The design ambassadors from Belgium, France and Germany safely arrived at Cologne railway station. Starting in Brussels, on board the Thalys was a lively discussion about the importance and influence of cultural background in design.

Participating in the talk, that was presented by Prof. Dr. Michael Erlhoff, were the designers Matali Crasset (France), Isabell Hamm (Germany), Alain Berteau (Belgium), Tobias Gross (Germany), Xavier Lust (Belgium), Paolo Tumminelli (Germany) and Danny Venlet (Belgium). Brussels is partner city of Rheindesign 2007. Inken Herzig opened the discussion with her warm welcome and some background about the event and the programm that will happen in the next four days.

Here you can find a picture gallery of the design discussion in the train.

Due to familial problems, French designer Ora-Ito will not be able to partizipate at RHEINDESIGN. Representing the publisher Daab as an author, Ora-Ito was meant to take part in the discussion on the train from Brussels to Cologne. Believing sources that were brought to the ROGER designmagazine his grandmother got seriously sick… .

Brussels is this year’s partner city of RHEINDESIGN. So already one day before, the »Design Ambassadors« Isabel Hamm, Prof. Dr. Michael Erlhoff and Tobias Gross made their way to Brussels to meet Belgian designers there.

The first spot to visit was »101% Designed in Brussels« – an initiative of the Foreign Trade Department of the Brussels Capital Region and »Mode Design Brussels 2006«. In presentation are the works of Continue Reading »