Dear readers,
We are pleased to invite you to today's announcement of the winners of the UX Design Awards - Autumn 2023, beginning at 5 p.m. In an exciting jury session, the experts agreed on eleven winners from the group of nominees. In addition, the global UXDA community determined the winner of the Public Choice Award in an online poll.
From 29 September to 3 October, we will be showing an exhibition of all the entries for this year's German Ecodesign Award that were admitted to the jury meeting. At the vernissage on 29 September, you can discuss sustainable design with us and get to know some current projects and their creators.
We look forward to seeing you again in Berlin and wish you a relaxed start to autumn.
Your IDZ Team
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IDZ-Member of the Month
Erik Spiekermann
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Erik Spiekermann, our Member of the Month for September 2023, really needs no introduction. The self-professed typomaniac has been a force in the world of typography for decades. He is a co-founder of MetaDesign, Fontshop, and edenspiekermann, and has set standards with his typefaces, such as FF Meta and ITC Officina. As a long-time IDZ member, he assumed responsibility on the board during the transformational times of the early 1990s, and his expertise also made him a valued member of the German Ecodesign Award jury.
Spiekermann is raising funds for his gallery/workshop p98a in Berlin-Schöneberg. The unique project combines a collection of historic printing presses with a modern workshop. Visitors can experience the art of letterpress printing up close. They can understand – literally get to grips with – how letterpress printing works and how to work with old and new fonts. As Kant said, “The hand is the window to the mind.”
For p98a to remain a place of inspiration and knowledge in the future, it needs our support: Become a Friend of Hacking Gutenberg!
Erik Spiekermann on the web
Hacking Gutenberg
Linkedin
Instagram
Inspiration
Richard Senett: „The Craftsman”
All contributions to our “Member of the Month” series can be found on the IDZ website!
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UX Design Awards:
Winner Announcement Autumn 2023 and Call Spring 2024
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Join us later today as we present the winners of the Autumn competition season, the people behind the jury decisions, and all awarded projects. Out of a pool of 544 participants representing 54 countries, the #UXDA23-jury had tapped 158 projects to compete in this global competition, celebrating excellence in user experience.
The winners of the 2023 Autumn competition season will be presented on the UXDA website, LinkedIn and YouTube on 1 September, starting at 5 pm (CEST) (San Francisco 8 am, New York City 11 am, São Paulo 12 pm, Bangalore 8:30 pm).
Call for #UXDA24 – Spring has started
The UX Design Awards are now accepting submissions for the Spring 2024 competition. We invite you to submit your best work by 30 November 2023. Gain recognition for your work by leading design and industry experts. Winners will be announced on 1 March 2024.
All participation details and competition deadlines are available on the UXDA website. We look forward to your submissions!
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German Ecodesign Award 2023
Paris, Vernissage & Exhibition at Metropolenhaus
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© Anke Illing | IDZ
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After Vienna, Innsbruck, Coburg, and Berlin, our traveling exhibition “Thinking Ahead” concludes its journey this year at the Goethe-Institut Paris. As part of the Paris Design Week, the festive opening will take place there on 8 September. After a welcome by Nicolas Ehler, director of the Goethe-Institut Paris, and Anja Mager, head of the department “Sustainable Consumption, Product-Related Environmental Protection” at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMUV), the institute as host invites you for a drink and a tour of the exhibition.
Goethe-Institut Paris
17 avenue d'Iéna | 75116 Paris
9. September to 22. Oktober 2023
While the nominated and award-winning projects from 2022 are on show in Paris, Berlin offers the opportunity to get to know the 2023 nominees for the first time. Following the two-day jury meeting, this year's nominees will be presented to the public in an exhibition at the Metropolenhaus from 30 September to 3 October, with all the submissions admitted to the jury meeting. The show will open on 29 September with a festive vernissage at which some entrants will present their entries in person.
Exhibition at Metropolenhaus
feldfünf e.V.
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 7–8 | 10969 Berlin
30 September to 3 Oktober 2023
Opening hours:
Open daily from noon to 4:00 p.m.
No registration is required to visit the exhibition.
Vernissage:
29 September, 6:00 pm
Prior registration is requested.
An overview of the current dates around our upcoming exhibitions can also be found on our website.
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German Design Council
GERMAN DESIGN GRADUATES 2023
Given the challenges of our time, designers, in particular, are called upon to find new solutions, experiment, and break new ground. The young generation’s projects often directly contribute to a more ecologically sustainable, socially just, and technologically innovative world. The “Dare to Design” exhibition of the German Design Graduates initiative can be seen at the Hamburg Museum Kunst und Gewerbe (MK&G) until 8 October.
Plexgroup
Narrative Exhibition Design for the ZeitZeugenBörse
For ZeitZeugenBörse e.V. (ZZB), PLEXGROUP developed and implemented the space and design concept for the exhibition “Nachgefragt.” The migration stories of 12 Berliners were made tangible in multimedia design, architecture, and motion design. The show runs until 17 September at the Mitte Museum in Berlin.
SIBB
Health IT Talk Berlin-Brandenburg
On 11 September, SIBB and various practice partners invite you to get to know some successfully implemented KHZG projects and to look into the IT-driven world of the health economy. For example, a patient portal will be presented as a safe and professional service for those affected by mental illness. In addition, initial medical assessment tools based on AI for optimized patient management will be discussed. Click here for free registration.
Weiqiao
OLYMP’ARTS China Design Award 2023
Six hundred and thirty-eight entrants submitted their projects for OLYMP’ARTS China Design Award 2023. After three rounds of review, a total of 12 award-winning designers will be invited to participate in the OLYMP’ARTS 2023 Award Ceremony held in Switzerland in February 2024. The “OLYMP’ARTS China Design Award” was jointly launched by the WQ & UCAS Joint Lab Industrial Design Institute, the World OLYMP’ARTS Council, and the Beijing Design Week in December 2022. It aims to encourage and discover more outstanding young Chinese designers. IDZ board member Kai Gehrmann will join the jury for this year’s award.
wirDesign
Seminar: Strong employer brand
There is a need for more skilled workers everywhere. This makes it all the more important to invest systematically in a strong employer brand. In the two-day seminar, Brigida Kempf and Jenny Ehspanner from wirDesign will show why it is worthwhile to understand the topic holistically as a lifecycle and how a consistent brand experience can be realized across all touchpoints and silo boundaries. The Management Forum Starnberg seminar will take place on 16/17 October in Munich and on 12/13 December in Berlin.
Alexander Wodrich
Partnership with Deutsche Bahn extended
Managing director at why do birds, Alexander Wodrich is pleased to continue actively shaping the customer journey of Deutsche Bahn in audio branding and service design after more than ten years of collaboration. Congratulations on winning the pitch once again!
Dear IDZ members, Send us your news – we will be happy to share it!
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Academy of Arts Berlin
The Great Repair
“The Great Repair” presents more than 40 positions from art and architecture and spatial practices in which repair becomes tangible as a new design paradigm against the backdrop of current ecological and social crises. The exhibition will open on 13 September in the rooms of the Akademie der Künste. The project focuses on a (critical) reflection of the current economic system; likewise, the exhibition explores in a discourse of repair to what extent the politics and aesthetics of repair can be a meaningful alternative from a postcolonial, feminist, and posthumanist perspective.
German Center for Architecture Berlin DAZ
Seminar Designing Architecture
Space, light, color, identity, complexity, designing spatial experiences - today and in the future. In the seminar “Designing Architecture: Between Complexity and Artificial Intelligence,” speakers from the DAZ will provide insights into their working world and outlooks on those topics that will influence our work in the future. From the basics of lighting design to artificial intelligence - the German Center for Architecture Berlin invites you to a diverse seminar on 19 September.
Festsaal Kreuzberg
beyond tellerrand
At beyond tellerrand, 500 participants will again come together in a familiar and friendly atmosphere on 11 and 12 September to experience lectures at the interface of creativity, technology, design, and code. As part of the supporting program, an all-day “Hacking Gutenberg” letterpress workshop will again take place at p98a Gallery on 13 September.
Hamburger Bahnhof - National Gallery of Contemporary Art
Fred Sandback. Simple Facts
From installation to conceptual art, minimalism to site-specific work - US artist Fred Sandback has dedicated himself to these and other art forms. Through 17 September, Hamburger Bahnhof celebrates the debut of Sandback’s first solo museum presentation and invites you to the exhibition “Simple Facts.”
Tribünenhalle Trabrennbahn Berlin Karlshorst
design.Börse Berlin 2023
Designers, vintage galleries, and collectors from Germany and Europe will come to Berlin from 30 September to 3 October to show their best pieces and new acquisitions. Many of the exhibited style and design icons designed by such renowned artists as Arne Jacobsen, Charles and Ray Eames, Alexander Begge, Egon Eiermann, Eileen Gray, Mies van der Rohe, or Wilhelm Wagenfeld will be offered at the design.Börse Berlin in rare originals.
Berlin University of the Arts
De-Fashioning Education
The Berlin University of the Arts invites you to the “De-Fashioning Education” international conference from 15 to 16 September. The “Critical Thinking and Making Conference” aims to examine fashion against the backdrop of environmental and social challenges. The two-day program brings together teachers, learners, researchers, actors, and activists from 20 countries. It offers interested parties workshops, museum tours, project presentations, and exciting insights into learning and teaching practices and didactic innovations.
Various locations
Berlin Art Week
Berlin Art Week is a festival week and the largest gathering of major players in Berlin’s contemporary art scene. From 13 to 17 September, it will once again present a diverse program with more than 100 partners, from museums and exhibition houses to fairs, private collections, project spaces, and numerous galleries.
Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge
Die Röhre. Eine Architektur für denkbare Zeiten
In the early 1980s, architect and Werkbündler Günther L. Eckert developed an architectural utopia: a giant tube above ground, spanning the globe, that would provide living space for all of humanity. With a technically detailed design, Eckert wanted to prove that humanity could live in prosperity on Earth without further exploiting and destroying it. Shortly before it leaves Oranienburgerstrasse in early November, the Werkbundarchiv invites visitors from 15 September to the exhibition Die Röhre. Eine Architektur für denkbare Zeiten (“The Tube. An Architecture for Conceivable Times”.)
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National and International
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Amersfoort
Kunsthal KadE: Africa Supernova.
From 24 September, Kunsthal KadE will exhibit the Schultings collection centered on African art. On display is a large cross-section of the collection, which contains 170 works of art by 154 different artists whose origins can be traced back to 33 African countries and the African diaspora. Many young artists represent African contemporary art's diversity, complexity, and development in painting, sculpture, and photography.
Copenhagen
Copenhagen Contemporary: Reset Materials - Towards Sustainable Architecture
The interface between art and architecture - until 28 September, the exhibition “Reset Materials - Towards Sustainable Architecture” presents sustainable future building materials. The building sector is a heavy environmental burden, so it is urgent for architects, the building industry, and society to sustainably change how we procure, construct, and inhabit our built environment.
Hamburg
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe: Sesamstraße
Germany's Sesame Street has presented a diverse, inclusive, and imaginative coexistence for five decades, entertainingly imparting knowledge appropriate for children and stimulating creativity. The MK&G takes this anniversary as an opportunity to ask questions such as: Who invented the show? How does Sesame Street work? And how is it all made? In the design areas of puppet construction, costume, scenery, props, storytelling, animation, and music, the exhibition looks at the independent design of the NDR production until 7 January 2024, which keeps its creative finger on the pulse of the times.
Vienna
MAK: Vienna World’s Fair 1873 Revisited.
Japanese design for everyone: The Vienna World’s Fair of 1873 marked Japan’s debut in the Western world and presented a vibrant fusion of art and design. Two exhibitions at MAK and Weltmuseum invite visitors to explore this pivotal global design moment.
Weil on the Rhine
Vitra Design Museum: Garden Futures Designing with Nature
With “Garden Futures - Designing with Nature,” the Vitra Design Museum is presenting a major exhibition on the history and future of the modern garden until 3 October. Gardens are mirrors of identities, dreams, and visions. They have deep cultural roots and express our relationship with nature. At the heart of the exhibition is the question: with which ideas and concepts have we shaped our present-day garden ideal, and what contribution do gardens make to a future worth living for everyone? This question will be examined in design, everyday culture, and landscape architecture.
Wiesbaden
frauen museum: post/pre Lesbian Jazz
Beginning on 10 September, frauen museum wiesbaden presents the first solo museum exhibition of Strabag Art Award International 2021-winning painter and conceptual artist Anouk Lamm Anouk. In paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, and text works, Anouk Lamm Anouk explores the meaning of identities and bodies in relation to society. As the first non-binary position shown at the museum, Anouk Lamm Anouk explores identity, queer intimacy, and emancipation from standard social categorizations.
Wiesbaden
Museum Wiesbaden: Anton Kokl - InnerColours
For almost 30 years, Anton Kokl has been exploring the artistic possibilities of interference colors, which he calls inner colors. Up to and including 24 September, there is still an opportunity to view Kokl’s works at the Museum Wiesbaden. Anton Kokl’s pictorial language moves in the tension between the construction of form and the dissolution of form, whereby he increasingly relies on spontaneous, preconscious painting movement.
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Trade Fairs and Conferences
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