The digital Joint Brokerage Event (JBE) is a matchmaking event for Berlin and Chinese companies active in the fields of design and sustainable technologies. Organized in collaboration with our Chinese network partners, they offer a mix of talks and matchmaking with 1-on-1 business matchmaking calls.

If you would like to attend one of these events or are interested in learning more, please contact magdalena.jaster@idz.de and register in the members area of the CN-BC website.

With the YNNOVATION CARDS, the industrial design agency unyt.berlin has developed a methodical set of cards in the context of its own design thinking workshops. The total of 27 playing cards are intended to be used during the idea-finding phase within development processes. Through their impulses, new creative approaches to solutions are to be found. In a compact online presentation, the cards are presented for the first time.

unyt was founded in 2017 from various creative agencies and today has several branches in Germany. As an owner-managed full-service agency, it serves the B2B sector and specialises in strategic design developments of capital goods and high-tech systems. Its customers ranges from start-ups and SMEs to global corporations.

As always, there will be an opportunity for exchange following the lecture.

Please note: The presentation will be held in German!

IDZ board member and founding partner of Fuenfwerken Design AG, Helmut Ness, takes us on a short learning journey on the topic of "Leadership by Design" together with Jeremias Schmitt, Executive Director Strategy and Transformation.

In the transformation programme "Leadership by Design", Helmut Ness and Jeremias Schmitt lead us through three consecutive sprints with the aim of letting the participants themselves become the designers of their future. In moderated breakout sessions, they experience through their own doing how to gain clarity, structure challenges, recognise unexpected solutions, set the course for the future and produce concrete results.

At the IDZ Meetup, the two from Fuenfwerken want to convey the programme in an experiential way. In addition to an impulse and the active joint experience of an exercise from the programme, there will be an opportunity for exchange.

Please note: The presentation will be held in German!

Picture: Berner PR Gesellschaft

Companies, agencies, professionals, and young designers worldwide are invited to submit their best work for the next UX Design Awards until 30 November 2021.

The UX Design Awards are a global competition for excellent experiences. Entrants can compete in three categories. Two are geared to the professional sector: “Product” for market-ready or new products, services, and experiential environments, and “Concept” for prototypes, service concepts, conceptual environments, advanced design studies, and research projects.

The third category, “New Talent,” is aimed at up-and-coming designers: students and graduates can enter their bachelor and master projects.

All details on how to enter and the competition dates and deadlines are available on the UXDA-Website.