Author: Henning

Berlin Wall

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Background

Starting point for gewerkdesign’s logotype for the Berlin Wall was a rectangle mirroring the proportions of the wall and corresponding with the words »Berliner Mauer«. Omitting one segment of the rectangle in between the words makes reference to the former division of Berlin into an eastern and western part, yet also the opening of the wall. The missing segment is repeated a little below the rectangle and can be used for including additional information like a place, an event, or a date.

The logotype was selected in an elaborate selection procedure by the Federal Government of Germany. It identifies all institutions subject to public law that are dedicated to the research and information about the Berlin Wall or the history of the German division. It is also used as a certificate for quality approved products and services of non-governmental institutions.

The Berlin Wall logotype was awarded the European Design Award in Stockholm 2008.

Portfolio / Range of Services: logotype design, brand design

Details

• Published: September 2008
• Client: The Federal Government
FCommissioner for Culture
Fand the Media

Related projects

• Berliner Mauerweg – Außenring
• Stiftung Berliner Mauer

Team

• Jens Imig
• Stefan Rothert
• Birgit Schlegel
• Susanne Kluge

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Berlin Wall Memorial

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Marienfelde Refugee Center Museum, Berlin

Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Straße 111, Berlin

Background

The logotype by gewerkdesign for the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Straße 111 was first published in 1999.

It consists of the three delicate numerals 1 and the words »Berliner Mauer – Dokumentationszentrum«, alluding to the address of the memorial and the division of the Berlin Wall into three parts: the eastern wall, the death zone, and the western wall. The logotype is very flexible because the space in between the numerals is variable and responds to the width of the print product.

As the Berlin Wall Memorial and the Marienfelde Refugee Centre Memorial were combined by a superordinate institution in 2009 – the Foundation of the Berlin Wall – their respective logotypes were redesigned and made to fit together harmonically.

Portfolio / Range of Services: logotype design, style guide, print materials (office equipment, basic layout of flyers), catalogues, posters

Details

• Published: August 1999,
Fredesign 2009
• Client: Foundation of the
FBerlin Wall with the Berlin
FWall Memorial and the
FMarienfelde Refugee Centre
FMemorial

Related projects

• Berliner Mauer Logo
• bcc – Berliner Congress Center

Team

• Birgit Schlegel
• Christine Kitta
• Susanne Kluge

Photography
• gewerkdesign

velotaxi – CityCruiser I + II und Delivery Cruiser

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Delivery Cruiser in front of the Brandenburg Gate

Silhouette of the Delivery Cruiser

Background

The »CityCruiser II« formally, technically and conceptually improves velotaxi’s prototype from the year 2000, which was also designed by gewerkdesign. This new generation of vehicles is characterized by a modular cabin and a flexible chassis, transforming the muscle-driven, freight tricycle into a sport-and-lifestyle device.

The velotaxi is made of polyethylene and becomes a delivery and shop vehicle when the back part of the cabin is replaced and the chassis is contracted. It is available as an e-bike and can be equipped with solar panels for charging the batteries.

In addition to the carriage’s practical advantages – providing advertising space – the velotaxi has become a sympathetic and popular icon in the city traffic of Berlin. Implementing an alternative concept of transportation, it is known all over the world as the very symbol of eco-friendly transportation.

Portfolio / Range of Services: participation in developing the concept, design and planning of the chassis, compilation of the 3d-data and preparation for the tool manufacturing, design of equipment and accessories

Details

• Rollout and presentation:
F2007
• Client: veloform, Berlin
• Follow-up model of the
FCityCruiser I from 2000
• dashes through 120 cities
Fall over the globe

Related projects

• Zwei Räder – Freiherr von Drais
Fund die Geschichte des Fahrrads
• Berliner Mauerweg – Außenring

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Stefan Rothert
• Tobias Solcher
• Marten Suhr

Photography
• Produzentenfotos

Berlin Wall Trail – Outer circle

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Background

In 2006 gewerkdesign created a signage system for the the Berlin Wall hiking and bike trail, which traces the course of the former GDR border fortifications encircling West Berlin.

During the course of the 160 km long train gewerkdesign’s simple orange signs point out historical sites and, similar to the well known »stolpersteine«, honour the memory of the 46 people, who were kille trying to cross the border.

Portfolio / Range of Services: signage system, design, planning, supervision of the implementation

Details

• Opening: April 2006
• Berlin Wall Hiking and
FBike Trail
• Client: Grün Berlin Park
Fund Garten GmbH
• ca. 60 posts, continually
Fexpanded

Related projects

• Gartenregion Hannover,
FInformations- und Leitsystem

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Andreas Baumbach
• Julia Junghähnel
• Rita Rentzsch
• Tobias Solcher

Photography
• gewerkdesign

IXC Berlin Chair and Table

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Berliner Congress Center, Berlin

Chair in the historical bcc building

Background

Cooperating with the manufacturer Interstuhl, gewerkdesign developed the table system »IXT Berlin« and the stackable chair »IXC Berlin«.

The chair’s red cushioning improves the acoustics of the historical bcc building at Alexanderplatz and elegantly merges into Hermann Henselmann’s architecture from the 1960s.

Depending on their intended function, there are four different models of the IXC: those made of plastic material with acoustically convenient punch holes in the seat and back, those with a folding seat, those with a cushioned seat and back and those that are fully upholstered. The chairs are vertically stackable, linkable, and can be equipped with writing pads and row numbers.

Portfolio / Range of Services: product design, participation with the construction, with the colour concept, and the interior design concept

Details

• Development: 2002 – 2003
• Rollout and presentation: 2004
• Manufacturer: Interstuhl
• Cooperation with the Berlin
FCongress Center bcc

Related projects

• bcc – Berlin Congress Center

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Stefan Rothert
• Tobias Solcher

Photography
• Produzentenfotos

Put the allspace in a nutshell – Summer School in Stockholm

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Background

The international travelling exhibition »science + fiction« contemplates the cultural relations between the fine arts and science.

In this post-exhibition workshop the two curators, two of gewerkdesign’s designers and students from different creative backgrounds took a closer look at models used for communicating scientific theses.

The students developed their own models in a wire frame of 50 x 50 x 50 cm for communicating a theory of their choice. The models were then presented in the lobby of the Nobel Museum.

Portfolio / Range of Services: workshop, planning and presentation

Details

• 18. – 24. August 2004
• Presentation: 24. August 2004
Fat the Nobel Museum Stockholm
• Client: Nobel Museum, Jubilee
FFund of the Swedish Central
FBank, Volkswagen Foundation
• Participants: Curators of the
FNobelmuseum, gewerkdesign,
Fstudents from different
Fcreative backgrounds

Related projects

• Science + Fiction – Zwischen
FNanowelt und Globaler Kultur

Team

• Jens Imig
• Stefan Rothert

Curators
• Stefan Iglhaut
• Thomas Spring

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Gedenken Gestalten – On Designing Places of Remembrance

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Background

The exhibition »gedenken gestalten« in the glass courtyard of the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts presents the results of several previous meetings and workshops.

It reflects the complex challenges of contemporary memorial design, intricately merging impacts and functions of a memorial site. gewerkdesign presented previous of their memorial design projects in an exhibition space separated by packaging tape: Bautzen II Memorial; Münchner Platz Memorial in Dresden; Documentation Centre of the Berlin Wall; Hohenschönhausen Memorial; Pirna Sonnenstein Memorial. The texts surrounding the projects elaborated on the demands and challenges for contemporary memorial design.

Portfolio / Range of Servicese: workshop design, concept and content for the exhibition, exhibition design and planning, installation of the objects, production, graphic design

Details

• Opening of the exhibition
Fand presentation of the
Fworkshop results:
F4. April 2004
• Client: Hamburg Museum
Fof Arts and Crafts Hamburg
• Participants: Hamburg
FMuseum of Arts and Crafts,
Fgewerkdesign

Related projects

• Zwangsarbeit. Die Deutschen,
Fdie Zwangsarbeiter und der Krieg
• Berliner Mauer

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Stefan Rothert
• Birgit Schlegel
• Volker Böhm
• Ernst Dullemond
• Hendrik Unger

Media
• Martin Kamratowski

Music
• Peter Imig

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Science + Fiction – Between Nanoworld and Global Culture

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Miraikan, Tokio

Background

The international travelling exhibition »science + fiction« contemplates the cultural relations between fine arts and science. Within a structure designed exclusively for the exhibition by gewerkdesing works of art and scientific facts are juxtaposed.

Just like a »Wunderkammer« from the Renaissance when the arts and sciences were not as separate as they are today, the exhibition uses artistic works in order to comment upon the essential accomplishments of science represented by images, objects, specimens and media reports.

Working together with scientists and artists gewerkdesign specified an architectural matrix consisting of identical modules for integrating the exhibits.

Portfolio / Range of Services: exhibition design, scenography, brand design, production and production management

Details

• Opening: December 2002
• Exhibition sites: Hannover,
FKarlsruhe, Bonn, Dresden,
FStockholm, Munich, Eindhoven,
FTokio
• Client: Volkswagen Foundation,
FHannover
• 700 – 1.200 m²

Related projects

• Sugars and beyond!
FFood – Matter – Energy

Design Process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Stefan Rothert
• Birgit Schlegel
• Barbara Höffer
• Tobias Solcher
• Hendrik Unger

Curators
• Thomas Spring
• Stefan Iglhaut

Artists
• Atelier Joep van Lieshout
• Dellbrügge & de Moll
• Christoph Keller
• Mark Weis, Martin de Mattia, M+M
• Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau

Scientists
• Andreas Engel
• Eva Kimminich
• Jörg Kotthaus

Photography
• Herling/Gwose
• Ursula Böhmer
• Peter Cox