How can a mes­sage be con­veyed with signs with­out lan­guage and text? Sibylle Schlaich teaches again at the In­sti­tute of De­sign. Pic­tograms are not only ap­plied to the fin­ished struc­ture, but also help in the plan­ning phases to com­mu­ni­cate and pre­sent func­tions or processes. The stu­dents ex­plore what pic­to­r­ial signs con­vey along­side the con­tent: an iden­tity, be­long­ing to a build­ing, a com­pany, a time or even a coun­try.

The fi­nal totem of the ori­en­ta­tion and sig­nage sys­tem has been in­stalled and stands at the ac­cess road to the Car­men Würth Fo­rum, the con­gress and cul­tural cen­tre built by Chip­per­field Ar­chi­tects, di­rectly op­po­site the com­pany head­quar­ters of Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG. In con­trast to the sig­nage sys­tem found across the open spaces of the com­pany head­quar­ters, this totem’s header promi­nently fea­tures an il­lu­mi­nated logo of the Car­men Würth Fo­rum. > Pro­ject

Heike Nehl and Anna König von Moni­teurs with Sveta Gold­stein and To­bias Kuster from Geneva form one of eight teams that will par­tic­i­pate in the Hackathon - a col­lab­o­ra­tive soft­ware and hard­ware de­vel­op­ment event. This event will be hosted by Vi­tra (Swiss de­signer fur­ni­ture man­u­fac­turer), sup­ported by Frame Mag­a­zine. In­ves­ti­gat­ing our needs for liv­ing and work­ing en­vi­ron­ments, tech­nolo­gies, and the in­ter­face be­tween them, par­tic­i­pants will aim to find an­swers to the ques­tion which ob­jects and spaces will sur­vive in a hy­per-con­nectible fu­ture – and why.

Also this year, the Film­ga­lerie 451 is rep­re­sented with a doc­u­men­tary by Heinz Emigholz at the Berli­nale. "Two Basil­i­cas" is a con­fronta­tion and jux­ta­po­si­tion of two churches. Ste­fan Kan­ter from Moni­teurs de­signed the poster, which is al­ready the thir­teenth in this se­ries. Adrian Curry writes on the film por­tal "MUBI": „I was first struck by this beau­ti­ful poster, above, for his 2013 film The Airstrip and, dig­ging deeper, I dis­cov­ered a whole se­ries of posters for Emigholz’s work which ad­here to a sim­i­lar de­cep­tively util­i­tar­ian style…“ > Berli­nale 2018
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On De­cem­ber 18, Mannheim cel­e­brated the han­dover of the new Kun­sthalle to the city. Only briefly was it open and many in­ter­ested came. The build­ing de­signed by gmp-Ar­chitek­ten, In­te­rior by Axel Ku­fus with OHstu­dio and the wayfind­ing sys­tem de­signed and planned by Moni­teurs! The house will fi­nally open on 1 June 2018.

In­ter­ac­tion – Set 15
We wish every­one a happy 2018! > hap­py18

Since its found­ing in 1996, the An­nual Mul­ti­me­dia Award has demon­strated the vi­brancy of dig­i­tal brand com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Moni­teurs won with the mi­crosite "Bridge Finder", de­signed and de­vel­oped for the Foot­bridge con­fer­ence. The dig­i­tal com­pass in­forms about 73 se­lected bridge de­signs and in­vites you for a walk in Berlin. > pro­ject

Anita Meier of Moni­teurs was in­vited to the De­part­ment of Ty­pog­ra­phy and Com­mu­ni­ca­tion at Uni­ver­sity of Read­ing in Eng­land. For a day, the stu­dents learnt about mul­ti­sen­sory wayfind­ing and smellscapes, and they also had a go at do­ing a smell map of the cam­pus.

Sibylle Schlaich will once again be giv­ing a sem­i­nar on signs and their non-ver­bal com­mu­ni­ca­tion at the In­sti­tute of De­sign. Us­ing ex­am­ples, pos­si­ble ap­pli­ca­tions are in­ves­ti­gated, re­searched in build­ings and ur­ban space. In ad­di­tion to pre­sen­ta­tion and draw­ing style analy­sis, pic­tograms are de­signed and drawn by the stu­dents.

The BDG – Ger­man As­so­ci­a­tion for Com­mu­ni­ca­tion de­signer in­vites to a panel dis­cus­sion. Boris Kochan dis­cusses com­pany iden­tity, brands and prod­ucts with Heike Nehl and Lars Harm­sen and how they are in­creas­ingly shaped by their users in their de­vel­op­ment, care and per­cep­tion. > An­nounce­ment

On Sep­tem­ber 6th it starts and the prepa­ra­tions for the con­fer­ence go full-speed. Posters and wayfind­ing are hang up, the web­site has grown. In the run-up, par­tic­i­pants from all over the world have in­tro­duced ideas for new pedes­trian bridges in Berlin, city of wa­ter. This pre­cious col­lec­tion of 73 se­lected bridge de­signs is pub­lished in a book, de­signed by Moni­teurs. Every­one has the pos­si­bil­ity with „Bridgefinder", a web-app spe­cially de­signed for the con­fer­ence of Moni­teurs to ex­plore these bridge. Good luck to the bridge builders! > Bridgefinder

With their holis­tic view of the de­sign process, the Iconic Awards cre­ate a new di­men­sion of the ar­chi­tec­ture award. The fo­cus is on the in­ter­play of the trades in the con­text of ar­chi­tec­ture. We are look­ing for­ward to a new Iconic Award! The wayfind­ing sys­tem for the Deutsche Mu­seum in Mu­nich is Win­ner in the cat­e­gory "Com­mu­ni­ca­tion".> Pro­ject

We are de­lighted that the wayfind­ing sys­tem for the Deutsche Mu­seum in München has re­ceived so much recog­ni­tion. > Pro­ject

Moni­teurs wayfindig sys­tem for the Deutsche Mu­seum in Mu­nich were se­lected by the jury of the Eu­ro­pean De­sign Awards 2017 and won Bronze! > Pro­ject

Sibylle Schlaich was in­vited to speak about ori­en­ta­tion sys­tems, the cur­rent work of Moni­teurs in space and sur­round­ing with ar­chi­tec­ture, as part of the lec­ture se­ries "6 x Tues­days at 6" or­ga­nized by the Fac­ulty of Ar­chi­tec­ture and Land­scape.

Spring – sun – out­side! On the way to the Teme­pl­hofer Feld along the air­port build­ing. The listed build­ing still be­longs to the longest build­ing of the world and is used as an buis­ness and event lo­ca­tion. Moni­teurs de­signed the over­all ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem for the out­door area. > Pro­ject

A book di­vided into 18 chap­ters shows in­ter­na­tionale wayfind­ing pro­jects in their dif­fer­ent con­text. Re­leased by ART­POWER, the most pro­fes­sional art-re­lated book pub­lish­ing agen­cies in the Asia-pa­cific re­gion. Moni­teurs wayfind­ing sys­tems are rep­re­sented with: Auf­bau Haus, BMW Leipzig Plant, Pots­damer Platz and the Berlin Bran­den­burg Air­port.

The Kul­tur­palast Dres­den will cer­e­mo­ni­ally re­opened. In the fu­ture many dif­fer­ent peo­ple will move through the build­ing. At all times it counts for every­one to of­fer an ideal ori­en­ta­tion. It was the par­tic­u­lar chal­lenge for us de­sign­ing the sig­nage sys­tem. > Pro­ject

The “In­ter­na­tional In­sti­tute for In­for­ma­tion De­sign” awards every third year. This Year 53 pro­jects were awarded. Our Wayfind­ing sys­tem for the Deutsche Mu­seum in Mu­nich were se­lected. > Pro­ject

On April, 13th the In­ter­na­tional Gar­den Ex­hi­bi­tion Berlin will open. The new vis­i­tor cen­tre will wel­come vis­i­tors with the ex­hi­bi­tion "Gar­dens of the World“. Ex­hi­bi­tion sub­jects in­clude, among oth­ers, ten themed gar­dens and nine in­ter­na­tional con­tem­po­rary gar­dens. Moni­teurs de­vel­oped the ex­hi­bi­tion de­sign and its con­tents and were re­spon­si­ble for the im­ple­men­ta­tion. > Pro­ject

10 years ago, UN­ESCO named Berlin the "City of De­sign". Robert Eysoldt and Ra­ban Rud­digkeit used the 10th ju­bilee to pub­lish the book "Berlin De­sign Di­gest" which pre­sents a col­lec­tion of 100 suc­cess­ful and in­ter­na­tion­ally rel­e­vant pro­jects re­al­ized by de­sign agen­cies based in Berlin. The book show­cases the wayfind­ing sys­tem for the Air­port Berlin Bran­den­burg by Moni­teurs. > Berlin De­sign Di­gest

Sum­mer term 2017 at the uni­ver­sity han­nover – In­sti­tute for art and de­sign. Sibylle Schlaich sets the sub­ject “read­ing places” for the stu­dents. The group will ex­plore, an­a­lyze and eval­u­ate places in Han­nover. The tar­get will be to ap­praise and to en­croach on the phe­nom­e­non.

With the new build­ing and re­con­struc­tion of the Char­ité in Berlin-Mitte an ex­ten­sion of the wayfind­ing sys­tem was re­quired. Firstly Moni­teurs has been com­mis­sioned to de­velop an analyse-re­port, fol­lowed by the fa­cade ap­pli­ca­tion for the res­cue cen­ter, the de­vel­op­ment of an en­tire new pic­togram fam­ily, wayfind­ing sig­nage in the foyer and el­e­va­tor vestibules of the 21 lev­els tower build­ing, in­clud­ing wall ap­pli­ca­tion. > Pro­ject

Even though there are large con­struc­tion works un­til 2025, the mu­seum will re­main open for vis­i­tors. Moni­teurs new wayfind­ing sys­tem for the mu­seum is able to re­spond to on­go­ing changes. Ste­fan Schilling, our pho­tog­ra­pher took pho­tos for us of the cur­rent state. >Zum Pro­jekt

The de­sign de­part­ment is invit­ing to the se­ries of lec­tures called “Link". Sibylle Schlaich from Moni­teurs gives a talk about the “Link" be­tween the be­holder and space – the wayfind­ing sys­tem. > LINK

The de­part­ment ar­chi­tec­ture com­mu­ni­ca­tion “a'komm” at the In­sti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy in Karl­sruhe was founded to an­a­lyze the ba­sics of com­mu­ni­ca­tion and in­ter­me­di­a­tion of ar­chi­tec­ture. In a lec­ture and fol­low­ing work­shop Heike Nehl talks about Moni­teurs work and gets into a di­a­logue with the stu­dents to work on the sub­ject ar­chi­tec­ture and wayfind­ing. What is fas­ci­nat­ing about wayfind­ing, about in­stalling graph­i­cally mes­sages in space , so that peo­ple feel guided. >KIT

Again, the Iconic Award nom­i­nated a Moni­teurs pro­ject as a win­ner in the cat­e­gory Com­mu­ni­ca­tion/​Guid­ance sys­tem. The in­ter­na­tional ar­chi­tec­ture and de­sign com­pe­ti­tion fo­cus on the in­ter­play be­tween all the dis­ci­plines in the ar­chi­tec­ture, con­struc­tion and real es­tate sec­tor and the de­sign and pro­duc­tive in­dus­tries. >Win­ner

Af­ter its clos­ing, the Air­port Berlin Tegel will turn into a re­search and in­dus­trial park. For the 550 ha big ter­ri­tory the Tegel Pro­jekt GmbH was look­ing for a part­ner to de­velop an in­te­grated Wayfind­ing sys­tem. PSY:PLAN an d Moni­teurs ap­plied to­gether and have been awarded for the pro­ject. Vi­su­al­i­sa­tion: Re­icher Haase As­soci­ierte

The In­ter­na­tional Con­fer­ence “Foot­bridge” or­gan­ised by the Chair of Con­cep­tual and Struc­tural De­sign at TU Berlin wel­comes many bridge de­sign­ers and builders from all over the world to share their views, to ex­change ideas, to learn and to meet col­leagues and friends. Moni­teurs de­signed the new Cor­po­rate de­sign and im­ple­mented it into the whole event in­for­ma­tion ma­te­r­ial like poster, flyer and the web­site for the 6th con­fer­ence in Berlin. >foot­bridge2017.com

33pt, the Graphic De­sign Con­fer­ence at the FH Dort­mund and the Köln In­ter­na­tional School of De­sign (KISD) goes in to the next round. Un­der the guests from eu­rope of the al­ready 7th con­fer­ence also is Sibylle Schlaich from Moni­teurs. >33pt

Mannheim has a new art gallery. The ar­chi­tec­tonic idea of the city within the city needs to be re­al­ized with the new build­ing. The ar­chi­tects are gmp - Ar­chitek­ten von Gerkan, Marg und Part­ner. To change the struc­tural cor­po­rate de­sign, the foun­da­tion held a com­pe­ti­tion, se­lect­ing the team of Axel Ku­fus and Moni­teurs. A dis­tinc­tive struc­tural cor­po­rate de­sign will be cre­ated with in­te­rior, fur­nish­ings and vis­i­tor guide sys­tem. Vi­su­al­i­sa­tion: gmp

The spark was the com­pe­ti­tion for the One World Trade Cen­ter — sbp has also been in New York for the last 10 years. A cause for cel­e­bra­tion and a rea­son to give a de­tailed story of the of­fice. For sbp, Moni­teurs has de­vel­oped a mi­crosite, pro­vid­ing a suit­able stage from which to pre­sent the times, its wit­nesses and the pro­jects of the of­fice. >Now on­line

Moni­teurs has won the pitch for the ex­hi­bi­tion de­sign con­cept and re­al­i­sa­tion of the vis­i­tor cen­tre of the “Gar­dens of the World”. The In­ter­na­tional Gar­den Fes­ti­val will take place in Berlin in 2017. The cen­tre­piece will be the ex­tended gar­dens of the world and vis­i­tors will be in­tro­duced to the gar­dens in a new vis­i­tor cen­tre. Moni­teurs will be sup­ported by land­scape ar­chi­tect Su­sanne Ya­coub. Foto: ©ww+; Esch-sur-Alzette > Pro­ject

In a re­port at the FH Vo­rarl­berg in Aus­tria, Heike Nehl pre­sents the cre­ative work in de­vel­op­ing a wayfind­ing sys­tem and re­con­sider the W-ques­tions: who, where, why and whereto? How does the in­ter­ac­tion of ana­log and dig­i­tal me­dia changes the per­cep­tion? Sign is a sign is a sign – each sign is a part of a sys­tem and all to­gether they build a com­mu­ni­ca­tion chain – what is all be­hind?

What is ex­cit­ing about wayfind­ing, about in­stalling graph­i­cal mes­sages in space, so that peo­ple fol­low them? How is sig­nage con­nected with other me­dia, for ex­am­ple with dig­i­tal me­dia? Sibylle Schlaich, founder and man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Moni­teurs Kom­mu­nika­tions­de­sign GmbH, has de­signed and im­pleme­tend wayfind­ing sys­tems for the last fif­teen years. At the Goethe In­sti­tut in Krakow she will pre­sent Moni­teurs cur­rent work.

This spring Heike Nehl and Sibylle Schlaich are again in­vited as guest pro­fes­sors in China at the CDK (the Chi­nese Ger­man Art Acad­emy in Hangzhou). Since 10 years the CDK is the co­op­er­a­tion part­ner uni­ver­sity of the UdK Berlin. This year the sub­ject for the stu­dent will be “space and iden­tity”.

The new wayfind­ing sys­tem in the Märkische Vier­tel is com­pleted. Since the be­gin­ning of the year the sys­tem was in­stalled, de­signed and planned by moni­teurs. > Pro­ject

“Signs and Pic­tograms” are cen­tered in a Work­shop at the ar­chi­tec­ture de­part­ment of the Uni­ver­sity of Ap­plied Sci­ence in Saar­brücken. Sibylle Schlaich from Moni­teurs is bring­ing the sub­ject and is hold­ing the work­shop at the 24th of feb­ru­ary.

121 Of­fices ap­plied for the open and in­ter­na­tional ad­ver­tised ar­chi­tec­ture and de­sign com­pe­ti­tion. Ger­ber Ar­chi­tects with Moni­teurs reached the sec­ond and last stage with three other ap­pli­cants. Moni­teurs de­vel­oped, con­nect­ing to the ar­chi­tec­ture, the sig­nage con­cept for the Terekhovo Sta­tion in Moskow.

On the oc­ca­sion of plan­ing a new study course with a dig­i­tal fo­cus, the de­sign de­part­ment or­gan­ised on feb­ru­ary the 10th a panel dis­cus­sion with the sub­ject “de­sign­ing the dig­i­tal fu­ture”. One of sev­eral speak­ers on podium is Heike Nehl from Moni­teurs.

As an im­por­tant de­pen­dance of the main of­fice in Stuttgart, schlaich berg­er­mann part­ner re­alised many ex­cit­ing pro­jects in Berlin since 10 years. Moni­teurs could ac­com­pany this time with ana­log and dig­i­tal de­sign­works. Many thanks and con­grat­u­la­tions!

Moni­teurs wins gold in the cat­e­gory "iPad Books" for the ex­em­plary con­cept and de­sign with “Move­ables” for schalich berg­er­mann part­ner at the In­ter­na­tional Cre­ative Me­dia Award 2015. > Pro­ject

The first 6 is­sues of the DVD edi­tion are here. For 25 years, the Film­ga­lerie has pub­lished the films of Christoph Schlin­gen­sief, and for 20 years, Moni­teurs has has ac­com­pa­nied the Film­ga­lerie with posters, ti­tles and cover art.

Moni­teurs as­sisted in the re­brand­ing of schlaich berg­er­mann part­ners and cre­ated a new vi­sual iden­tity, in­clud­ing in­ter­net pres­ence, in close co­op­er­a­tion with the client and de­vel­op­ers – now on­line!> To the web­site

For our last re­launch, we asked Alexan­der Branczyk to pro­vide us with a new, very light ver­sion of our cor­po­rate font “Mon­ico”, which he orig­i­nally de­signed in 1994. To­gether with Georg Seifert, he ex­panded the font fam­ily, which is now pre­sented in the type book from Slanted.

In Oc­to­ber, the Pots­dam In­sti­tute for Cli­mate Im­pact Re­search opened, where over 200 sci­en­tists from all over the world now con­duct their re­search. Moni­teurs adopted the colour con­cept of the ar­chi­tec­ture and the cod­ing of the three com­po­nents with dif­fer­ent bright colours in the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem, and re­in­forced it through as­so­cia­tive terms. > Pro­ject

En­try into the Auf­bau Haus 84, de­signed by Barkow Leibinger, me­di­ates be­tween the his­toric El­sner­haus (1914) and the first con­struc­tion phase Auf­bau Haus 85. Moni­teurs con­tin­ued the con­cept de­vel­oped for Haus 85, so that both build­ings are con­nected by the same ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem.

Moni­teurs, ac­com­pa­nied by PSY:PLAN, has been com­mis­sioned by the city of Berlin, to analyse the tourist wayfind­ing sys­tems of ten ma­jor na­tional and in­ter­na­tional cities. The task is to eval­u­ate how these wayfind­ing con­cepts are ap­plic­a­ble to a fu­ture sys­tem in Berlin. Dres­den, Pots­dam, Düs­sel­dorf, Frank­furt, Bris­tol, Lon­don, New York, Syd­ney, Wien und Zürich will be analysed.

The Up­per West, con­sist­ing of a 118m high tower and a build­ing com­plex di­rectly on Bre­itschei­dt­platz in Berlin, is one of the biggest build­ings in City West and breaks new ground. With a to­tal sur­face area of 53,000 square me­tres, there will be, as of 2016, re­tail spaces, of­fices and to date the largest ho­tel in the Mo­tel One group. Moni­teurs de­signed a con­cept which en­com­passes both the rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the ten­ants in the var­i­ous build­ings and the ori­en­ta­tion in the tower and the com­plex.

In 2017, Grün­Ber­lin, in co­op­er­a­tion with the IGA, will host the In­ter­na­tionale Garte­nausstel­lung (In­ter­na­tional Gar­den Show) in a 100 hectare area at the “Gärten der Welt” (Gar­dens of the World) and at Kien­berg Park. Moni­teurs could qual­ify for the ten­der of the out­line plan­ning of the ori­en­ta­tion and in­for­ma­tion con­cept for Gärten der Welt/​IGA Berlin 2017.

Moni­teurs has won the com­pe­ti­tion to de­sign a new ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem for the Deutsche Mu­seum Mu­nich. In sin­gle con­struc­tion stages the mu­seum will be ex­ten­sively mod­ern­ized and re­struc­tured un­til 2025. For Moni­teurs the core of the task is the de­vel­op­ment of a sig­nage con­cept for the in­ner and out­door ar­eas with the fo­cus on the col­lec­tion build­ing and the mu­seum is­land.

Moni­teurs has been com­mis­sioned by Ger­ber Ar­chi­tects In­ter­na­tional to de­velop the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem for a metro sta­tion in Riyadh. The Ar­chi­tects are one of the win­ner, be­side Snøhetta and Zaha Ha­did Ar­chi­tects, of the in­vited in­ter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tion of the High Com­mis­sion for the De­vel­op­ment of Ar­riyadh. The sig­nagein­cludes the Olaya Parc, the ex­te­rior of the sta­tio, pub­lic and non-pub­lic ar­eas, shop­ping and re­tail area and the un­der­ground park­ing. Vi­su­al­i­sa­tion: Ger­ber Ar­chi­tects in­ter­na­tional

The city quar­ter Do­mAquarée, with a to­tal rentable space of 71,000m², lies in the his­tor­i­cal cen­tre of Berlin, op­po­site the Berlin Cathe­dral. In ad­di­tion to many shops and a mul­ti­tude of restau­rants, one can find apart­ments, flex­i­ble of­fice spaces and a four-star ho­tel. Moni­teurs has been com­mis­sioned by Bil­fin­ger Real Es­tate to de­sign a new ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem for the out­door area.

Carl­swerk is an in­dus­trial com­plex with a one hun­dred year his­tory, and at ap­prox­i­mately 126,000m², the largest ur­ban in­dus­trial cam­pus in Cologne. Cul­tural in­sti­tu­tions, restau­rants, of­fices and pro­duc­tion fa­cil­i­ties have made the for­mer in­dus­trial site their home, turn­ing it into a vi­brant, lively city quar­ter. Moni­teurs de­signed the Carl­swerk brand and the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem for the lo­ca­tion. Im­age: BEOS

The new build­ing for the Pots­dam In­sti­tute for Cli­mate Im­pact Re­search is lo­cated at Telegrafen­berg in Pots­dam, a site of great his­tor­i­cal and in­ter­na­tional sig­nif­i­cance. The build­ing was de­signed by the ar­chi­tec­tural firm BH­BVT, while Moni­teurs de­signed the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem and strength­ened the vi­sual iden­tity of this strik­ing build­ing. Vi­su­al­iza­tion: BH­BVT > Pro­ject

Moni­teurs has won the in­ter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tion, open by in­vi­ta­tion, to de­sign a new ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem for the en­tire area of the BMW Re­search and In­no­va­tion Cen­tre in Mu­nich. Moni­teurs has now been com­mis­sioned to de­velop a mas­ter con­cept 2050 for ana­logue and dig­i­tal wayfind­ing. The first step should al­ready take place in 2015 – sig­nage of the new con­cept on a ren­o­vated build­ing. Vi­su­al­i­sa­tion: Henn Ar­chitek­ten

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 “move­able 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

Sil­ver for the mi­crosite “Font­walk”, de­signed by Moni­teurs. We cel­e­brate to­gether with our client FontShop over this year’s prize, awarded by the Eu­ro­pean De­sign Awards 2014. > To the pro­ject

Moni­teurs is to be a guest at “Wednes­day Sem­i­nars” at the uni­ver­sity of De­sign Schwäbish Gmünd on the is­sue “com­mu­ni­ca­tion in space”. Ex­perts from the fields of de­sign, art and cul­ture, sci­ence and in­dus­try are in­vited to speak on cur­rent top­ics in their re­spec­tive fields.

Sibylle Schlaich has been in­vited by Pro­fes­sor Skopec to speak at “Beziehungsweisen” (“Mak­ing Con­nec­tions”) in the class of Vi­sual Sys­tems. She will talk pri­mar­ily about the de­sign process with re­spect to large pro­jects, and on the topic of ori­en­ta­tion sys­tems.

Right in the cen­tre of Berlin, on the cor­ner of Franzö­sis­che Straße and Glinkas­traße, the Deutsche Geset­zliche Un­fal­lver­sicherung, the DGUV (Ger­man So­cial In­sur­ance Or­gan­i­sa­tion) is un­der con­struc­tion. The ad­min­is­tra­tion build­ing, de­signed by Grün­tuch Ernst Ar­chi­tects, has been awarded the Gold Cer­tifi­cate from the Ger­man Sus­tain­able Build­ing Coun­cil. Moni­teurs, com­mis­sioned di­rectly by the DGUV, has de­signed the build­ing's ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem, and should be com­pleted later this year. Vi­su­al­i­sa­tion: Grün­tuch Ernst Ar­chi­tects BDA

The his­tor­i­cal Palace of Cul­ture in Dres­den, a na­tional her­itage site, will be ren­o­vated by the ar­chi­tects von Gerkan, Marg and part­ners. Moni­teurs has de­signed the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem, com­mis­sioned by Kom­mu­nale Im­mo­belien Dres­den. From 2017, Dres­den will once again have a cul­tural cen­tre with a con­cert hall, a cen­tral li­brary and a cabaret the­atre. Vi­su­al­i­sa­tion: gmp Ar­chi­tects

A vi­sion fo­rum for an even more un­usual ma­te­r­ial in con­struc­tion, with speak­ers who are among the most dis­tin­guished and ex­pe­ri­enced in con­struct­ing with car­bon. Moni­teurs has de­signed the web­site and the print me­dia for the con­fer­ence at the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­sity of Berlin. > To the pro­ject

Af­ter the suc­cess­ful book on ori­en­ta­tion sys­tems by Per Mollerup was pub­lished at the end of last year, there is now a sec­ond book on the topic, com­pletely re­vised and with a greater prac­ti­cal sec­tion. It will mainly cover ori­en­ta­tion sys­tems for ma­jor pro­jects and pub­lic spaces. The ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem for the Berlin Bran­den­burg Air­port by Moni­teurs is also among the se­lected works cov­ered.

Film­ga­lerie 451 pre­sents the fol­low­ing at the Berli­nale 2014: “The Airstrip” by Heinz Emigholz, “Three stones for Jean Genet” by Frieder Schlaich with Patti Smith, “Every­thing that rises must con­verge” by Omer Fast, “La ul­tima pelic­ula” by Ray Mar­tin & Mark Per­an­son. Posters and book­let for the party in the Berghain Kan­tine were de­signed by Moni­teurs. Printed by Xplicit in Riso­graph. > To the pro­ject

Moni­teurs to visit WEIS­S­RAUM (White­room), a fo­rum for vi­sual de­sign in Inns­bruck. WEIS­S­RAUM is an ini­tia­tive for those who are more graph­i­cally aware and for those con­cerned with shape and form. Well-known de­sign­ers from all over the world will give pre­sen­ta­tions and run work­shops and on the 1st of April, Moni­teurs has been in­vited to give its own pre­sen­ta­tion.

The Märkische Quar­ter in Berlin is a met­ro­pol­i­tan area of 3.2 square kilo­me­tres with nearly 40,000 res­i­dents, the ori­en­ta­tion of which is not easy. The dis­trict of­fice of Berlin Rei­neck­endorf re­cently held a com­pe­ti­tion to re­design the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem, which Moni­teurs won in 2013, and the firm, ac­com­pa­nied by the en­vi­ron­men­tal psy­chol­o­gists from PSY:PLAN, will be work­ing on a new con­cept. PSY:PLAN will re­search and con­sult for the pro­ject in the fields of ar­chi­tec­ture and the psy­chol­ogy of per­cep­tion. Moni­teurs al­ready worked in­tensely in this area in 2006, de­vel­op­ing an ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem for sev­eral res­i­den­tial build­ings for the or­gan­i­sa­tion Gesobau. > Pro­ject

Type Talk, on the 28th of No­vem­ber at 6:30pm with Heike Nehl and Sibylle Schlaich, on the vi­sual iden­tity of the Berlin Bran­den­burg Air­port, which has not yet opened: the ori­en­ta­tion sys­tem, closely con­nected to the cor­po­rate de­sign el­e­ments, and with its own font, has long made head­lines in the in­ter­na­tional de­sign scene. Or­gan­ised by Jür­gen Siebert, the free “Type Talk” se­ries takes place monthly in the Ap­ple Store on Kur­fürs­ten­damm.

“Font­walk” wins “Gold” at this year’s An­nual Mul­ti­me­dia Award. Since 1996, the com­pe­ti­tion has shone a spot­light on out­stand­ing work in the dig­i­tal do­main. Moni­teurs de­vel­oped the mi­crosite “Font­walk” for Fontshop, which show­cases the lat­est fonts and trends in the world of type­faces. At “Font­walk”, the user is guided on a jour­ney through the fonts, where mov­ing pic­tures il­lus­trate the his­tory of each font while si­mul­ta­ne­ously high­light­ing its unique qual­i­ties and fea­tures. > To the pro­ject

This Au­tumn, Sibylle Schlaich and Heike Nehl are guest pro­fes­sors in China at the Chi­ne­sisch Deutschen Kun­stakademie (Chi­nese Ger­man Acad­emy of the Arts) in Hangzhou. A co­op­er­a­tion pro­ject be­tween the UdK Berlin (Berlin Uni­ver­sity of the Arts) and the CAA (Chi­nese Art Acad­emy), their work con­cerns the sub­ject of air­ports and new cre­ative ap­proaches to vastly dif­fer­ent fields of de­sign. Their lec­tures will in­clude all com­mu­ni­ca­tion me­dia em­ployed at an air­port, in­fo­graph­ics, ori­en­ta­tion sys­tems, the cor­po­rate de­sign of an air­port, the cor­po­rate de­sign of an air­line, dig­i­tal me­dia such as apps, in­fo­graph­ics on the air­field and the graph­i­cal use of space.

“1 : 1 – Sig­nage, Ori­en­ta­tion, Iden­tity” is a spe­cial book. It not only de­scribes the pro­jects of the last ten years and the way of work­ing of the com­mu­ni­ca­tions de­sign com­pany Moni­teurs, but the pro­jects are also graph­i­cally brought into fo­cus: in this way the book shows Moni­teurs’ ori­en­ta­tion sys­tems on a 1 : 1 scale. Book launch Tues­day, 24th Sep­tem­ber, 7pm, Read­ing Room, Berlin, Guest Speaker: Jür­gen Siebert > To the pro­ject