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 the full story

Written by Guest Blogger Natalie Unterschuetz & Dominique Heiermann

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 the full story

‘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 the full story

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 the full story

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 the full story

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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