Dienstagabend ist etwas geschehen, das für Berlin ein Phänomen ist, wenn nicht sogar ein einzigartiges.

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Es geschah um Punkt halb sieben. Draußen war es zweistellig minusgradig und damit bitterkalt. Drinnen in der temporären Kunsthalle legten die kreativen Macher des Designnetzwerks Create Berlin, zusammen mit den Über-Designern von Vitra und Berlins Spezialist für maximales Understatement minimum letzte Hand an: an eine Ausstellung, die sich mit dem beschäftigt, für das Berlin als Kreativstadt steht. Das jeder spürt, der hier herkommt, das aber so schwer zu definieren ist. Vielleicht in einem Wortversuch: …

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Take this: a supermodel, inventing new media into fashion, building a successful company around it and manage to stay one of the hottest models and, as a little side job, become a loved one in the underground art scene for being a great MOBILE artist.
Impossible? Not. Here comes Anina. I met her at LeWeb08 where Anina’s red hair would seem to glow everywhere, always on the run for interviews, such as the one she did with Marissa Mayer from Google talking with her about her personal …

It feels a little bit like Alice in Wonderland. As those little helpers around me, which are responsible to create brightness and warmth in our life, start communicating. They appear to have a life! And a mission: Sustainability made visible.
The Swedish Interactive Institute is right now sending Visual Voltage around the world. A design exhibition, which bridges the gap between perception and understanding and behaving when it comes to minimize energy consumption. And the Swedish would not be the Swedish if they would not use one of the most powerful …

As the digital society grows so does the need for places that strike you with ambiance, your favorite coffee special, working space and enormous people-watching/working possibilities. You all do have one: your favorite coffee shop you would visit every day (no, I can’t imagine a life without this one anymore!):

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But I propose it is time, to bring the “St. Oberholz style” on a whole new level. Let’s dig into design.
Even my personally not so beloved coffee shop Starbucks is rethinking its entire interior strategy.
As impressively bespoken by the Architect …