Innovations are at the same time drivers and features of the tranformations of the markets. With Debut, we provide a monitor in order to record novel product-, service- and brand concepts, spanning multiple sectors. Debut is intended to be a seismograph that inspires and provides thought-provoking impulses for one’s own innovation processes.
Europa Bendig, Managing Partner at STURM und DRANG and industry expert in the beauty and luxury market, was a featured presenter at the roundtable talks held in May in Munich and Hamburg carried out by the IKW, the German industrial association of bodycare and detergent manufacturers (Industrieverband Körperpflege- und Waschmittel). In her lecture, she presented a vision of what “beauty 2.0” means to today’s generation of digital natives.
The latest MetaMagazin, published by our Partner MetaDesign, raises the question on how a new kind of thinking will lead companies and society to a "balanced economy". In this context, Stefan Baumann explains why sharing is the new owning.
What comes after burnout? The concept behind the new magazine Päng! is to create a space filled with stories and images where we can take shelter from the dominating influence of technology in our everyday lives. Themed "Playing Outside Again at Last", the first issue comes out right on time for the advent of spring.
Regular TV offers programming geared to the tastes of specific audience segments, but music television – once believed dead – is experimenting on the internet with all the innovations that were predicted to come to television a long time ago.
Paper maker Hahnemühle FineArts turns paper into a platform for art and graphic design with its large-format magazine Upon Paper.
Transparency – in other words, full and complete information about how companies, governments, financial markets and so on function – is currently en vogue. In his essay on the “transparent society”, media theorist Byung-Chul Han draws attention to the dangers of this development and calls for a more trusting society.
We have been experiencing a role-model crisis ever since last year’s rapid rise and equally rapid and tragic fall from grace of not one but several politicians. Role models are important in the process of self-discovery. But who still qualifies as one?
In late April Renault will be launching its electric cabin scooter called the "Twizy" in the German market. Blurring traditional lines, it's technically a quad but looks more like a car – and makes maneuvering through downtown traffic a breeze.
Not just for bikers and hip digerati – Nokia introduces vibrating tattoos for mobile phones.
Never before have we been so obsessed with our immediate past. The questions "what is retro?" and "why are we into retro?" are being reopened, as innovation takes a little break to browse around in second-hand stores.