Essi Johanna Glomb (1989) and Rasa Weber (1989) are Blond & Bieber, a Berlin-based design studio.
Blond & Bieber is a cooperation which meets on the border between textile- and productdesign. By means of concept, experiment and a strong visual approach the duo (though educated as product-developers) would always choose for a narrative approach to design over a purely practical understanding of production. Blond & Bieber are searching for subtile expressions of modern rituals and processes. Their research can be understood as a tightly woven mesh, which lays the foundation to all their projects. Textile is used as the embodiment of a versatile material which can be seen as a key to their story-telling.
Blond & Bieber develop concepts and processes.
Algaemy is the winner of the Output Award 2014, the Core 77 and currently nominated for the German Design Award 2015 and Bundespreis Ecodesign2014. The work presented at the DMY 2014, the Greenshowroom at Fashion Week Berlin and Munich Fabric Start. The project will be part of the curated exhibition of Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters in Klokgebouw as part of the Dutch Design Week (NL), at the Lodz Design Festival (PL), Scandic Hotel Hamburg and the Transitions: Re-thinking Textiles and Surfaces conference. Their subsequent fashion project in cooperation with a German shoebrand Trippen and fashion designer Ylenia Gortana was presented at the Milk & Sugar fashion show (organized by the federal ministry for education and research) in Berlin
