With effect from today Wall AG, international supplier of street furniture and outdoor advertising takes a 30% stake in Berlin based design-agency IONDESIGN. Daniel Wall, Chief Executive Officer of Wall AG and Anja Götz and Christoph Fleckenstein, managing directors of IONDESIGN announced the participation. The value of the shares will not be made public. After ten years of collaboration, the companies by their strategic alliance now join forces for future projects. They team up to further innovative architecture and aesthetic design of street furniture, bundling commercial know-how and design-competence on a high level. The purpose of Wall AG's participation in IONDESIGN is to strengthen the design-agency, and to develop and implement new joint projects. "Our strategic partnership expresses my conviction that creativity is a basic requirement for the long-term success of a company in the market." Daniel Wall pointed out. "To our benefit IONDESIGN will blend artistic form and industrial manufacturing into a unique style which has the potential to shape the character of cities. In exchange, Wall AG is ready to support IONDESIGN with know-how from its diverse departments. At the same time our company is enthusiastically looking forward to the creative input of this distinguished design-agency concerning all questions of style and design."

Design proves its value in use – this is the central premise of the six associates of IONDESIGN. They are working interdisciplinary, creative as well as operative in the areas of package design, public-, exhibition- and interior design and architecture. IONDESIGN aims at becoming one of the top design think-tanks of Germany. The multimedia bluespot-terminal which provides internet access as well as all types of city specific information features prominently among the design highlights created by IONDESIGN for Wall AG. Further examples are the City Light Poster-showcases 'Case' and 'Screen'. In addition Fleckenstein and Götz gave a new outfit to Wall AG's large panel poster advertising and to its City Light Board. Since 2004 IONDESIGN is also responsible for Wall AG's corporate architecture. The agency created the office building of Wall AG at Freiburg as well as its former foreign branch in the Netherlands. Since 2005 the Wall-showtruck, designed by IONDESIGN, is touring European cities to present Wall AG's street furniture. Not least, Wall AG and IONDESIGN teamed up in the refurbishment and modernisation of the WC-centres at Berlin's Breitscheidplatz and Alexanderplatz. Award winning products: The numerous awards for IONDESIGN's street furniture and architectural concepts prove the agencies outstanding recognition in the world of international design. Its latest trophy has been the iF communication design award 2008, awarded for the modernisation of the WC-centre at Alexanderplatz. In 2006 the public lavatories on Breitscheidplatz received the 'Golden Flame'. The red dot design award was given to poster showcases 'Case' and 'Screen' in 2003.