Sense. Sensitive. Design.

Sissel Tolass studied mathematics, chemistry, linguistics and art at universities in Oslo, Moscow, Leningrad, Oxford and Princeton. Since 2006 she is a professor at Harvard Business School for “invisible communication and rhetoric”. Sissel Tolass works for Loius Vuitton, Cartier, Estee Lauder and Sony among others and has exhibited her work at MOMA in New York, at the V&A in London and at the National Museum Beijing.

Gesine Last studied social and economic communication and art history at the University of the Arts Berlin. She lives and works as an independent writer in Berlin. Her writing focuses mainly on exhibition texts and brands. Gesine Last works for Triad Berlin, the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY among others.

Ute Ziegler is an art historian, interior designer and Building Biology planner. In 1997 she founded Büro 213 Architecture/Planning, and in 2003 the Gesellschaft für bessere Möbel, which she left in 2007. Ute Ziegler researches and works in theory and practice on the subject of systemic interior space planning with a focus on design at the interface of ecology, health and technology.

D’Angelico & Dietrich Acoustic Consult is an office for sensory design & branding. The firm focuses on the acoustic design of products and spaces. With perceptual- and market-theoretical underpinnings Acoustic Consult offers concrete, practical solutions, setting itself apart from mere brand consultants.

Pabst Fashion Concepts GmbH transforms the color and formal identities of a business into wearable fashions through the use of modern and exclusive designs, low-maintenance fabrics and comfortable styles. Corporate Fashion is the visual profile for the business environment and communicates identity and philosophy. Clients include Hyatt Hotels, Mercedes Benz and Pro 7 among others.

Novamondo Design was founded in 2003 by Bastian Köhler and Christian Schlimok in Berlin as an agency for communication and brand design. Novamondo offers media spanning solutions for high quality, integral and integrated brand communication. The agency provides services to corporate businesses, political institutions and cultural foundations. For Sense. Sensitive. Design. Novamondo is collaborating with Berlin designer Patrick Kochlik.

Patrizia Kommerell and Gabriel Shalom are the managing partners for KS12, a multidisciplinary creative studio headquartered in Berlin. Gabriel Shalom, born in the US, is an internationally active multimedia artist, director, editor and composer. His videos are strongly tied to the culture of pop music and musical instruments and reflect his self-developed hyper-cubistic theory of cinema.