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On the occasion of the Italian Design Day, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Triennale Design Museum in Milan nominated 100 ambassadors of Italian culture (designers, entrepreneurs, journalists, critics, communicators, teachers...), who will illustrate th...

Guess what I am doing there in the good company of race driver Sabine Schmitz, television-heavy-weight Jumbo Schreiner and the two young car-tuning aficionados? Then be prepared to watch with me the forthcoming series of Test my Ride, broadcasting weekly from March 9th...

My eBook "Design 2 Go" has just been released: a selection of 99 out of more than 400 design critiques written in the last decade for the german economical and financial newspaper Handelsblatt. As I put it with Mercedes-Benz: "The best or nothing" when it comes to des...

Urban mobility is today’s hot topic in Asia. The Audi Urban Future Initiative just interviewed me about the emerging social aspects connected with the perception of the automobile in Seoul.

The VW Van, Bulli for the Teutons, is just one more popular automobile myth. Or, as I said to Denise Juchem for Welt am Sonntag: "the baby boomer’s swan song". Her story was also published in the Hamburger Abendblatt – here for you to enjoy (in German).

The car industry gives big tits! A fabolous exchange of opinions with Maike Schade, one off the female-only editorial staff of the German female-only automobile website Car.a.Mia, has turned into a refreshing talk* about cars and their design.

While I could hardly avoi...

Good to know for bankers: even numbers can be designed. When it came to defining the new IBAN code for banking transactions, everybody seemed to forget. Thomas Ihm and I talked over the "design gap" in SWR radio.

Of all Car Design Asia, my latest book, the chapter Ikonik—incidentally covering highly collectable post 1964 sportscars by Honda, Mazda, Nissan and Toyota—ought to be the most appealing to the discerning classic car enthusiast.

While I must not 100% agree with this vi...

I always wanted to visit the famous classic car station Grosstankstelle Brandshof in Hamburg. My friend and collaborator Christopher Butt took "Zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe" and proposed to stage a presentation of our Car Design Asia just there last June 12th.

Welcomi...

My car design trilogy is now complete! A panorama of the modern automobile from Europe, America and Asia, viewed not so much as technological or aesthetical good, but rather under a cultural perspective.

Fashion, film, music, art, design, architecture, politics economi...