Deutsches Architekturmuseum, DAM, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
“Eine kulturgeschichtliche Ausstellung ueber ein Material, das jeder kennt.” so fuehrte das DAM in die Ausstellung »ORIGINAL RESOPAL – THE AESTHETICS OF SURFACE« ein.
Seit den 30er Jahren des vorigen Jahrhunderts wird der vollsynthetische Werkstoff wegen seiner neutralen Aesthetik und glatten Oberflaeche gerne fuer Designprodukte und Architekturprojekte eingesetzt.
www.dam.de
www.dam-online.de/Artikel180003554.html

The artistic duo Empfangshalle has conducted research on the behavior of cell phone users. Their actions/performances staged to achieve specific effects and reactions visualize the new spaces and gestures engendered while cell phone users are on the line.
Having come to the realization that Whoever uses his cell phone in public disassociates himself from his surroundings via real or virtual spaces, the artists formulated and constructed prototypes of “mobile telephoning spaces” that will be offered in conjunction with a worldwide telephone service. (aec)
Project within the ARS-Electronica 2006, Linz Austria
www.empfangshalle.de

Architektur & Wohnen – Designer of the year 2005
Exhibition within the Passagen 2005, Cologne, Germany, Kunsthaus Rhenania.
The Magazin has selected the international renowned german industrial designer Richard Sapper as A&W-Designer of the year 2005. jz
www.awmagazin.de/de/designer

Unique products, interpretations and experiments with acoustic features, emphasizing from the daily withe noise that surrounds us. They are manifestations of shape becoming sound, as well as tone dased from. (amp)
Project within the Passagen 05, Cologne, Germany.

HfG Karlsruhe / Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM) in Frankfurt auf der Luminale 06. In Ergänzung zur Ausstellung “Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht” am ZKM zeigten Angehörige der Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe: Professoren, Lehrbeauftragte und Studenten Arbeiten aus den Fachbereichen Produktdesign und Medienkunst.

Lichtdurchblick is a three-dimensional portal of orientation. Visitors can discover the highlights of the botanical gardens Frankfurt via a “sight through the light”.
www.hfg-offenbach.de/index.php?nodeId=2200&page=2

Since it premiered in 2004, »Stylepark in Residence« in Cologne has emerged as a highlight during the Passagen in Cologne. After three years at the former Germany Railways Head Office on the banks of the Rhine, »Stylepark in Residence« is this year presenting a new concept – at a new location.
www.styleparkinresidence.com

Skulpturaler Sprach-Raum-Klang- Organismus
Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln.
Lebensgroße ovale Schalenkörper, innen mit Lautsprechern, Sensoren und LCD-Displays ausgestattet und über ein Rechnernetzwerk miteinander verbunden, schweben auf Schulterhöhe im Raum. Taucht man mit dem Kopf hinein, öffnet sich ein geschlossener Innenraum mit Klängen und Bildern. Durch Kopf- und Handbewegungen beeinflusst der Besucher das sich darbietende Szenario. Geräusche, Klänge und Stimmen verändern sich, geraten außer Kontrolle und interagieren mit den Schallräumen der benachbarten Schalenkörper. Die ovalen Kunststoffgehäuse werden zu Instrumenten – ein dichtes Netz loser Beziehungen entsteht.
www.realtime-research.net

“Outerspace” ist eine reaktive Skulptur bei der das wiedererkennbare Verhalten und nicht die anthropomorphe Figur im Vordergrund steht. Ihre Motivation beruht auf Neugier. Sie hat das Verlangen, den umliegenden Raum zu erkunden und ist stehts auf der Suche nach Licht, Bewegung, Kontakt.
Das Projekt ist angesiedelt zwischen Kunst und Design und involviert Aspekte von Industriedesign, Physical Computing und Kuenstlicher Intelligenz.
Mit wenigen Gelenken, einigen gut gewaehlten Sensoren und einer intelligent konzipierten Software erreichen es die beiden Studenten ein Gegenueber zu schaffen das eine emotionale Beziehung zu ein paar Metallteilen hervorruft.
“Outerspace” entstand zum Thema “Lustobjekt” in der Klasse “Gestalten mit digitalen Medien” an der Universitaet der Kuenste Berlin unter der Beratung von Prof. Joachim Sauter, Prof. Frank Fietzek, Karl Heinz Jeron und Ralph Ammer.
www.outerspace-robot.com
www.markuslerner.com
www.andrestubbe.com

“Designer-Picknick – Camper”
Das Frankfurter Label saasfee* ist für höchst anspruchsvolle kreative Lösungen in der Design- und Veranstaltungsszene bekannt. Auch mit “Camper”, einer Sonntagnachmittagsveranstaltung ist dies spürbar. Eine sensible inszenierte Location mit Rollrasen, chicem Wohnmobil, einem DJ-Set-Up auf einem Lieferfahrrad, laden ein zum Gruppenpicknick auf klassischen Luftmatratzen inmitten von künstlichen zweidimensionalen Sträuchern, Golfplatzfähnchen und einer übergroßen Typografie auf dem brachliegenden Areal.
www.saasfee.de

Carved ornaments at the Berliner Dom. The Cathedral was build in the neoclassicist style by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

Rendel & Spitz · January 19-25, 2004 · Cologne, Germany
The concept of the design stems from the realisation that the attention and interest of the audience was focused mainly on the names of the participating designers during the last few years. The intelligence and complexity of the previous installations were only rarely granted attention or even questioned.
When entering the building, the visitor finds himself confronted with a bright yellow wall: only a narrow entrance allows entering the passage – almost too small to squeeze through, yet strongly appealing by the promise to discover whatever mystery is expecting one in its end. (Rendel & Spitz)
www.rendelspitz.de

Within the 2006 Burning Man Festival the Uchronians Community built and burned down the Uchronia time machine. Uchronia was one of the most dominating structures. Measuring almost 200 feet long. The sculptural skeleton symbolized the human race, each wooden beam represents one individual.
Artdirectors: Arne Quinze and Jan Kriekels
www.uchronians.org
www.quinzeandmilan.tv
www.jaga.be
www.flandersdc.be

Big, red, rough – well done! Letters and arrows at the hoarding within the renovation of the “Grande Halle de la Vilette”, point to the entrance of the “Parc de la Villette”. Paris, France.

Collection Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt/M., Germany.
Wonderful colours, awe-inspiring shapes, most beautiful »flying objects«: Butterflies – designed by nature.

www.senckenberg.de

Attended by Professor Klaus Michel, students of the »University of Art and Design, Burg Griebichenstein«, Halle (GER) had to design parasite and hybrid furniture.
www.burg-halle.de/~hybrid/parahyten.html

»An Lena« and »Ein Steg bitte« are student works by Simone Harbert.
»An Lena« is not handicapped, it is only reduced to the maximum. It’s a parasite bench leaning against existing walls.
»Ein Steg bitte« is a footbridge offering fresh amusement in continental cities for people who want to live near the water.

Passagen 2008, Cologne, Designschneider and Donndorf Design are working with the Kunstgiesserei Ernst Strassacker art foundry to present design concepts for an alternative bereavement culture which are beautiful and sensitive, even provocative and humorous – motivated by the thought: a life with designer furniture, a burial in rustic oak?
www.designschneider.de
www.donndorfdesign.de
www.strassacker.de

By invitation from the Centre Culturel Suisse, Atelier Oi is presenting a study of cord. From flexible cord via reel to stiff cord, a simple thread will become structural material. A furniture series will be created based on this principle and presented in a constructed, resonant landscape.
In terms of sound, light made from aluminium stems and arranged like large chimes will invite visitors to take part in a musical composition in a changing of light and shadows.
The work follows on from the creation of scenography for the work of the winners of the Swiss Federal Grant for Decorative Arts, which was on display at the Mudac in Lausanne, and from a joint installation with R and E Bouroullec at Neue Räume Zürich, where the use of “rigi-corde” (stiff cord) was already tried out.
This work reveals specific applications, but also serves to exemplify Atelier Oi’s approach and method, which are strongly based on a direct relationship and on experimental with the material.
www.atelier-oi.ch

Individually constructed or modified bicycles: Hi Riders, Cruisers, Fixies and Low Riders as seen by Mario G. Brucculeri at the Critical Mass Frankfurt, June 2008.
www.critical-mass-frankfurt.de

Tendence autumn+winter, Frankfurt Fair, July 4- 8, 2008

968 Adhesive Tape Rolls
Two 70° wooden pallets with Sound-Cushions
4 Miniscan + 8 S4 Profiler

You see it as soon as you walk into the Frankfurt Tendence fair: a shiny cloud floating in the distance. Only as you get closer can you make out that the whole structure is made of a thousand adhesive tape rolls embedded on a grid and spun out over hundreds of nodes. Although adhesive tape is an everyday object, here, through simple multiplication and extension, it takes on a whole new life. The cloud of tape changes constantly as light plays with shadows and reflection yielding a different glimpse into the internal structure with every new angle. Lying on cushions and gazing up at the installation you are surrounded by scintillating sounds, melancholic and relaxing, evoking clouds drifting over summer meadows or rain drops splattering on window panes.
Light- and Sound-Design: Gregor Knüppel
3D-Modelling: Diane Preyer
www.soundsofsilence.de

Within the Passagen Interior Designweek Cologne… we saw some great shop-window designs. E.g. the poetic installation »Greenhouse« by Ilka Helmig in collaboration with Cornelia Pistorius, Carolin Zorn. The artwork was paper made for the window of Leitwerk. In the urban space you can hear the sing sang of birds. The window of sisley, cologne, was made as generative graphic design.
There was also a shop-window playing with different scales, in a normal sized small window was build a very small one, the little scene you can saw shows the competence of the window owner: a model-builder.

When you cross the Metro Station Willy-Brand-Platz, Frankfurt/M. faces will look at you. Faces of actors of the “Schauspiel Frankfurt”. You will also confronted with bold letters, extracts of poetics: e.g. Du wirst meiner Liebe nicht entgehen, by Horváth; You say you want a revolution by the Beatles. These installation in the urban space is part of the new Corporate Identity designed by Double Standards Berlin for the Frankfurt Theater, “Schauspiel Frankfurt”.

www.schauspielfrankfurt.de
www.doublestandards.net

Project Team: Ben Mickus, Steve Thomas, Paul Coughlin, Brian Thomas
– A lightweight movie mobile, deployable in any parking spot, used for spontaneous urban gatherings.
– A bicycle powered projector runs from a magnetic level trainer, car alternator and diode generating electric.
– This lightweight installation was fabricated from high density foam using a CNC mill and coated with fiberglass and a water based resin.

Simply unhitch from your bicycle, flip open screen, pedal, lounge and enjoy.

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