
Markus HolzbachHochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach | HfG · Department of Design
Markus Holzbach
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Materials link countless design issues we are concerned about the most nowadays: smart technology, digital/analog, user experiences, ecological environment, etc. Thanks to technological evolutions, designers are exploring new hybrid materials, which expands the contemporary design territories. The generation of new materials is due to the transdisc...
With the non-anthropocentric view, the materials—the non-human actors, can be seen as active contributors to the design process itself. Materials become carriers of a wide variety of information and reshape human and non-human relations as relational agencies. Many pioneer design activities that de-center humanity rethink the relationship among dif...
Designing new materials introduce new challenges – from the setting of materials physical characteristics to the project of their cultural identity. Such a complex challenge is being embraced by many designers in the present, however, this comes to a price. The large number of materials is already problematizing the traditional modality of direct e...
By placing materials in completely new contexts or by digitally and procedurally charging and developing hybrid material combinations, materials are given new information. In contrast to classical product and industrial design, in material design the processes and also the basic principles of materials, structures, and systems play a decisive role....
Die Theorie der Produktsprache stellte einen Paradigmenwechsel in der Designtheorie dar. An der Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Offenbach in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren entwickelt, erweiterte sie das funktionalistische Verständnis von Produkten hinsichtlich ihrer Zeichenhaftigkeit und Bedeutungsdimension. Dieser Band macht wichtige historische Dok...
Die Theorie der Produktsprache stellte einen Paradigmenwechsel in der Designtheorie dar. An der Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Offenbach in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren entwickelt, erweiterte sie das funktionalistische Verständnis von Produkten hinsichtlich ihrer Zeichenhaftigkeit und Bedeutungsdimension. Dieser Band macht wichtige historische Dok...
The paper proposes a definition of Material design as a hybrid practice and describes the intersection area between two emerging phenomenon regarding materials for design namely, ICS Materials and DIY-Materials – by depicting the theoretical background supported by relevant examples and related works and providing the case studies developed by the...
MATERIALDESIGN 2
Research works and exhibits from the Institute for Materialdesign IMD from the Faculty of Product Design at the University of Art and Design Offenbach. Analog and digital design processes combining material and structure. The publication MATERIALDESIGN 2 is released to complement the exhibition Ventura Academies from April 13-19, 2...
Formen und Strukturen werden als grundlegende Gestaltungsrelationen, insbesondere in Architektur und Produktdesign, untersucht. Die Autorinnen und Autoren aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen gehen der Frage nach, welche Rolle die Geometrie bei Formbildungsprozessen spielt. Traditionell kommt der Geometrie die Aufgabe zu, Formen erfassbar, darstellbar...
Das Lehrgebiet Visualisierung und Materialisierung an der HfG Offenbach versteht sich als experimentelles Gestaltungs- und Materiallaboratorium. Viele Ideen entstehen aus ihrer Nähe zum Material, dessen Beschaffenheiten und Möglichkeiten. Das besondere Interesse gilt der Überlagerung von Entwurfsintention und Materialisierung. Am Lehrgebiet spielen...
MATERIALDESIGN
The results of studies in the Visualization and Materialization classes (Institute for Materialdesign IMD) at the HfG Offenbach University of Art and Design. Analog and digital design processes exploring the world between material and structure. The publication MATERIALDESIGN is published on the occasion of the Ventura Academies exhi...