Carola Zwick
Carola Zwick holds a Diploma in Industrial Design from Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).
In 1992 she cofounded Studio 7.5 in Berlin. Studio 7.5 conducts research and develops products for companies such as Rosenthal, Wilkhahn, L&C Stendal, Ford Motor Company, and Herman Miller. The studio has won several awards, including the Red Dot; Studio 7.5’s Setu line of chairs for Herman Miller received the Industrial Designers of America (IDSA) Design of the Decade Award for Best Sustainable Design Solution in 2010.
Carola Zwick’s career in design education spans more than 18 years: after serving as Assistant Professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin, where she helped to implement an interaction design class within the industrial design department, she held the position of Chair of Interaction Design at the University of Applied Sciences Madgeburg-Stendal from 1998 to 2008. Since 2008 she has been Professor of Product Design with a focus on Interaction at the Weissensee School of Art in Berlin. There she initiated the eLAB—a transdisciplinary laboratory for the prototyping of interactions with emerging technologies.
Zwick is a coauthor of several books on design issued by AVA Publishing (London) and most recently co-edited The Digital Turn for Park Books (Zurich).
Carola Zwick is Principal Investigator for the German Excellence Cluster called Image Knowledge Gestaltung, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at Humboldt University in Berlin in which humanities, sciences, and technology studies as well as the design disciplines aim to develop a new concept of research. This integrative scholarly platform consists of 22 disciplines from numerous university and non-university research institutions and museums. Zwick also is a member of the board of the DAAD exchange program, served as a juror for the D&AD Yellow Pencil Award for 2012, and is on the panel for the CHI 2013 Student Design Competition.
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Now is Better by Stefan Sagmeister
Now is Better
By Stefan Sagmeister
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: October 2023
Combining art, design, history, and quantitative analysis, transforms data sets into stunning artworks that underscore his positive view of human progress, inspiring us to think about the future with much-needed hope.
Design Emergency: Building a Better Future by Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
Design Emergency: Building a Better Future
By Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: May 2022
Rawsthorn and Antonelli tell the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes—Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology—the authors present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time, while helping us to benefit from advances in science and technology.
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People by Debbie Millman
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People
By Debbie Millman
Publisher: Harper Design
Published: February 22, 2022
Debbie Millman—author, educator, brand consultant, and host of the widely successful and award-winning podcast “Design Matters”—showcases dozens of her most exciting interviews, bringing together insights and reflections from today’s leading creative minds from across diverse fields.
Milton Glaser: POP by Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber
Milton Glaser: POP
By Steven Heller, Mirko Ilić, and Beth Kleber
Publisher: The Monacelli Press
Published: March 2023
This collection of work from graphci design legend Milton Glaser’s Pop period features hundreds of examples of the designer’s work that have not been seen since their original publication, demonstrating the graphic revolution that transformed design and popular culture.
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
By Alexandra Lange
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: June 2022
Chronicles postwar architects’ and merchants’ invention of the shopping mall, revealing how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent. Publishers Weekly writes, “Contending that malls answer ‘the basic human need’ of bringing people together, influential design critic Lange advocates for retrofitting abandoned shopping centers into college campuses, senior housing, and ‘ethnocentric marketplaces’ catering to immigrant communities. Lucid and well researched, this is an insightful study of an overlooked and undervalued architectural form.”
Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition) by Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller
Die Fläche: Design and Lettering of the Vienna Secession, 1902–1911 (Facsimile Edition)
By Diane V. Silverthorne, Dan Reynolds, and Megan Brandow-Faller
Publisher: Letterform Archives Books
Published: October 2023
This facsimile edition of Die Fläche, recreates every page of the formative design periodical in full color and at original size, accompanied by essays that contextualize the work, highlighting contributions by pathbreaking women, innovative lettering artists, and key practitioners of the new “surface art,” including Rudolf von Larisch, Alfred Roller, and Wiener Werkstätte founders Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann.
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