Gold for Solid White at the German Innovation Award 2019

04.06.2019
Johannes Schüle, Simon Walk, Patrick Müller und Christian von Bock (v.l.)

The Solid White agency of our graduates Patrick Müller, Christian von Bock and Simon Walk received the award for “The Virtual Design Center Interactive”. This allows their customer dormakaba worldwide to access VR multi-user events: These include virtual product launches, virtual product presentations and showrooms, virtual meetings and virtual information opportunities. In addition to collaboration, communication via voice chat and text chat is also available.

A fantastically implemented solution that makes many business trips obsolete, saving time and money and also providing a fascinating user experience. Makes you want to visit!
Evaluation of the jury, German Innovation Award 2019

 

Andrej Kupetz überreicht den Gold Award an Christian von Bock

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2026 German Film Award: Nomination for graduate Mona Mohr in the “Best Visual Effects” category

The film “Woodwalkers 2” received a Lola nomination in the Best Visual Effects category. The VFX supervisors were Merz Akademie graduate Mona Mohr and Max Riess from Pixomondo. Their work...

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Retrospective at the Galerie Stadt Sindelfingen – Olia Lialina: online since 1996

As part of the first generation of net artists, Lialina utilised the technical structures of the internet from the very beginning to create browser-based works that played a pivotal role...

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German Design Award 2026 for Solid White

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Danja Vasiliev Appointed Professor of Emerging Media in Art and Design

Merz Akademie has appointed artist Danja Vasiliev to the newly established Professorship of Emerging Media in Art and Design, starting in the winter semester 2025/26. With this appointment, the institution...