With the second issue of our magazine we focus our attention on the design scene in Berlin, a scene so multifaceted and dynamic an outsider may find it confusing. More than 1,500 designers live and work in Berlin, 80 percent of those are freelance or work in small companies with fewer than five employees. They focus on classic industry design, try to find new materials and production methods and contemplate how a person might change the world. To them, the city is their area of contact and source of inspiration. The designers also look at other disciplines – that's how a number of beautiful and practical objects for senior citizens resulted from a scientific project by the University of Fine Arts. Thank you for your letters and comments on our first issue of “Berlin” on scientific subjects. Since we would like to keep publishing an inspiring and intriguing magazine about Berlin, we are very much interested in your opinion on the current issue. We look forward to suggestions and comments. Please feel free to write us.

Yours sincerely
Friedrich-Leopold von Stechow