Our trainee Tanja Ziegler from Germany has made a nominated design for the furniture in the ‘Vondelpark’ in Amsterdam. The 6 nominees will recieve a more specific assignment very soon…

Totems Amsterdam has 2 new great trainees!
Ana Pamela Delgadillo from Bolivia and Tanja Ziegler from Germany.

Totems supported the ‘German Day’ at the Expo’08 in a very charming Finca in the outskirts of Zaragoza. 900 guests were invited and had a great time. Everyone loved the atmosphere and the Totems crew. Big compliment to Mathilde who was in charge of organizing the lot. The ‘German Day’ had two highlights: Firstly, the soccer game Germany vs. Portugal, which Germany won 4:3, and secondly, the Totems concert! After the professional band had stopped, Totems pals Volker and Frank went on stage and played some really cool dancing sessions with assistance of Daniel (procon). Most of the guests danced and were truly astonished. This is REAL PASSION.

If you go to a worldexhibition, the least you expect are any food stands in the pavillion as main attraction. Well, Achim and Gongo had a stroll over the Expo and were pretty surprised at the pavillion of Pakistan: their main attraction was a Döner stand, for sure!

Totems Germany and Totems Holland of course support their native soccer boys in Austria and Switzerland at the EURO 2008. May the best team win the cup. We keep up the flag for both teams. In our German studio we keep on yelling: “Deutschlaaaaaaand, Deutschlaaaaand!” and our Dutch colleagues go for: “Hup Holland hup!”

On Saturday, June 14th, King Carlos of Spain officially opened the world exhibition in Zaragossa. And a few days later our pavilion was already on TV. The science show “W – wie Wissen” reported on water recycling and visited the German Pavilion.

Here we go: Our former intern Hannes is on Chinese TV. Hannes used to work for Totems and was involved in many award winning projects, such as the Baltika campaign. Then he decided to go and study Event Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Bad Honnef. Now he is doing another internship at Daimler Northwest Asia. But now watch his other talents:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXL_bW-YlDk

Totems was nominated for three projects:
1x for the iF Award (Hager stand concept at the Light & Building in Frankfurt)
1x for the Designaward of Germany (VitrA stand)
1x for the Designaward of Germany (Baltika7, in cooperation with .elastique)

T-Shirt design for 3 month old Ada. Grand Prix winner in BEST FAMILY CAMPAIGN & BEST INTEGRATED AUDIO JINGLE.
This fantastic idea is brought to you by Totems partner .elastique from Cologne and Anton Riedl.

This is Chrissi after a very exhausting session at the German Pavilion at the airport of Madrid. Good night.