Academy

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Business of Design Week 2011

Dr. Edmund Lee, Executive Director Hong Kong Design Centre, Dr. Bernd Pfaffenbach, Statesecretary of the federal ministry of economy and technology, Andrej Kupetz, General manager German Design Council/ Rat für Formgebung, Stephen Kai Wong, Director economy- and trade office Hongkong in Berlin, Lore Buscher, Regional Director Europe, Hong Kong Trade Development Council

On Thursday, 19 August 2010, the representatives of Germany and Hong Kong signed the partnership contract for the business of design week 2011. 

EXPO 2010

Exhibition: Milla & Partner / Architecture: Schmidhuber + Kaindl

Everything at EXPO in Shanghai will revolve around the motto 'Better City, Better Life' until 31 October 2010. Accordingly, the 'Depot' of the German Pavilion presents German design and industrial achievements that contribute to a better life in an urban environment. The German Design Council (Rat für Formgebung) was responsible for selecting the 90-plus exhibits. Read more...

[D3] Contest

Koelnmesse has commissioned the Rat für Formgebung/German Design Council to act as overseers and organizers of the young designers’ exhibition and prize at imm cologne 2011, international furnishing show which is named D3 Contest since four years and was formerly known as inspired by cologne. Read more...

 

Academy

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Design Deutschland in Milan and New York 2010

The German Design Council presented the ‘Design Deutschland 2010’ exhibition at the FuoriSalone in Milan (14 to 19 April 2010) and will show the exhibition at the ICCF, International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York (15 to 18 May 2010). more...

Research

The 23rd of March was the release date for the large-scale survey about design, realized by the German Design Council in association with Markenverband Deutschland and Scholz & Friends. "The beauty of added value" varifies that design is comprehensively significant in economical processes. more...

Design Award 2010 - The Catalogue

Order the 615 pages catalogue to the german design award 2010 online. more...