Here, we will make available treasures from our vast sound and image archives. We’ve only just started to digitise photos and sound recordings. So, please bear with us. It’s definitely worth checking in from time to time as we are incrementally adding more content.
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Chairman Mao moulded into form
A designer from Hong Kong is said to have the largest collection of Chairman Mao busts. The busts were produced, by governmental decree, in only two places in the People’s...
4:3 – Fifty Years of Italian and German Design
An Exhibition at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany June to November 2000 In 1988, the then-director of the Art and Exhibition Hall of...
Designers Milano 2000
Designers we met in Milano in 2000.
St. Moritz Design Summit – 2000-2007
In 1999, as a result of an initiative by Köbi Gantenbein, chief editor of the magazine Hochpaterre, we were invited to St. Moritz (Switzerland) to talk with local officials...
Rubber Cup Competition 1998
The Rubber Cup goes back to Richard Sapper, then-professor at the Stuttgart Academy of Art: students from all universities were invited to participate in this race on the condition...
Designed in Germany
Following the World Design Expo in Nagoya, this exhibition by the German Design Council, whose then-director was Michael Erlhoff, was shown at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles....
World Design Expo, Nagoya, Japan, 1988
In 1988, the first World Design Expo (the only one in this particular form) took place in the Japanese city of Nagoya (‘Toyota City’). After some discussions with the...
People
People we’ve met. This gallery is available in high resolution at Flickr (no commercial use, credit).
New Poetry Colloquium Bielefeld
In 1978, S.J. Schmidt, Klaus Ramm and Jörg Drews, professors at the then newly founded Bielefeld University, invited all German-speaking writers from the field of concrete and visual poetry...
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Sound of Design
These acoustic pieces were created in a short-term project (starting on a Monday afternoon and ending with a public presentation on Friday morning of the same week) around the...
Song for the graduation ceremony at KISD 1999
Lyrics, music and vocals: Tanja Godlewsky and Claudia Leu (now: Claudia Herling) Arrangement and production: Oliver J. Leu and David Oswald When Tanja Godlewsky and Claudia Leu were...
99th Anniversary of Kurt Schwitters’ Birthday
A sound collage by Uta Brandes and Michael Erlhoff, created for NDR radio and broadcast on 26 February 1986 (in German).
Conversation with Oswald Wiener
A conversation between Michael Erlhoff and the Austrian scholar and writer Oswald Wiener (approx. 1983, in German).
Hannoversche Verdichtungen
Unsatisfied with both the largely miserable quality and local presence of Hannover-based writers, Uta Brandes and Michael Erlhoff placed a distinctive note in the local paper HA.Z: all those...