Our new table base Orville is set to break the predominance of steel framed tables with its wooden warmth. A prototype now, but we show Orville at Qubique 2011 for the first time to a broader public, and here: Read more – ‘Orville’.
For the start of Wilbur we just refined the recipe, and now went for melamine finish. This surface is much more scratch-proof than the clear coating that we inhouse-tested now for 1 year. And we could reduce the price by a bit. The Basics of the concept stay the same, and will be supported by [...] Read more – ‘Wilbur 2011’.
For the launch of the Create Berlin products weltunit designed a lampshade in cooperation with Flip Sellin of COORDINATION, Martina Zeyen and Ulrich Merz: CRNKL! The lampshade CRNKL! is a scarf-size piece of recyclable spunbounded fabric with a grid of colored seams and embedded micro-magnets. CRNKL! can be added to the typical bulb/wire thingy that [...] Read more – ‘CRNKL!’.
weltunit will exhibit at Qubique – Next Generation Tradeshow on the 26th -29th of Oktober 2011. We are part of the exhibition Berlin UP! from Create Berlin for which we also made the concept and design, together with Flip Sellin of COORDINATON, Martina Zeyen and Ulrich Merz. You’ll find Berlin UP! in Hangar 6 Showroom [...] Read more – ‘weltunit X Qubique 2011’.
As part of this years DMY Design Festval Berlin we’re having open doors in our Kreuzberg coworking space for showing our first finished product, tabletop “Wilbur” as well as prototypes of our new table bases. Come by, have a look, have a coffee, have a drink, chat with us or discuss, inspire and be inspired, [...] Read more – ‘weltunit @ DMY11’.
Wilbur is a tabletop. A product to make the common trestle/rack desks usable for working on a Laptop. In the beginning was the idea to bring an acceptable cable management solution to the popular desks designed in the 50s by german architect Egon Eiermann, since existing solutions are impractical. Anyone who worked at those tables [...] Read more – ‘Wilbur’.
Design and Planning of the interiors and the craftsmanship of this small coffee joint in Mulackstr. 26, Berlin Mitte. Clients: Mykona and name giver NoMoreSleep, Herbst/Winter 2010 We find a challenging initial situation: With the facile means and resources a lean coffee place with minimal footprint had to be created. Mission statement was to create [...] Read more – ‘NoMoreSleep Coffee Joint’.
Finally! Our new site is ready. weltunit shines new again. Why, you ask? There was a blog before that could have been used? True, but we wanted to give our projects the frame they deserve and distinguish them from Daniel’s own web place. Admittedly they are overlapping on a personel level mostly but more projects [...] Read more – ‘New Site Finished’.
iDevice support accessories made from laser-cut cardboard. Ecologically made and semi-durable. Ever found yourself in front of an unused gadget accessory for which the Gadget doesn’t even exit anymore in your household? Todays tech-loving people have an average update cycle of a bit more than one year. This holds especially true for those apple branded [...] Read more – ‘Papercrafts’.
Workshop for the 2007 EASA, the European Architecture Students Assembly, Elefsina Greece. Project brief: Add a new layer of information to a building in a participatory way. Thus breaking the subsequent layers of information which are the hierarchical system of construction, the formal system of the facade, the functional system consisting of walls, windows and [...] Read more – ‘Colorful:Deconstruction’.
Gestalten.tv is proud to present an exclusive video interview with Marilyn Neuhart, author of “The Story of Eames Furniture”, and her husband John. Both have worked with the Eames Office in various capacities from the 1950s. Having been in close proximity to Charles and Ray Eames as well as the members of the Eames Office [...] Read more – ‘The Story of Eames’.