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Cycling is a sweat-inducing matter. Anyone who, freshly showered and perfectly styled, has cruised on a mountain bike or racer through the city has a problem once setting foot in the office: while pedalling to the workplace, his or her suit or blouse have mutated to a sticky piece of cloth. With a nifty and flexible transportation mode, the morning freshness remains – no matter how long the commute. In Quality Magazine, Hannah Bauhoff reports on the e-bike by Hadi Teherani.

The second part of the High Line Park located on Meatpacking District in Manhattan is open now. Hannah Bauhoff was for Quality Magazine on the site. quality-magazine.ch

You don't need to be a programmer anymore to visualize data. For German PAGE magazine Verena Dauerer presents interesting new projects and shows easy-to-use data visualization tools. designjournalists.com/referenzen/verenadauerer/verenadauerer_PAGE_Data_Viz.pdf

BMW's Chief of Marketing on the challenges of megacities BMW turns to urban planning. The mobile „BMW Guggenheim Lab“ researchs the challenges of megacities on location. BMW's Chief of Marketing Uwe Ellinghaus talks in an interview with Hannah Bauhoff about the cost-benefit ratio of supporting cultural projects and the brands' goals outside of automotive engineering. Text in German only. manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/autoindustrie/0,2828,771500,00.html

Swiss-born François Berthoud is numbered amongst the outstanding fashion illustrators of our time. His first one-man show in a museum presents his work in a field of tension between fashion, accessories and a subtle eroticism. A report for the Swiss radio station DRS2 by Katharina Altemeier: drs.ch/www/de/drs/sendungen/drs2aktuell/2643.bt10184232.html

Pushing further ahead: The sixth edition of Design Miami Basel lead by fair president Marianne Goebl closed with a new turnover record. The fact that a mobile architecture for war refugees became symbolic for highly priced collectors' items, exceeded the boundaries of taste. Norman Kietzmann reports for the online magazine Designlines. designlines.de/feel/Marmor-Stein-und-Eisen-Design-Miami-Basel-2011_1648227.html

Design is a club. And not just anybody can join. The success of products and designers is not only decided by customers, producers and critics. Last but not least it is the curators of major design museums, who can affect a designer‘s lasting career by adding a product to their collections. But what makes the powerful within design tick? And by what criteria do they select new products? Norman Kietzmann interviewed the two most important curators of design: Paola Antonelli, Chief Curator of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Florian Hufnagl, head of the Neue Sammlung in Munich. Read about it in the 11-04 issue of Pure magazine. premiumpark.de/menschen-paola-antonelli.html

Garden furniture is currently on high demand. It should be convenient and comfortable as well as bring a touch of high-tech to the lawn. For Pure magazine Norman Kietzmann compiled the most important garden models of the summer. The contribution is accompanied by an interview with Konstantin Grcic, in which the Munich designer doesn‘t reveal himself as a sunbather, but instead as a passionate surfer and climber. premiumpark.de

Skulls, clocks and transcendental spaces: The 54th Venice Biennale of Art makes the subject of transience the focal point lead by Swiss curator Bice Curiger. Norman Kietzmann reported for BauNetz and interviewed Tobias Rehberger, winner of the Golden Lion in 2009, and the Belgian artist Jan Fabre, who with his installation "Pietas", brought the theme of this Biennale full circle. Review of the 54th Venice Biennale: baunetz.de/baunetzwoche/baunetzwoche_ausgabe_1637255.html Video interview with Jan Fabre: baunetz.de/biennale/2011/galerie.php?bid=59

Agnete Enga knows what women want. The deputy director at the New York agency "Smart Design" is a pioneer in the field of gender issues in design and leads companies with a feminine concept to rapid growth. Norman Kietzmann portrayed the Norwegian-born for the Swiss economy magazine „Women in Business“. womeninbusiness.ch

The car is an object with its own aesthetics and has fascinated artists for 125 years. An art exhibition worth seeing at the Tinguely Museum in Basel gives a critical historical review. And there is a real drive-in cinema, too. manager-magazin.de/lifestyle/auto/0,2828,769626,00.html

Furniture market for wealthy collectors: The design fair Design Miami/ Basel, running parallel to the Art Basel, attracts collectors and dealers from all over the world to Switzerland. The new director Marianne Goebl explains in an interview with Hannah Bauhoff for the German Manager Magazin, why the fair builds and demolishes a house for refugees every day and why it is worth to invest in design. In German only: manager-magazin.de/lifestyle/stil/0,2828,768522,00.html

In the current issue of H.O.M.E. magazine Hannah Bauhoff published City Guide Hamburg, presenting several highlights outside the common tourist routes of the Green Capital 2011. home-mag.com

French street artist JR is known for his oversized photo portraits in Brazilian favelas or on the wall in Palestine. Recently he came to Tokyo to rally for his Inside Our project, a large-scale participatory project funded by TED talks. Verena Dauerer reports for Japan Times. search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fa20110616a1.html

Originals, copies, processes: "Copy/Culture" formed one of the focal points at this year's DMY Berlin. Luckily, there was more to see than just copies, namely a great deal of products, prototypes and designs, too. A review by Katharina Horstmann stylepark.com

Let’s go outdoors. Tanja Pabelick has brought together the latest in furniture and objects for the current issue of Designreport. Read more online on designreport.de.

Rough mountains, shady woods with refreshing waterfalls and a golf course situated on historically important ground. Those who turn their back on large sticky cities will find sweet leisure in the Grand Hotel Mount Washington Resort in the US state of New Hampshire – thinks Hannah Bauhoff. Published online classicdriver.de

Newly opened museum in Paris, La Gaîté Lyrique, features digital arts and culture. For English-German mb! magazine Verena Dauerer talked to its artistic director, Jérôme Delormas, and visual artist Matt Pyke of design studio Universal Everything. mb.mercedes-benz.com/en/article/76/Artful+Code

To what extent have cultural institutions and museums in Japan been affected by the aftermath of the earthquake in March, and how do they efficiently make use of services such as twitter and online portals to spread information and help the recovery? Verena Dauerer reports for Swedish Spana magazine. riksutstallningar.se/Templates/ExtNews____38301.aspx

Couch Potatoes fasten your seatbelts: The News of the 50th Milan Furniture Fair combines stylish comfort with technology borrowed from the automotive sector. Norman Kietzmann discovered the liaison between the asphalt and living room for the Magazine Classic Driver. classicdriver.de/de/magazine/3800.asp?id=6334

Konstantin Grcic was omnipresent at the Milan Furniture Fair. Norman Kietzmann met the designer in Milan and talked to him about rotating garden chairs, accelerated armchairs and more sense in the production.
 designlines.de/im_gespraech/Konstantin-Grcic_1596661.html

Milan in Gio Ponti fever: on occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Pirelli skyscraper two exhibitions show the work of the Italian architect, designer, artist and publisher in the Lombard capital. Norman Kietzmann followed the tracks of Ponti's work. designlines.de/feel/Diamantenfieber-auf-dem-Reissbrett_1612411.html

For the May issue of Deutsch magazine Norman Kietzmann spoke with Dutch designer Maarten Baas about musical furniture, virtual clocks and his possible future as a filmmaker. London architect Amanda Levete meanwhile made a courageous statement: With her organic structures she wants to bring no less than the underworld to light. deutschmagazine.org

For the current issue of Pure magazine Norman Kietzmann portrayed Milanese architect and designer Piero Lissoni, talking to him about his work as an art director and decision maker of the Italian design scene. That innovation can be found beneath our feet demonstrates a report about the rediscovery of laminate and carpet tiles. In an interview, which accompanies the article, London designer Ross Lovegrove is predicting a holographic future of the flooring. premiumpark.de/menschen-piero-lissoni.html premiumpark.de/wohnen-die-fussboden-revolution.html

To get from A to B without searching for a parking space, using public transport or generating pollution – until now there was only one remaining possibility for individual mobility: the bicycle. A new concept by Mini shows another alternative: Hannah Bauhoff has seen the e scooter concept in Milan – and has written about it in the new issue of Quality Magazine. The text is available in German only. quality-magazine.ch/2011/06/28/der-neue-sound-der-stadt/index.html

Audi has developed an interest in urban planning. The Audi Urban Future Award was awarded in 2010, now the corporation organized an exhibition in New York on ideas for mobility and urbanism in the future. Audi board member Peter Schwarzenbauer explains in an interview with Hannah Bauhoff, why cars will adapt to the city – and what this means for Audi. Published in Manager Magazine Online. The text is available in German only. manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/industrie/0,2828,761728,00.html

On Thursday, May 5, the interdisciplinary art space MADE unveiled a new installation entitled “Captured – A Homage to Air and Light”, designed by graphic designer Sven Völker and machine artist Nils Völker. Katharina Horstmann has visited the exhibition which plays with the perception of the auditorium, bringing different intangible elements together. made-blog.com

In the current issue of H.O.M.E. magazine Katharina Horstmann published City Guide Verona, presenting several highlights outside the common tourist routes of the most famous town of literary history. home-mag.com

Following many years of research on GDR Design, the first results can be seen at last. On the internet site ueberholt-und-unerreicht.de you can see exhibits as well as read and listen to excerpts from the two-hour interviews with eight designers of the GDR. Hannah Bauhoff initiated the project three years ago and implemented it in November in cooperation with the design collective anschlaege.de, the foundation for Industry and Culture as well as the House of History in Bonn. It has already received recognition from prestigious media as shown in the ZEIT article. Text in only in German available zeit.de/kultur/kunst/2010-12/ddr-design-sammlung
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In the Hamburg rooms of the ZEIT, one can still see an exhibition until 24 April, curated by Hannah Bauhoff. The exhibition is in memory of her friend and illustrator, Annabelle Schmidtsdorff, who passed away suddenly. The Designjournalist has put together her illustrations, collages and objects and called it „les bons moments“. The exhibit catalogue is out of stock, but you can request a pdf directly from Hannah Bauhoff.

This year it was time to celebrate: Milan’s furniture trade fair, Salone del Mobile, was turning 50. Katharina Horstmann, Norman Kietzmann and Tanja Pabelick have been on site and report on Designlines about their discoveries. designlines.de/feel/Mailand-Special-Salone-del-Mobile-2011_1574995.html

For great cooking events with a lots of friends you need space, but in normal sized flats there is not enough. Hannah Bauhoff knows the solution to this problem, to be read online at ZEIT.de Text is only in German available – sorry. zeit.de/lebensart/essen-trinken/2011-03/kitchen-guerilla-kuechenpiraten-kochen

Be it ecological footprint, “Factor Four”, “ecological rucksack” or eco-efficiency à la “cradle to cradle”, today the assessment criteria for an environmentally-friendly life and production are more varied than ever and sound meaningful. However, it has not yet been settled which set of criteria is the ultimate manual for a sustainable lifestyle – and neither is it an easy call, writes Hannah Bauhoff in the current issue of OUTLOOK magazine, published by Messe Frankfurt.

Verena Dauerer is editor of a new English-German online magazine, mb!, about international design, aesthetics and lifestyle. One of the launching topics is an interview with paper artist Lauren Clay: Papercraft mb.mercedes-benz.com/en/article/38/Paper+Art%3A+A+Cut+Out+of+the+Infinite mb! mb.mercedes-benz.com

Designers in Singapore expand throughout Asia and work in many fields. Verena Dauerer reports for German PAGE magazine. PDF file: designjournalists.com/referenzen/verenadauerer/verenadauerer_PAGE_Magazin.pdf

They do not only design buildings, they sail, sketch, create stage settings or furniture. Some Architects are truly universal geniuses. Tanja Pabelick interviewed six of them for the current issue of H.O.M.E. magazine, such as Zaha Hadid, Ben van Berkel or Piero Lissoni. home-mag.com

What are the recent trends and movements in Tokyo? Verena Dauerer gives a rough survey for sound branding agency Heartbeats from Stockholm. soundslikebranding.com/pdf/Trend_Report_Tokyo20110126.pdf

Since its launch — and its subsequent hack — in November 2010, Microsoft's kinect XBOX has become the object for experimentation for programmers worldwide. Verena Dauerer reports for Japan Times about the Japanese hacker community and their projects. search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nc20110119a1.html

Guerilla Knitting has finally reached Japan: knitting activist take over trams and park benches to beautify their environment with knitted objects. Verena Dauerer reports for Japan Times. search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fs20101230a3.html

The Cologne Furniture Fair has armed itself, trying to compete again with the international furniture fair locations of Paris and Milan. Our question: Will their fair concept work? To find answers to this, the Designjournalists will be bustling through the fair, along the passages and exclusive events, which attract insiders to the Rhine area already two days before the official opening.

For the current issue of H.O.M.E. magazine Katja Neumann wrote the City Guide Cologne, presenting several highlights of the upcoming international furniture fair imm in January and introducing a number of Cologne-based designers in short interviews. The H.O.M.E. City Guide Cologne will be published in seven countries. home-mag.com

On the 1st of December the 38th issue of Spoonfork Online Magazine for Design and Music went online presented by Katja Neumann and Bashar Farhat. This year’s Christmas issue comes with an advent calendar, digital pyrotechnics that will explode per click and an exclusive animation movie illustrated by Jojo Ensslin, Duesseldorf. spoonfork.de

A group of Singaporean creatives took matters in their own hands and turned a former school into a centre for the arts. This month, Old School is having its third anniversary. Verena Dauerer reports for English-Swedish SPANA magazine. riksutstallningar.se/Templates/ExtNews____37990.aspx

The new office is the living room: International designers show their ideas for the modern office at the Orgatec fair. The separation between living and working seems to have faded – Hannah Bauhoff was in Cologne for ZEIT Online. Text is available only in German. zeit.de/lebensart/2010-10/buero-messe-orgatec

Magnum photographer René Burri concerned himself intensively with the work and character of Le Corbusier. Museum für Gestaltung Zürich was recently able to acquire over a hundred valuable vintage prints – including numerous photo icons – from Burri’s Le Corbusier portfolio. This impressing treasure forms the core of the exhibition shown at Museum Bellerive. A review by Katharina Altemeier can be found in Bauwelt 36/2010. bauwelt.de

They shaped the modern image of Brazil and were shaped by it: Athos Bulcão as a designer of graphic ceramic reliefs, Roberto Burle Marx as a landscaper of chromatic tropical gardens, and Cândido Portinari as an author of surreal mural paintings. Il Brasile in Superficie – Brazil in Surface: A report by Katharina Horstmann

Making 'BioArt' a cultural practice and the art of biohacking — the Japanese-Austrian artist duo Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel from Tokyo reverse-engineered an already cloned flower by Japanese Suntory Flowers. Verena Dauerer reports for Japan Times print and online. search.japantimes.co.jp/print/fa20100730a1.html

The exhibition "Make Up" at Zurich's museum of design celebrates the appeal of the surface and draws on all fields of design. It shows textures of design classics in the context of current coating techniques and tells an inspiring story of the surface of objects from our everyday world. A radio report by Katharina Altemeier. br-online.de/bayern2/kulturwelt/make-up-oberflaeche-ausstellung-ID1282805284731.xml

Hong Kong is both known as a global centre of finance and the place where the world’s largest auction houses sell most of their fine arts. Only, what is the situation for emerging artists and spaces for low-brow art? Verena Dauerer reports for English-Swedish SPANA Magazine. riksutstallningar.se/Templates/ExtNews____37791.aspx

All about scenography — a portrait of the Berlin-based bureau Chezweitz & Roseapple and their peculiar approach to exhibition design, namely their concept for the Bauhaus retrospective at Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, from last year. Verena Dauerer reports for English-Swedish SPANA Magazine. riksutstallningar.se/Templates/ExtNews____37762.aspx