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EXHIBITION ‘GUTE IDEE’ & MEET MAGAZINE

Photos: Chiara Bellamoli for MAGAZIN

From 21 November to 28 November 2024, MAGAZIN showcased the final projects of 11 graduates from German design universities on a wide range of project themes in the MAGAZIN shop in Stuttgart. MAGAZIN appreciates the graduates’ free and unconventional view of things – they provide impetus and challenge established manufacturers with their designs.

MEET MAGAZIN

During a one-day workshop at the MAGAZIN product development office in Berlin, 11 selected graduates learn how activities at the retailer, designer and producer MAGAZIN are interlinked. From experts in product development, marketing and project management.

PARTICIPANTS

Josua Roters – Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle

Shani Nahum – Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle

Lion Sanguinette – Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle

Katherine Victoria Lopez Lopez – Hochschule Düsseldorf

Giulia Toneguzzo – Hochschule Düsseldorf

Sebastian Kommer – Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg

Sophie Bernauer – Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach

Benedikt Herzau – Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin

Lena Hellmann – Kunsthochschule Kassel

Julius Bläser – Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe

Design Workshops für Schüler*innen

In cooperation with the Stiftung Deutsches Design Museum and Create, Museum Angewandte Kunst, three graduates were able to organise workshops on the topic of democracy and design for secondary school pupils (grades 9-12) in the museum’s education rooms. Part of the funding was coaching for the selected graduates by the German Design Museum Foundation, which supported the target group-specific conception of the workshop, as well as the acquisition of workshop participants by the Create education studio of the Museum Angewandte Kunst.

Workshop leaders and topics

Friedrich Wördehoff and Raphael Rustige – Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle: Sustainable residential communities

Mia Kugelmann – Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle: Dyeing with natural dyes

Irini Schwab and Anna Ulmer – Hamburg University of Fine Arts: Recognising design and taking up space

Coachings

Simone Richter, Create, Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt

Silke Meister, Stiftung Deutsches Design Museum

Design Research Workshop

At the intersection between universities, companies and designers, the Institute for Design Research and Appliance (IfDRA) offered the opportunity to get to know the diverse perspectives of design research. A panel of experts discussed topics that are relevant for graduates: Questions about doctoral opportunities, topics of applied research with partners from industry, specific methods of design research.

Speaker

Stephan Ott
Director Institute for Design Research and Appliance
German Design Council

Lynn Harles
Director Studio Harles
Board Member DGTF

Johannes Breuer
PHD Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Merle Ibach
Board Member DGTF

Anna Dill
Board Member DGTF

Participants

Juliane Schmidt – Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle

Valena Ammon- Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle

Simon Hanke – Hochschule Darmstadt

Daria Berndt – HAWK Hildesheim

Luise Kempf – Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar

Michelle Pilz – Kunsthochschule Kassel

Anne-Marie Hirmer – Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin

Public Relations Coaching

Three communication experts offered six selected graduates a half-day coaching programme in public relations and communication. Aspects of successful positioning and corporate communication, cooperation with the media (print and online), the creation of press material (text and images) and strategies for social media (language, images, video) were discussed in inputs and individual discussions. The programme was aimed at anyone who wants to become self-employed as a designer or set up their own company/start-up and took place in November at the German Design Council’s premises in Frankfurt am Main.

Communication Experts

Katharina da Silva
Editor-in-Chief ndion / Manager Content Strategy
German Design Council

Jasmin Jouhar 
Freie Journalistin

Elena Kayser
Manager Communications & Media Strategy
German Design Council

Participants

Lola Behrens – Bauhaus Universität Weimar

Lara Aue – Bergische Universität Wuppertal

Thorsten Müller – Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar

Marlón Escobar Saupe – Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin

Charlotte von Ravenstein – Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee

Meret Oppermann – Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel