Design Revolution Now! – A Designer's Toolbox for Revolution

Harald Gruendl (Hg.)

Designed in the style of a fanzine, the publication presents different methods used in the working process of designers under the umbrella term of "tools", which are questioned and placed in new contexts. The contributions were developed and exhibited by a temporary collective from the University of Applied Arts Vienna at the invitation of Vienna Design Week 2024. Going beyond mere documentation, Design Revolution Now! shows the new understanding of roles among a young generation of designers and, as a result, the need to fundamentally reform design education at the Angewandte.
 

Design Revolution Now!, temporary collective of designers and artists from the University of Applied Arts Vienna: Felix Eselböck, Tim Ficht, Laura Frühmesser, Lilian Marie Furrer, Tamás Hegyi, Sven Kammerer, Tobias Kauer, Markus Klaffenböck, Johannes Maximilian Mayer, Lena Reutenauer, Stefan Schönauer, Mia Tešić, Elisabeth Utz, Nadine Weber

Harald Gruendl, Institute of Design / Regenerative Design Lab, University of Applied Arts Vienna


BOOK PRESENTATION & EXHIBITION OPENING

Friday, December 5, 2025 – 5 p.m.
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7
Atrium
1030 Vienna

With 
Harald Gruendl, editor,
in dialogue with the revolution collective
as well as
Laura Winkler and Alexandra Brückner, Vienna Design Week,
and
Birgit Hertel, Head of the Institute of Design, University of Applied Arts Vienna
 

Exhibition
of thirteen posters featuring tools for the design revolution, developed by a temporary collective of designers and artists from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, will be on display. The back sides show personal statements by the participants reflecting on the necessity of a design revolution.

Exhibition duration: December, 5-12, 2025

An event organised by Publications in collaboration with the editor


Design Revolution Now! – A Designer's Toolbox for Revolution
Harald Gruendl (Hg.)

University of Applied Arts Vienna, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-903525-16-0

To the book

 

Book presentation
05. December 2025, 17:00
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Atrium, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 7, 1030 Wien