The pleas­ant high­light of the win­ter se­mes­ter 2014/​15 was the de­gree-show of the Uni­ver­sity Biele­feld/​De­sign de­part­ment. The con­cept for a new cor­po­rate de­sign and a dig­i­tal guide as a we­bapp were de­vel­oped and de­signed by a team of stu­dents, taught and sup­ported by Heike Nehl.

Moni­teurs wins sil­ver in the cat­e­gory "Health­care" with "Doc­tors with­out Bor­ders" and bronze in the catagory "Wayshow­ing" with the Sig­nage pro­ject for the DGUV. The In­ter­na­tional In­sti­tute for In­for­ma­tion De­sign (IIID) is a global net­work of in­di­vid­u­als and or­gan­i­sa­tions who are in­ter­ested in op­ti­miz­ing in­for­ma­tion and in­for­ma­tion sys­tems for knowl­edge trans­fer in every­day life.

Heike Nehl and Sibylle Schlaich have been in­vited to talk at Haus Wellen­siek in Biele­feld on the 11th of Feb­ru­ary. They will be ask­ing the fol­low­ing ques­tions: how does dig­i­tal me­dia sup­port ori­en­ta­tion and what role does ana­logue in­for­ma­tion play in the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tems of spaces? How can both worlds com­pli­ment each other? Through their work with ori­en­ta­tion sys­tems, the de­sign of­fice wishes to show how rapidly change has been ac­com­plished, not least in the mind of the vis­i­tor/​user.

The jury has awarded sec­ond place to the de­sign by kadawit­tfel­dar­chitek­tur and Moni­teurs. The re­quire­ment was to de­velop a struc­tural cor­po­rate de­sign for the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the Fed­eral Re­pub­lic of Ger­many abroad. “The dis­cov­ery of light­ness” formed the ba­sis of the con­cept. The new of­fices were de­signed to be light, open, friendly and trust­wor­thy like the so­ci­ety they rep­re­sent. The el­e­gant cor­po­rate de­sign should con­vey a pos­i­tive, fu­ture-look­ing im­pres­sion abroad.

The As­so­ci­a­tion of Ger­man Ar­chi­tects (BDA) wishes to re­de­velop and im­prove its in­ter­net pres­ence. Suit­able ap­pli­cants were in­vited to com­pete in a closed com­pe­ti­tion. The pitch by Moni­teurs, to­gether with null2, was the win­ner. 

Moni­teurs de­signed the com­mu­ni­ca­tion me­dia for the col­lo­quium "Con­struc­tive en­gi­neer­ing" at the In­sti­tute of Con­struc­tion En­gi­neer­ing of the TU Berlin. The se­ries of lec­tures picks up the lat­est, im­por­tant and most in­ter­est­ing is­sues, for ex­am­ple the cul­ture of bridge build­ing in Berlin. En­gi­neers from plan­ning of­fices, ad­min­is­tra­tions, build­ing en­ter­prises and stu­dents shall dis­cuss and brought to­gether.

Every win­ter se­mes­ter at the Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd is held a so called "lab­o­ra­tory week". Stu­dents work in in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary work­shops to­gether. Sibylle Schlaich has been in­vited to hold an work­shop about Ori­en­ta­tion and Sig­nage. Dif­fer­ent sig­nages should be de­vel­oped, ei­ther dig­i­tal or ana­log. Any­thing goes. Which most in­ter­est­ing, beau­ti­ful or di­rectly way hits the mark.

From the 20th of Oc­to­ber, the DGUV (Deutsche Geset­zliche Un­fal­lver­sicherung) will have a new head­quar­ters. Moni­teurs de­signed the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem for the new build­ing, lo­cated on the cor­ner of Glinkas­traße and Franzö­sis­che Straße. The build­ing was de­signed by Grün­tuch Ernst Ar­chi­tects and con­tains con­fer­ence rooms, re­cep­tion area, of­fice spaces and an un­der­ground car park.

The first iBook of the en­gi­neer­ing con­sul­tants schlaich berg­er­mann and part­ner, de­signed by Moni­teurs, will be launched on the 20th of Oc­to­ber. The dig­i­tal medium pre­sents the highly com­plex pro­jects with the is­sue “mov­able struc­tures” with films, slideshows, many im­ages, text and mu­sic in a vi­tal­ized way.

Within the scope of the pro­ject “West­falen­halle Sig­nage” su­per­vised by Pro­fes­sor Mar­tin Mid­del­hauve, Lars Harm­sen and Alexan­der Branczyk, Sibylle Schlaich has given a talk about "Ori­en­ta­tion and Iden­tity" at the FH Dort­mund.