Exhibition "Willingness to Protest - Contemporary Activism between Attitude and Style". In cooperation with the class Jankowski, ABK Stuttgart at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart The readiness of citizens to protest is part of living democracy, people take to the streets to articulate themselves politically, protests contribute to conflict resolution and are an important outlet for pent-up resentment. Aesthetics play a central role in demonstrations and protests - clothing! More...  

Large State exhibition "Fashion? What makes fashion fashionable", at the Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart. In the exhibition area "Making Fashion", our graduates Pia Tholen and Tommy Dombrowski showed the creation process of their final collections - from the first idea to moods and sketches to the finished look. Photo: Olga Pfeifle. More..

Exhibition "K & M - Art and Fashion", Junge Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. If you aim for the future, you have to leaf through the past: history as a springboard into and for the future?! Five paintings from the collection of the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe from the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century were the basis for the 13 fashion collections. Photo: Harald Koch. More...   

Gerhard Tessmann, label design of the Lidl gin (Bimmerle Private Distillery & Lidl). For the special edition "Rosehip" Bimmerle was looking for a new label and cooperated in a semester project. Gerhard Tessmann won the competition and his design went into series production - including the mention of his name on the back label. More...

The VK-OPEN SPACE brings together the subjects "Print", "Digital Media" and "Advertising & Text" and provides space for a cross-disciplinary and idea-driven design approach. The mono-topic this semester was "Writing". The cooperation partner was the STABILO company. In the subject Advertising & Text, an advertising campaign for 'Point 88' was to be designed. Shown here: 'Stabilympics' by Letitia Sturm and Sophia Holstein, further projects under the search term 'Stabilo' on the Werkschau website.

Guidance system for the new house of the Evangelical Church Pforzheim. What makes up the identity of a place and how do we find our way around it? Students of visual communication were involved in the new house of the Protestant Church in Pforzheim: In a competition, they designed a spatial identity and a guidance system for the new building. It will welcome visitors to the building, provide orientation and create identity. The implemented design is from Giulia Papaleo. More...  

Movement in childhood is elementary - not only for the physical, but also for the mental, linguistic and social development of the child. A new corporate design for the initiative "Health and exercise promotion for children aged 3 to 6 in daycare centers in Pforzheim and the Enzkreis" was created in cooperation with the Visual Communication program. Three concepts received awards: "turnreif" by Mariel Glomb (3rd place), "Turnbande" by Hadjar Kennane (2nd place) and "hüpf" by Annika Wilhelm. Their concept landed in 1st place and will be implemented for media relations in the future. In addition to the prize money, the students received much praise for their high-quality work and were delighted to receive free handball tickets. The "hüpf" concept is "congenially simple," said Professor Michael Throm at the award ceremony: "The brand is a call, directly invites people to move, and the movement in turn is also implemented visually through the staggered ü dots."

Corporate design for a startup "cardboard box in circular economy". Corporate design creates visually coherent sign systems and composition spaces that are suitable for building brands - giving institutions and companies a face for communicating with people and in the media. This semester, students developed visuals, flowcharts and stop-motion video clips for the startup of a cardboard box in circular economy. Real Project. Here in the example the project 'please 4 trees' by Lena Dietrich.  

Exhibition "Hut ab!" with performance at the vernissage at Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart. What man wears on his head is a statement - whether helmet or headscarf, whether Bollen- or Heckerhut. The exhibition led through times in which man was incomplete without headgear and showed which head things are being discussed today. More...  

ILM Award Cases. Noble cases for the golden trophies: Three Accessory Design students designed the cases for the ILM Awards, which are presented annually at the International Leather Goods Fair. More...  

Pforzheim Design for Future Chatbot Unit of the ZKM Karlsruhe Design students have developed design concepts for the future chatbot of the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe. They won the "As We May Speak" competition, with which the ZKM invited students from Baden-Württemberg art and design colleges to develop ideas for a chatbot interface to be installed in the ZKM's publicly accessible spaces. Mehr...

New connections in the Pforzheim jewellery business: The jewellery program cooperates with the Binder Group. The company celebrated its 111th anniversary and used this occasion to launch a design award for future jewellery designers. Photo: Petra Jaschke. More...