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31/01/2020

Good news. German Design Council establishes Institute für Design Research and Appliance with famous Stephan Ott as director.

Pressemeldungen und News in der Detailansicht.

26/08/2019

Christian Freissler talking about his way into design and his work today at evolve.

Have you ever wondered who designs the insides of airplanes? What about your phone case? Or the package your chocolate came in? Design can be taken for granted and is often only noticed when it’s clumsy or even downright awful. But good design, be it physical, digital, or service, can make or brea...

04/01/2018

Matthias Lechner of GIN4B at the Meeting tonight! Great news are coming soon...

02/12/2017

Microsoft Future Decoded is an annual event that offers an inspired vision of the digital business of tomorrow to forward-thinking decision makers. We were l...

26/06/2017

Good news: Rocky Jacob comes back to Germany! A warm welcome!

Rocky Jacob will become chief product officer for luxury luggage line Rimowa.

05/04/2017

If you talk about Industrie 4.0 and Digitisation you have to talk about design.

Wenn Design auf Disruption trifft, heißt das: Loslassen können von tradierten Prozessen und lieb gewonnenen Methoden, wie beispielsweise die Reduktion von Design als Kostenoptimierer („Design to Cost“). Dazu braucht es gerade auf Unternehmensseite vor allem zwei Dinge: Mut und Weitsicht. Denn die De...

16/03/2017

GIN4B is participating the Digitising Manufacturing in the G20 conference. Stay tuned about initiatives, best practices and policy approaches in this field.

15/02/2017

Caroline Seifert is an outstanding person. We admire her for her great job she does for Jio in India.

Jio's Chief Brand & Design Officer shares insights on establishing a vibrant brand for the world's largest 4G network

06/12/2016

Call for Papers: Hardly any other creative practice is as thoroughly entwined with the social, political andeconomic everyday life, as is design. Technological change, social upheavals, or global crisis do
affect design and provoke permanent redefinitions. Accordingly, controversial topics like climate change, increasing scarcity of resources and distributive justice shape the contemporary disciplinary discourse. Whether product, industrial, communication or fashion designer, design advisor or design activist, designers reflect their role and position within industry, consumer culture and media, and they do make an effort to adjust their tasks and methods, too. Big Data, the Internet of Things or Smart Objects appear to be new fields of design activity, at the same time they create new realities with consequences for the concepts of freedom, security and self-determination, which urgently need to be confronted and discussed. Furthermore, the discourse around new digital media makes it very clear once more, that design cannot be reduced to one-dimensional, problem solving approaches, a set of standardised methods or even the design of objects.

The conference „Design Criticism“ would like to raise the question as to what extend design journalism and criticism serve to reflect and convey this altered, extended, even ambivalent understanding of design. Above all, the actual crisis of media and of their political and cultural institutions, may serve as a starting point for the conference. Moreover, it may be useful to ask
if critical journalism is losing territory in general, as it is sandwiched between private business interests and the heterogeneity of the New Media (Social Media, Blogs, and digital magazines).
Finally, the observation that contemporary critical design devises potential new fields of action, in order to raise its bearing on social, economic or political processes, appears to be particularly
intriguing in that context. Confronting the state of affairs, what kind of design criticism may have any sense at all? Does design criticism nowadays need to be based on new theoretical, strategic of methodological principals? Can design criticism, in the context of contemporary media landscape, claim independence or does it need to operate all the more biased and specific?

The conference is organised by the Gesellschaft für Designgeschichte (GfDg – German Design History Society) in cooperation with the University of Art and Design Offenbach (HfG
Offenbach), at the occasion of the foundation of the new Master programmes “Design Criticism” and “Curating Design” at the HfG Offenbach. The conference will discuss promising stances of a
new design criticism as well as the historical relationship between design, media and society.
Tensions between the extended field of design and the complex media landscape, especially in view of the present economic and political changes, will serve as a critical framework for the
presentations.

17/04/2016

German Designer and Microsoft's Head of Design Ralf Groene talks about the new type cover made from Alcantara. Sounds pretty amazing.

I like the Microsoft Surface, but you know what has been missing all this time? Keyboard covers that have "a blend of technology and style", combining..

03/02/2016

GIN4B goes East

20/01/2016

Very cool. Das Haus at imm cologne by Sebastian Herkner.

This year’s design for Das Haus - Interiors on Stage at imm Cologne is by German designer Sebastian Herkner. He created a space that does away with barriers,…

04/01/2016

Sad news. One of the most influential German designers died on New Year's Eve aged 83.

German industrial designer Richard Sapper, who created iconic products for brands including Alessi, Knoll and IBM, has died aged 83

04/01/2016

As part of Monocle Magazine's investigation into Hyundai’s ‘Modern Premium’ concept, I had the opportunity to discuss high-tech interior design…

08/12/2015

When we interviewed Scott Croyle back in 2014 at the launch of the HTC One (M8) in London, fanboys said 'best just got better,' critics said 'unexciting minor design evolution.' The then SVP for Industrial Design gave us little more than a month after publishing our report before announcing his