june 26th: wednesday evening, at 6:00pm the new industrial design program at the university of applied sciences regensburg will host an evening with the berlin design duo, läufer+keichel. julia läufer and marcus keichel have been working together as a creative partnership since 2003. their design work focuses on sustainable solutions and ranges from communication, exhibit, […]
the current show of work from regional artists and artisans is a a design distillation of form and materials. the exhibit is called, “verdichtung: aus kunst + handwerk + design,” and is on display here in regensburg from may 25th until june 30th. i would encourage you to see this design bravura between art and […]
stadtzeit zeitstadt (time cannot be summed up), regensburg 1995:
maria maier is a painter, draftswoman, and graphic artist, not a photographer. it is astonishing how her works often recognizably juxtapose painting, drawing, collage, printmaking, photography, reproduction and original, found objects, decided signals, the most basic artistic means of composing, and the use of the most […]
carly brandelius schmitt has added a new spin on the discussion about the role of color in the development of a product designer. some impressions from a recent experiment with the process of creating natural pigmentation from herbs, fruits and vegetables. the following first year iD students, at the university of applied sciences regensburg, explored […]
an iD exhibit with professional partners at the ihk (industrie- und handelskammer) with the new program for industrial design at the university of applied sciences regensburg. the exhibit is open to the public, from today until next tuesday, march 19th at 4:00pm. address: dr. martin luther straße number 12, 93047 regensburg.
the industry & […]
lenny bacich was a catalyst for artistic curiosity, creative design practice and a strong advocate of international cultural exchange in education. over a six year period of time, lenny nurtured a very active involvement between his home institution, pratt institute in brooklyn, new york and the bauhaus university in weimar, germany. this rather amazing source […]
“well-building hat three conditions. commodity, firmness & delight.” sir henry wotton’s 1624 translated version of the de architectura is a plain and accurate translation of vitruvius’s work. in addition to architecture, this quote has long been used as a reference for good design standards; in essence, purpose, form, and meaning. these ideas and regensburg medieval […]
five times five is an exhibit of work from iD students at the university of applied sciences regensburg. the point of departure for the exhibit was a two and three dimensional visual exploration in the area of semiotics. the individual projects were developed on interrelated levels. first, as a flat composition of 25 correlating fields […]
according to brand eines magazine, poland had 227 memorials for johannes paul ll in 2005 and as of 2011, they now have 440. i have noticed that bavaria, also seems to have a very interesting relationship to its memorials. this is only based on my own personal observations as a designer after being in the […]
this autumn in regensburg jakob timpe, michael salberg and myself have engaged
our first semester industrial design students in materials and structures exercises (during both werkstoffe and grundlagen classes) that can be considered a kind of three dimensional sketching process. we have been working with cardboard, foam, basal wood and wire on spheres, towers, transitional units, […]
