After Weimar, Cologne, Frankfurt, Berlin, Shanghai, our Product-Desig alumnus Xinyu Weng recently presented his newly founded design studio yuue at the London Design Festival 2015.

CNN reports from London:

“Young design duo Yuue’s offerings were the most representative of a new conceptual approach to design that seems to be emerging. Their lamps were functional but also thought-provoking and humorous. What more could one want from the stuff that surrounds us?”

Check out their project website to learn more about the work and get in touch with yuee. The works were developed as part of Xinyu’s graduation project advised by Professor Wolfgang Sattler and Kristian Gohlke at the Bauhaus-University Weimar.

If you want to support a young and emerging berlin based design duo, you can pre-order Balance and the thought provoking Time Killer directly from them.

Watch our colleague Darsha Hewitt from the Faculty of Media in her efforts to restore “the worlds oldest commercially available drum machine” and learn something about electronics along the way. Here is a preview of things to come:

The first episode will be published on October 6th, 2015.

More background information on createdigitalmusic.com.

Beyond several rounds of seed funding, the successful aqcuisition of venture capital and a growing number of employees and patents, our alumi from the product-design programme are also doing a great job at getting crowdfunding for the first production run of TinkerBots.

Six days before the end their campain has reached 265% of the requested funding and is still running strong. As of now, this sums up to 260,000+ $. Congratulations!

Be among the first to get a set of TinkerBots!

This is the story behind the project:

Update:
The crowdfunding campaign has finished and raised a total of 290,505 $ Thanks to everyone who supported the project!

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