Models from past competitions, suspended from the ceiling
Today at TestLab Berlin we made our second stop on the mentor studio tour at Magma Architecture in Kreuzberg. “The Berlin based architectural practice Magma Architecture works on the boundary between architecture, design and communication. Founded in 2003 by Martin Ostermann and Lena Kleinheinz the collaboration [...]
The laboratory
Tuesday was our first mentor studio visit at TestLab Berlin, starting with the wildest first. Sissel Tolaas “has degrees in chemistry, art, and language, and her work is precisely a combination of the three. She uses her nose and her intuition to craft complex fragrance formulas using individual scent notes, [...]
This summer’s Johnson & Johnson sponsored studio abroad, TestLab Berlin, is officially up and running. I will be serving as documentarian, which means another summer in Berlin for teachevil. Look forward to following our progress here, or check out our blog for the nitty gritty. Here’s the breakdown of what’s up this time around:
OUR PROJECT:
TestLab [...]
You followed us along our 10 week German excursion, so I thought it would only be fair to do a little recap of the project and what we learned. Unfortunately, as is the case with most sponsored projects, we have a 90-day grace period where we can’t show anything we made. So, for now all [...]
A few weeks ago, back in Berlin, we got a chance to check out Bright Green Design at BerliNordik as part of the DMY Satellite exhibitions going on all over the city.
BerliNordik – Forum for Sustainable Design – is an international platform that brings together young talented designers from Berlin with their colleagues from the [...]
One of the really wonderful things about Berlin is how accessible it is by foot and bicycle. The first few weeks we were here we rode the U-Bahn everywhere, thinking that if something took five minutes by subway, it should take 20 minutes by foot. This Los Angeles logic was dispelled many times over once [...]
We’ve found another Sunday flea market in Prenzlauer Berg, although this one is many many times the size of our usual Friedrichshain version. As we’ve realized many times over, when the sun comes out in this city the population seems to grow ten-fold. Much like my Seattle home, people take advantage of nice weather in [...]
Cloudy Saturdays seem to have been designated for wandering (and freezing) around the city, and in that way, today did not disappoint. Seth and I tried to find some secondhand stores his landlord had drawn onto a map, but it turned out she confused secondhand stores with dismal Soviet apartment buildings. Or maybe my navigation [...]
I had a really grand plan yesterday to get some nature time. Book time, nap time, lay around in the park time. I heard there was a lake with a park two stops past Charlottenburg on the S-Bahn (the above ground train system), and I was all over it. “Turn left at the restaurant and [...]
