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(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: November

With autum's algid wind in our faces and the promise of mince pies and Glühwein in our tails we approached November and a design tour through Brandenburg, met Napoleon in Erfurt and discovered that the Eames plastic armchairs and plastic side chairs used to be steel......

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Mateo Kries Designtage Brandenburg 2013 Design Conference
Interview | 27.11.2013

Designtage Brandenburg 2013 Design Conference: Mateo Kries

At the recent Designtage Brandenburg Design Conference Vitra Design Museum Chief Curator Mateo Kries held the opening keyword speech. Under the title "Open Design! Why we need to reinvent design" Mateo Kries extended the thoughts presented in his 2010 book "Total Design" to explore where design is going, what are going to be the important themes in the future, and so by extrapolation explore the contemporary nature of the term "design". For as the spray paint on the walls so often says: "How

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