All around the world, ever more media facades are illuminating the cities, with buildings and light spots merging with one another and buildings being developed into media screens or animated architecture. Which kind of media facades and medial architecture can be realized today? Which new com-munication formats will shape the townscapes of the future and move their inhabitants? Where do sense and nonsense lie in medial architecture?

Congratulations! Fabian Fuchs´ two and a half-minute thriller „Greyhound” came in second in the newcomer category of the „katapult°clip“ awards, a competition for filming photographers. The award in cooperation with Canon Academy honours short films made by young, professional photographers with a mirror reflex camera.

Which are the current ground-breaking innovations in the field of mobile applications? Business ideas qualifying for this label can be discovered on the GFT stand at the CeBIT in Hanover from 6th to 10th of March. The jury of the global innovative competition CODE_n 12 selected 50 finalists from over 400 submissions.

Following the huge success of the Ideas Park in recent years, ThyssenKrupp will again host this interactive hands-on exhibition in 2012, from 11 to 23 August 2012 in Essen. This was announced by the technology group at a press conference yesterday.

Seit ein paar Monaten ist die architektonisch wildbewegte neuere Museumslandschaft Oberschwabens um eine rasante Attraktion reicher: Den wirbelnden automobilen Bauwelten von Daimler, Porsche, BMW oder VW nachempfunden, gibt es nun auch eine Hymer-Welt - ein Museum in Bad Waldsee auf rund sechstausend Quadratmetern zur Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft des Reisens im Wohnmobil.

Not only was the German Pavilion at EXPO 2010 in Shanghai extremely popular with the predominantly Chinese audience, its quality was also highly valued by the Asian experts. Especially the Sphere of balancity seems to have left a strong impression in Asia. Now, the interactive Sphere in the German Pavilion has received yet another award for excellence in communication design: the „Design for Asia Award“ (DFAA).

The annual Adam & Eva Awards were awarded in Mannheim last night in a festive gala event. As almost every year, Milla & Partner was among the winners, impressing the jury with their Hydraulic Hoist Ballet and Pallet Cage Horizon, two installations which Milla & Partner created for the Mercedes-Benz stand as an intrinsic part of its architecture and communication concept.

Young adult environments were the subject of a recent lecture at the Stuttgart Media University. Stefanie Fächner, member of the Faculty of Electronics, invited media experts Peter Ludwig and Thomas Frenzel from Milla & Partner as guest lecturers. With geart enthusiasm, they presented the work of the Innovation Laboratory at Milla & Partner and explained new forms of interactive exhibits and media productions.

We feel highly honored by having been selected for the highest German award for design, installed by the German Design Council. The German Design Award crowns the long series of awards which were given to balancity: From EVA, ADC, DDC, iF, red dot, Galaxy and Golden Award of Montreux up to the first prize for the best implementation of the EXPO theme "Better City, Better Life" by the Bureau of World EXPO Coordination Shanghai, just to name a few.

Last weekend, 1.400 visitors came from near and far to attend the opening of the Erwin Hymer Museum in Bad Waldsee. On 6000 square meters and featuring 80 historic mobile homes spanning eight decades, the historical vehicle collection of founder Erwin Hymer highlights the development of the vehicles: some are from industrial production, others are fascinating do-it-yourself constructions or very individual productions.

At this years´ „Ex Awards-ceremony”, which took place in May in Chicago, „balancity” was awarded yet another Gold Award. With over 800 participants taking part in the international marketing competition, this set a new record.

Die Stuttgarter Agentur Milla & Partner konzipiert das deutsche Einheitsdenkmal. Der Gründer und Geschäftsführer Johannes Milla steckt viel Herzblut in das Berliner Projekt - und träumt davon, mit der Stuttgarter Denke vom engen Schwabenkessel aufzuräumen.

Milla & Partner garnered four awards and one honor from this years ADC Festival – all of them for their work on “balancity”, the German Pavilion at the EXPO 2010 in Shanghai. The wide range of award categories especially shows the interdisciplinary creative work of the agency for spatial communication ...