commodity, firmness & delight . . .

“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 . . .

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 […]

materials & structures . . .

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, […]

cyan capital of catalonia: barcelona . . .

for our project week this semester, we took a design roadtip to barcelona to learn about spanish design. jakob timpe orchestrated a wonderful expedition for our twenty-eight industrial design students in their 3rd semester to the capital of catalonia. carolin bauer and charlotte klein organized the travel plans and we were also able to persuade […]

rite of passage in regensburg . . .

an important part of the educational system in germany usually involves the successful completion of an entrance exam at the university level. here are a few visual impressions of the recent rite of passage, in the department of architecture, for the new hybrid industrial design program at the university of applied sciences regensburg. the following […]

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 […]

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 […]