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Red Dot Design Museum EssenActivities Report 2015

Essen/Germany | 1 March 2016

The Red Dot Design Museum at a glance

60 years award-winning design – this was the motto for the Red Dot year 2015. Founded in 1954 as organisation “Industrieform”, today’s Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen organised a competition for product design in 1955 for the first time. As it is still customary today, the products, which were awarded by an independent expert jury, were presented in a “Permanent Show of Elegant Industrial Products”. What began 60 years ago has developed to be the world’s largest exhibition of contemporary design. This report looks back on an eventful year 2015.

The Red Dot Design Museum | From industrial culture to culture industry

Former boiler house on the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex1995–1996 converted to the Red Dot Design Museum by Lord Norman FosterOpened on 29 April 19974,000 m² exhibition area over 5 floors

151,000 visitors from around the world

28 June 2015 | Opening of the exhibition “Enduring, not ultimate form”FLTR: Prof. Heinrich Theodor Grütter, Garrelt Duin, Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert,Prof. Dr. Peter Zec

20 August 2015 | Delegation from the Chinese coastal town Xiamen

International audience | 325 guided tours for 24,181 guests in 2015

The Red Dot Design Museum ranks among Essen’s most popular sights. It offers guided tours on design and architecture in the following languages: German, English, French, Dutch and Chinese.

Designers and art historians inform visitors about contemporary industrial design Guided tours provide information about the latest trends and cultural characteristics

Media coverage

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18 November 2015 | Conference “Smart Materials for future Design” 6 December 2015 | Charity auction 2015: Design objects under the hammer

Events in an inspiring atmosphere

Smart Materials for future DesignProfessional conference on the topics of Smart Materials, Biobased Materials and Additive Manufacturing in the Red Dot Design MuseumEssen/Germany, 18 November 2015

Charity auction in the Red Dot Design Museum:The complete proceeds in the amount of 11,781 euroswere donated to a local consulting service for parents at paediatric clinic of the university hospital in Essen.

Special exhibitions

Exhibition of awarded works of the Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2014 Exhibition in cooperation with Sparkasse Essen

Design on Stage –Winners Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2014Red Dot Design Museum Essen6 February – 3 May 2015

Design for Speed: Red Dot-awarded mobilitySparkasse Essen21 May – 20 August 2015

Special exhibitions

28 June 2015 | Vernissage of the special exhibition “Enduring, not ultimate form” 29 June 2015 | Vernissage of the special exhibition “Design on Stage“

“Enduring, not ultimate form”:60 years of design history in Essen – from “Industrieform” to Red DotExhibition in cooperation with the Ruhr Museum on the World Heritage Site ZollvereinEssen/Germany, 29 June – 23 August 2015

Design on Stage – Winners Red Dot Award: Product Design 2015 Red Dot Design Museum Essen30 June – 26 July 2015

Special exhibitions

Exhibition of the Red Dot: Design Team of the Year 2015 Studio exhibition on the occasion of 90 years of Philips Design

Icons of everyday life – Bosch Home Appliances throughout the agesRed Dot Design Museum Essen30 June – 26 July 2015

Products for Generations: 90 Years of Philips DesignRed Dot Design Museum Essen24 September 2015 – Summer 2017

Special exhibitions

Exhibition on Spanish products, communications works and design concepts

¡Viva el Diseño! Red Dot winners from Spain Red Dot Design Museum Essen25 October 2015 – 28 February 2016

Smart Materials and Solutions for better Product DesignRed Dot Design Museum Essen19 November 2015 – 10 January 2016

18 November 2015 | Vernissage of the special exhibition on smart materials

Experience tour for children from 6 to 7 years Experience tour for children from 8 to 10 years

The ABC in design:Discovery tour in the Red Dot Design Museum 1 April, 5 August & 7 October 2015

Design at the fingertips:Material studies in the Red Dot Design Museum8 April, 6 August & 8 October 2015

Museum education: creativity for kids

Every Product Tells a Story –Untold matters of Red Dot award-winning designHKDI Gallery, Hong Kong Design InstituteHong Kong, 28 November 2014 – 31 May 2015

Formosa Forms – Design trends in technology and lifestyle from TaiwanAlte Kongresshalle München, MCBW FORUM, Munich Creative Business WeekMunich/Germany, 24 February – 1 March 2015

Red Dot on Tour – around the globe

Exhibition on the inspirational sources of award-winning design 24 February 2015 | Vernissage of the special exhibition “Formosa Forms”

Exhibition in the course of the EU project REDIRepresentation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia Brussels/Belgium, 10 March 2015

The exhibits illustrated the integration and promotion of design

Design auf dem Podest (“Design on the podium”)Basel School of Design and Galerie Graf & SchelbleBasel/Switzerland, 7 – 28 March 2015


6 March 2015 | Vernissage of the special exhibition “Design on the podium”

Formosa Forms – Design trends in technology and lifestyle from TaiwanDesignforum WienVienna/Austria, 29 April – 24 May 2015

Formosa Forms – Contemporary Tradition in Taiwanese DesignMaison & ObjetParis/France, 4 – 8 September 2015


29 April 2015 | Vernissage of the exhibition on Taiwanese design trends in Vienna Product designs from Taiwan at the French fair Maison & Objet

Design Identities: Award-winning products from the Netherlands and Germany selected by Red DotCube Design MuseumKerkrade/Netherlands, 24 October 2015 – 4 September 2016

Xiamen International Design Business Week – Red Dot in China 2015International Conference and Exhibition CenterXiamen/China, 30 October – 2 November 2015


Tracing cultural design identities of the Netherlands and Germany More than 300,000 visitors at the Red Dot design fair in Xiamen

Design on Stage – Winners Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2015E-Werk, former electrical substationBerlin/Germany, 6 November 2015

Best Communication Design – Red Dot Winners Selection 2015Museum for Communication BerlinBerlin/Germany, 8 November 2015 – 10 January 2016


Exhibition of award-winning communications works in Berlin’s E-Werk 7 November 2015 | Vernissage in the Museum for Communication Berlin

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