About KLAFS®
He didn’t invent the sauna. But with his ideas, he certainly paved the way for its breakthrough. In 1952, Erich Klafs personally delivered the first EKS, after loading it onto a little trailer attached to his car.
The EKS – Erich Klafs Sauna – was the first completely prefabricated sauna for home installation. Previously built on site by joiners or carpenters over several days, saunas could vary greatly in quality.
But now, thanks to ingenious production techniques, it was possible to manufacture sophisticated, high quality yet affordable saunas – which could be installed in next to no time. A brilliant idea, and one which was ahead of its time.
The Challenge
With the KLAFS S sauna app you can start your SANARIUM® while you’re out or comming from work. That way you don’t have to wait for the warming-up phase to end. Instead the SANARIUM® is ready and waiting, heated to your desired temperature. Switching on and off, checking its status, time presets and regulating humidity: the app offers all these convenient features, as well as providing a handy sauna and wellness glossary plus plenty of useful information.
Project goals
Typography
Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Paul Renner and released in 1927. It was designed as a contribution on the New Frankfurt-project. It is based on geometric shapes, especially the circle, similar in spirit to the Bauhaus design style of the period. It was developed as a typeface by the Bauer Type Foundry, in competition with Ludwig & Mayer's seminal Erbar typeface of 1926.
