
Revisiting
the Past
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Revisiting
the Past
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1964/65: Design Geschichte 1–4
Text: Herbert Lindinger

For the first of our anniversary features, we have taken our cue from industrial designer Herbert Lindinger’s four-part series on design history, which was originally published in 1964/65 in the issues 26, 27, 28, and 30 and is still well worth a read today. Lindinger, who among other things, was then lecturing at the HfG Ulm (1962–1968) and is still working today, offers a remarkably broad-ranging survey of design history.
Please note that the original articles have only been published in German.
2017: Ein Bild von einem StuhlCollecting Design
Text: Stephan Ott

Aside we put a reportage about the design collector Sebastian Jacobi. It is about looking back without harking back to what, in a gross distortion of history, people like to call “the good old days”, without any of the things-ain’t-what-they-used to-be nostalgia. Instead, we hope to offer a considered view of the past while also providing one or the other new perspective – much as Herbert Lindinger did back then with his “history of design”.
2017: Ein Bild von einem StuhlCollecting Design
Text: Stephan Ott

Aside we put a reportage about the design collector Sebastian Jacobi. It is about looking back without harking back to what, in a gross distortion of history, people like to call “the good old days”, without any of the things-ain’t-what-they-used to-be nostalgia. Instead, we hope to offer a considered view of the past while also providing one or the other new perspective – much as Herbert Lindinger did back then with his “history of design”.
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1969: Design Ideologien 1–3
Text: Gerda Müller-Krauspe

In the late 1960s, an intense debate on functionalism was conducted in the pages of form. In the first of her three-part series on the theme of design ideologies, Gerda Müller-Krauspe attempted a differentiated view of functionalism in form 46 (1969). The debate was not limited to theory, however, also prompting an emotional response from practitioners.
Please note that the original articles have only been published in German.
2017: Die heiligen Kühe des Funktionalismus Debate Follows Function
Text: Daniel Hornuff

With his contribution Daniel Hornuff looks at the role of functionalism in design from today’s point of view.
2017: Die heiligen Kühe des Funktionalismus Debate Follows Function
Text: Daniel Hornuff

With his contribution Daniel Hornuff looks at the role of functionalism in design from today’s point of view.
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1977–87: Design Studios and Their Advertisings

From the late 1970s to the 1980s, we find design studios, especially newer ones, increasingly investing in their own business and publicising their work via paid ads in form.
2017: Anzeigen in form It’s Show Time
Text: Stephan Ott

We have categorised and discussed them under “Team Building”, “Modern Popular Culture” and “Ads as a Discussion Medium”.
2017: Anzeigen in form It’s Show Time
Text: Stephan Ott

We have categorised and discussed them under “Team Building”, “Modern Popular Culture” and “Ads as a Discussion Medium”.
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1990: Design in Europe

2017: Europe(an) Minds

2017: Europe(an) Minds

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1997: Design Goes Online

2017:
Die Ambivalenz des Internets
Two Sites of a Coin
Daniel Moßbrucker

2017:
Die Ambivalenz des Internets
Two Sites of a Coin
Daniel Moßbrucker

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2013–2014: Design(er) Quo Vadis?

Back in 2013, we celebrated the 250th issue of form with a relaunched magazine in which we explored the future of design as a discipline, then, in form 251, posed the question “Designer Quo Vadis?”. In 2017, we are still asking such questions; after all, the moulding of the future began yesterday, continues today, and will impact on tomorrow.
2017:
Design Quo Vadis?
Future Visions

2017:
Design Quo Vadis?
Future Visions
