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be design has organised numerous conferences, symposia and workshops from conception, finding and involving the right group of experts through to event moderation and chairing panel discussions.
be design was responsible for the development and management of design competitions such as:
- Design plus, Messe Frankfurt
- Lucky Strike Designer Award
- Lucky Strike Junior Designer Award
be design is highly experienced in conceptualising and project-managing exhibitions in the areas of design, art, architecture and general culture.
This includes concept and theme development, location sourcing and bringing together the right people for both project-cooperation and the delivery of design and implementation services.
Examples:
- “Vom Aussehen der Wörter” (On the appearance of words – visual poetry) - Sprengel Museum Hannover
- “On Kawara” – postcards and telegrams
- “A joint work by Robert Filiou”
- “Design Basics”
- “Stupid Design”
- “4:3 – 50 Years of Italian and German Design”
- “Today is Tomorrow: On the Future of Experience and Construction”
Locations & Clients (Selection):
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Koeln International School of Design, Musée d’art moderne Paris, Kunsthalle Bern
The main quality of be design lies in our research competence and experience.
Research areas include:
- the use of products and services
- cultural differences
- qualitative empirical market research and trend analyses
- gender issues
- female participation in public life
- qualitative empirical studies on fantasy as a social category
- the beginning of artistic involvement in advertising and graphic design
- visual poetry
- ‘Non-intentional design’ – the creative use of products
- ‘Waiting in public spaces’ as a typical phenomenon of cultural differences between China and Europe
- the use and meaning of mobile phones in China, Japan and Germany (also in terms of gender issues)
- ‘dress for success’
- ‘standard products as quality products’
Uta Brandes and Michael Erlhoff have been active as writers, editors and publishers in the areas of design, art and culture for decades.
Based on our longstanding experience in the field, we are uniquely positioned to help you with all your publication projects. Whether you need an academic or popular, innovative and interesting, or ‘strange’ or highly intellectual text, whether you need a book or catalogue, a magazine article, a pamphlet or flyer or an academic paper – be design can write it for you or can find you a suitable writer among the many and great writers and authors we know. We can also help you with the design of your publications and with finding the right publisher.