In our Creative Industries Stories you will find the best and most vivid examples of how creative people and companies turn simple products into ingenious stories, or how very complicated stories turn into ingeniously simple things.
Cycling can be child's play. If the saddle is properly adjusted, the grips fit little hands and the bike is not too heavy. With woom, Christian Bezdeka and Marcus Ihlenfeld developed children's bikes that take the needs of people from 1.5 to 14 years into account.
Good coffee takes time. So does design that unfolds its effect, says Petra Wieser. The Lower Austrian received the Creative Business Award from the New Design University in St. Pölten for her "Mindful Design Filter Set".
The two Austrian private universities Central European University (CEU) Vienna and New Design University (NDU) St. Pölten, accompanied by the international office expert Bene, initiated the "Occupy your University!" project, in which modern learning environments were designed by students for students. The Modesk furniture by Hannah Pichler and Lea Steineder met all the requirements for individual and collaborative studying. The stand-sit-recline furniture is now being produced by Bene and used as a test object by CEU students.
For the information and exhibition designer Renate Woditschka, it is obvious that creativity and human-centred work come together in the conception and design of exhibitions and mediation formats. Innovative formats that leave the beaten track inspire, touch and are remembered.
In our volatile and fast-moving world, we need solutions that solve real people's problems. Katharina Ehrenmüller knows which methods can be used to create so-called "human-centred innovations". The foundation for this is always creativity - the superheroine of problem solving.
Cookbook by NDU graduate Franziska Heiß provides recipes and stories from the Sarntal Valley
The strength of the C high 3 community is also evident in the pandemic. The creative business coaching and the associated network support a globetrotter in setting up her new business model.
Katja Baumgartner and Katharina Kollarits developed a modular exhibition stand for List General Contractor GmbH, which was shown for the first time at the international Yacht Show in Monaco.
What if photovoltaic systems could flexibly align themselves according to the sunlight? Three Vorarlbergers found an answer to this question. Now they are looking for funding to build prototypes.