Thomas Merkel, Head of Design at sdr+ since 1995, presented his brand new shelving System M at Neue Räume Zürich. Since 1995, sdr+ cooperates with Dieter Rams as licensee of his modular furniture series for various European countries; Thomas has been responsible for product maintenance and optimization of the current production processes. In recent years, […]
Starting in November 2011, Dominik Langhammer will be Lead Industrial Designer at Amazon’s Lab126 in Cupertino, CA. Lab126 is the design branch of Amazon and develops and designs electronic reading devices, amongst them the Kindle. Dominik started his career at Smart Design San Francisco in 2005, right after graduating with a Master’s degree in Industrial Design at […]
California-based company Incase, founded 1997 by German-born Joe Tan, is expanding into the headphone business. Incase designs accessories for Apple products and unveiled in September 2011 four sets of headphones: Sonic (over ear headphone), Reflex and Pivot (on ear headphones) and Capsule (in ear headphones), priced between $199.95 to $49.95. Incased used an holistic approach […]
MacLife, the German magazine reporting about latest news in the Apple world, interviewed German-born Designer Markus Diebel. Diebel works for California-based company Incase which creates accessories exclusively for Apple products. Incase was founded 1997 by Joe Tan, also German, who functions now as Chief Design Officer of the company. The interview was published in the magazine’s […]
On her recent trip to the US west coast, GIN4B’s Founder Stefanie met with industrial designer Christopher Kuh at Ammunition. Christopher is one of those young and talented guys who are always looking for new challenges. When he worked as an intern at Volkswagen Design, one of his colleagues showed him a ranking of the top […]
The exclusive evening symposium will bring together leading German and American creatives, design-orientated businesses as well as cultural and governmental representatives. The event will start with a keynote by Professor Klaus Klemp, Head of Exhibition at the Museum of Applied Art in Frankfurt and Co-curator of the exhibition “Less and More – The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams”, which […]
