In 2009, the euphoria surrounding Web 2.0 had clearly subsided; blogging as a leisure activity had met the same fate as inline skating, and Second Life had long been in a coma. Nevertheless, for designers, the internet was more important than ever. Florian A. Schmidt explored the commercial main streets and subcultural side streets of the World Wide Web for us. His thesis: we are in an era of extremes, both technically and formally. You can discover for yourself in this issue whether, and if so, what has changed since then.

Dieter Rams also has something to say about how much design is a process whose framework conditions are constantly changing. The interview is taken from a book published at roughly the same time, which compactly presents our best design process contributions, its title is our claim: The Making of Design.

July/ August 2009, Verlag form, 98 pages, 23 × 29.8 cm, softcover, edition in German/ English