Touch it, feel it, paste and taste it:
Be part of the art in the VELTINS Design Lounge


While during Kölner Passagen week designers and design aficionados will be all over Cologne, watching, VELTINS in cooperation with Contain Gallery invites them to literally take part in the art: from January 18th til Sunday 24th Contain Gallery will transform into the VELTINS Design Lounge where visitors can actively participate in working the exhibition space. They can paste crown caps dyed silver and green to a magnetic wall and concertedly generate a distinctive pattern – play it, change it, tune it in the course of the week. The extra: VELTINS for free throughout opening hours.

CONTAIN Gallery selected design editions is Cologne’s first gallery focused on young international design. From now on there is a place in the heart of Cologne’s creative Belgian Quarter for exhibitions from the progressive world of young design.

The opening exhibition “Utopie jetzt! / utopia now!“ deals with the utopian idea of an allegedly refined society – contradicted by a cross-section of modern urban lifestyle.

"Good morning. Check out this killer wooden bike." Lance Armstrong on Twitter.

Cologne based architects Christian Hartmann, Christian Dieckmann and Robert Wetzels have chosen a very special location for their brand new office: The abandoned TV tower right in the center of city.

The "Ocean-Cookbook" by Berlin based Nadine Freischlad and Nina Eggemann won the 5GUM Vision Lab Award, priced with 10.000 Euro. Kai Panholzer, CEO of Wrigley Germany presented the proudly winners on June 25, 2009 in Berlin.

Thank you for all you ever gave us and especially 1988 in Cologne and Hannover/Germany and many years before and after... and may you rest in heavenly peace. You are and always will be one-of-a-kind.

Kicked off in June, the seventh edition of DMY International Design Festival Berlin presented more than 550 international designers within over 100 different events. Capturing contemporary product design the festival invited professionals as well as the wide public to a varied program of exhibitions, lectures, panel talks, workshops, performances and parties.