Dear readers,
The birds are getting us out of bed again in the mornings with their song. Perhaps the sparrows are also chirping from the rooftops that our IDZ member event on 21 March will take us to motion and sound designer Alexander Wodrich in Berlin-Kreuzberg. We cordially invite you to join us!
If you would like to apply for the highest state award for ecological design, you can still participate in the German Ecodesign Award until mid-April. We only announced the new winners of the UX Design Awards last Friday, and the next season is already starting—the call for the UX Design Awards—Autumn 2024 is open until 31 May!
We wish you an excellent start to spring!
Your IDZ Team
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IDZ Member of the Month
Experience One, introduced by Jens Fauth
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IDZ Member of the Month for March is the founder-managed agency for digital transformation and innovation Experience One, presented here by Jens Fauth.
Since 2006, 150+ experience engineers at three locations have been designing pioneering digital solutions for brands and companies such as Mercedes-Benz, AOK, Bosch, Zeiss, EnBW and Finanz Informatik from the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe. The goal is to spark innovation in Germany and secure a competitive edge. With sustainable design that focuses on people.
Jens Fauth is the Managing Director of Experience One in Berlin. His professional career includes positions at Razorfish and Syzygy and as Managing Director of BBDO.
Jens Fauth's Inspiration
All contributions to our “Member of the Month” series can be found on the IDZ website!
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Alexander Wodrich
Motion Design & Audio Branding
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On 21 March, Alexander Wodrich, Managing Director of the agency why do birds, invites you to join him. He will provide insights into the world of motion design and motion branding and explain why these disciplines are becoming increasingly important for brand communication. How do brands present themselves “on-brand” in the fast-moving social media jungle, and what tools are there to ensure a consistent presence?
As moving images are rarely managed without sound, the interface with sound will also be addressed. Look forward to excellent audio examples!
IDZ Event at Alexander Wodrich – why do birds
Kreuzbergstr. 37/38 | 10965 Berlin (Google Maps)
21 March, 2024
Admission from 6 pm, start 7 pm, networking & drinks: 8 - 9 pm
Participation is free of charge.
We ask for registration.
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German Ecodesign Award 2024
Nachgefragt
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In our video series, the current winners of the German Ecodesign Award talk about their experiences in the competition and how the award has impacted their project and company.
Hansgrohe SE and IDZ member PHOENIX kick things off with their award-winning project “hansgrohe Planet Edition”. Further clips appear weekly on our LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook pages.
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!
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UX Design AwardsSpring Winner Announcement / Autumn Call until 31 May
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Winners announced
The winners of the first round of the UX Design Awards 2024 were announced on 1 March. The UX Design Award | Gold goes to the EK Omnia coffee grinder from Mahlkönig, designed by IMAGO Design. The jury praised the careful design, the thorough user research, the seamless integration of physical and digital interfaces, the high-quality materials, and the intuitive user guidance, among other things. The jury also awarded prizes to six professional and six New Talent solutions. The Audience Award went to the Elsewhere with Apple project by Alina Danilyuk. A recording of the Winner Announcement and an online exhibition with all winning and nominated projects can be found on the UX Design Awards website. Congratulations to all the winners!
Second #UXDA24 Call for Entries until 31 May 31
The call for entries for the UX Design Awards – Autumn 2024 was also launched on 1 March. Companies, agencies, professionals, and young designers are again invited to submit their best work for the global competition for outstanding experience design until 31 May. All details on participation and the competition dates can be found on the UXDA website.
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Berlin Design Innovation Challenge 2024
Award for IDZ Berlin
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Photo: Greta Maria Asgeirsdottir
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With our concept “Future-proof through sustainable design – eco-design in theory and practice,” we were successful in this year’s Project Future competition organized by the Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises. The award ceremony by Senator for Economic Affairs Franziska Giffey at the end of February was an excellent opportunity to discuss the potential of design with the Senator, the jury, and the other six winners and to present all the projects in person.
We are delighted with the recognition. We will use the prize money to organize a series of seminars and workshops for knowledge transfer and ecodesign community building in Berlin in the fall. More information to follow!
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ahead media
H.O.M.E.D.E.P.O.T 2024 - furniture fair in Vienna
The H.O.M.E. HAUS 2024 by Jasper Architects is this year’s trade fair highlight and can be viewed as a model or experienced as a virtual reality tour. Get your free ticket here and make your way to Vienna’s Semperdepot, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna studio building, between 15 and 17 March. The H.O.M.E. cordially invites you.
Gesellschaft für Designgeschichte
New partners & members
The Society for Design History has recently partnered with the Swiss Design History Network. In addition, the Dieter and Ingeborg Rams Foundation has joined the GfDg as a new member to promote responsible and rational design and a “scientifically sound reappraisal and effective public presentation of the founders’ design activities.”
c. fischer innenarchitekten
New projects
For c.fischer interior designers, a new project always means understanding the client’s needs and harmonizing them with the budget, construction processes, and design. For example, the Federal Foundation for Gender Equality involved a lot of color. Structural and design interventions refresh the Business & Management Library at TU Berlin. And in an apartment in Berlin Mitte, everyone likes to gather in the new kitchen.
eckedesign
Hugo Junkers in Persia
With the traveling exhibition Hugo Junkers in Persia, eckedesign is drawing attention to a new, international aspect of the Saxon success story - the Bauhaus, Central German chemistry, the first powered flight and the pioneering inventions of Hugo Junkers. In the Junkers lightweight design, of course!
Intuity Media Lab
Award for AI project
Intuity Media Lab won an ideas competition on artificial intelligence organized by the German Federal Ministry of Labour. The successful team is now looking forward to developing AI solutions that create genuine added value and making these solutions and potentials available. Congratulations, and good luck!
Scholz & Volkmer
see-Conference 2024
Gaining knowledge through visualization - the core of the see-Conference at the Kulturzentrum Schlachthof Wiesbaden e.V. - one of the largest design conferences in Germany with over 800 participants. Since 2006, it 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! There is a discount for our members. Please contact us if you are interested.
wirDesign
Practical seminar on employer branding
In an intensive one-day seminar on 7 May, participants will learn how to develop a strong employer brand. They will learn which initial steps are necessary to approach employer branding strategically and how their organization can achieve sustainable success as an employer. You can find more information here.
The temporary bauhaus-archiv
Otti Berger exhibition
In the 1930s, textile designer Otti Berger created fabrics for modernist architecture that still fascinate today. Her designs combine aesthetics, function, and technical innovation impressively and fundamentally changed our understanding of what textiles can be and achieve. In the exhibition, which runs from 15 March to 24 August, an installation by Judith Raum brings Otti Berger’s work to life for the senses. A new video work can be seen alongside two large-format wall fabrics that have been elaborately rewoven especially for the exhibition.
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Bode Museum
Ius in nummis. The Thomas Würtenberger Collection
The important new acquisition “Ius in nummis. The Thomas Würtenberger Collection” forms the occasion and content of the special exhibition of the Coin Cabinet at the Bode Museum on Museum Island until 7 April. It was compiled over half a century and comprises more than 3,000 objects, mainly medals and some coins, focusing on the modern legal history of Western Europe in an increasingly global perspective.
Bode Museum
Contemporary Ukrainian Art in Times of War
The sculpture collection and the Museum of Byzantine Art in the Bode Museum house objects from the 3rd to the 18th century. Despite the historical distance and the often Christian-influenced motifs, these representatives of European cultural history are often still astonishingly topical and socially relevant today. The exhibition runs until 17 March.
Frankfurter Tor 9
Berlin Design Circles
The first event in the BDC | Berlin Design Circles series will occur on 14 March. The new series of events organized by Berlin Design e.V. aims to promote the exchange of design experts (Design Executive, Leader, Professor, or Expert) to tackle common challenges and develop innovative projects.
Hamburger Bahnhof
Joseph Beuys - Collection presentation
With 15 key works, the new parcours, which will be exhibited for the first time in the Kleihueshalle from 22 March, explore the complex work and reception of Joseph Beuys. In addition to the environment “DAS KAPITAL RAUM 1970-1977” (1980), the works include sculptures, drawings, multiples, and pioneering actions such as “I like America and America likes Me” (1974).
Hamburger Bahnhof
Naama Tsabar
Naama Tsabar’s art transcends the boundaries of sculpture, music, performance, and architecture: Hamburger Bahnhof presents the installation and performance artist with her first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. The exhibition, which opens on 22 March, comprises three work complexes with participatory wall and floor works that the public can activate as instruments.
HKW House of World Cultures
Echoes of the brother countries
From 2 March to 20 May, the exhibition and research project Echoes of the Brother Countries is dedicated to the often overlooked political, economic, educational, and artistic interdependencies, exchange processes, and migration movements between the GDR and other socialist-oriented states, the so-called ‘brother countries.’
Humboldt Forum
Seasonal motifs in art from Japan
The temporary presentation of artworks according to the season or occasion is traditionally practiced in Japan and other East Asian countries; it also characterizes the regular, three-monthly change of exhibits in the Art from Japan section of the Museum of Asian Art. The exhibition runs until 11 March.
janinebeangallery
MASCH / -The Past is Now-
The exhibition “The Past is Now” presents the latest series of works by the artist MASCH for the first time and only until 13 April. In the works of the series, the figures and forms are divided into polygons and relatively homogeneous surfaces against abstract backgrounds. These fields are characterized and distinguished by monochrome colors and uniform textures, and their contours follow a superordinate geometry of shapes.
Kunstgewerbemuseum
More than Human - Design after the Anthropocene
On 22 March, the Kunstgewerbemuseum is launching a new discursive platform with pop-up exhibitions, lectures, workshops, and discussion panels to explore the complex concept of more than humans from the perspective of the design disciplines, particularly design. At the same time, a speculative Wunderkammer will be created that will also consider previously neglected contributions from non-human actors.
Lobe Block Event Space
BETWEEN opposites - sustainable consumption and social participation
plan A+ Klima & Kultur e.V. invites you to a fishbowl discussion on 16 March on the following questions: What role does social justice play in sustainability and consumer behavior? What opportunities lie in improving economic and social relations between urban and rural areas? How can economic and social sustainability succeed in times of crisis and increasing polarization? Afterward, there will be an opportunity to network.
Various locations
Berlin Design Week
From 27 April to 5 May, designers, institutions, and companies will be presenting visionary concepts and exhibitions at the BERLIN DESIGN WEEK and will be present live at talks and networking events. Apply now if you want to join the diverse program in Berlin - the registration deadline is 17 March.
Various locations
European Arts and Crafts Days
From 5 April to 7, exhibition spaces, workshops, and studios will once again open their doors for the European Arts and Crafts Days (ETAK): this weekend, Berlin artisans and designers invite you to take a look behind the scenes and get to know the diversity of Berlin’s arts and crafts. The Berlin Chamber of Crafts calls on artisans and creative people to participate!
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National and International
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Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft
German Creative Economy Summit
On 6 and 7 March, the Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft invites players from the creative industries for the first time to exchange ideas with politicians, scientists and administrators to sustainably improve the framework conditions for the creative industries in Germany. The German Creative Economy Summit will focus on the defining topics of our time: creative AI, financing and monetization, internationalization, education, innovation, social systems, sustainability, urban development, skilled workers, and intellectual property.
Hamburg
MK&G: Be With the Revolution
Until 31 March, the exhibition “Be With the Revolution” at the MK&G highlights the role of street art and graphic design in the protests in the Arab world since 2011. Central themes are the dissemination of protest images in urban and digital spaces, feminism and sexualized violence, the rediscovery of Arabic script as a political language, and the memory of the victims of the protests.
Leipzig
Museum für Druckkunst Leipzig: Time to print 4
For the fourth time, the Museum für Druckkunst has allowed four artists to realize their printing projects on historical presses and printing machines as part of its Artist in Residence program. The exhibition opens on 14 March.
London
The Design Museum: Enzo Mari
From 29 March, the exhibition will pay tribute to the life and work of Enzo Mari. The work of this great Italian designer of the 20th century has inspired generations of creative people worldwide.
Munich
Haus der Kunst: In other rooms.
The group exhibition “In other rooms. Environments by Women Artists 1956-1976” highlights the fundamental contributions of women to the history of environments. The works of eleven female artists from three generations in Asia, Europe, and North and South America are presented. The exhibition can be visited until 10 March.
Potsdam
Potsdam
DAS MINSK Kunsthaus: Soft Power
From 16 March, THE MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam is showing the group exhibition Soft Power, which presents textile design as an artistic means of expression that can be used to question power relations. The exhibition thematizes aspects of textile art in three chapters.
Supra-regional
Cavalaire-sur-Mer: greenD-Seaside 24 - Summer School
From 12 to 19 June, the greenD working group’s summer school will take place in Cavaleire sur Mer for the third time. There are six places available for students from various design colleges and universities. Applications will be accepted until 19 April.
Weil am Rhein
Vitra Design Museum: Transform!
Design plays a vital role in the current energy transition. The exhibition “Transform! Design and the Future of Energy” will be dedicated to the transformation of the energy sector from a design perspective from 23 March: from everyday products for the use of renewable energies to the design of solar houses and wind turbines, from intelligent mobility concepts to the future vision of energy self-sufficient cities.
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Trade Fairs and Conferences
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