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It is with great sadness and shock that we learned of the death of architect and designer Hannes Wettstein.

“Mies van der Rohe’s famous pavilion in Barcelona is a copy. Where did the original stand?” At The Design Annual - inside: showtime Mats Theselius offered a brilliant stage show that with guests and guests of honor, with musical backup and dance sets. And a quiz show. All the questions relate to design, architecture, and associated topics.

Yesterday Paul Cocksedge has lectured on his view of light at The Design Annual - inside: showtime, presenting the intentions and methods that he brings to bear in his constant inquiry into light and luminaires.

How did you ever come up with the idea of building a Disneyland/Favela installation and what notion of “showtime” is at work there? Yesterday Editor-in-Chief of form Gerrit Terstiege has asked Tobias Rehberger and Claus Richter about their artistic efforts for The Design Annual – on the Festhalle viewer’s gallery at Messe Frankfurt.

It's showtime, for four whole days of nine hours each, nonstop entertainment!

There it is, finally hanging up there as though on a mountain face, this small labyrinth-like, bewitchingly colorful, madly flashing, tenderly romantic and miracle-working mountain village of the imagination, in which Tobias Rehberger and Claus Richter are staging an encounter between art and design, an interface between show and reality.

Modernist concrete cube or Baroque farmhouse – terraced house or readymade: When designers start working for birds, the outlook offered is surprising. And not just for the ornithologists.

“Something to put something on”. This is the name of the new book by Lawrence Weiner. It aims to be nothing but a “question structure.” For the artist, who fills walls as well as manhole covers with wonderful sentences, does something to start something off. “That is the lovely thing about a book,” says Weiner, “it does not force anything on you, it only presents something. If it is useful, people will pass it on to others.”

The young design studio Raw-Edges in London was officially founded in July 2007. Yet the paths of Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay, who were both born in Tel Aviv in 1976, first crossed many years ago. They are currently exhibiting works at Fat Galerie in Paris with Peter Marigold.

Materialworks Zoom: Aesthetics and function in museum architecture - Kapipane by Okalux

More than a company history: “Projekt Vitra 1957-2007” - "Projekt Vitra" is the self-representation of a successful company. And yet the book, with its intelligent essays, with its products arranged like families for a wedding photo, with historical and contemporary pictures and documents, is more than a corporate history.

For the family of luminaires called “S” does not require electricity cables. The modular lamps for the home and the office have joints made of magnets, which are bearings, axle casing and current conductor in one.

With the “Gina Light”, BMW has created more than just a new show car. The study, whose bodywork is made of a fabric skin, has the potential to trigger a revolution in car design.

In Kortrijk (Belgium) on an area of over 1,500 square meters the exhibition "Backstage" tells the story of twenty of Patrizia’s favorites featuring drawings, sketches, 3D models, prototypes and previously unseen one-off objects.

Flying pies, weeping trees, confused giraffes, speaking clocks, precious lighthouses, owls that play the flute - in only 14 days time the waiting will be over, and the wonderland designed by Tobias Rehberger and Claus Richter will open its doors. It's showtime! To put it mildly!

“The market for design objects is small and exclusive. Only a copy makes the original suitable for mass production. In the process, despite the apparent close similarity, essential elements are often lost. Copies such as this offend the original, even if at heart they are a compliment to the original idea.” This is how the two young Swiss designers Sarah Kueng and Lovis Caputo introduce their work “Copy by Kueng-Caputo”.

The first World Industrial Design Day (WIDD) will be celebrated on June 29, 2008. Alongside the national ‘Tag der Architektur’ (Day of Architecture), for the most part on the last weekend in June, this year on June 28 and 29, industrial design is now to be given its its own global moment of recognition as well.

Storms are events involving strong winds, with speeds of at least 21 meters per second. When we sneeze, the air travels twice as fast as in a hurricane. Despite this, the following project involves neither speed nor the destructive power of storms. On the contrary, wind energy is used to create something new.

The Design Miami show during Art Basel poses more questions than it answers - Yes, it really was Brad Pitt strolling through Basel's wonderful Market Hall. Most people wouldn't have recognised him or, at best, thought that it was designer Ron Arad wearing a white cap. I didn't notice him until a gallery owner asked a security guard who the casual-looking guy with the cap was.

Andreas Dornbracht, CEO of the manufacturer of high-grade fittings of the same name, has every right to be proud. He initiated the first of 'Dornbracht Conversation' and everyone came to Iserlohn to put the word 'classic' under the microscope in two high-grade panel discussions. Dornbracht himself owns a design icon, the 'Tara' the minimalist bathroom fittings, which was also the starting point of the debate.