Interview with Axel Herrmann

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1. Who are you? Axel Herrmann, self-employed product-designer and the person behind ajiDesign, which is a design company focusing on culinary themes respectively on cuisine and food related themes. My aim is to design tools or concepts that help to increase the enjoyment of dining or to create something that can be regarded as a materialisation of culinary pleasure. 2. What do you like about what you do? I like the creative diversification and the possibility to meet interesting people with

Everlasting Marilyn

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Marilyn Monroe … still a legend and still a Hollywood star nobody forgets. From December 22th, 2011 to February 26th, 2012 an exhibition called ‘Marilyn: Intimacy’ at the ‘Novomatic Forum’ in Vienna shows devotional objects of Marilyn Monroe for the first time in Austria. Until today the memories of Marilyn Monroe are kept alive by her fans, one of them is the German collector Ted Stampfer. He has been a fan of Marilyn since he is ten years old. He

Interview with Alex Obermayr (Tedx Vienna)

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In October 2011 we met with Alex Obermayr from Tedx Vienna as we preparing the program for the Global Social Business Summit which took place in November 2011 in Vienna. To be honest, Tedx was new to us and as we spoke with Alex we asked him if he would be interested in doing an interview on our blog. Great guy and full with ideas … Tedx came much more closer to us when we interviewed him … Please try

The somewhat ‘extra-ordinary’ ‘Bälle’ in Vienna …

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Vienna is known for many things, from the famous Schloss Schönbrunn, the Vienna State Opera House, the numerous historical and classical highlights but also for its ball season. The official ball season in Vienna starts beginning of November and the last ball we discovered takes place beginning of July. In general one can say that the majority of balls take place from January-April … we counted over 40 balls which take place in 2012. Next to the classical and famous