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Design Study: About making tea

How do you get the best tea made? How do you get the best taste and which `teapot´ shape is best suited for it?

Our starting point for this project: How should high-quality tea be prepared in contemporary Western society?

The Yummi chair family grows

The Yummi collection by Bross Italy was expanded in 2021 to include a swivel chair variant with a 4-legged frame to open up new target groups and usage scenarios.

CID of a non-negative pressure water supply unit for Tancy

The system, designed by C2D for the Chinese company Tancy, is characterised by an iconographic appearance with a high recognition value – modular structured, easy to assemble and maintain.

Designpreise for FSB and C2D

The innovative sliding door handles from FSB have received two awards. In both cases, the jury was impressed by the high quality of the design, the possibilities of customization and the innovative, ergonomic operation of the shell handles.

Awarded: Arrow for Olymp

How do you design a modern classic with special seating comfort to replace one of Olymp’s most successful hairdresser’s model? The result, Arrow with a name and designed by Michael Schmidt and C2D, is then also immediately awarded with the Iconic Award 2021.

High-Speed Design Development

Series development of an automatic disinfection dispenser for Starmix within five months. Thanks to our many years of experience and a motivated team, we were able to accelerate our design process to the maximum, towards a high-speed product development. We are convinced that the high design quality and better user experience will lead to a broader acceptance of the necessary hygiene measures.

Innovation: SLIDING DOOR SHELL for FSB

The new sliding door shells for FSB are the result of an intensive research and design thinking process. Besides improved ergonomics – with handles that tilt out of the door leaf – FSB offers the shells in a variety of colour and material combinations. This gives architects and their customers the opportunity to create a visually minimalist, tone-in-tone design or to highlight the sliding door shell and thus make it a decorative element of the door.

Security at a click

Michael Schmidt has rethought the locking of a door and integrated it directly into the door handle rose. In this design study for FSB, the door handle is locked when the push-button is pressed once and released again when it is pressed again. In keeping with the spirit of universal design, the lockable lever handle can be conveniently operated with one hand.

Freedom of movement

The elegant wall luminaire PALITO WALL from the SATTLER PALITO series impresses with its flexible adjustability. The double twistability – 330° tiltable and additionally rotatable against the wall – results in a variety of lighting effects and can be adapted ad hoc to new situations. The wall luminaire can be combined excellently with other luminaires from the PALITO series to create a uniform design.

Added Value through Industrial Design with personality

“Our vision was to design a product family with personality for Goldcard/Tancy that creates a high level of recognition through a clear coding in terms of form language, graphics as well as the brand colour blue as an accent and thus a real added value for the TANCY brand. A design that works internationally and which transports and communicates the high quality of Goldcard/Tancy regarding their user-friendly and digital know-how.” (Michael Schmidt)

Design Center BW tells success story of Sattler & C2D

The Design Center Baden-Württemberg BW has dedicated its latest issue “Success Stories” to the successful cooperation between Sattler-Lighting and code2design. The starting point of this success story was 2010. Since then, three luminaire series have been developed and designed together with Ulrich Sattler. A glance at Sattler’s lighting portfolio clearly shows that “design has priority”. This common way of thinking shapes our successful cooperation as well as the claim of reduction, clarity and simplicity. A success story that will be continued. More to come shortly…

Innovation and design management at FSB

From January 2019, FSB and Michael Schmidt plan a long-term cooperation in the area of innovation and design management. For more than 135 years, the FSB brand has been synonymous throughout the world for aesthetically and functionally high-quality fitting solutions for doors and windows, electronic access control and barrier-free sanitary equipment. The goal of the cooperation is to defend FSB’s leading position and expand internationally, as well as to strengthen its innovation and design management.