Carola Zwick
Carola Zwick holds a Diploma in Industrial Design from Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).
In 1992 she cofounded Studio 7.5 in Berlin. Studio 7.5 conducts research and develops products for companies such as Rosenthal, Wilkhahn, L&C Stendal, Ford Motor Company, and Herman Miller. The studio has won several awards, including the Red Dot; Studio 7.5’s Setu line of chairs for Herman Miller received the Industrial Designers of America (IDSA) Design of the Decade Award for Best Sustainable Design Solution in 2010.
Carola Zwick’s career in design education spans more than 18 years: after serving as Assistant Professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin, where she helped to implement an interaction design class within the industrial design department, she held the position of Chair of Interaction Design at the University of Applied Sciences Madgeburg-Stendal from 1998 to 2008. Since 2008 she has been Professor of Product Design with a focus on Interaction at the Weissensee School of Art in Berlin. There she initiated the eLAB—a transdisciplinary laboratory for the prototyping of interactions with emerging technologies.
Zwick is a coauthor of several books on design issued by AVA Publishing (London) and most recently co-edited The Digital Turn for Park Books (Zurich).
Carola Zwick is Principal Investigator for the German Excellence Cluster called Image Knowledge Gestaltung, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at Humboldt University in Berlin in which humanities, sciences, and technology studies as well as the design disciplines aim to develop a new concept of research. This integrative scholarly platform consists of 22 disciplines from numerous university and non-university research institutions and museums. Zwick also is a member of the board of the DAAD exchange program, served as a juror for the D&AD Yellow Pencil Award for 2012, and is on the panel for the CHI 2013 Student Design Competition.
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What is Universal Everything? edited by Adrian Shaughnessy and Tony Brook
What is Universal Everything?
Edited by Adrian Shaughnessy and Tony Brook; designed by Spin
Publisher: Unit Editions
Published: June 2019
Matt Pyke, founder and creative director of Universal Everything, calls his studio a “digital art and design collective.” Now, after 15 years of revolutionary work in the digital realm, the studio has its first book. For anyone interested in the future of digital design, the book features a unique cover for each copy of the book (limited to 2,000)—every buyer owns a one-off.
The Future of Design: Global Product Innovation for a Complex World by Lorraine Justice
The Future of Design: Global Product Innovation for a Complex World
by Lorraine Justice
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Published: June 4, 2019
Internationally recognized product design expert, TED speaker, and consultant to companies like Microsoft and Levi’s, shares the ten global factors that directly impact product design success and failure.
Ballpark: Baseball in the American City by Paul Goldberger
Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
By Paul Goldberger
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: May 2019
An illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic.
Charleston Fancy by Witold Rybczynski
Charleston Fancy: Little Houses and Big Dreams in the Holy City
By Witold Rybczynski
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: May 2019
Charleston, South Carolina, which boasts America’s first historic district, is known for its palmetto-lined streets and picturesque houses. The Holy City, named for its profusion of churches, exudes an irresistible charm. Award-winning author and cultural critic Witold Rybczynski unfolds a series of stories about a group of youthful architects, builders, and developers based in Charleston: a self-taught home builder, an Air Force pilot, a fledgling architect, and a bluegrass mandolin player.
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