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The Ambiente trade fair in Frankfurt provided the platform for Loony-Design's first public appearance on 11.2.2005. Stand design and construction: Miriam Irle, Ruwen Kaminski, Isabel Schurgacz as part of a project of the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.

Overview.

Those who came wanted to know the details:

approx. 1,500 fair visitors were interested in Loony-Design.

What's white is the wall, the colorful stuff is Loony-Design - Products by Loony-Design bring color.

This is how simple a catalogue can be:

you assemble it yourself.

Joint exhibition "It's a Loony world" with the Academy for Fine Arts in the Design Centre Stuttgart.

In March 2005 Loony Design was awarded the 2nd prize "Gut in Form" at the artist's workshop trade fair in Offenbach. This prize is awarded annually by the Federal Association of Workshops for People with Disabilities.

3.3.2006: Opening of the first LoonyShop. All our products under one roof: LoonyShop, Stresemannstraße 8, 68165 Mannheim, Near Rosengarten The shop furniture - shelves and tables - is now also part of the product range. Design: Stephan Schmidt, Production: Loony-Design.

On 28.12.2005 Loony-Design was the recipient of the first Innovatio-Sozialpreis in Berlin. The €13,000 prize is awarded by the Brudehilfe Pax Versicherung every two years for outstanding charitable activities. The company was particularly praised for creating jobs for people with mental disorders and its inclusive approach that brought them together with students from the Academy.

With financial support from the Robert Bosch Foundation, Loony-Design receives consultancy advice from the Senior-Expert-Service in the areas of quality management and business administration.

Loony-Design exhibits at the Inventa consumer fair in Karlsruhe.

Loony-Design products are presented at the New York International Gift Fair by a German sales partner.

Loony-Design receives the special prize awarded by the German Chancellor in the national competition startsocial.

Loony-Design is awarded the Werkbundlabel 2008.

In November 2005 avedition published the Messedesign-Jahrbuch 2005/2006 in which Loony-Design's exhibition stand was featured in a four page layout. Loony-Design's stand, which measured only 12 m2, was featured alongside global companies such as BMW, Maybach, Heidelberger, Bayer, e-plus, Kodak, Smart and others, all of which had stands measuring between 600 and 1,000 m2.

In May 2005 Loony-Design sent a mail shot to over 80 museum shops in Germany and Austria. What made this mail shot stand out were the envelopes, which all featured individually created designs by a graffiti artist from Karlsruhe.

9.11.2005: The product pocket advent was profiled in the women's magazine Brigitte. 14.12.2005: The Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper ran an in-depth piece on the Innovatio-Sozialpreis. 22.12.2005: Spiegel-Online profiled Loony-Design including a photo spread with twelve pictures.