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In our blog, we will regularly tell you about our origins, about the present, and about the future of Phoenix Design. We listen, write, and move. Look forward to reading fascinating stories. We want to share the unique Phoenix Design spirit – with texts that are heart-warming and intellectually inspiring.

1987 – come with us and discover the origins of Phoenix Design.
2017 – enjoy our success today together with us.
2047 – read our thoughts about the future.

About STILL
For a long time STILL has been one of the leading suppliers of forklift trucks, platform trucks and tractors plus the latest Intralogistics systems. With more than 8,000 employees and a turnover of 1,96 billion (2015), STILL is successfully active on an international scale. The key to the company's success is highly efficient products, stretching from complete solutions for specific industries, for large and small operations, right up to computerised logistics programs for effective warehouse and material flow management.

Joël Gähwiler is creator of the Internet of Things prototyping platform shiftr.io, teaching assistant at the Zurich University of the Arts and researches on Network Artifacts and the Internet of Things.

Afterwards (12:30 o'clock) there will be fine dishes from the PHOENIX kitchen and good talks. We know each other, we want to learn from each other and use synergies. Our guest speakers get insights into our world of logic, morality and magic.

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Former LunchTalk Speaker: Tilla Goldberg, Ippolito Fleitz; Markus Jehs & Jürgen Laub; Alexander Trage, Dorten; Marcus Fischer, Mackevision; Prof. Matthias Held, HfG Schw.Gmünd; Robin Hofmann, HearDis; Prof. Jochen Rädecker, Strichpunkt; Dr. Frank Heinlein, Werner Sobek; Martin Wippler, Klangfinder; Prof. Thomas Hundt, jangled nerves; Jürgen Späth, Projektriangle; Andreas Kunert, Leithaus-Film; Kai Bierich, Wulf Architekten; Marius Bauer, Umwerk creative; Vera Schmidt, Sr. Manager Advanced Digital Design, Daimler AG; Friedrich Schmidgall, HU Berlin; Roman Rackwitz, Engaginglab; Ahmet Sakali, Testingtime; Moritz Dörstelmann, FibR; Aline Käfer, Liganova; Michel Casertano, Atelier Brückner; Prof. Dr. Peter Zec, Red Dot Award; Joël Gähwiler, Zürcher Universität der Künste.
 

The Winners are:
- AXOR ShowerPipe 800
- hansgrohe Raindance E Showerpipe
- hansgrohe Novus washstand fittings
- hansgrohe SilicaTec granite sinks C51

The 40 jurors evaluated the products according to strict criteria, comprising e.g. degree of innovation, functionality, formal quality, ergonomics and longevity.

For us, this year’s awards are very special indeed. The Phoenix Design team receives the Award of Honour “Red Dot: Design Team of the Year 2018”! On 9 July 2018, the Phoenix Design team will be officially honoured during the Red Dot gala event and will be handed the challenge trophy Radius on-stage at the Aalto-Theater in Essen, Germany.

In this context, we thank our clients for their sustained and long-standing trust and confidence in our work, with client relationships often lasting many years.

>> Press Release “Red Dot: Design Team of the Year 2018”

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About the Red Dot Design Award: The Red Dot Award is one of the largest design competitions in the world. In the 1990s, Red Dot CEO Professor Dr. Peter Zec developed the name and brand of the award. Since then, the coveted "Red Dot" award has been the internationally respected seal of excellent design quality.

Afterwards (12:30 o'clock) there will be fine dishes from the PHOENIX kitchen and good talks. We know each other, we want to learn from each other and use synergies. Our guest speakers get insights into our world of logic, morality and magic.

Lunch Talk speakers were already: Tilla Goldberg, Ippolito Fleitz; Markus Jehs & Jürgen Laub; Alexander Trage, Dorten; Marcus Fischer, Mackevision; Prof. Matthias Held, HfG Schw.Gmünd; Robin Hofmann, HearDis; Prof. Jochen Rädecker, Strichpunkt; Dr. Frank Heinlein, Werner Sobek Group; Martin Wippler, soundfinder; Prof. Thomas Hundt, jangled nerves; Jürgen Späth, Projekttriangle; Andreas Kunert, Leithaus Film; Kai Bierich, Wulf Architekten; Marius Bauer, Umwerk; Vera Schmidt, Sr. Manager Advanced Digital Design, Daimler AG; Friedrich Schmidgall, HU Berlin; Roman Rackwitz, Engaginglab; Ahmet Sakali, Testingtime; Moritz Dörstelmann, FibR; Aline Käfer, LIGANOVA; Michel Casertano, Atelier Brückner; Prof. Dr. Peter Zec, Red Dot Award.

The 3-hour Creative Jam Session will provide a space to try out own ideas and concepts, embedded into a competition of creative skills by different teams. Together with Marius Bauer, Alexander Holzreiter (Accenture) and David Reichenbach (Kalonoma) will be the jurors.

The Behance Portfolio Review offers the opportunity to have one’s own creative portfolio judged by experts – an open exchange among creative individuals. Sandra Heinzen, Lead UX/UI Designer with Phoenix Design Munich, will open the key note speeches at 7 pm and later be available to answer (portfolio) questions, just like Denise Pumberger & Stefan Heckl, Motion Artists with thefinest, and Daniel Brunsteiner with NIO. The coaches will give insight into processes, current projects and their individual understanding of design.

As an attractive framework event, there’s “Transparent” – organised by the young Kalonoma collective, a platform for the joint exchange of disciplines and generations. 26 creatives will present this lead topic to the 800 guests by means of exhibition and stage performances, taking approaches via design, art, music, fashion, and film. The aim: excite, inspire, connect.

The world’s our oyster. We are able to google anything and everything, we know each other without ever having met. We accept Terms and Conditions, always present, breaking taboos, being naked online. At the same time, the complex structures of our time are confusing. Who are those up there, where does the money flow to, who calls the tune? We cover our web cam, use veiling filters, talk with an ironic stance.

Music will round off the event.

Programme:

3:00 pm   Adobe Creative Jam
6:00 pm   Admission to and opening of the exhibition
7:00 pm   Behance Portfolio Review (3 key note speeches)
8:00 pm   Award winning ceremony “Adobe Creative Jam”
8:45 pm   We agree (performance)
9:00 pm   Salmon Wins
9:45 pm   Nils Kugelmann Trio
10:45 pm VKKO

after midnight   Jannis Choppin, DRKTMS, Mindsight, Delph

Phoenix Design supports this dialog around digital experiences and their importance for developing new concepts and guiding principles as a sponsor.

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A charming cupboard or a pointed lamp? The children may shape their favourite combination from simple materials (e.g. corrugated cardboard, wire, straws) according to their own ideas. Do research, find ideas, analyse, develop further, execute together, hold a presentation – all these are tasks which the professional design workday calls for. Fantasy knows no bounds. At the same time, creativity, eagerness to try out new things, network thinking, and conscious environmental design are promoted as well.

The claim to give artistic-aesthetic education higher importance in the school curriculum is being articulated more audibly and more urgently and has become a field of activities for diverse initiatives on a Federal (and even European) level. Design, however, is not covered by this. Therefore, the Deutsches Design Museum Foundation would like to promote dealing with design in schools with its project “Discover Design”. In workshops and in collaboration between teachers and designers, the students get to know the basics of creation and design in a hands-on approach. For this topic to have a permanent place in school education, a teacher training programme is about to be developed. This initiative in the State of Baden-Württemberg is supported – among others – by the Karl-Schlecht Foundation.

www.deutschesdesignmuseum.de/promoting

www.werkgymnasium.de
 

That Stuttgart is Germany's secret design capital is also supported by the important integration of design topics into the permanent exhibition at the City Museum. And Phoenix Design is of course an important contributor: For 30 years now, Swabian design "Made in Germany" has been taken from Stuttgart out into the world, and Phoenix Design has been honoured with a total of more than 780 design awards. Taking a typical design process as an example, the respective design steps behind the finished product are visualised and accompanied by explanatory texts. We are proud to be able to represent a piece of design history in this location, itself so rife with history.

Beside the permanent exhibition “Stuttgarter Stadtgeschichte(n)” (Stories from Stuttgart’s history), special exhibitions, changing events, and the "Stadtlabor" (City Lab) on building, experimenting and discovering Stuttgart are part of the varied museum offer comprising four floors.

www.stadtpalais-stuttgart.de/en

Andreas Diefenbach, Member of the Board at Phoenix Design, is thus one of five members of the Consulting Committee along with Urban August (CEO Germany, Siemens Industry Software GmbH), Dietmar Bichler (CEO, Bertrandt AG), Andre Kiehne (Member of the Board, Microsoft Deutschland GmbH), and Dr. Markus Kirchler (Partner, MHP GmbH).

As an event series hosted by the Dieselkuratorium, the CTO Spring Forum in Munich will deal with the topic of "The Chief Technology Officer / CTO in times of digital transformation: Technology Manager or Business Developer?", including workshops, impulse presentations, discussions and break-out sessions. In his new role, Andreas Diefenbach will present his contribution "ENGANGE & CONNECT – Innovation in the Age of the Customer" to the exclusively selected audience.

According to Diefenbach, there are three factors driving the fundamental change in our social structure, thus pushing new customer expectations: post-industrialisation, educational expansion, and a change in values – in Asia, this development even takes place at exponential speed. What this has to do with innovation and design, he will explain at the Forum.

The CTO Forum wants to discuss the current challenges for CTOs across industries, to exchange experiences, to provide opportunities for increased personal networking, and to evaluate solution approaches among experts.

www.forum-dieselmedaille.de/fachbeirat

LIGANOVA creates seamless brand, product and service experience®. To do so, their areas of competence are networked in a focused manner. This allows them to devise implementation-oriented BrandRetail solutions at the cutting edge – from conception to consultation & design through to production & logistics.

Excellent food from the PHOENIX Kitchen and good conversation afterwards (12:30) are a garantee. We know each other and we want to learn from each other and benefit fromsynergies. Our guest speaker also get insight into our world of logic, moral and magic.

Former Lunch Talk speakers: Tilla Goldberg, Ippolito Fleitz; Markus Jehs & Jürgen Laub; Alexander Trage, Dorten; Marcus Fischer, Mackevision; Christian Weisser, Design Studio; Prof. Matthias Held, HfG Schw.Gmünd; Robin Hofmann, HearDis; Prof. Jochen Rädecker; Dr. Frank Heinlein, Werner Sobek Group; Martin Wippler, Klangfinder; Prof. Thomas Hundt, jangled nerves; Jürgen Späth, Projektriangle; Andreas Kunert, Leithaus-Film; Kai Bierich, Wulf architekten; Marius Bauer, Umwerk; Vera Schmidt, Sr. Manager Advanced Digital Design, Daimler AG; Friedrich Schmidgall, HU Berlin; Roman Rackwitz, Engaginglab; Ahmet Sakali, Testingtime; Moritz Dörstelmann, FibR.
 

The most recent members of the intelligent product line Smart+ will be on show starting Sunday in the large Festhalle on the trade fair grounds. With Smart+, LEDVANCE offers end users a new generation of intelligent products compatible with many important Smart Home platforms. Voice-activated virtual assistants like Alexa by Amazon and Siri by Apple allow convenient language control of the products.

Come visit LEDVANCE in Hall 2, Stand B10 – a luminous appearance is guaranteed.

The video about SCALE is here!

About LEDVANCE
LEDVANCE is an internationally leading company for innovative lighting products as well as intelligent and interconnected lighting applications (Smart Home). The company has grown from the classic lighting business of OSRAM, combining traditional general lighting with modern, future-oriented lighting technologies. The company employs about 9,000 staff and is present in more than 120 countries.

AXOR is among the winners with three members of its new High-End ShowerCollection, the AXOR ShowerHeaven 1200, the AXOR Showerpipe 800 and the AXOR Overhead Shower 300, as well as the AXOR Select Thermostat. The premium brand hansgrohe impressed the international jury with the Raindance E overhead shower, the Raindance E Showerpipe, the Raindance E Unica shower set, the hansgrohe ShowerTablet and the hansgrohe Silicatec C51 kitchen sink combination.

We are happy with our client about this great success!
 

AXOR celebrates its 25th anniversary with the exclusive premiere of AXOR MyEdition, designed and developed in collaboration with Phoenix Design. The new collection of faucets is a statement of personality, self-realisation and one’s own creativity. Differently coloured surfaces and patterns provide each faucet with an extraordinary aura, and together with a new sensual water experience, they are the common denominator for an individual AXOR MyEdition.

hansgrohe will show a new showerhead series and a new material for kitchen sinks which will lend the heart of the kitchen a cosy and warm look and feel with premium colours and an extraordinarily robust suitability for daily use. The Hansgrohe Group trade show stand, separated into two brand universes, promises to be an impressive attraction in itself.

Come and visit our clients AXOR and hansgrohe – two brand universes united at one stand. Trade show grounds Rho, Hall 22, Stand F23/27. Our designers will be present on-site 17–19 April 2018; for appointments, please contact Enable JavaScript to view protected content., +49 160 8894377.
 

Marc Michalak can look back on more than 20 years of experience in Design Modelling. As a specialist for colour, material, and finish, he also possesses a wide knowledge base in the areas of patterns and structures.

The blickfang shows are ranking among Europe’s most important design events. Within the course of one year, this trend show stops in Stuttgart, Hamburg, Munich, Basel, Bern, Zurich, and Vienna. More than 150 exhibitors present themselves at this leading trade show centred around design. It also hosts a speech and lecture forum showcasing important personalities from the design scene, with speech slots and audience seats being booked up fast.

www.blickfang.com