Seasonal depression is pretty normal for us snow dwelling, northern folk. It is a hibernation of the mental variety to escape the reality outside our front door, and it often includes a bottle of wine, inventive soups, and the slough of dvds we’ve seen each winter since 1996 (all of which are equally, if not more, depressing to admit).

Cellular. Designed by Zaha Hadid for Marburger Tapetenfabrik.

But to the Heimtextil Textile Show held in January each year, winter is the time of year when design becomes alive all over again. Especially when groundbreaking wallpaper designed by the legendary architect, urban and product designer Zaha Hadid sets the pace for 2010 interior wallcovering designs on behalf of Marburger Tapetenfabrik – a 160 year old but cutting edge wallcoverings company based in Germany.

Zaha Hadid has created four separate wallpapers that make up the ART BORDERS set – Swirl, Cellular, Elastika, and Stria – that is as dynamic and masterful as Hadid herself, who was one of the 2008 Forbes “100 Most Powerful Women on the Planet”.

Elastika. Designed by Zaha Hadid for Marburger Tapetenfabrik.

Stria. Designed by Zaha Hadid for Marburger Tapetenfabrik.

Cellular. Designed by Zaha Hadid for Marburger Tapetenfabrik.

Elastika and Swirl. Designed by Zaha Hadid for Marburger Tapetenfabrik.

Swirl is set in deep shades of red and invigorates the senses, uncovering the warmth and freedom of emotion. Cellular is pensive, porous and glowing – like the silent world under the sea. Elastika speaks with a balanced conviction in a saturated state of shining positive and negative strengths and comes in a cold and a warm color palette. Stria is a very graphic, metallic silver and matte black design that moves technically on a bold, horizontal plane.

Each design comes in digital prints of up to 9.00 m wide and 3.30 m high – but does not account for the “seasonal high” that adversely affects the – dare I say it – cold weather blues next winter.