CROWDSOURCING is the newest trend in creative collaboration. An ID2 design team has taken the challange to produce a crowdsourced pair of HEADPHONES. View the result in the showroom.

Julia Polinna and Norbert Kurz from Frog Design came in for a two day workshop on "Human Computer Interface".

AXIS , the influential Japanese design magazine has Hartmut Esslinger on the cover and ID2 inside. Several of our projects are featured in the November issue.

Statement of the Jury: Street-rail combination with alternative engines like hub motor and an own tank that feeds the fuel cell- a bionic approach.
Common features are combined for a new design modell that has been lined out very well.

Five nominations and three times first prize at the Createch Competition for traffic-technology and creative industries!
Projects of students at the ID2-department won in three out of five categories at the first Createch ideas competition of the Austrian Ministery of Traffic, Innovation and Technology.

From the 6th to the 17th of September, 28 students, two staff members and Professor Esslinger are on a field trip to Japan. Hartmut Esslingers excellent connections to the Japanese design scene is delivering us an insight into companies like Toyota, Panasonic and Yamaha. Design agencies, designers and design universities are also on the schedule. Check out our "Reisetagebuch".

We just uploaded 14 new projects! Have a look in the showroom.

"The Power of the Factories" is the title of Hartmut Esslinger´s lecture at the University of applied Arts in Vienna. Esslinger talks about the future of design within a globalised economy and the designer´s responsibility to fight for a more sustainable, human centered society.

Creation Center Opening at T-Mobile Headquarters Berlin.

On thursday April 24th T-Mobile celebrated the opening of its Creation Center in Berlin. 99 ideas were presented in an interactive manner, converging the digital and the analog.

Raphael Peck (Senior Vice President) and Jared Glodman (Director of Design) flew in from Baltimore to tell us about Under Armour. This highly sucessful brand is starting to become as big in Europe as they are in the USA. An exciting lecture about design, marketing and brand communication. We love the videos and "Click - Clack" is our favourite. 

A delegacy of ID2 went to Kyoto to participate in the Cumulus Conference. The meeting coincided with "Sakura", the cherry blossoming. In Japan, this event stands for the advent of spring and a new beginning. A fitting symbol for the signing of the "Kyoto Design Declaration" by the members of Cumulus.

Gerda Hopfgartner´s  "Gavari Violin" won the Corporative Prize within the category "Tradition" at the international competition “Design for Happiness” in Kyoto. The competition was organized in association with CUMULUS KYOTO 2008 International Design Conference.

Austria´s National Design Award - the „Adolf Loos Staatspreis Design“ -was celebrated in October 2007. The student´s category „DysonInnovation Award“ was won by id2-student Talia Elena Radford Cryns. Her project „Ergoskin“ won her € 3.000,- and a Dyson vacuum cleaner.