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.

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.

Heike Nehl is teach­ing In­ter­ac­tion de­sign at the Fach­hochschule Biele­feld this win­ter se­mes­ter. Her pro­ject “Dig­i­tal Ori­en­ta­tion” ad­dresses to de­sign stu­dents and stu­dents of new me­dia in­for­mat­ics of the Uni­ver­sity Biele­feld. To­gether they will en­gaged in the sub­ject “mo­bile guide” and de­velop con­cepts and pro­to­types. > Blog about the pro­ject

“Vi­sion­Plus Vi­enna: trans­form­ing in­for­ma­tion” is a con­fer­ence, or­ga­nized by the In­ter­na­tional In­sti­tute for In­for­ma­tion De­sign (IIID), to ex­am­ine the role of the Iso­type trans­former 90 years on. The venue is ded­i­cated to Marie Neu­rath. Much of her early work for the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmu­seum was path­break­ing. Siy­blle Schlaich und Heike Nehl are in­vited to join the con­fer­ence as speak­ers.

The be­gin­ning of June will see the 15th “Chil­dren and Youth Wel­fare Day”, with Berlin as this year’s host city. The event will take place in a ded­i­cated area of 1,300 square me­tres, sup­ported by the 12 dis­tricts of Berlin and spon­sors. Moni­teurs is in charge of the ex­hi­bi­tion de­sign, while xplicit has de­signed the ex­hi­bi­tion graph­ics for over 50 par­tic­i­pants. In­di­vid­u­ally de­signed, mod­u­lar el­e­ments will be com­bined to cre­ate a cityscape, ac­com­pa­nied by ex­per­i­men­tal art­work. > To the pro­ject