Let’s face it: the tallest and the smallest Totems-people.

Peter and the crazy “something” – even if he was talking about something different – he seems to ask himself ” what the hell is this?”

Here we go: our best looking 3D-visualizer, artist and photographer: Andreas. Our female colleagues from Amsterdam loved him. In fact: we’ve gone wild. But unfortunately his “trademark” – the blue smurf cap – is missing since a wild ride through the nightlife of Amsterdam. WANTED: help this guy to get his bonnet back! For detailed information please contact Mr. Martini.

Deconstruction the greenwall

Constructing the new wall

The result

Totems Nikolaus with her Hulppiet:

And she brought a lot of nice gifts

We had a lot of fun!

It’s like we all expected: Proud Daddy Mario presented his daughter Pia in his conventional cool manner! The girls went crazy about petit and sweet Pia. They were cuddling the poor thing for hours. Hormones must be something really special and feminine?!

The local television SWR was with Totems the entire noon. They wanted to report how the Totems staff is preparing lunch vor everyone. Poor Chris sigend in for this event, unwittingly. He was accompanied by the TV Team and tried to ignore the camera, to give an authentic impression of how he thinks, works and cooks. We let you know when it’s on air!

Pecha Kucha was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. But as we all know, give a microphone to a designer (especially an architect) and you’ll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system of avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds – giving him 6 minutes and 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show something.
Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor. This is a demand that seems to be global – as Pecha Kucha Night, without any pushing, has spread virally to over 80 cities across the world. Find a location and join the conversation.

The Decumo is a platform for young designers to exhibit and sell their work. At this years Decumo we met many friends and Totems even supported the brand new fashion label “5 Töchter”, powered by Zweigart. At the Pecha Kucha Night the young design ladies presented their latest work.

Frank and Cüneyit represented Totems and showed rejected work. Frank said, it is a shame, that all the beautiful work disappears in some bloody drawer and no one actually cares anymore. THIS AIN’T GOOD!

They hold a very amusing keynote about the Totems work. It rather was a TRIBUTE 2 TOTEMS. Giving the work one more moment of glory.

In the end they were asked what’s happening with all these concepts? “We have a great idea!” Frank replied and aksed the audience for some patience. Totems always surprises.

The final performance was hold by an architecture student from Bulgaria. He really was hilarious. His story was about a small white square travelling to Bulgaria, in a 1963 Cadillac! Any questions?

Totems was asked to present the studio at the design festival in Essen @ the world famous Zeche Zollverein. Our PR lady Birgit made this come to reality. We felt very honoured to be part of this very elected design sceen. Of course there were mainly Essen based studios presenting themselves but only a very limited number of other studios were asked to come.

Due to this honour Frank came up with the idea and design of the Totems Cube. An exhibition space to show some of the Totems work. The design fitted perfectly in the awesome location and sure was one of the highlights.

Chris hold a keynote about the Expo project in Zaragossa next year and explained what Totems is gonna do and how it’s going to look like.

And here are the two who made all of this happen: Birgit and Steffen were the master commanders in charge on location. Like you can see: they never lost their twinkle, were always curious about new ideas and inspirations. Thanx for your effort. We hope to come back next year.