German Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/german/ Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:52:43 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 German town goes solar, buys local energy plant https://ounodesign.com/2012/11/10/german-town-goes-solar-buys-local-energy-plant/ https://ounodesign.com/2012/11/10/german-town-goes-solar-buys-local-energy-plant/#respond Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:52:43 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=15208

After Chernobyl, the German town of Schönau didn’t want to get its energy from nuclear power. So its citizens turned the town into an energy producer via solar panels and other green carbon neutral sources.

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Antique kitchen door in German chalet, part of the set of UK film “Chalet Girl” starring Felicity Jones and Bill Nighy. Fluff film, but great set. Is this a common door design in the alps?

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Wish Werner Herzog would come by the studio and narrate our work in that soft, brutal, matter-of-fact German tone. Instead I just re-read the imaginary Herzog diary, below, to wallow in Herzog postmortemese.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2009/02/27/werner-herzog/feed/ 3 Elsbeth Kupferoth https://ounodesign.com/2009/01/16/elsbeth-kupferoth/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/01/16/elsbeth-kupferoth/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:11:37 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=1304

Fantastic 1970s geometric supergraphic textile by German designer Elsbeth Kupferoth, who deserves to be much better known. Interesting short essay on her work and more photos at The Textile Blog.

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