GIN4B visited Twitter’s headquarter in San Francisco and talked to Carolina Janssen who is responsible for German Localization & Support. Carolina just had her one year anniversary at Twitter, the social networking and microblogging service. Since then, Twitter grew from around 300 to more than 600 employees who are accommodated over four floors in an […]
The video by HTC features the design team of One&Co which built within the last couple years a strong and outstanding design language for the Taiwanese smart phone and tablet manufacturer. Amongst One&Co’s team is Daniel Hundt, Creative Director in the San Francisco based design studio. Daniel studied Industrial Design at Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany, before he moved […]
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 […]
The Architecture and Design Forum (A+D) of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) invited to a panel discussion about Dieter Rams’ influence on the work of several prominent Bay Area designers. The panel consisted of Designers Yves Behar (Founder of Fuseproject), Michael DiTullo (Creative Director at Frog Design), Cathy Bailey (Heath Ceramics) and […]
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 […]
At the 2011 Motor Show, GIN4B had the opportunity to meet with design experts and business leaders form all over the world. Stefanie attended the Automotive Designer’s Night, the trade show’s kick-off event for the international car design community, with leading car designers like Adrian van Hooydonk (BMW), Stefan Sielaff (Audi), Gorden Wagener (Mercedes Benz), […]
GIN4B was initiator and key organizer of the symposium “Less and More – German Design Reconsidered”, held at the Goethe-Institut in San Francisco on August 26th 2011. The exclusive event brought together leading German and American creatives, design-orientated businesses as well as cultural and governmental representatives and was supported by the German American Chamber of Commerce, the […]
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 […]
