Berlin, Germany's media art festival, Transmediale, was held in two locations in Berlin for the 17th year. The theme this year is "Fly Utopia!" and the contents of the festival were split into two categories: media ar...

HELMUT NEWTON MEMORIAL EXHIBITION

2004.3.3　 Text: Kristy Kagari Sakai

On January 23rd, 2004, Helmut Newton pulled out of a car park at the Chateau Marmont hotel just off Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. A moment later his Cadillac accelerated and crashed into a wall, taking the life of th...

ACTIVE SLUMMING

2004.1.4　 Text: Kristy Kagari Sakai

Berlin is on the brink of bankruptcy. It can be felt in the uncut lawns of parks, the empty storefronts of small businesses, and now in the echoes of bustling crowds and chants that fill the streets of Berlin almost e...

COUNTERPOINT: THE ARCHITECTURE OF DANIEL LIBESKIND

2003.12.2　 Text: Kristy Kagari Sakai

Though the name Daniel Libeskind has become synonymous with large-scale public commissions, it wasn't always so. Before the Jewish Museum was built in Berlin, Libeskind was known only as an academic architect without ...

BACKJUMPS “THE LIVE ISSUE”

2003.9.1　 Text: Paul Snowden

Don't we all love urban communication and aesthetic and if there's a city that loves walls and hates walls, then it is Berlin. A fierce battleground for writers, sprayers, stickers, slogans. Backjumps magazine was fou...

BERLIN 2003

2003.8.1　 Text: Paul Snowden

After a very long dry spell, summer arrived and so did the good weather and it bought a lot of things with it. The Air in Berlin is positive and there is a general feeling of an upswing, I read somewhere, Berlin is mo...

DESIGNMAI 2003

2003.6.1　 Text: Paul Snowden

Berlin was host to the first Designmay. A two week design orientated congress where over 100 participants contributed with products, project, ideas. I myself was very wound up in our own activities, so that I w...

BERLIN, FEBRUARY 2003

2003.3.31　 Text: Paul Snowden

Somehow I got an invitation to the Nordic Embassies to check out an exhibition of 23 young designers from Island. The Danish, Swedish, Norwegisch, Finnish and Islandish embassies are all packed together in style in pr...

PROFILE INTERMEDIA BREMEN

2003.1.30　 Text: Daniel Goddemeyer

Having the theme of "contrasts", this years "Profile Intermedia 5" focussed on the idea of contrasts between a lot of things: the contrast of the way a client sees an aim, the contrasts of the artists producing thei...

IEPE RUBINGH “MIRACLE TREE”

2002.8.28　 Text: Paul Snowden

I understand design to be more as graphic design. I see design as an attitude and as a understanding. Therefore in Berlin, where graphic design or outstanding advertising just is not, I would like to concentrate on th...

CTRL SPACE EXHIBITION

2001.12.24　 Text: Timo Linsenmaier

In 1785, the British philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), began working on a plan for a model prison called the panopticon. The signature feature of this design was that every one of the individual jail cells could...