A three-person company based in Villach in Carinthia, Austria, has developed an ecological process for painting starry skies onto ceilings. Using night glowing colours and no phosphorus, the Starseed painting of the Milky Way and the Big Dipper are Top Impex’s hot new product aimed at the hotel industry, and private and old people’s homes.
Carolin Schmidt is a young German fashion designer from Magdeburg in Saxony-Anhalt. She launched her own fashion line in 2008 and runs her shop and office from her parents’ home, designing funky bespoke dresses for clients who follow the process from the first sketch to buying the fabric to the final one-of-its-kind result.