on deconstructing objects . . .

for example, doc martins shoes & nzz folio zerlegt
or from the images series for the thames & hudson book, things come apart:
todd mc lellan images for things come apart

above: edythe wright’s deconstructed vacuum cleaner, brandeis university &
edythe f. wright, the institute of domestic archaeology:
wonderbra ®, january 2010

lindsey mason’s, deconstructing a […]

light, design & spacial ambience . . .

“for the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting . . .”
on listening, essays by plutarch, translation by robin waterfield.
light, design & spacial ambience participants:
alfonso copé gómez-aguado • arancha lorenzana • asimina koutsogianni • cynthia khor • daniela hoffrichter • danuta kril • denisa marinescu […]

oberpfalz architecture & . . .

a special summer architectural roadtrip through the oberpfalz that was organized by nicolette baumeister and willi koch. the roadtrip used the recently published book, “aktuelle architektur der oberpfalz, number three” as a point of departure for the sites that we visited in conjunction with individually selected architectural offices. the roadtrip was from july 20th through […]

transferzentrum’s conceptual garden . . .

the transfer center for design weimar, in conjunction the bauhaus university, celebrated three years ago the 80th anniversary of the experimental “ernst neufert house” with a conceptual garden. the house is located in the gelmeroda area of weimar and the address is rudolstädter strasse number seven. in cooperation with the neufert-fund, the transfer center for […]

inside the cube . . .

the instructor for fachgrundlagen produktdesign’s
inside the cube project is lutz koebele . . .
the inside the cube design student at kunsthochschule weissensee:
doga büyükcan • judith glaser • elisabeth hammann • benedict hübener •
valentin lindau • khanh-troung ly • maximilian mahal • svenja nesch • lucas rex •
julia schmidt • jonas schneider • julia […]

material connection . . .

on wednesday, june 13th the iD students from the university of applied sciences, regensburg, bavaria, had a venue about their recent material connection project. the venue included an exhibit of material explorations with corrugated cardboard and their bistro table prototypes with 7 millimeter thick corrugated. the exhibit space was the new café “ah” in the […]

an asphalt installation in the fields of the oberpfalz . . .

recently i made a visit to the “baukunstwerk” of the asphalt chapel from willi koch in the fields of the oberpfalz (etsdorf) and the visit was well worth the traveling troubles. interestingly enough, eventhough etsdorf is in the middle of nowhere, not only does it have an asphalt chapel, but it also has a temple […]

freehand drawing with jakob . . .

freehand drawing with the two jakes, j.t. and saint jacob. the scottish church of saint jacob,* or the “schottenkirche” of regensburg, has great stone monsters its north portal . . . during the month of may, design professor jakob timpe took his drawing class of first year industrial design students from the university of applied […]

carolina in my mind’s eye . . .

here are just a few impressions from my visit this spring to raleigh, north carolina & the college of design at north carolina state university, for more information,
please try this link: design at north carolina state university

pictoplasma festival, berlin . . .

the pictoplasma contemporary character design & art festival / conference 2012 was curated by lars denicke and peter thaler:
pictoplasma contemporary character design & art festival
image references with the green boarder below are the following:
a) the bar at the babylon, rosa-luxenburg-strasse nr. 30, d-10178 berlin
b) workspace in berlin mitte at .hbc, karl-liebknecht-strasse nr. 9, d-10178 […]