Archive _möbeln, lisa rastl, 2009 PLATFORM Exhibition _möbeln Gerold Tagwerker rauminhalt_harald bichler space & content 30.9.–29.10.2011 For his installation ‘_möbeln’ in the showroom of the Rauminhalt … gallery, the visual artist Gerold Tagwerker has chosen sculptures and objects by artist colleagues who deal with the subjects of furniture, design, function, and non-function in order to ironically question through sculpture the … more
Archive - WIEN PRODUCTS Collection DSCN1088.jpg PLATFORM Presentation WIEN PRODUCTS - Collection 2011 WIEN PRODUCTS 30.9.–9.10.2011 The WIEN PRODUCTS Collection 2011 is a project teaming up Viennese businesses from the traditional sector with ambitious new designers. The result is unusual products with a special Viennese flair. The combination of perfect craftsmanship and creative masterworks delivers outstanding products. The … more
Archive Hinterland - Wanderland, Wolfgang Silveri PLATFORM Presentation Wanderland – A Pop-Up Hinterland Hinterland 30.9.–9.10.2011 During the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2011, there will be a ‘Hinterland’ for 10 days – it will pop open and then fold shut. And in between will be an inviting journey. A colossal book – when you open it, a whole new world, all out of cardboard, comes into being: a tree, whose leaves reflect the hinterland … more
Archive Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Familie und Jugend Presentation Winners of the National Design Prize 2011 designforum Wien 29.9.–30.10.2011 On 28 September 2011 the best, most creative, and most innovative Austrian design solutions will be awarded the National Design Prize of the Federal Ministry of Economics, Family and Youth. The winning objects and concepts will be on view in the show ‘Walk of Fame’ in the designforum Wien. The … more
Archive esterni PLATFORM Exhibition Volkertplatz is a great place to be esterni 30.9.–9.10.2011 All around the square and the market at Volkertplatz, an intervention of public design will be performed by esterni. During the last edition of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK esterni developed a 30-metre-long multifunctional public bench in a neighborhood of … the Vienna district of Hernals and involved the … more
Archive kollektiv fischka Talks Talk VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Talks - Sophie Lovell about Dieter Rams Talking About Change Wirtschaftsagentur Wien 30.9.2011, 7pm–8.30pm Originally from London, Sophie Lovell studied biology and design before moving to Berlin in 1994 where she rapidly became an active member of the city’s burgeoning multidisciplinary creative scene. She writes regularly for Wallpaper* magazine and has been their Germany Editor since 2000. She has … more
Archive Talks Talk VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Talks- Ravi Naidoo Ravi Naidoo Talking About: Change Wirtschaftsagentur Wien 2.10.2011, 7pm–8.30pm Ravi Naidoo is the founder and managing director of Interactive Africa, a Cape Town based media and marketing company. After studying economics and physiology at the University of CapeTown he worked as account director at Young and Rubicam, and, after founding Interactive Africa, received … more
Archive kollektiv fischka Talks Talk VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Talks - Jerszy Seymour Jerszy Seymour Talking about Change Wirtschaftsagentur Wien 4.10.2011, 7pm–8.30pm
Archive Talks Talk VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Talks - Doshi Levien Doshi Levien Talking About: Change Wirtschaftsagentur Wien, Doshi Levien 3.10.2011, 7pm–8.30pm Doshi Levien is a London based design office, established in 2000 by Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien. Doshi Levien's work celebrates the hybrid and explores the coming together of cultures, technology, storytelling, industrial design and fine craftsmanship. Nipa's refined and astute visual direction … more
Archive David Payr Flea Market VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Flea Market VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 6.10.2011, 6pm–7.30pm The VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Team will be clearing out their attics and cupboards.
Archive kollektiv fischka Party VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Closing Party VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 7.10.2011, 9pm The Big Festival Bash in the MAK with DJ/VJ - Line-up! Put on by the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK and MAK … Tickets: 14/12 Euro … advance sales at the Meeting Point in stilwerk Wien … AUDIO: JOJA (JNE // sound:frame AV) KEN HAYAKAWA & LUMA.LAUNISCH, „INNENWELTKOSMOS“ audio-visual live show (sound:frame AV) … more
Archive Valentin Vodev Presentation Vienna Bike von Valentin Vodev Valentin Vodev 30.9.–9.10.2011 Vienna Bike ist ein neuartiges Elektro-Dreirad, das ein ähnliches Fahrgefühl wie bei der Lenkung eines Zweirads vermittelt. Dank eines flexiblen und schwenkbaren Gelenkes wird das Lenken auch bei Kurven um einiges leichter als bei herkömmlichen Dreirädern. Der dehnbare Gepäckträger am hinteren Teil … more
Archive VELOcité PLATFORM Presentation VELOcité Eva Blut 30.9.–8.10.2011 Cycling is a lifestyle. EVA BLUT has taken on the oldest accessory of cycling culture and reinvented it. Tailored to the needs of today’s carriers, ‘VELOcité’ is the new bag for on the go. Within the context of a show, light will be shed on both the design and the production process, with aspects … more
Archive Fetz-Rainer, Michael Fetz Carte Blanche Exhibition umhängen/umdenken (re-hang/rethink) Michael Fetz, Florian Rainer 30.9.–9.10.2011 The homelessness of young people is an “invisible” problem. In cooperation with Caritas Wien a concept is being worked out to make the homelessness of young people visible. A photographic installation in the public space is tied in with a product made by homeless people. Life-size photos of young … more
Archive Passionswege Exhibition Uli Budde at A.E. Köchert Juweliere Uli Budde, A.E.Köchert Juweliere 30.9.–8.10.2011 Founded in 1814, for almost two hundred years A.E.Köchert has been producing costly and prestigious jewellery in consummate workmanship, from classic forms to contemporary design. The former imperial and royal purveyors to the court and inventor of the … “Sisi Star” – which the empress liked to … more
Archive Martino Gamper, Arnold Circus Stool Shoot, Photo: Tom Gottelier & Matylda Krzykowski PLATFORM Talk TOTEM AND TABOO – Panel Correspondences between the Psyches in Art and Design quartier21/MQ 1.10.2011, 6pm–8pm Within the framework of the exhibition TOTEM AND TABOO: complexity and relationships between art and design, the panel discussion ‘Correspondences between the Psyches in Art and Design’ will take place on 1 October at 18:00 with the designer Martino Gamper, psychoanalyst and art historian Hans-Otto … more
Archive Johannes Wohnseifer, Senegalstrasse, 2009, Courtesy Johann König, Berlin PLATFORM Exhibition TOTEM AND TABOO complexity and relationships between art and design quartier21/MQ 30.9.–20.11.2011 TOTEM AND TABOO: complexity and relationships between art and design examines the interrelationships between art and design, and also the strategies employed by artists and designers in the bordering and overlapping areas of their respective disciplines. With Øystein Aasan, Stephane Barbier Bouvet … more
Archive Passionswege Exhibition Tomas Kral at the Mühlbauer Hutmanufaktur Tomas Kral, MÜHLBAUER HUTMANUFAKTUR SEIT 1903 30.9.–8.10.2011 Ever since Klaus Mühlbauer inherited his parents’ hat factory in the fourth generation in 2001, the company has been experiencing a highly successful relaunch. Young-at-heart, colourful hat design in … top-quality workmanship suddenly cropped up next the classic forms … and colours and soon … more
Archive Passionswege Exhibition Tomás Alonso at the Wiener Silber Manufactur Wiener Silber Manufactur, Tomas Alonso 30.9.–8.10.2011 The products of the Vienna Silver Manufactory have stories to tell: of … bourgeois table culture during the era of the “Ringstrasse”, of courtly pomp, but also the dawning of the modern language of forms in the first third of the twentieth century. They are fashioned with extremely high fine silver … more
Archive PS ArtSpace x Clemens Wolf: The Sauna Chair, 2011, Claudio Farkasch PLATFORM Exhibition The Sauna Chair PS ArtSpace x Clemens Wolf Pratersauna 30.9.–8.10.2011 A vehicle for groceries turns into a piece of furniture! The childhood memories of the cathedral of consumption and its altars, the supermarket shelves, are about the (un)attainability of the objects of desire. The child sits in the shopping trolley and reaches out for the goods on offer. The … more
Archive Laboratory Work-in-Progress Studio Rygalik, Gosia & Tomek Rygalik Copyright, Copyleft STUDIO RYGALIK, Arne Schneider, Erwin K. Bauer, stilwerk Wien 5.–9.10.2011 Tomek Rygalik studied architecture and industrial design in Lodz and New York and completed a post-graduate degree at the Royal College of Art in London, where he also worked as a research assistant. Gosia Rygalik has only recently completed her design studies at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and … more
Archive Wien Energie, GP Designpartners PLATFORM Presentation Electric Charging Station Design Wien Energie GmbH, Valentin Vodev, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien 30.9.–9.10.2011 Wien Energie is Austria’s largest regional supplier of energy and promotes modern, environmentally sound, and tried-and-tested technologies. Also in the area of energy infrastructure for e-vehicles, they help to create sensible means of electric mobility. The Department of Architecture and City … more
Archive Flyer, 2011 Yaya Herman Dune / Walking-Chair PLATFORM Exhibition Strange Moosic Inn Wien Yaya Herman Dune & Mayon Hanania Walking-Chair Design Studio 3.10.–31.12.2011 ‘We make things and songs’ is the motto of the Walking-Chair Design Studio & Gallery. For the exhibition ‘Strange Moosic Inn Wien’ this will all be turned around! The gallery in the third district is happy to be able to present Yaya Herman Dune, who is primarily known as being the singer/songwriter … more
Archive zachl_hanserl, christof zachl PLATFORM Presentation Let the chips fall … and they must! Zachl&Hanserl 30.9.–8.10.2011 Core for the development of the regionally inspired works by Zachl & Hanserl (Styria/Upper Austria) is their method of prototype construction. Also important for them is to carry out an extensive portion of the fabrication themselves, which means that they can play a larger role in realising the … more
Archive Stamm - Planet Earth, Theresienthal Programme Partners Presentation Small Worlds Christian Haas Stamm 30.9.–8.10.2011 With his latest work for the crystal manufacturer Theresienthal, the German designer Christian Haas presents a stackable cosmos. Every single element of his ‘Small Worlds’ is in itself useful, decorative, and created with the finest craftsmanship. If one places the components together, a small … more
Archive maks richter PLATFORM Presentation Sitting Cultures – Other Countries, Other Customs Grünbeck Einrichtungen 30.9.–8.10.2011 How do Americans, Scandinavians, Italians, or Germans sit? What about the Japanese or Arabs? What do they have in common and what not? Markus Jehs and Jürgen Laub will be relating what inspires them … when they design upholstered furniture for Cassina, COR, Fritz Hansen, or Knoll International.
Archive Grüne Erde PLATFORM Presentation sensual.sensible. Grüne Erde 30.9.–8.10.2011 sensual.sensible.– See, hear, feel, taste, and smell the Grüne Erde. This year for the first time Grüne Erde will be taking part in the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK. A clear formal language, a sensitive choice of materials, and finest renewable raw materials will be central to the display. In their showroom … more
Archive sciTUshow, Florian Rist, 2011 PLATFORM Exhibition sciTUshow 30.9.–9.10.2011 How does one present highly technical information? Under the title ‘sciTUshow’, students of the Vienna University of Technology (TU), Institute of Art and Design, will be displaying seven different designs dealing with creating a better visibility for the TU at international trade fairs. The goal … more
Archive Zieta Prozessdesign Exhibition Exhibition Reflections Oskar Zieta (PL) Maria Cristina Didero, Zieta Prozessdesign Sp. z o.o. 30.9.–7.10.2011 With their show ‘Reflections’ on the premises of Sotheby’s, the Polish-Swiss team of Oskar Zieta Prozessdesign will be starting a … first-time attempt to make sheet metal appear transparent. Zieta’s objects, their inflated metal furniture, will be shown here encased in boxes lined with patterns.
Archive Tafelgeschirr „Reline“ von Anna Bormann aus Berlin, 2010 Recycling Designpreis PLATFORM Presentation Recycling Design prize stilwerk Wien 30.9.–10.10.2011 For the first time the high-profile Recycling Design Prize will be presented in the Vienna ‘stilwerk’. The design award honours products by talented young designers that are created and produced … from recycled materials. The show is already being seen in ‘stilwerk’ … buildings in Berlin and … more
Archive Rado Young Design Prize 2011 PLATFORM Presentation Rado Young Design Prize 2011 Rado 30.9.–8.10.2011 Rado, the iconic Swiss watchmaker, will be presenting the winner of the Rado Young Design Prize 2011. The kick-off for this contest, targeted at young creatives and international students of design, was a result of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2010. Every month young artists have been selected to realise … more
Archive Image For Design Guide Passionswege Exhibition Philippe Malouin at J. & L. Lobmeyr J. & L. Lobmeyr, Philippe Malouin 30.9.–8.10.2011 The Viennese glass company of J. & L. Lobmeyr, erstwhile purveyors to the court, has devoted itself for 200 years to the refinement and finishing of the demanding material of glass. The company is equally as famous for incomparable quality in mousseline glass, cut glass, engraving and chandelier … more
Archive - L_N_MAK_4_10_08Kai_017 frei_WEB.jpg, 2008, Peter Kainz/MAK PLATFORM Kids Perfectly Packed MAK4FAMILY 8.10.2011, 2pm–5pm Perfectly Packed – Directions for Making Parcels. A workshop for the entire family!
Archive Pecha Kucha Night Vienna PLATFORM Talk Pecha Kucha Night Vienna supported by departure Pecha Kucha Night Vienna, Wirtschaftsagentur Wien 8.10.2011, 8.20pm It is currently taking place worldwide in over 400 cities: the Pecha Kucha Night. Participating are players from the entire spectrum of design categories who follow all the rules for making a fast and to-the-point presentation. The architects, designers, artists, and others present their projects … more
Archive Passionswege Exhibition Patrycja Domanska at Tostmann Trachten Patrycja Domanska Design Practice 30.9.–8.10.2011 Everyday dirndls, festive dirndls, blueprint linen and wool brocade – Tostmann is the firm of tailors of traditional Austrian dress founded in 1949 as a business run by two people near Attersee; it has become genuinely renowned in this traditional, quality fashion sector, also internationally. High … more
Archive Katharina Gossow PLATFORM Exhibition Open House Airture 9.10.2011, 11am–5pm Airture invites you to bring the whole family to a Sunday open house in the Edelhofgasse: their studio, garden, and wine cellar will be open for expeditions into the world of furniture of a somewhat different kind. Spread out over three storeys, design classics of the last century will find … more
Archive Öffentliche Uhr, Mariahilfer Straße Ecke Neubaugasse, um 1959., Album Verlag PLATFORM Presentation STANDARD TIME – Public Clocks and Urban Design Technisches Museum Wien 9.10.2011, 11am–1.30pm Since 1907 the ‘cube clocks’ have been reference points on the Vienna cityscape and announced the so-called ‘standard time’ for decades. An appreciation of the city’s furniture and the inclusion of its history for the first time are reflected in a publication issued by the company Lichterloh. As … more
Archive PLATFORM Talk New Design Festival 2011/Symposium Symposium with Lacaton und Vassal et al. New Design University (NDU) St. Pölten 5.10.2011, 6pm–8pm Within the framework of their New Design Festival, the New Design University invites you to the stilwerk Wien for an exploration of contemporary university structures at home and abroad. The goal is … to have a public discussion of the connection between modern university … education and the … more
Archive PLATFORM Presentation Nespresso Design Contest SUSTAIN.ABILITY.DESIGN Nespresso, Julia Landsiedl + | Strategic Design & Storytelling, White Elephant, MARCH GUT, Rouven Haas, Bernhard Rothbucher 30.9.–8.10.2011 Quality, innovation, and design play a central role for Nespresso. State-of-the-art design coffee machines and accessories emphasize … the exclusivity and uniqueness of the 16 Nespresso ‘Grand Cru’ coffees. After a successful debut last year, Nespresso Austria and the Neigungsgruppe Design have … more
Archive More Than Less. Martin Breuer Bono for Gaulhofer, Martin Breuer Bono PLATFORM Presentation More Than Less Martin Breuer-Bono Gaulhofer Fenster und Türen, Martin Breuer Bono 30.9.–9.10.2011 In window construction there is an observable tendency to optically minimise the systems. We want to take another path with this project: to do more than the minimum – ‘More Than Less’. A window should make itself known in a space, be present as an object: intelligent in its technical concept … more
Archive Soybot Laboratory Work-in-Progress Hakobo Studio, Jakub and Paulina Stêpieñ Copyright, Copyleft Erwin K. Bauer, stilwerk Wien 1.–2.10.2011 Jakub Stępień, aka Hakobo, is considered one of the highestprofile … poster designers in the world. He breaks through the borders of art, design, and commercial art and collaborates with many of Poland’s cultural institutions. His characteristic style is heavily influenced by traditional graphic … more
Archive Michael Wallraff, Michael Wallraff Architekten PLATFORM Exhibition Michael Wallraff. Looking Up. Vertical Public Space 5.10.2011 – 4.3.2012 The heart of Michael Wallraff’s architectural concept is the city as a dynamic structure with creative potential. His current research project, developed for the MAK Gallery as a three-dimensional installation, examines the dimension of verticality in the public space and sketches scenarios of … more
Archive merinowolle_mikimartinek&veronikapersche, 2010 Jens Lindworsky PLATFORM Presentation Merino wool in a design:context Miki Martinek design.mikimartinek 30.9.–8.10.2011 mikimartinek has placed a knit stool in a design:context and created a piece of upholstered furniture that combines qualities of previous seating objects in a surprising new way. Central to the process are technology and materials. The design runs consciously counter to the concepts of ‘transient’ … more
Archive designaustria meet great eat, kollektiv fischka_fischka.com PLATFORM Presentation Meet, Greet & Eat! Talking to design experts designaustria 7.10.2011, 2pm–8pm In personal talks with design specialists, one will be able to learn more about corporate design, illustration, and industrial design; get input from experts; or discuss things with professionals. ExpertsClusters, which are interest groups made up of members of designaustria, will present their … more
Archive - Alle-Mail.jpg, 2010, Hanakam&Schuller PLATFORM Presentation MAK Design Shop/ After Work Meeting Point: Les Tartes Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller MAK Design Shop 4.10.2011, 5pm–7pm The comparison between the ornamental beautification of what are actually modern, anonymous architectural structures with the sugar icing on a torte cites a metaphor that was already discovered in the representational buildings of the Stalin era, the so-called ‘gingerbread style’. Hanakam & … more
Archive M3 Chair PLATFORM Presentation M3-Chair Presentation Thomas Feichtner Neue Wiener Werkstätte, Thomas Feichtner 30.9.–8.10.2011 As part of an installation, the NEUE WIENER WERKSTÄTTE will be showing the ‘M3 Chair’ by the Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner. This one-of-a-kind piece represents a contrast to the serially produced ‘FX10 Lounge Chair’, an earlier design by Feichtner, which has already become an Austrian design … more
Archive LucidiPevere Passionswege Exhibition Lucidipevere at WOKA Lamps Vienna LucidiPevere 30.9.–8.10.2011 WOKA produces luminaires and lamp models from the period of art … nouveau and the Wiener Werkstätte, also design of the nineteenth … and twentieth centuries. In all these lines it prides itself on its unique craftsmanship. At WOKA they know all about the cultural history of the lamp. And of course … more
Archive Copa PLATFORM Presentation LJOD cool furniture Copa 30.9.–9.10.2011 Möbelstücke in Serie aus Eis zu formen und auf diese Weise kostengünstige und originelle Winter- Outdoor-Möbel zu produzieren – das will copa mit dem Projekt „Ljod“ (russisch für Eis) erreichen. Dazu werden Kunststoffformen entwickelt, die mit Wasser befüllt und dann tiefgefroren werden. Die ersten … more
Archive 'Die Wilden und die Stadt', Greta Hauer, Delphine Rumo Carte Blanche Exhibition Live with Them 30.9.–9.10.2011 Wild animals are colonising the city. Because of growing conurbations … and shrinking woodland their natural habitat is becoming more and more confined. Now they are re-adapting and taking back what the city has taken from them. Fox, racoon and wild boar have arrived in the everyday life of the … more
Archive Fiona Raby, Dominik Gigler PLATFORM Talk Lecture Fiona Raby (UK): Between Reality and the Impossible Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien 6.10.2011, 6pm–8pm What happens when you decouple design from the marketplace, when rather than making technology ever more consumable, designers use the language of design to pose questions, entertain, and provoke – to transport our imaginations into parallel but possible worlds? We are concerned not only with the … more
Archive Röttger Tobias - portrait_tobiasroettger_klein.jpg, fabian röttger Laboratory Talk Lab Talk - Tobias Röttger Tobias Röttger, Arne Schneider, Erwin K. Bauer, stilwerk Wien 7.10.2011, 5.30pm–6.30pm
Archive Laboratory Talk Lab Talk - Studio Rygalik STUDIO RYGALIK, Erwin K. Bauer, stilwerk Wien 8.10.2011, 5.30pm–6.30pm
Archive Soybot Laboratory Talk Lab Talk - Hakobo Erwin K. Bauer, stilwerk Wien, Soybot 3.10.2011, 5.30pm–6.30pm
Archive Marcus Sterz – FaceType, 2010, Gregor Hassler Laboratory Talk Lab Talk - Marcus Sterz Marcus Sterz, Erwin K. Bauer, stilwerk Wien 2.10.2011, 5.30pm–6.30pm
Archive Demian Bern Laboratory Talk Lab Talk - Thomas + Martin Poschauko stilwerk Wien, Erwin K. Bauer, Demian Bern 4.10.2011, 5.30pm–6.30pm Den jüngsten Plagiatsaffairen zufolge könnte man glauben, dass jetzt nur noch abgeschrieben wird. Als Gestalter liebe ich jedoch besonders das Erfinden und sehe Fußnoten als willkommene Herausforderung an, schöne Seiten zu entwerfen. Mit Ansätzen aus meinem Arbeitsfeld, wie experimentelle Dialoge … more
Archive Adam Wehsely-Swiczinsky + Ewald Neuhofer, aws-designteam Laboratory Talk Lab Talk - aws designteam aws designteam, Erwin K. Bauer, stilwerk Wien 1.10.2011, 5.30pm–6.30pm
Archive kollektiv fischka Laboratory Talk Lab Talk - Absolut Lecture on the topic of Copyright Erwin K. Bauer, stilwerk Wien 5.10.2011, 5.30pm–6.30pm
Archive Typejockeys - OhPhotography-Typejockeys.jpg, 2011 Oh! Photography Laboratory Talk Lab Talk - typejockeys (Michael Hochleitner & Anna Fahrmaier) Typejockeys, Erwin K. Bauer, stilwerk Wien 6.10.2011, 5.30pm–6.30pm
Archive design°mobil Labor für Kinder, design°mobil Education Kids Laboratory for children: dream your city design°mobil, stilwerk Wien 2.10.2011, 10am–1pm With the city as subject, children, either alone or with their parents, will undertake an exploration of their designed environment with the aid of their senses: hear design, touch design, smell design, look at design. Which bike bell sounds best? What sort of surface should a sidewalk have? How … more
Archive Passionswege Exhibition Konstantin Schmölzer at Verdarium Verdarium, Konstantin Schmölzer 30.9.–8.10.2011 Konstantin Schmölzer is a young Austrian designer with studies in … Eindhoven and New York who despite his youth can already boast a diverse spectrum of training and work experience. Besides product … design, with a focus on highly developed production technologies, Schmölzer also works in the … more
Archive design°mobil Workshop 'Gut geformt', design°mobil Education Kids Children’s Workshop: well-shaped design°mobil 9.10.2011, 10am–1pm The topic will be introduced in part with footage from the film Food Design. After a taste sampling of various fruit gums, the participants will develop their own individual fruit gums. The sweets will be shaped using a vacuum-forming process. Target group: ca. 8–12 year olds … Format: workshop … more
Archive Kikkoman PLATFORM Presentation Kikkoman Limited Edition Kikkoman 1.10.2011, 12pm–4pm 1961–2011. To mark the occasion of their 50th anniversary, Kikkoman will be featuring a limited edition of their cult bottle by the Japanese industrial designer Kenji Ekuan that will only be available as a gift item for a short time. During the last 50 years, despite worldwide attempts to copy it … more
Archive belladonna, 2010 Matthew Williams PLATFORM Presentation kidsroomZOOM – Design for Children kidsroomZOOM 30.9.–9.10.2011 kidsroomZOOM will be showing a snapshot of contemporary design for children, with 25 selected international designers coming together to decorate a flat for children. This new format was developed in 2010 by the children’s furniture designers Thomas Maitz … (perludi, Graz) and Paola Noé (the … more
Archive Bartosz Mucha Exhibition Exhibition Just a thing Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola, Adam Mickiewicz Institut 30.9.–9.10.2011 The exhibition features the latest works – never shown before – of 10 Polish designers and design groups: Aze design, Beton, Paweł Grobelny, Krystian Kwieciński, Lapolka, Malafor, Bartosz Mucha, Piotr Stolarski, Arek Wolski and Łukasz Wysoczyński. Some of them, like Malafor or Paweł Grobelny, are … more
Archive 2011, Mihail Novakov PLATFORM Exhibition IS THERE OR ISN‘T THERE Bulgarian Product Design Now Edno Magazine 30.9.–9.10.2011 “Is There Or Isn’t There” is an exhibition of ideas realized by twelve … Bulgarian designers. Most of them live and work in Sofia, while a few have chosen to set up their own studios in different European countries. The exhibition brings together projects that are unique because of their artistry … more
Archive Arbeitstisch aus der Kromus-Fabrik, Wien, 1930er Jahre, 2011, MAK/Georg Mayer PLATFORM Tour Industrial Furniture – Prototypes of the Modern Era MAK Special Guided Tour 5.10.2011, 5pm–6.30pm This will be a dialogue tour of the exhibition ‘Industrial Furniture – Prototypes of the Modern Era’ with Jakob Gasteiger, artist and collector, and Gabriele Fabiankowitsch, Director of the MAK Education Programme and Tours.
Archive PLATFORM Talk impulse insight Everything About the Support Programme for the Creative Industries aws – austria wirtschaftsservice 5.10.2011, 6.30pm–8pm How can I make it from an idea to the first prototype to a perfected … solution? Where do I get the necessary start-up capital for the realisation? You will find out this and much more at ‘impulse insight’. Besides all of the important information about impulse | aws and the possibilities for … more
Archive kollektiv fischka/fischka.com Debut Exhibition Import/Export Vandasye 30.9.–8.10.2011 Debut is the new-generation platform of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK and is intended for advanced students and young professionals from the field of product and industrial design. The format was set up in 2009 and is a cooperation project with the James Dyson Award and the James Dyson Foundation. Every … more
Archive PLATFORM Presentation Idea Contest – ‘Marke Österreich’ Die Presse 4.10.2011, 6.30pm–11pm Twenty distinguished visual designers, who are either Austrian or living in Austria, have been invited by Die Presse and the Austrian Postal Service to take part in the ideas competition ‘Marke Österreich’ [The Stamp/ Brand of Austria], with their approach to Austrian identity to be visualised in … more
Archive Sanitärporzellan, 2011, Bundesmobilienverwaltung PLATFORM Exhibition Hygiene: Product – Daily Routine – Compulsion Studio Dankl 30.9.2011 – 22.1.2012 What does hygiene mean in the twenty-first century? What disgusts us about it, and what do we accept without problem? The designer pair DANKLHAMPEL asked clean freaks and numerous Joe Publics which and how many hygiene articles they used and possessed. To coincide with the special exhibition … more
Archive Andrew Magill Passionswege Exhibition Hermann Trebsche at Ballons & Ballons Hermann Trebsche 30.9.–7.10.2011 Before Mr Padilla founded the company Ballons & Ballons at the lower end of Taborstrasse, he was a designer – to be exact, a designer of lamps for night stands, which he and his wife produced … and sold from their flat. His main business today is trading in merchandise made of latex, plastic, or … more
Archive - DSC_0014.jpg, paola zofrea photographer Programme Partners Talk Border Areas. On the Exhibition Corrispondenze impreviste Italienisches Kulturinstitut Wien 4.10.2011, 7pm–9pm To mark the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification and as its contribution to Italy’s pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition – the Venice Biennale 2011, the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna is showing the exhibition Corrispondenze impreviste in its interior and … more
Archive PLATFORM Exhibition GLOBAL VILLAGE Design – Roots to Modernity WAGNER:WERK Museum Postsparkasse 3.10.–26.11.2011 Exotic objects have always held a fascination for Europeans who came in contact with ethnic groups from far-away lands. Over the centuries the treasure chambers of the rulers of the times were filled. However, articles were largely ignored that could not immediately be recognised as being the … more
Archive Imagekontainer/Knölke PLATFORM Exhibition Knitted Time: Experimental Design in the Clock Museum Wien Museum 1.–16.10.2011 Wall clocks are relics of the past: today one learns the time from a watch or mobile phone. Nevertheless, wall clocks still exert a great fascination. Experimental designers have reinvented them in recent times – as both disturbing and captivating objects that are meant to sharpen both our … more
Archive kollektiv fischka Education Tour Gabriele Steiner- Scharfetter Design Goes Leopoldstadt Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter 3.10.2011, 3pm–6pm The focal point of this year’s design festival is Vienna’s second district, one of the city’s up-andcoming areas. On a walking tour through the district, especially around the Volkertmarkt, we will bring light into the undergrowth of the design jungle there – for it is growing abundantly: product … more
Archive kollektiv fischka Education Tour Gabriele Steiner- Scharfetter Design Goes Leopoldstadt Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter 4.10.2011, 10am–1pm The focal point of this year’s design festival is Vienna’s second district, one of the city’s up-andcoming areas. On a walking tour through the district, especially around the Volkertmarkt, we will bring light into the undergrowth of the design jungle there – for it is growing abundantly: product … more
Archive kollektiv fischka Education Tour Gabriele Steiner- Scharfetter Design Goes Leopoldstadt Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter 7.10.2011, 3pm–6pm The focal point of this year’s design festival is Vienna’s second district, one of the city’s up-andcoming areas. On a walking tour through the district, especially around the Volkertmarkt, we will bring light into the undergrowth of the design jungle there – for it is growing abundantly: product … more
Archive kollektiv fischka Education Tour Gabriele Steiner- Scharfetter Design Everywhere Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter 4.10.2011, 3pm–6pm Out and around by bus in Vienna, we will be guiding you through the diversity of the design festival. This will be a navigation and escort through the city, beginning at the ‘stilwerk’ building in Taborstrasse and continuing to places full of design, traditional companies, and significant design … more
Archive kollektiv fischka Education Tour Gabriele Steiner- Scharfetter Design Everywhere Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter 6.10.2011, 10am–1pm Out and around by bus in Vienna, we will be guiding you through the diversity of the design festival. This will be a navigation and escort through the city, beginning at the ‘stilwerk’ building in Taborstrasse and continuing to places full of design, traditional companies, and significant design … more
Archive kollektiv fischka Education Tour Gabriele Steiner- Scharfetter Design Everywhere Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter 8.10.2011, 3pm–6pm Out and around by bus in Vienna, we will be guiding you through the diversity of the design festival. This will be a navigation and escort through the city, beginning at the ‘stilwerk’ building in Taborstrasse and continuing to places full of design, traditional companies, and significant design … more
Archive kollektiv fischka Education Tour Gabriele Steiner- Scharfetter Design Meets Tradition Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter 5.10.2011, 10am–1pm How does it happen that lamps suddenly wear hats, and what makes the Bad Aussee dirndl (a woman’s folk costume) Polish? With this guided tour of the festival for beginners, starting at the ‘stilwerk’ building in Praterstrasse, we will wander by the old established firms in the city centre. We will … more
Archive kollektiv fischka Education Tour Gabriele Steiner- Scharfetter Design Meets Tradition Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter 5.10.2011, 3pm–6pm How does it happen that lamps suddenly wear hats, and what makes the Bad Aussee dirndl (a woman’s folk costume) Polish? With this guided tour of the festival for beginners, starting at the ‘stilwerk’ building in Praterstrasse, we will wander by the old established firms in the city centre. We will … more
Archive kollektiv fischka Education Tour Gabriele Steiner- Scharfetter Design Meets Tradition Gabriela Steiner-Scharfetter 6.10.2011, 3pm–6pm How does it happen that lamps suddenly wear hats, and what makes the Bad Aussee dirndl (a woman’s folk costume) Polish? With this guided tour of the festival for beginners, starting at the ‘stilwerk’ building in Praterstrasse, we will wander by the old established firms in the city centre. We will … more
Archive stadtpark Carte Blanche Exhibition functional green 30.9.–9.10.2011 The city today appears to have been completely planned, with greening having been reduced to measures affecting the composition of the layout. In a joint effort with institutions in the vicinity and volunteers, we will carry out green interventions on and around Volkertplatz. Through the … more
Archive Vera Wiedermann, 2011; Vera Wiedermann, Katharina Gartner Carte Blanche Exhibition Freshly Baked Vera Wiedermann 30.9.–9.10.2011 ‘Fresh’ applies not only to the young designer Vera Wiedermann, but also to her installation, which she will present for the very first time at the Frühbauer bakery as part of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2011. Vera Wiedermann deals with nutrition in a poetical way. Instead of bread and cake power … more
Archive food design, stummerer/ hablesreiter/ köb PLATFORM Presentation food tools – A Food Design-Performance HONEY & BUNNY 4.10.2011, 5pm–8pm Located in a workshop, Sonja Stummerer, Martin Hablesreiter and Tom Hanslmaier will be preparing and serving food using the tools and machines of a craftsman. ‘Food tools’ is a playful attempt to address and enable the transfer of technical knowledge between ‘classical’ industrial design and food … more
Archive FLAXX Chair, Martin Mostböck & Intier Automotive Eybl GmbH PLATFORM Presentation FLAXX Chair- Presentation Martin Mostböck Intier Automotive Eybl GmbH, Martin Mostböck 30.9.–9.10.2011 The ‘FLAXX Chair’ has been conceived as a hybrid, with the comfort of a cantilever chair and the functionality of one with four legs. The new type of construction employed for the supporting frame and the combination of all the merits of both concepts is an up-to-date interpretation, both in terms … more
Archive Fedrigoni Showroom PLATFORM Presentation Paper of the Finest from Italy Fedrigoni 3.–6.10.2011 Fedrigoni is Italy’s largest producer of fine-quality paper, with its headquarters in Verona and now with its own showroom in Vienna. Only a few metres away from the MuseumsQuartier, paperlovers have the chance to gain an overview of the entire array of fine paper inside. There are currently more … more
Archive Petr Novague, Aluminium Chair © 2011, archive Novague, L.t.d., 2011, archive Novague, L.t.d. PLATFORM Exhibition Emotion Construction Petr Novague Petr Novague, stilwerk Wien 30.9.–8.10.2011 The presentation by Czech designer Petr Novague represents not only a personal story but also a new form of product and its development. Novague‘s creative approach is that of individual design, which is determined by the character of the client and the situation on the market at the same time. The … more
Archive Raumlabor, TU Wien, Ecolucy, Manfred Pichler PLATFORM Exhibition ecoLUCY – Paper lighting objects Technische Universität Wien (TU), Abteilung für Raumgestaltung und nachhaltiges Entwerfen 30.9.–21.10.2011 In the summer semester 2011, twelve students began with the SUDECO (Sustainable Design and Communication Strategies) module of the Department for Spatial and Sustainable Design under the supervision of Erwin K. Bauer, Harald Gründl, Anton Kottbauer, Beatrix Roidinger, and Marc Wallerberger. With … more
Archive "Las Vegas Wedding" Ulrike Johannsen Wien 1994 , 2011, MAK/Georg Mayer PLATFORM Tour The Second Skin – Objects for Packing and Preserving MAK Special Guided Tour 7.10.2011, 5pm–6.30pm Tour of the exhibition ‘The Second Skin – Objects for Packing and Preserving’ with Gabriele Fabiankowitsch, Director of the MAK Education Programme and Tours.
Archive Francisco Perez "lighting in lighting out" Lichtobjekt, "Da-Zwischen - Der Scheinwerfer II" 2011, Francisco Perez PLATFORM Presentation DER SCHEINWERFER II: There-Between DER SCHEINWERFER 30.9.–6.10.2011 In 2011 the SCHEINWERFER project with ‘There-Between’ has been dealing with the new housing scheme that has been planned by the SEG for the location Hackenbergweg, in Vienna’s nineteenth district (architect, Peter Lorenz). This includes examining the transformation process of this allotment garden … more
Archive departure Experten Speed Dating PLATFORM Exhibition departure’s Speed Dating with the Experts Wirtschaftsagentur Wien 5.10.2011, 4pm–5.30pm Within the framework of departure’s Speed Dating with the Experts, creatives in Vienna will again be able to clarify with professionals uncomplicated business questions in the areas of accounting and auditing, taxes, law, and marketing and PR. Under the heading ‘Know-How Transfer for Creative … more
Archive Demian Bern Laboratory Work-in-Progress Thomas + Martin Poschauko Copyright, Copyleft stilwerk Wien, Erwin K. Bauer, Demian Bern 5.–7.10.2011 Thomas and Martin Poschauko are first and foremost illustrators and experimental graphic designers. Their creative palette is highly diversified: they design record covers, children’s books, classical graphic design projects, and corporate designs. They love to ‘narrate stories visually’ and free … more
Archive Gregor Eichinger, Max Roth PLATFORM Tour The great Vienna Coffee House-Experiment. Phase II Tour with the expert Gregor Eichinger 8.10.2011, 4pm–5pm ‘Coffee houses are like pockets in the public sphere where space and time are consumed, but only coffee appears on the bill.’ This is … how Gregor Eichinger explains the simple principle of a coffee house. As a transitional spot between private and public, leisure and work, between communication … more
Archive Das Große Wiener Kaffeehaus-Experiment. Phase II – Die Versuchsanordnung, kramar/kollektiv fischka PLATFORM Exhibition The great Vienna Coffee House-Experiment Phase II: the test arrangement Wirtschaftsagentur Wien, Thomas Geisler 4.10.2011, 8pm–11.59pm The Vienna coffee house has world reputation. In their cooperative project design> neue strategien MAK and departure had this important cultural and social crossroads investigated. Under the direction of coffee house expert Gregor Eichinger and the guidance of raumlaborberlin, Antenna Design NY … more
Archive Carte Blanche - PostlerFerguson, PostlerFerguson Carte Blanche Exhibition Café Sonja PostlerFerguson 30.9.–9.10.2011 As a contemporary interpretation, Café Sonja is a special arm of the … traditional Café Drechsler in the Vienna second district. With exquisite coffee and food nestled amongst rough walls, PostlerFerguson and Cafe … Drechsler have put together simple and delicious dishes for you. Classical Viennese … more
Archive Beza Projekt Passionswege Exhibition Beza Projekt (PL) at Atelier Telliez Beza Projekt 30.9.–7.10.2011 He is “not a decorator”, but a “tapessier”, as Philippe Telliez repeatedly insists. The native Frenchman, who runs an atelier near Karmelitermarkt, is one of the last of this profession in Austria. For he deals in techniques that belong to a long past culture of home living. Telliez makes wall … more
Archive Collage: LIQUIFER Systems Group, Quellen: Courtesy of NASA, Wikipedia PLATFORM Tour Sunday Excursion/designsafari 7 Az W – Architekturzentrum Wien 9.10.2011, 1.45pm–6pm For the programme focus ‘second district’ of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2011, the sonntags designsafari will make two studio visits this year and one to a gallery, all in Leopoldstadt: section.a (art.design.consulting) and section.d (design.communication) will demonstrate what can be gained by an … more
Archive Adam Wehsely-Swiczinsky + Ewald Neuhofer, aws-designteam Laboratory Work-in-Progress Adam Wehsely- Swiczinsky Copyright, Copyleft aws designteam, stilwerk Wien, Erwin K. Bauer 30.9.–3.10.2011 Even before completing his studies in industrial design at the Vienna University of Applied Arts, Adam Wehsely-Swiczinsky was already working as a designer, carpenter, and musician. Afterwards he opened up his own studio, aws designteam. He worked as a designer for TYROLIA HTM, taught at the Vienna … more
Archive Buzzizone, King George Programme Partners Presentation Acoustic Signals Hans Taus Einrichtungen 30.9.–8.10.2011 Private space, even with other people around? Not only talk about sustainability, but live it? Put new creative ideas into practice yourself in no time? The solution is the ‘Buzzispace’! With the material ‘Buzzi felt’, a maximal sound insulation is achieved and simultaneously recycling ideas … more
Archive LOBMEYR Trinkservice No.248 von Adolf Loos, LOBMEYR/Davies- Starr PLATFORM Presentation 80 years “Loos-Service” J. & L. Lobmeyr 30.9.–8.10.2011 The cylindrical glass tumblers from Vienna have conquered the world. It would most certainly have pleased Adolf Loos to see an industrially manufactured variant of his design from the 1930s in any café you might happen to walk into. The original, which was considered to be provocatively simple in … more
Archive PLATFORM Presentation 5 senses – Roses, Tulips, Carnations! Megumi Ito, Peter Weisz, Sebastian Menschhorn Megumi Ito, Peter Weisz, Sebastian Menschhorn 30.9.–8.10.2011 Sharpening the five senses – smell, taste, touch, hearing, and … sight – while you enjoy a nice glass of wine. First, the sense of sight will be called into action: What is the label like? Then comes the sense of touch: How does the bottle feel in the hand? Finally, the cork will be noisily … more
Archive Luca Conte PLATFORM Film 2051 - disrupting design designfunktion Gesellschaft für moderne Büro- und Wohngestaltung GmbH. 30.9.–7.10.2011 The short film ‘2051 – disrupting design’ (2011) by Luca Conte and Stefan Arztmann will be shown. Twenty interviews about a furniture label are staged in five scenes, during which design classics are removed from their contexts, using aesthetics in a disruptive way. The film can be viewed during … more