Festival for Design Leipzig
Design has come… this could have been the motto of this year's design festival in Leipzig/Germany. More than 140 designers presented their products on the fourth edition of the Designers' Open.

Patron of the Arts

Video Artists Thyra Hilden and Pio Diaz can thank art patron and Designer Peter J. Lassen for supporting their project „Berliner City on Fire“.

The first Cologne Design Award was given to the best graduation projects by design students and come with prize money of 45.000 Euros. The award ceremony took place at the Museum of Appied Arts in Cologne on November 6.

In May 2008 DESIGNSPOTTER went on the road to Canada, realizing a brand new project called ROADSPOTTER. In Toronto we made an interview with Georgia and Julian from MODEL CITIZEN who are located in Kensington Market...

Is it stop motion that makes the LEGO characters move along the cat walk so smooth? Four H from France opens news perspectives in visual and music production. Check out that cool stuff.

Aakashs street art mostly consists of isometric rectangles and squares. He selectively places these graphics around New York to highlight the unexpected contours and elegant geometry of the city itself. All execution of a piece is done on site with little to no planning.

8 artists gathered in Cape Town (South Arfica). Their theme: The fate of the earth.
Watch out for that cool project that was realized with courtesy of DISCOVERY CHANNEL.

Today in the morning, on Nov 6, the press conference for the very first Cologne Design Award (1. Kölner Design Preis) took place at the Museum of Applied Arts in the centre of Cologne. We already got back from the award ceremony tonight, so here you see some first impressions. A further video with the award winners and impressions of the gala will follow soon...

The street artist Invader came from France to L.A. recently and took a minute to explain his new Binary Code street art. This new media utilizes hi-tech Binary Code technology combined with his trademark lo-tech ceramic tile work as seen in urban centers all around the world.

This work by Gera Frascaroli represents the intertwining life cycle of a $10 bill and a male. The bill returns to the male at different stages of his life to show how he reacts to money. Although the character realises that there is more to life than money towards the end, the character is actually in an endless and inescapable cycle.