Awhile back we featured Josep Schulz’s “Sign Out” series, here is a selection of works from his “sachliches” and “formen” groups of work. In these works he photographs actual industrial architecture and edits/manipulates in order to place these buildings in a green field, to remove entrances, windows, or lettering on the factory workshops, and also traces of use and decline. The buildings are thus deprived of their defining features. They are reduced to pure form. Here the computer becomes an artistic device (...) Read More about Josef Schulz’s Architecture Photography (113 words)

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Dear Bike-Fetishists, please give some attention to a ride, that doesn’t only look completely wicked and gives you a great feeling when riding it, but is also high of quality. The German liquor factory ‘Partisan-Vodka from Belarus’ summoned a special competition to create two different bikes by two German teams. Both had the same budget of only 700€ and they had only six weeks to get ready and present their designs. The most important condition: absolute secrecy about what (...) Read More about FeO2 bike Winner of the Partisan Vodka Bike Battle (308 words)

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‘Taking a closer look at this may result in a passive or an active design’. Jack in the Box by 45Kilo is a tool-furniture, it allows you to create flexible and structured working conditions. It can be a lighting object, something to load mobile phones or both. Jack in the box gives all your (...) Read More about Jack in the Box by 45Kilo (136 words)

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The work Folds by Robert Seidel for the Lindenau Museum (Altenburg, Germany) may be understood as a rapprochement with the history of the museum’s collection of plaster casts. Seidel was particularly interested in the ancient, fragmented bodies – how through the loss of limbs they became almost abstract, fragmentary sculptures and(...) Read More about Folds by Robert Seidel (60 words)

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It looks like German photographers are talented in capturing (and finding) minimalist landscapes. After featuring the awesome minimalist photographs of Berlin based Matthias Heiderich 3 times already, here is Klaus Leontjew, another German photographer with awesome colorful and geometric compositions.(...) Read More about Minimalist Photography by Leontjew (14 words)

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German Art Director Sarah Illenberger has a beautiful portfolio featuring her set design and product styling work. I have selected a few of her projects to showcase here which show her range with big and small objects, from the modern interior design for Wallpaper seen above, to the meticulously shaped pyramids of the ingredients inside Sevigne perfumes or the papercraft food series for Enroute Magazine below, it is clear she is very creative and crazy about details.

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Freelance illustrator from Germany, Tilman Faelker introduced us to his mixed media collages – Drawing free hand before digitizing, his style is a mix of retro and futuristic geometry with a touch of 8 bit video games. A pretty unique style that I am sure you will enjoy as much as me!

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Peter Jorge Fischer owner of Skypak has taken the robust and versatile Airplane Trolleys from the sky and, with a large portion of entrepreneurial matter-of-factness and a knack for design, is elegantly styling airplane trolleys for apartments and offices.

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German haute couture fashion designer Stefan Eckert, with the help of Tim Jockel, the Bakery film Agency and director Florian Sigl created the world’s first complete hologram Show “Symphony Space Blues”, which premiered in Hamburg. They felt that this concept of a 3-D hologram show was the best representation of philosophy of the latest collection.

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