Take a quick tour through our DESIGNSPOTTER exhibition area and listen to our exhibitors voices
- it´s the easiest way to get an idea of what happens within a whole week of trade show ... and parties :-)

© DS TV 2008, producer: Ioanna Paraskeva

One of the older more cultivated traditions at the Köln International School of Design is to send the graduates of the design department off with a great display and even greater festivity and to celebrate with them an exhibition. DS TV took a look around.

© DS TV 2008, producer: Ioanna Paraskeva

The latest trend book edition for the imm cologne features the Interior Trends for 2009. The overwhelming response received in previous years demonstrates that this annual book provides a detailed reference work not only for exhibitors, visitors and journalists...

© DS TV 2008, producer: Ioanna Paraskeva

On this years´ graduation party of the Koeln International School of Design we met Prof. Dr. Michael Erlhoff. He told us some very interesting things about the brand new "Kölner Design Preis" which will be awarded on 6 November 2008.

© DS TV 2008, producer: Ioanna Paraskeva

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 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.

DSTV visited the "Passagen" and took an exclusive look around and caught some vibrant atmosphere in those locations:

1. designers fair at RheinTriadem
2. Global Street Food at Meiré & Meiré
3. Sidispot - Best of Spanish Interior Design

1. DESIGNSPOTTER STAND
Third day of imm cologne, and today we introduce our stand at hall 3.1 / young professionals. All over the blue carpet there are products from more than 50 exhibitors, coming from 16 countries all around the world. Awesome!

2. Kölnischer Kunstverein, Alfredo Häberli

It was a great pleasure to meet Ross Lovegrove for an interview during Cologne Design Week. He presented his new bathroom collection at VitrA Bad Showroom Cologne and spent some time with Ioanna Paraskeva from DSTV, talking about his life and business. Enjoy 22 minutes of conversation.

In this years` imm cologne it was a pleasure for us to present Ford kinetic design on the DESIGNSPOTTER stand in hall 3.1

We interviewed some interesting design workers from different fields like

- Erika Tsubaki, design strategy & futuring
- Serife Uenal, color & material design
- Hans-Jürgen Teubner, sound design