We’re not going to claim that DMY Berlin 2016 was a vintage year, for us the 14th edition of the
“Fancy a cup of tea?” “Oh, yes please! Thank you!” “OK, I’ll put the kettle on” “Troglodyte” Boiling water for
There is little in this world that brings us more pleasure than a good modular shelving system. We know that
Customs are a form of social regulation. Love them or loath them customs allow us to form connections, to find
The first thing any carpentry apprentice does is build their own wooden toolbox. It makes sense. You’re learning to work
Much as we adore our pets they can be troublesome. Be it the cat the refuses to move from your
As we have often noted in these pages, a combination of increasing automation, advancing technology, the changing nature of industry
In context of DMY 2015 the Berlin/Beijing based cultural exchange association Migrant Birds are presenting the exhibition Modern Fossils, a
As we believe we’ve said before, and assume we will repeat in the future, contemporary Dutch design is largely, though
As previously reported, the company DMY Berlin GmbH & Co. KG, who for the past decade or so has run
For its 13th edition the DMY Berlin International Design Festival will be staged in a new venue and under the
Following on from the relative inactivity of August September saw us wind back up towards the 2014 autumn design festival
Charlotte Perriand was famously of the opinion that in terms of furniture design wood was a “… vegetable substance, bound
We can’t rule out that our interest in the project zTuA by Hochschule Rosenheim students Marko Steininger, Martin Winkler and
As our more loyal readers will be aware, for us the future is analogue. As ever more aspects of our
What you see used to be what you got. However our modern world offers a plethora of viewing possibilities, and
Those of you who followed our sadly demised Posterous account – Why Twitter? Why? – will recall our joy at
We recently attended a very interesting talk from Munich based designer Stefan Diez at the Vitra Design Museum in which,
At DMY Berlin 2014 fifteen students from the Fachhochschule Potsdam are presenting the results of the seminar “formHOLZ” Run under
One doesn’t have to understand why designers or design institutions do the things they do. You don’t always have to
As older readers will be aware one of our all-time favourite products is the table family Tints by Jason Miller.
“I want to create models for a different society, for a way of producing and living differently”, announces Enzo Mari
Events such as Berlin Design Week naturally provide an attractive platform for countries and regions to present themselves and their
With DMY Berlin 2014 up and running the field is open for the 2014 DMY Award. An award that this
Since the late 1950s Bavarian porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal has cooperated with an impressive roster of international designers to create new