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...
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...
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...
People
People we’ve met. This gallery is available in high resolution at Flickr (no commercial use, credit).
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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...
Conversation with Oswald Wiener
A conversation between Michael Erlhoff and the Austrian scholar and writer Oswald Wiener (approx. 1983, in German).
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...