Publisher's Synopsis
The reason and the importance of the St. Moritz Design Summit is evident: thirty designers, including a few others deeply concerned with design, represent an extraordinary competence not only with regard to design in its overall complexity, but they also incorporate a brilliant understanding of interpreting what is happening in this world and in our times Michael Erlhoff, from the foreword. After the successful debut in the year 2000, Michael Erlhoff, Uta Brandes and Kbi Gantenbein again hosted the annual Design Summit, and in 2001 famous representatives of international design once more gladly answered the call to the Alpine village of St. Moritz. Under the auspices of the Raymond Loewy Foundation, acknowledged stylists and design theoreticians like Mario Bellini, Axel Thallemer, Britta Pukall or Erik Spiekermann - to name but a few - gathered together for an informal exchange of ideas, free of the usual conventions. Dialogue instead of monologue, amicable brainstorming instead of self-indulge
