Dear readers,
From 27 April to 5 May, Berlin Design Week invites you to experience and discuss design all over the city. We will participate in our event with our member mattership on 2 May at feldfünf. Several other IDZ members will also be present at #BDW24: Erik Spiekermann at the opening, for example, as well as Alstom, Prof. Henrik Rieß and unyt.berlin. More details below!
Four of our company members will also be represented at the upcoming UX Design Awards Jury Digest on 30 April. We are looking forward to talking to the #UXDA24 judges Gennett Aku Agbenu from Siemens, Joon-Mo Lee from PHOENIX, Annika Rupp from Scholz & Volkmer, and Bernhard Staiber from Intuity Media Lab!
And on our own behalf: We are currently offering an internship in project management in Berlin-Kreuzberg and look forward to receiving good applications.
We are looking forward to seeing you again soon and/or getting to know you!
Best regards
Your IDZ team
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IDZ Member of the Month
IONDESIGN
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Our member of the month, IONDESIGN, was founded in Berlin in 1993 by Anja Götz and Christoph Fleckenstein. Starting with just the two of them, new projects, clients, and employees were constantly added. Activities at several universities followed. Back to the roots in the studio in the lush suburbs, they are now a team of three with Tom Ruthenberg, working on entirely new ideas and tasks.
From the beginning, boundaries were crossed, including those between design disciplines, from product, packaging, interior, and public to architecture and graphics, in Germany, Europe, and worldwide. For this, IONDESIGN has been awarded all important national and international design prizes. “The most important awards for us, however, are the long-standing and trusting relationships with clients, project partners, and team members,” say Götz and Fleckenstein.
IONDESIGN accompanies the design process from the initial idea to the finished product. The focus is always on the relationship between things, people, and their environment. Design makes things usable.
All contributions to our “Member of the Month” series can be found on the IDZ website!
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IDZ Event x mattership
DESIGN INSIGHTS #3 E-Bike-City
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On 2 May, we will be continuing our DESIGN INSIGHTS event series as part of Berlin Design Week. Our guests are Jakob Lehr and Jan Hillmann-Regett, founders and owners of the design office mattership, who will present the E-Bike-City project (ETH Zurich) and ask: How good can it get?
The vision: The inclusive city of tomorrow dedicates 50 % of all streets to micromobility, such as two-wheelers and pedestrians. The two designers will provide practical insights into communicating this radical research project and report on how the joyful collaboration between design and research enables social discussion, conviction, and concrete change.
IDZ Event DESIGN INSIGHTS #3 E-Bike-City
feldfünf, Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 7-8 | 10969 Berlin (Google Maps)
2 May, 2024
Admission from 5:30 pm, start 6 pm
The lecture evening will be held in German, admission is free. As the number of seats is limited, please register in advance.
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Further IDZ members
at the Berlin Design Week
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Erik Spiekermann will present his Hacking Gutenberg project on 27 April, Berlin Design Day, under the heading “The hand is the window onto the mind.”
Alstom and unyt.Berlin will be represented in the program at the Peter Behrens Building on the following days. On 30 April, Nicole Michel and her colleague Shantanu Joshi will present Alstom’s vision of the mobility of the future under the title “Spirit of Mobility .” On 28 April, HTW Berlin will offer workshops and talks with the Master’s degree course in System Design co-initiated by Prof. Pelin Celik. Also as part of the Design & Science series, Julian Witte from unyt.berlin will provide insights into the strategic design of capital goods on 5 May.
Berlin International will also be showing excerpts from Prof. Henrik Rieß’s semester project “Punk & Participation,” which examines communication design in the context of protest and participation, in its foyer throughout the week.
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UX Design Awards – Autumn 2024
Four More Weeks / Virtual Events
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Four weeks are left to enter the UX Design Awards—Autumn 2024. The Awards website has all the details on how to enter and the competition dates. 🍀 Good luck!
On 30 April, we will stream the latest UXDA Jury Digest: Four UX Design Awards 2024 jurors return to the table to reflect on their experiences on the jury. They look back on the discussions during the judging, share their impressions of the work submitted, and give tips for future participants.
Find out what the jury members look for when making their decision. What are the decisive criteria? What does it take to effectively convey the value of a design or the impact of a product?
UX Conversations: Jury Digest
Revisiting Our Jury Experience: Impressions, Thoughts and Advice
April 30, 2024 - 5 p.m.
Further information and registration
Make a note of our next Deep Dive on 8 May, in which the developers of Nui Care will present their app for caregiving relatives, which won the UX Design Award | Product 2024. Click here to register!
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German Ecodesign Award 2024
„Thinking ahead“ at FH Salzburg
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The call for entries for the German Federal Ecodesign Award 2024 has ended, and we are delighted to have received more than 400 submissions. There have never been so many competition entries, and we are thrilled not only by the number but also by the range and quality of the projects!
While the advisory board and the Federal Environment Agency are now starting the first round of evaluation, we are focusing on the nominees and award winners of 2023 in the traveling exhibition “Thinking Ahead.” These can be seen until 23 May at the Kuchl campus of the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. The exhibition can be visited free of charge during opening hours. Guided tours are available for schools - please register at marketing.ed@fh-salzburg.ac.at.
Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
Campus Kuchl
18 April to 23 May, 2024
Market 136a | 5431 Kuchl
Monday to Friday: 8 am to 6 pm
Saturday: 9 am to 2 pm
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InnoTrans 2024
Call for Speakers
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On 25 September, the International Design Forum (IDF) will once again be part of InnoTrans, the world's leading trade fair for mobility. This year, the focus will be on innovative interior concepts for urban and regional public transport.
As the organizers of this symposium, we invite experts from research, design, and business to submit relevant case studies by 30 April. Further information is available here on the IDZ website.
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adlerschmidt
Podcast with Florian Adler
In the latest episode of the #BOLDway podcast by students at HTW Berlin, Florian Adler, Managing Partner of adlerschmidt, talks about inclusive communication design and what this has to do with empathy.
Archimedes
Knowledge communication
As a creative partner, Archimedes contributes a workshop highlight to this year's Community Day of Berlin Science Week. The communication professionals Katharina Loderstädt and Christina Rühlmann will show how to present scientific content excitingly. Due to high demand, there are currently only places on the waiting list for 7 May.
iondesign
Fountain for the Green Tech Festival 2024
Anyone who gets thirsty at this year's Green Tech Festival, which runs from 15 May to 17, can lean over IONDESIGN's award-winning drinking fountain and quench their thirst. Wonderful!
PHOENIX
Top 3 Best Design Studios in the World
IF Design honored them nine times this year - thus, PHOENIX consolidates its position as one of the "Top 3 Best Design Studios in the World"! The IF ranking is updated every three years, and PHOENIX is a constant among "the best of the best." Congratulations!
unyt.berlin
Keynote in Stuttgart
On 7 May, Julian Witte and his team colleague Bernhard Büttner from unyt.berlin will give a keynote speech at KeyShot World 2024 at the International Congress Center Stuttgart on the importance of renderings in the design process. The speech will give interested parties an insight into the day-to-day work of their industrial design agency.
Weiqiao
New materials made of aluminum
Weiqiao has introduced six new premium materials as part of its WQAL® brand series. The latest materials promise greater strength and ease of maintenance while being more sustainable and profitable in the long term. They will massively change the automotive, lightweight, and aluminum processing industries.
wirDesign
Employer branding intensive seminar
In an intensive one-day seminar on 7 May, interested parties will learn how to develop a strong employer brand. You will learn which initial steps are necessary to approach employer branding strategically and how your organization can achieve sustainable success as an employer. Further information is available here.
wirDesign
Strategic alliance with neusinger.AI
wirDesign, a leading agency for brand and design consulting, and neusinger.AI, specialists in artificial intelligence, have announced a strategic partnership. This collaboration is an absolute novelty.
Dear IDZ members: Send us your news – we will happily publish it here!
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Alte Nationalgalerie
Caspar David Friedrich: Infinite Landscapes
To mark the 250th anniversary of Caspar David Friedrich’s birth, the Alte Nationalgalerie is showing the exhibition “Infinite Landscapes.” From 19 April to 4 August, 60 paintings and 50 drawings from Germany and abroad, including world-famous icons, will be on display.
HTW Berlin
XR further education
The EU-funded AURORA XR School for Artists at HTW Berlin's 8-week training program starts with a kick-off event on 14 May. It offers an introduction to the development of augmented and virtual reality apps. Further information and registration are available under this link until 12 May!
Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award 2024
The Berlin Brandenburg Innovation Award 2024 application phase runs from 15 April to 8 July. Launched in 1984 by the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, the award has served as an instrument for the networked development of the capital region since German reunification. Every year, up to five prize winners selected by an independent jury of experts receive 15,000 euros each.
Museum Barberini, Potsdam
Modigliani. Modern Gazes
Amedeo Modigliani was a European artist in the broadest and most innovative sense. At the beginning of the 20th century, he positioned himself as a pioneer of modernism, a time of formal dissolution, abstraction, and misogyny. The exhibition “Modigliani. Modern Gazes” at the Museum Barberini, from 27 April to 18 August, brings together around 100 works. It extends the view beyond Paris and looks at his work from a European perspective.
Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts
NEXT - Young European Design
As part of Berlin Design Week, the Kunstgewerbemuseum will exhibit 30 projects and works by young design talents from eleven European countries from April 27 to May 26.
Silent Green
Pictoplasma Conference Berlin
May 1-5 marks Pictoplasma’s twentieth anniversary. The leading platform for modern drawing design and art worldwide promotes the interdisciplinary discussion and development of a new visual vocabulary. This includes illustration, animation, games, interactive design, and various urban and graphic art forms.
Various locations
Ticket B: Guided tour Brutalism in Berlin
Ticket B offers a new architectural tour of Brutalism in Berlin—rebellious, autonomous, monumental, and magical. The brutalist buildings of the post-war period, characterized by the material concrete, have an incredible radiance. Three extraordinary buildings await you on the tour, which will now take place regularly once a month and offer exclusive insights.
Various locations
Berlin Design Week
From 27 April to 5 May, designers, institutions, and companies will present visionary concepts and exhibitions at the BERLIN DESIGN WEEK and will participate live in talks and networking events.
Werkbund Archive
Reopening in new premises
After seven months of closure, the Werkbundarchiv—Museum der Dinge invites you to visit its new location at Leipziger Straße 54 in Berlin-Mitte. On 22 May, the museum will open with the special exhibition “Profitopolis or the State of the City.” A broad program of events and educational activities will accompany the exhibition. The archive and library are accessible again by appointment.
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National and International
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Düsseldorf
K20: Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky
Two great names are regarded as the leading stars of Western abstraction: on one hand, Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian painter, co-founder of the “Blue Rider” in Munich, and teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau. On the other, Hilma af Klint, the Swedish artist whose visionary work has only recently been rediscovered and has been inspiring a large audience ever since. Until 11 August, the works of af Klint and Kandinsky will be brought together for the first time in a comprehensive exhibition at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Frankfurt a. M.
Schirn Kunsthalle: The Culture
On its 50th birthday, the SCHIRN is dedicating a large, interdisciplinary exhibition to hip-hop and its profound influence on contemporary art and culture in our society. Based on hip-hop’s origins in the USA but focusing on art and music from the last 20 years, the exhibition will present over 100 paintings, photographs, sculptures, videos, fashion, and vinyl by internationally renowned contemporary artists. THE CULTURE runs until 26 May.
Hamburg
MK&G: Water Pressure
Whether too much or too little, clean or polluted, water is one of humanity’s most significant challenges. Already, 40% of the world’s population is affected by water scarcity, and this situation is set to worsen due to man-made climate change. “Water Pressure. Designing for the Future”—an exhibition by MK&G and Jane Withers Studio—takes a global perspective until 13 October.
Milan
Fondazione Prada: Miranda July
“Miranda July: New Society” is the first solo museum exhibition dedicated to Miranda July’s work. The exhibition, which runs until 14 October, spans three decades, from the early 1990s to the present day, and includes early short films, performances, and multimedia installations. The exhibition premieres F.A.M.I.L.Y (Falling Apart Meanwhile I Love You), a multi-channel video installation created by July in collaboration with seven strangers via Instagram.
Milan
Milan Design Week
From 15 April to 21, Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone will once again attract professionals, designers, and enthusiasts from all over the world. Milan Design Week transforms Milan into a stage for presenting the latest furniture design and interior architecture trends.
Paris
Bourse De Commerce: To Breathe - Constellation
As part of the exhibition “Le monde comme il va” at the Bourse De Commerce, South Korean artist Kimsooja is presenting her spectacular work “To Breathe—Constellation” until 2 September. The artwork, an expansive mirror on the floor of the museum’s rotunda, distorts Tadao Ando’s surrounding architecture and creates the impression of a sky beneath our feet.
Paris
Musée du Luxembourg: MATCH. Design & Sport
The Musée du Luxembourg is best known for its exhibitions of historical paintings. However, on the occasion of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Chris Dercon asked Konstantin Grcic to develop a curatorial concept on the theme of sport and design. The result, the exhibition “MATCH. Design & Sport - A History Looking to the Future,” can be seen in Paris until 11 August.
Weil am Rhein
Vitra Museum: Transform
Energy is the central driving force of our society: energy is political, invisible, and omnipresent. All buildings, infrastructures, and products for the generation, distribution, and use of energy are designed by people. Design, therefore, plays a vital role in the current energy transition. The exhibition “Transform! Designing the Future of Energy” is dedicated to the transformation of the energy sector from a design perspective until 1 September.
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Trade Fairs and Conferences
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