Multitasking has long been one of the essential soft skills for creatives. But do you know which communication designer also practices as a general practitioner on the side? The answer: Isabel Naegele – professor in Mainz, doctor in Darmstadt. Britta Pukall, whose Zurich studio Milani Design has been successfully designing medical devices for years, also almost studied medicine, as she reveals in an interview. Today, the ex-Frog designer and her team visit hospitals and practices to draw conclusions for new design solutions from their observations. Marcus Botsch, who worked as a medical designer for a long time, interviews experienced colleagues such as Markus Wild, Ulrich Hirsch, and Gerd Helmreich.

Starting on page 56, we present the most exciting solution to a joint project involving modular structures – it comes from the student Alice Gruhle.

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