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Babette Wiezorek (Berlin/Germany) has two master’s degrees: in art history and communication science as well as in product design. She works as a freelance designer, design researcher, lecturer and is involved in many projects and design activities. Her focus: material, process and technology. In her studio Additive Addicted she experiments with porcelain, 3D printing and the random.

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LIDDED VESSEL, 2021 If you trace the origin of the

LIDDED VESSEL, 2021
If you trace the origin of the ancient Greek πυξίς – pyxis – you not only learn that it is a round vessel. But also that the words for box tree and – lo and behold – “box” are derived from this.
The ancient pyxids were often turned from boxwood, but there were also examples made of other materials: ivory, metal, alabaster, ceramics. It can be said that pyxides have arrived in the 21st century with this example printed in porcelain!
This type of lidded vessel has another significance as a ritual or medicinal device – for smoking and preserving scents and vapours. The mould inlaid inside “Pyxis” tells about it. I ask myself which scent I would preserve for these times.

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@babette.wiezorek
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Dr. Mariko Takagi (Kyoto/Japan) is a typographer,

Dr. Mariko Takagi (Kyoto/Japan) is a typographer, book designer and author with a german-japanese background, teaching as an associate professor at Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto.

@mariko.takagi http://www.mikan.de/ #livinginabox #openbox #marikotakagi #japan #japanesegraphicdesign #designjournal #design #box #10by10by10 #designdiskurs #designcollection

BOOKLET SERIES, MAY TO SEPTEMBER 2021 “When I st

BOOKLET SERIES, MAY TO SEPTEMBER 2021
“When I started this project on May 30th, 2021, I was very optimistic about creating one book per week. The reality was different. As usual, the (always more urgent) daily work crept into my schedule. Some weeks passed without me touching this project. Every time I postponed the project, I felt guilty, I felt like a student again needing to deliver some work until a given deadline. … In conclusion, I can say that ‘the path become the goal’. It was not about creating a series of 15 perfect books but rather about developing ideas within a limited time and drawing attention to my surroundings as a potential source of inspiration. It reminded me to take time for my projects.” Mariko Takagi, Living in a box 15 / September 18, 2021

“Dear Silke, the 15 booklets took more time than I first thought. Now I think it’s a little travel library that came about at a time when I wasn’t travelling. I hope the work gets to you undamaged.” Mariko Takagi / October 21, 2021

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@mariko.takagi http://www.mikan.de/ #livinginabox #openbox #marikotakagi #japan #japanesegraphicdesign #designjournal #design #box #10by10by10 #designdiskurs #designcollection

Prof. Justus Theinert (Stuttgart/Germany) is a pro

Prof. Justus Theinert (Stuttgart/Germany) is a product designer, design didactician and professor of design and theory at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. He has researched the methodology and didactics of design education in Europe, worked in strategic design development in various industries and published on the history of design education. Guest professorships, teaching and consulting activities have taken him to Egypt, Jordan and China, among other places. His conception of teaching incorporates the unintentional and intuitive as an important source of creative work.

@fbg_darmstadt https://design.h-da.de/justus-theinert
#livinginabox #openbox #justustheinert #hochschuledarmstadt #gestaltundhinterhalt #bauhaus #designjournal #design #box #10by10by10 #designdiskurs #designcollection

OBJECT, 2021 “My box is not designed to be opene

OBJECT, 2021
“My box is not designed to be opened. Please don’t try. I don’t think designers deal with things. They deal with life. Living in a Box meant for me in the first moment: having time.” Justus Theinert / November 8, 2021

This message was impossible to ignore: ‘Attention, box cannot be opened’. But what was its secret? We only noticed it quite a while later, after we had unwrapped it, carefully felt it and shaken it. The moment Dominik and I stopped talking, we heard the constant quiet ticking.

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@fbg_darmstadt https://design.h-da.de/justus-theinert
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Jaime Jenkins (Tauranga/New Zealand) is an artist.

Jaime Jenkins (Tauranga/New Zealand) is an artist. She studied Visual Arts at the Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology in Tauranga and completed internships with artists in Aotearoa – the Māori name for New Zealand – and London. In her stoneware sculptures and objects, as well as in the pottery classes she offers in her studio, she explores the ceramic material in its structure, texture and colourfulness. And not to forget: the sounds! Often recurring objects are her manifold stoneware bells.

Invited by Karl Fritsch @karlfritschrings and Lisa Walker @lisaaaawalker @jaimejenkins #livinginabox #openbox #jaimejenkins #karlfritsch #lisawalker #ceramicart #newzealand #designjournal #design #box #10by10by10 #designdiskurs #designcollection

OBJECT, 2021 “Kia Ora Dominik, I made this ceram

OBJECT, 2021
“Kia Ora Dominik, I made this ceramic star peace at my home during lockdown when I was unable to go to my studio. Sending warmest wishes from Aotearoa. Arohanui, Jaime” / November 8, 2021

We Central Europeans immediately identified this star-shaped object as a starfish. But what do we actually know about these distant beings, who usually have five arms, often more, but rarely six arms like this one? This fascinating specimen is fragile, flowing and flexible in a very special way, while being made of fired clay, a material that is hard and brittle.

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Invited by Karl Fritsch @karlfritschrings and Lisa Walker @lisaaaawalker @jaimejenkins #livinginabox #openbox #jaimejenkins #karlfritsch #lisawalker #ceramicart #newzealand #designjournal #design #box #10by10by10 #designdiskurs #designcollection

Sophie Smallhorn (London/Great Britain) is an arti

Sophie Smallhorn (London/Great Britain) is an artist, art and colour consultant. Looking at her work, one is transported into a sphere full of building blocks, Rubik’s cubes, elementary play and infinite colour scales. Concrete art? Design course? Space, building, object, picture, sculpture? Sawed, built, assembled, layered, painted, printed? Doesn’t matter. Very stimulating.

In Invited by Sebastian Bergne @sebastianbergne
@sophiesmallhorn http://www.sophiesmallhorn.co.uk/ #livinginabox #openbox #sophiesmallhorn #sebastianbergne #britishartist #colours #designjournal #design #box #10by10by10 #designdiskurs #designcollection

SCREEN PRINT UNIQUE, 2021 Something between a colo

SCREEN PRINT UNIQUE, 2021
Something between a coloured Objet trouvé and Mail Art: This box came to us flat in an envelope. In this way, a simple cardboard fold cut becomes a luminous print graphic that also effects in three dimensions.

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Invited by Sebastian Bergne @sebastianbergne
@sophiesmallhorn http://www.sophiesmallhorn.co.uk/ #livinginabox #openbox #sophiesmallhorn #sebastianbergne #britishartist #colours #designjournal #design #box #10by10by10 #designdiskurs #designcollection

Yi Meng Wu (Berlin/Germany) is a communication des

Yi Meng Wu (Berlin/Germany) is a communication designer, illustrator and book artist. Her Studio Wu stands for intercultural design between China and Europe. For Living in a Box, she found an expressive image for current ecological changes by relating two symbolic tree species. This form of mediation is typical of her work, which deals with images, signs, language and cultural codes of the West and the Far East. Worlds between which she is permanently on the move.

Invited by Haiyue Tao & Xinyu Weng @yuuedesign
http://studiowudesign.com/ #livinginabox #openbox #yimengwu #interculture #interculturaldesign #chinesedesigner #berlindesigner #designjournal #design #box #10by10by10 #designdiskurs #designcollection

OBJECT, 2021 “The summer of 2021 was a turbulent

OBJECT, 2021
“The summer of 2021 was a turbulent time: heat waves hit different places in the world with the drastic effects of forest fires in California or Greece, at the same time there was too much water and wind in other places like in Germany or China. The imbalance of the forces of nature shows more and more drastically the consequences of human-generated global warming. And shows us how closely the different places are interwoven through long-term actions on a global level.
The theme of my box is the interconnectivity and fragility of nature. The small box shows on one side the contours of linden trees … typical trees from Berlin, on the other side there’re palm trees that could grow in warm latitudes. By the incidence of light … which symbolizes the warmth or the sun, shadows are created, which merge and oscillate the shapes of the two tree species. It’s a hint that climates are going crazy and adapting more and more over time. Will there be ‘Under the Palms’ instead of linden trees in Berlin in 20 years?” Yi Meng Wu / October 29, 2021

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Invited by Haiyue Tao & Xinyu Weng @yuuedesign
http://studiowudesign.com/ #livinginabox #openbox #yimengwu #interculture #interculturaldesign #chinesedesigner #berlindesigner #designjournal #design #box #10by10by10 #designdiskurs #designcollection

Catharina Lorenz & Steffen Kaz (Milan/Italy) are f

Catharina Lorenz & Steffen Kaz (Milan/Italy) are furniture, product and graphic designers with southern German origins. The studio’s designs – often award-winning and internationally recognized – show a design attitude of reduction or minimalism in relation to the use of space and resources. What is not reduced is the demand for practical functions and a high aesthetic appeal.

@lorenzkaz https://www.lorenz-kaz.com/ #livinginabox #openbox #lorenzkaz #furniture #designfurniture #contractfurniture #designjournal #design #box #10by10by10 #designdiskurs #designcollection

CONSTRUCTION KIT, 2021 How to survive D-day with

CONSTRUCTION KIT, 2021
How to survive D-day with only very little luggage? The answer is packaged in a paper box whose size is significantly smaller than 10 x 10 x 10 cm. It contains 56 carbon rods, some with aluminum and brass elements, 4 feet and one tent foil made of metalized polyester, the material of these crackling rescue blankets. An existentialist commentary on dystopian imaginations and contemporary catastrophes.

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@lorenzkaz https://www.lorenz-kaz.com/ #livinginabox #openbox #lorenzkaz #furniture #designfurniture #contractfurniture #designjournal #design #box #10by10by10 #designdiskurs #designcollection

Sebastian Bergne (London/Great Britain) is a produ

Sebastian Bergne (London/Great Britain) is a product designer. He founded his studio in 1990 and has been designing everyday helpers and furnishings for private and public spaces ever since. Table, chair, coat hook, umbrella stand, light… often awarded and exhibited, they are actually unspectacular. His “simple” things remain simple, yet they’re really sophisticated – with an original twist that makes them extraordinary. A way of creating permanence and belonging.

@sebastianbergne http://www.sebastianbergne.com/ #livinginabox #openbox #sebastianbergne #interiordesign #objectdesign #designproject #designjournal #design #box #10by10by10 #designdiskurs #designcollection

CHESS GAME – STUDIO EDITION, 2021 “Inspired b

CHESS GAME – STUDIO EDITION, 2021
“Inspired by our experience of improving games whilst confined at home during the Covid19 lockdowns, Check Mate is a scarf that doubles as a game board. Find household objects around the home, in your toolbox or natural objects whilst exercising outdoors to complete your improvised board game and pass the time with family or friends.” Sebastian Bergne / October 4, 2021
Look for Check Mate and other editions on Sebastian’s website.

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@sebastianbergne http://www.sebastianbergne.com/ #livinginabox #openbox #sebastianbergne #interiordesign #objectdesign #designproject #designjournal #design #box #10by10by10 #designdiskurs #designcollection

Jeannette Altherr (Barcelona/Spain) is a product d

Jeannette Altherr (Barcelona/Spain) is a product designer and creative director. Decades ago, she co-founded a studio that has long been internationally renowned and now operates as the designer collective Lievore + Altherr Désile Park. Jeannette Altherr designs furniture, spatial concepts, temporary buildings; and she is equally concerned with thinking about and communicating with design.

Laura Santarelli (Barcelona/Spain) is a graphic designer and creative director. After graduating in visual communication at the Bauhaus University Weimar, she worked as an image editor and communication designer. Her area of interest is the development of visual codes, brands and identities based on cultural processes – often as a movement into the unknown.

Invited by Steffen Kaz & Catharina Lorenz @lorenzkaz
http://ladpstudio.eu/ @lievore_altherrdesilepark http://www.phantasia.services/ @santarellei.laura @phantasiaservices #livinginabox #openbox #jeannettealtherr #laurasantarelli #lorenzkaz #altherrdesilepark #phantasiaservices #spanishdesign #barcelona #designjournal #design #box #10by10by10 #designdiskurs #designcollection

BANNER, CARDS AND FOLDER, 2021 “Think out of the

BANNER, CARDS AND FOLDER, 2021
“Think out of the box. We don’t need more objects but a different narrative.”
The box from Barcelona contained a mix-set: expressed in a product-related manner, a silk banner with a colored screen-printed motif measuring 60 x 85 cm, a folding poster and 16 square text cards appeared.
In fact, we received a treasure chest of inspiration, thoughts and questions on what could – or should – be driving designers today. For example, what a fine, softly flowing cloth has to do with a crisp green pea pod, with our earth, our habits and ideas of beauty.

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Invited by Steffen Kaz & Catharina Lorenz @lorenzkaz
http://ladpstudio.eu/ @lievore_altherrdesilepark http://www.phantasia.services/ @santarellei.laura @phantasiaservices #livinginabox #openbox #jeannettealtherr #laurasantarelli #lorenzkaz #altherrdesilepark #phantasiaservices #spanishdesign #barcelona #designjournal #design #box #10by10by10 #designdiskurs #designcollection

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