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  • Systemdesign / HFG Ulm

    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…

  • Systemdesign / the open principle

    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:…

  • System design / ART or CRATE?

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

  • Systemdesign / the LEGO principle

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

  • The search for quality / obsolescence

    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.…

  • the search for quality / standards

    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.…

  • the search for quality / secure knowledge

    „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…

  • the search for quality / development

    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:…

  • the search for quality / “imperfect”

    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…

  • the search for quality / materials

    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…