.
Architecture Gallery Berlin
Günther L. Eckert: The Tube - An Architectural Utopia
The German architect Günther L. Eckert developed a utopian tube that would house everyone - always intended as a utopia, without any intention of realization. He wanted to show how architecture could help to reduce resource consumption and environmental destruction. Until 2 March, the Architektur Galerie Berlin invites you to immerse yourself in Eckert's deliberately utopian world of thought and let your imagination run wild for a short while.
daadgallery
Karim Aïnouz: BLAST!
Karim Aïnouz's distinctive visual language transcends formal boundaries - from experimental queer cinema to complex character studies and poetic explorations of his Brazilian-Algerian heritage. Starting 2 February, the BLAST! project brings together Aïnouz's cinematic work with his lesser-known photographic and installation practice for the first time, providing intimate insights into the filmmaker's visual archive, which has grown over decades.
Futurium
How do we want to live?
The exhibition at the Futurium presents and discusses various concepts for the future: How do we want to work and live in the future? What technologies will we use, and how will we use them? How do we fulfill our needs without harming nature even more? How do we want to live together? We are operating in an area of great tension, setting priorities, and taking action.
Humboldt Forum
Kimsooja - (Un)Folding Bottari
The exhibition is the first in a series of new projects that mark the Humboldt Forum as a venue for contemporary artistic and social debates. It presents 14 works and groups of works by the Korean-born, internationally exhibiting artist, which will unfold in various media in the exhibitions of the Museum of Asian Art and the Ethnological Museum in the Humboldt Forum until 19 February.
Kupferstichkabinett
Rescued Modernism - Masterpieces from Kirchner to Picasso
In 1937, numerous works of classical modern art were also removed from the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett as part of the National Socialist "Degenerate Art" campaign. The curator at the time, Willy Kurth, bravely saved hundreds of prints from imminent loss. Based on the publication "Die Aktion 'Entartete Kunst' 1937 im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett" (The Degenerate Art Campaign 1937 in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett), the exhibition from 2 February will use selected works to show what escaped confiscation at the time.
Kraftwerk Berlin
Vektor - Memories in Light & Sound
Christopher Bauder returns to Kraftwerk Berlin until 7 April with a spectacular large-format kinetic light art installation, VEKTOR.
Kunstgewerbemuseum
Past Intelligence - Givenchy. Uli Richter. Students.
Students of the Macromedia University, Atelier Chardon Savard, have studied the dress and its cut and created their objects inspired by the designer Givenchy, the cut, and the material. The results of this project will be shown alongside the Givenchy dress and its cut as a central point in the Kunstgewerbemuseum's fashion cabinet from 2 February.
Museum of Photography
Chronorama - Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century
Following the tremendous public success of the first stop at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the Helmut Newton Foundation, in cooperation with the Pinault Collection, will be showing 250 works by outstanding photographers, including Helmut Newton, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, and Irving Penn, from 15 February.
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National and International
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Bern
Zentrum Paul Klee: Hannah Höch Montierte Welten
The exhibition explores Hannah Höch's engagement with modern visual culture, particularly her fascination with film and photography. Around 60 of her photomontages, as well as numerous films, artworks, and documents from her circle - from Kurt Schwitters and László Moholy-Nagy to Man Ray and Max Ernst - reveal how Höch developed and perfected photomontage in the tense interwar period. The exhibition ends on 25 February.
DACH Room
Announcement of the bf-preis 2024
The bf-preis, also known as the Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg-Förderpreis für designkritische Texte, invites young designers to submit critical design texts. Students in design courses and graduates from 2020 or later are eligible to enter. A jury will decide on the prize and Niggli Verlag will publish the winning text. The award ceremony will take place in mid-November at the Akademie der Künste Berlin, organized by the Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg Foundation.
Hamburg
Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe: Linda Fregni Nagler / Reorganizing Photography: Staging the gaze
Linda Fregni Nagler combines her group of works, “How to Look at a Camera,” in an associative way with selected photographs from the MK&G collection. The compilation deals with two central aspects of the medium of photography: looking at and being looked at, visibility, and invisibility. The exhibition can be visited until 3 March.
Leipzig
Museum of Printing Arts: RGB - Red, Green, Blue. Color Stories
The exhibition RGB - Red Green Blue. Color Stories, the show on the media history of the three colors of light developed by the Musée de l'Imprimerie et de la Communication graphique in Lyon, is coming to Leipzig from 3 February to 9 June. The show delves into the color space of screens, in which every image is created from a mixture of red, green, and blue, and traces the diverse applications, effects, and symbolic meanings of these three colors.
Online
The situation of solo self-employed and hybrid workers
The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), in cooperation with Prognos AG and the Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste e.V., are surveying the situation of solo self-employed and hybrid workers in the arts, cultural and creative industries. Survey link.
Vienna
MAK: 100 BEST PLAKATE 22 - Germany Austria Switzerland
The competition 100 BESTE PLAKATE. Germany, Austria, Switzerland is one of the most important sources of inspiration in contemporary poster design. This year's exhibition series of the 100 best posters, which runs until 3 March, demonstrates that there is much more to poster design than simply placing images on public advertising spaces to attract attention.
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Trade Fairs and Conferences
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