德国摄影师Jochen Lempert的作品专注于自然和动物。在上世纪90年代从事摄影之前，他是一位生物学家。这样的双重身份造就了介于科学与艺术，理性与感性，真实与虚拟，抽象与具象的风格。
“他真正质疑了何谓摄影画面，虽以自然的事物为题材，但因为用粗糙的手法拍摄，于是让摄影画面裡产生某种虚拟现实的东西。此外，很重要的是“接近”（proximity）和“距离”的问题：你必须接近摄影画面，才能看出里面的状态。然后你必须再后退，来感受整幅影像的向度。（他的作品呈现了）介于抽象和具象之间的界线，以及质疑摄影画面作为某种在真实之外的自主性的存在（autonomous entity）。他的照片并不呈现真实，但创造它们自己的某种真实。”（via）
Jochen Lempert is a German photographer whose work is about the world of nature and animals. Lempert first studied as a biologist before turning to photography in the early 1990s. Accordingly, his pictures are marked with scientific aspects, not only referring to his motives but more to the whole process of photography.
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德国摄影师Alexa Kirsten Stroth现居美国和加拿大，她的照片就像她网站的名字“A Morning Kitchen Quiet ”一样，平常而不平凡。感性记录日常瞬间，却不沉湎于小情绪，平和的画面中蕴藏着一股安静的力量。她喜欢火车旅行，雾，秋天的食物和冬天的光。
Alexa Kirsten Stroth was born in Germany, but she has spent the last seven years in the eastern United States and the western coast of Canada. She enjoy trips by train, fog, autumnal foods and winter light.
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“冷漠的对待他人和生活，是设计的头等大罪”，Dieter Rams说。Dieter Rams的生活和工作始终围绕着“思考人们如何生活，以及如何生活的更好”这个中心点，他在1960年代设计的产品至今仍被人所用。Jonathan Ive为该书撰写了序言，Klaus Kemp为我们讲述了老爷子的早年生活，他是一位建筑师，这种知识背景一直影响了他一生的创作。本书不但分享了Rams的优秀设计和观点，更是Rams的生活和工作的一次全面而深入的记录。绝大部分的内容着眼于在他在Braun和Vitsoe担任工业设计师期间的工作，并从设计草图、技术图纸、设计原型、成品、市场营销等方面的物料的展示，串联起Rams的工作过程和经历。除此之外，本书最精彩的两个章节应当属Rams自己的家——这位拥有建筑师背景的人唯一建造完成的房屋。本书共320页，由Phaidon出版，Kobi Benezri担任设计。
”Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design” – Dieter Rams. Dieter Rams’ life and work are indelibly linked to his thoughts about how people live, and how they can live better. Products he designed in the 1960s are still being produced and sold today – only one demonstration of the strength of his work. This comprehensive monograph covers both Rams’ life and his work, as well as his ideas on good design, which continue to inspire designers and consumers today. A personal foreword by Jonathan Ive evokes the influence that Rams has had on his own work and, by extention, the objects with which so many of us share our everyday lives. An introduction and an essay by Klaus Kemp tell the story of Rams’ early life, his training as an architect, and the intellectual context in which his ideas were developed. The next four chapters examine Rams’ work and his life – which are more or less synonymous – in depth. This includes his role at Braun as well as the work he did for the furniture company Vitsoe. Each chapter includes sketches, prototypes, finished products and the marketing for those products, giving a complete picture of Rams’ work and its context. Two other chapters in this section present Rams’ own house, the only work of architecture that he completed, and examine the products he designed at the level of detail, a crucial aspect to his work. A further chapter examines Rams’ ‘ten commandments’ of good design and his credo, ‘less but better’, in the context of his role as head of design at Braun, and a final chapter explores his legacy in the work of contemporary designers including Naoto Fukasawa, Jonathan Ive, Sam Hecht, and Konstantin Grcic.
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德国设计机构Hort为德绍包豪斯基金会设计的整套视觉形象识别系统。
Hort have just created a new identity system for the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.
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Thomas Struth毕业于德国杜塞尔多夫艺术学院，是当代最有影响力的摄影大师之一，他最为大家所熟知的作品莫过于“博物馆的女人”系列。这组“天堂”则取景于日本、澳大利亚、中国、巴西、德国等地的原始丛林。他试图通过拍摄这些“世界开始的地方”，创造一种冥想式的乌托邦氛围，“你要学着享受这种寂静，和自己沟通，最终与他人沟通”。
Thomas Struth born in Geldern, Germany, Struth trained at the Düsseldorf Academy. Each of Thomas Struth’s “paradises” is a piece of nature devoted to a specific overarching theme. “You have to be able to enjoy this silence in order to communicate with yourself–and eventually with others.”
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曾经介绍过的柏林独立杂志Ein Magazin über Orte（半年刊）即将于明天（4月8日）推出第八期。这是一本关于场所的杂志，新一期的地点是天堂。
Berlin-based independent magazine Ein Magazin über Orte No.8 is about PARADISE.
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德国摄影师Holger Schilling用镜头记录下了这些东德的废弃火车站，并将这一系列命名为“失落的堡垒” ，时间和历史就这样静静的凝固在胶片里。
These photographs taken by Holger Schilling of dilapidated train stations in East Germany.
