the world as a design In the FRG, Hans Gugelot designed the M 125 furniture system at the HFG Ulm in 1959. Otl Aicher, who was a co-founder of the legendary Hochschule…

the open principle   In the DDR, Bauhaus Modernism was condemned in a formalism debate in 1949. Walter Ulbricht personally condemned Bauhaus furniture together with the Bauhaus style as an anti-popular phenomenon:…

ART or CRATE?     As precursor of system design the typecast would qualify that had caused a fierce dispute in 1914. On the occasion…

ecological System design     .   An important building block for an environmentally friendly economy is the development of and…

planned Obsolescence   Products with planned shortened lifetime expectancy, technically called planned obsolescence, should clearly be criticised more harshly for ecological reasons than now is the case.…

a surge of standards and cachets and continued less quality. What is the reason? In the November issue of the magazine ‘brand eins’ the focus topic was quality.…

„Those are things, I do not wish to know about” The song from the band „Die Ärzte“ possibly befitted in advance those responsible in the management of the car manufacturers as a…

who looks for quality should ask questions, a good question would be ‘why is the product as it is?’ Who has responsibility, the designer or the trader? As a little footnote:…

Eddy Yu and Hung Lam, two designers from Hong Kong, are also looking for quality on more than just the surface. The designer Hung Lam was asked to create a new…

Quality is a concept that is hard to define. Different requirements of customers and priorities of manufacturers are only part of the picture. Although there can’t be a generally valid concept…