German Designers

Shoebox for the FAVELA sports shoe by CALLE, 2010, Copyright: HORT

A Playful Approach – Eike König and his graphic crèche

Graphic designer Eike König and his team love surprises. More ...
Julia Lohmann, Copyright: Julia Lohmann

Ethical Explorations – Designer Julia Lohmann

Julia Lohmann, a product and graphic designer, reveals modern industrial society’s relationship to animals and the environment through her objects. More ...
Knitted lamp “Matt”; Copyright: llot llov/photo: Nicoló Lanfranchi

llot llov – A Design Collective with Woollen Signboards

The knitted lamps “Matt” and “Ray” have brought the four young Berlin designers international fame, too. More ...
© Bureau Mario Lombardo

Preferably Print– the Bureau Mario Lombardo

Mario Lombardo is one of the best contemporary print and magazine designers in Germany. In 2008 the Lead Academy awarded him the title Visual Leader of the Year.  
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Cassina, Blox sofa group, © Jehs + Laub GbR

Typically German? Designers Jehs + Laub

Jehs + Laub unite „typically German“ design features such as functionality, formal stringency and clarity with the imaginative use of material in unusual concepts, and they regard themselves as „European designers“.
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Pugs – black, Cop: Kühn Keramik

Between Glamour and Irony – Ceramicist Bernd Kühn

His most famous work – the much-copied "football cup" vase bearing the word "Punk" in Gothic script – can be found in many an apartment in Berlin-Friedrichshain, but Kühn now exports most of his products overseas.
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Samuel Beckett - Bing - With 24 etchings by Georg Baselitz. Michael Werner, Cologne - New York 1991. One of 60 copies. White morocco full-leather binding. On the back cover horizontal bands built up from vertical, small white embossed lines which lose their strict order on the front cover and spread in all directions. Back titles embossed in white. Bord-à-bord end-leaves and flyleaves of tylose paper with fine lines in white, grey and yellow. Half-leather dust jacket and slip-case also of tylose paper like the inner end paper but in different contrasts of light and dark.Format 23 x 35 cm, binding 1994. Collection of Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, © Mechthild Lobisch

The Face of the Book – the Bookbinding Art of Mechthild Lobisch

The art of bookbinding has virtually disappeared. Only a select group of bibliophilic collectors still place orders with bookbinders in Germany.
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