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GP designpartners gmbh
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - 5 Faces: gp designpartners
“Face of the Year” awarded by PureAustrianDesign
Showcased at SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music
Initiated by the Vienna Tourist Board and JULAND *BarcelonaVienna
“A product hits the sweet spot, when technological possibilities, consumer desires and aesthetics meet.”
GP designaprtners is made up of an international team of interactive, industrial designers who work together in Vienna. Industrial Design is comprised of the design of goods, which are mostly industrially manufactured en masse. Interaction Design combines an optimum user experience with an optimum control sequence. Founded in 1992 by Rudolf Greger and Christoph Pauschitz, the company has been developing holistic design solutions in partnership with Tom Haberfellner and Jürgen Spangl for engineering, marketing and sales since 2004. The design aimes, as an understanding of refining a product for the industrial process to promote and enhance the overall value of an enterprise.
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mischer'traxler
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - 5 Faces: mischer'traxler
“Face of the Year” awarded by PureAustrianDesign
Showcased at SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music
Initiated by the Vienna Tourist Board and JULAND *BarcelonaVienna
“We keep our eyes open and draw our own conclusions from everything around us.”
“Two individual characters who influence each other.” This is how Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler describe themselves. After graduating together at the Design Academy Eindhoven, they founded the studio mischer’traxler in Vienna in 2009. Their different strengths are in fact their mutual complement. Thomas contributes his sound basis of technical know-how and is keen to experimenting; Katharina adds practical thinking and a lot of imagination. Together they keep their eyes open and try to look at their surroundings from different perspectives to find inspiration. They have submitted two projects for SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music and were undoubtedly honoured, as both conceptual works impressed the jury, and will be shown during 100% design Tokyo from 30th October to 3rd November.
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Polka
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - 5 Faces: Polka
“Face of the Year” awarded by PureAustrianDesign
Showcased at SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music
Initiated by the Vienna Tourist Board and JULAND *BarcelonaVienna
“We like to surprise and carry on the ease of life, creating product pleasures.”
The design label POLKA was created five years ago when two product designers Marie Rahm and Monica Singer joined forces. Since then, the duo has successfully worked on projects ranging product, furniture and visual design. POLKA products are funny, charming and elegant – but always with a certain Viennese touch. But actually, what makes Vienna, Vienna? The two Viennese-by-choice (Marie Rahm was born in Munich, Monica Singer is hailing from Salzburg) are enthusiastic about their adopted city: "It is the history and evolution(of Vienna). The short ride to the airport, the greenery nearby, the museums, the old Danube, the “Melange“ (Viennese style brown coffee), the houses, the refuse collection service, the reliable tap water, Prater, and so on". The perfect environment to work with lively crafts and a wide variety of materials to develop new ideas.
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Studio Robert Stadler
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - 5 Faces: Robert Stadler
“Face of the Year” awarded by PureaustrianDesign
Showcased at SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music
Initiated by the Vienna tourist Board and JULaND *BarcelonaVienna
“I am a desIgner but I just don't dream in chairs and lamps. design has to emancipate itself from its traditional categories and feel free to propose any kind of idea.”
Robert Stadler was born in Vienna in 1966. The first steps on his way to becoming an internationally renowned designer were made at the Instituto Europeo di Design in Milan, and ENSCI / Les Ateliers in Paris. In 1992 he was a co-founder of the Radi Designers group. Since 2000 Robert Stadler has been working on his own, while still participating in the group. He moves and works in various fields blurring the boundaries between art and industrial contracts.
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Soda Designers (Nada Nasrallah & Christian Horner)
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - 5 Faces: Soda Designers
“Face of the Year” awarded by PureaustrianDesign
Showcased at SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music
Initiated by the Vienna Tourist Board and JULAND *BarcelonaVienna
“Behind a simple idea or a technical solution may be elegance, too.”
Soda Designers are Nada Nasrallah and Christian Horner. The two met while studying Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at ENSCI / Les Ateliers in Paris. Coming from disparate professional backgrounds, one a cabinetmaker and the other gold/silversmith, they combined their talents and common interest in challenging design projects. Teaching experience at NDC / Kingston University and work experience with Sottsass Associati, Paolo Rizzatto, Bene Office Furniture and Philips Design has had a strong influence on the way Soda Designers work.
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Augarten Wien
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - companies: Augarten
“When the refinement of hand-crafted work at the Porcelain Manufactory Augarten meets young talent.“
The history of the venerable Vienna Porcelain Manufactory Augarten can be traced back to the Rococo period, when the company was supplying high society with elegant porcelain tableware and figurines. Augarten porcelain is world-famous for its delicate and graceful shape, its clean lines and exquisite details. Combining sophisticated craftsmanship, artistic design and the latest technical equipment, Augarten blends time-honoured tradition with a contemporary approach to art. The fine porcelain is still produced and painted by hand in the manufactory at Augarten castle. Today Augarten continues focusing on hand-crafted work by highly-skilled painters and edgers – from preparing the raw material to the finished piece. As one of the oldest European names when it comes to porcelain, Augarten has symbolised the continuity of timeless Viennese tradition, art and culture for almost 300 years, feeding today its unique flair for combining the traditional with the modern Augarten with designer Marco Dessi a sure candidates to represent Vienna's cotemporary creativity during SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music in Tokyo
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ETERNIT-WERKE LUDWIG HATSCHEK AG
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - companies: ETERNIT
“The creative potential of fibre cement is almost infinite.“
Based in Vöcklabruck, Upper Austria, Eternit-Werke Ludwig Hatschek AG has a long history as a manufacturer of fibre-cement elements. At the end of the 19th century the founder of the Eternit factory, Ludwig Hatschek, purchased Vöcklabruck’s old "Kochmühle" paper mill in 1894 where he succeeded in developing an entirely new material, which was destined to change the roofs of the world. Ludwig Hatschek invented a completely new product, which combined lightness and water impermeability with unbreakability and which was also extremely cost-effective. Considering his invention "a material for the ages", he had this new, revolutionary material patented worldwide under the name "ETERNIT" in 1903.
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Lobmeyr
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - companies: Lobmeyr
“Many details are considered for the perfect balance of shape and function.“
Since in 1823 Josef Lobmeyr opened his first little shop in the heart of Vienna, six generations have unveiled the miracle of crystal. Together with designers like Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos and Matteo Thun, classics in handmade crystal and chandeliers were born that are appreciated by connoisseurs all over the world. Prominent people as Queen Elisabeth II. and the Sultan of Brunei are clients of Lobmeyr's as well as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jose Carreras as well as Billy Wilder was.
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Team 7
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - companies: TEAM 7
“Balancing contemporary design and ecology is our passion.“
In the early 1980s the all-encompassing idea developed to produce furniture in conjunction with nature and in an environmentally sound way. This concern transformed a small carpenter's workshop into an international company within several decades. Local craftsmanship, innovative technology, high-quality materials, worked in harmony with mankind and nature and transformed into handsome design, substantiate TEAM 7's evolution. From the OPUS 1 design classic to the purism of TEAM 7's new furniture lines, its designers create beautiful shapes and forms based on wood raw materials.
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Wiesner-Hager
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - companies: Wiesner-Hager
“Our trend-setting office architecture is based on performance-enhancing and inventive planning concepts.“
The expectations of a workplace are changing. Today’s young professionals have grown up with a Playstation on the floor and a laptop on their knees. Wiesner-Hager, international expert in office architecture, is engaged in such shifting habits. Founded in 1849 as a carpentry business, Wiesner-Hager began the production of seating furniture in1921, focusing more and more on office and contract furniture solutions in the course of the following decades.
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Wittmann
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - companies: Wittmann
“First-class materials and pure craftsmanship ensure timeless quality when it comes to a genuine Wittmann.“
Timeless design is written with a capital T at Wittmann Möbelwerkstätten, Austrian upholstery manufacturer steeped in tradition. Founded in 1896 as a saddlery, Wittmann has been creating hand-crafted products since then, specialising in high-quality upholstered furniture in the 1950ies that now stands for timeless elegance and life-long workmanship. Alongside countless furniture series created by contemporary designers, Wittmann also opts for selected “classic“ lines which are in accord with the company's credo.
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destilat
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: destilat
“The development of serial products starts with a brilliant idea and ends with fully-developed furniture prototypes.“
Studio destilat is based in Linz and Vienna. destilat develops concepts for complete office and business spaces or for trade-show presentations. At the same time, they support their clients with the joint development of serial products in the field of furniture design. The core competences are furniture, interior and corporate design. And who is behind destilat? A creative mind, a marketing expert and a profound connoisseur of the international furniture branch joined forces in 2006 to found the studio. Their names are Harald Hatschenberger, Thomas Neuber and Henning Weimer, a trio which is about to make a name for itself, at home and abroad.
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dottings
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: dottings
“Clever product design has to be more than just fancy.“
dottings are Sofia Podreka and Katrin Radanitsch. Together they dot the I's and cross the T's when it comes to good design. Lighting, furniture and public spaces are as welcome as their focus on industrial design. Since they graduated from industrial design at Vienna's University of Applied Arts and after studying at Copenhagen's Denmark Design School, they have successfully participated in many competitions and exhibitions. dottings work to create real solutions for their clients.
Back in Vienna from Denmark, Sofia Podreka and Katrin Radanitsch established their two-women studio in 2006. Occasionally they draw upon a wider network of freelancers and specialists.
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For Use / Numen
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: For Use / Numen
“We're inspired by the reduced forms of 60s modernism.“
Born in 1998 with one foot in Vienna and two in Zagreb/Croatia, the prolific design group For Use is a real transnational cooperation between Sven Jonke, Christoph Katzler and Nikola Radeljkovic. Numen itself was founded in Zagreb through the collaboration of For Use with Jelenko Hercog and Toni Uroda, graphic and multimedia designers. Numen's initial work is characterized by a radical design based on logical rules and beyond arbitrary aesthetics.
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GAVARI
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Gavari
“Maybe Gavari violin changes the classical music business.“
26 year-old Italy-born Gerda Hopfgartner is the youngest designer taking part in the design review SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music. After finishing high school in 2001, Gerda Hopfgartner started her design education in Austria focusing on two years of intensive training in the fields of interior design and wood technology in Austria. Various internships, like at interior design studio ARTEC and at a joiner's workshop, helped deepen her skills.
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Hausna *art
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Hausna
“I am inspired by the old masters of seating design.”
Markus Gamsjaeger aka Hausna *art is one of the youngest designers participating in SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music. The 1983 born designer is living and working in Hallstatt (Upper Austria), where he also attended the professional school for woodturning and sculpturing. Five years ago Gamsjaeger started his business Hausna *art designing furniture and objects. Although his favourite material is metal, he mostly combines different materials in his objects, like metal, wood and concrete.
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Julia Landsiedl
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Julia Landsiedl
“We crown jam jars to reflect on everyday culture.“
Product designer Julia Landsiedl started her career with a Master in Law - as a copywriter in advertising and branding. She quit and went on to study product and process design at Vienna’s University of Applied Arts and Berlin’s University of Arts, from where she graduated in 2006. After trainings in Germany, Holland and Switzerland, Julia worked for a year with design consultancy IDEO in Silicon Valley. Besides (and sometimes in) her client work, Julia likes to play. She is interested in human beings, structuring, composing and doubting all of which can inspire an object, an installation, a sketch or just a thought. She currently lives and works in Vienna. Led by a common belief in a human centered and research based approach to design, she has teamed up with Kathrina Dankl and Lisa Elena Hampel from design studio DANKLHAMPEL to work together on various projects since 2008.
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Quintessence
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Keith Redhead
“Simplicity is complexity resolved .“
We don't know, if it was love at first sight, but after almost 50 years in the UK, the ceramic artist Keith Redhead landed in Tyrol in 2005, where he opened his Quintessence Studio to establish a design and production studio for ceramics in Innsbruck. His 25-year long activity in the British ceramists' scene brought him many collaborations with domestic and foreign companies.
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mano design
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: mano design
“My products don't evoke mass production. Each piece is unique.“
Irony and humour are main aspects of the products by mano design. Hedwig Rotter established the label in 2007 and has specialised on tableware, accessories and interior. Lovers of the extraordinary are on the right spot here: mano design products are made out of classic ceramics as well as rather unusual material for tableware, like silicon and thermoplastic. In regards to content, Rotters’ focus lies on the alienation of materials. Her critical analysis of common user habits often lead to a new definition of objects. Her haptic approach may result in a light bulb moment: When touching the bowl of ceramics it may disguise as an elastic shelter for fruit.
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Mark Wallerberger Industrial & Non Industrial Design
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Mark Wallerberger
“My object is to transform a free artistic idea into a marketable product.”
The best ideas are the simplest they say. Sometimes they are right in front of your nose, you just have to see them. Designer Mark Wallerberger put all his attention to a long existing product: A motorcycle helmet. A safety product, which not only protects from roaring air stream, but may be a life safer once in a while. A full visor helmet is not only the most common but the best protection for motor cyclists, but it also has its deficiency: Because a helmet which protects should have the tightest possible fit, in the case it needs to be taken off e.g. after an accident the danger of further injury increases.
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GYPSER
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Florian Baptist Gypser
“Comprehensive research and analysis leads to new spatial configurations and typologies.“
Florian Baptist Gypser, Architect and Designer in the 3rd generation currently works and lives in Bangkok, Thailand. He grew up in Vienna, Austria as son of an architect. Gypser completed a 3-year apprenticeship in two architecture offices in Vienna, before he continued his education at the University of Applied Art in Vienna in the master classes of Hans Hollein and Zaha Hadid. During one exchange term at the master class of Paolo Piva he started to gain interest in Product Design.
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Matthias Kaiser
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Matthias Kaiser
“The poetry lies in the balance of intent and accident as well asin the interplay of physical attributes.“
After studying product design at New York's Parsons School of Design and after two apprenticeships in Japan with potter Fumitada Moriwaki in Seto and ceramist Takashi Nakazato in Karatsu, he went to Vienna to deepen his skills at the University of Applied Arts. Matthias Kaiser has travelled a lot, mostly in Asia seeking inspiration. He spent 2 years on the indian subcontinent and, for a period of 13 years, he was deep into the culture of iranian dervishes. All along, his vocation „to make pots“ remained.
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Institut für Visionen & Co KG
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Paul Kogelnig
“I am carefully choosing the material and technology I work with. The ecological aspect is very important to me.“
After finishing his professional education as a carpenter, Paul Kogelnig went to South Tyrol to study Industrial Design at Freie Universität Bozen. It was in Italy where he founded his first office, the Pervisioni Design Studio, together with Swiss designer Gabriel Heusser in Bologna in 2004.
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ppag architects ztgmbh
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: ppag architects
"Architecture should be used and understood by using it."
Founded by Anna Popelka and Georg Poduschka in 1995, ppag architects is a team of 12 architects engaged in housing projects, urban planning and furniture design. Both founders studied architecture in Graz as well as at the Ecole d´Architecture Paris-Tolbiac in Paris. From scratch committed to research and progress in architecture, they have been awarded several national and international prizes. Amongst them are the Upper Austrian Promotion Prize and the Viennese Promotion Prize in 1994. In 2005 they received the Adolf Loos States Award for the urban furniture “Enzi“.
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Rainer Mutsch
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Rainer Mutsch
“Designing is all about your own passion and how to communicate this passion.“
Since he opened his studio in 2005, Rainer Mutsch likes to cut his own path – a path full of geometrical forms. His multiple projects, ranging from industrial to interior design, reflect his creed. To have an idiosyncratic attitude, a certain way to view and implement concepts, means to have to initiate own projects and to explore own methods. In a way Rainer is the inventor type who doesn't explicitly wait for the phone call.
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Thomas Feichtner
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Thomas Feichtner
“Design is not about simplifying, but about enriching things.“
After his school years in Düsseldorf, Germany, Brazil-born Thomas Feichtner went to Linz in Upper Austria to study at the University of Arts and Industrial Design where he also lectured for some years after graduating. He also launched his own design office "Thomas Feichtner Industrial Design". In the following years Thomas Feichtner designed numerous products for the Austrian sports industry and harvested international design awards. Together with the graphic designers Bernhard Buchegger and Michael Denoth, he established BDF, an office for visual communication and design in 2001, based in Vienna and Linz which gained reputation through collaborations for big players as Adidas, Bogner, Ron Arad or Swarowski.
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Valentin Vodev
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Valentin Vodev
“The key to successful design is to understand the system behind and beyond the product.“
Design is used everywhere from the modeling of toys to the cockpit of a lorry. This is the vision of industrial designer Valentin Vodev. Fascinated with driveable objects, his inventiveness ranges from gadgets like radios or laser lighters to shoes to walk and swim. With the critically acclaimed “Roller Buggy“, an hybrid between scooter and stroller, Valentin Vodev finished third at the 11th International Bicycle Design Competition in Taipeh, Taiwan, in 2006.
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Vandasye
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: VANDASYE
"We try to prevent designing – we rather concentrate on finding the essence of a product."
The founders of VANDASYE, Georg Schnitzer and Peter Umgehen take it down to Bruce Maus’ conclusion: “Now that we can do everything, what will we do?” when it comes to designing. Their approach towards the act of design is not so much s classic one, as they prefer exploring a product or an everyday object until they have found the essence of it. This is the point from where they take action do design, form and create new goods.
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Walking-Chair Designstudio
2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Walking-Chair
“We make things and songs.“
In 1999 the Italian product designer Karl Emilio Pircher met the Swiss graphic designer Fidel Peugeot. Immediate mutual understanding led to settle Walking-Chair Design Studio in Vienna in 2003. Pircher had come from South Tyrol to Vienna to finish product design at the University of Applied Arts. In the end of the 1990s he constructed the first Walking Chair, a moving hybrid chair at the border between art and design. After his diploma Pircher worked for the Lomographic Society where he invented the Lomoclip, the Colorsplash Camera and the Supersampler, harvesting some awards with these gadgets. During the Lomo years, his cooperation with Fidel Peugeot started.
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Lomography
2009-09-28
SPOT ON WIEN - Sponsor: Lomography
The Lomographic Society is a globally active organization dedicated to experimental and creative analogue snapshot photography. Lomographic pictures are moment-catchers; characterized by vibrant colours, shadowy framing, surprise effects and spontaneity. Boasting over one million members across the world, this dedicated society of “Lomographers” seeks to document life in a never-ending stream of images following the 10 Golden Rules of Lomography such as “don’t think”, “be fast”, “shoot from the hip” and “take your camera wherever you go” – or perhaps the most important one – “don’t worry about any rules.”
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - 5 Faces: gp designpartners
“Face of the Year” awarded by PureAustrianDesign
Showcased at SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music
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“A product hits the sweet spot, when technological possibilities, consumer desires and aesthetics meet.”
GP designaprtners is made up of an international team of interactive, industrial designers who work together in Vienna. Industrial Design is comprised of the design of goods, which are mostly industrially manufactured en masse. Interaction Design combines an optimum user experience with an optimum control sequence. Founded in 1992 by Rudolf Greger and Christoph Pauschitz, the company has been developing holistic design solutions in partnership with Tom Haberfellner and Jürgen Spangl for engineering, marketing and sales since 2004. The design aimes, as an understanding of refining a product for the industrial process to promote and enhance the overall value of an enterprise.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - 5 Faces: mischer'traxler
“Face of the Year” awarded by PureAustrianDesign
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“We keep our eyes open and draw our own conclusions from everything around us.”
“Two individual characters who influence each other.” This is how Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler describe themselves. After graduating together at the Design Academy Eindhoven, they founded the studio mischer’traxler in Vienna in 2009. Their different strengths are in fact their mutual complement. Thomas contributes his sound basis of technical know-how and is keen to experimenting; Katharina adds practical thinking and a lot of imagination. Together they keep their eyes open and try to look at their surroundings from different perspectives to find inspiration. They have submitted two projects for SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music and were undoubtedly honoured, as both conceptual works impressed the jury, and will be shown during 100% design Tokyo from 30th October to 3rd November.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - 5 Faces: Polka
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“We like to surprise and carry on the ease of life, creating product pleasures.”
The design label POLKA was created five years ago when two product designers Marie Rahm and Monica Singer joined forces. Since then, the duo has successfully worked on projects ranging product, furniture and visual design. POLKA products are funny, charming and elegant – but always with a certain Viennese touch. But actually, what makes Vienna, Vienna? The two Viennese-by-choice (Marie Rahm was born in Munich, Monica Singer is hailing from Salzburg) are enthusiastic about their adopted city: "It is the history and evolution(of Vienna). The short ride to the airport, the greenery nearby, the museums, the old Danube, the “Melange“ (Viennese style brown coffee), the houses, the refuse collection service, the reliable tap water, Prater, and so on". The perfect environment to work with lively crafts and a wide variety of materials to develop new ideas.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - 5 Faces: Robert Stadler
“Face of the Year” awarded by PureaustrianDesign
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“I am a desIgner but I just don't dream in chairs and lamps. design has to emancipate itself from its traditional categories and feel free to propose any kind of idea.”
Robert Stadler was born in Vienna in 1966. The first steps on his way to becoming an internationally renowned designer were made at the Instituto Europeo di Design in Milan, and ENSCI / Les Ateliers in Paris. In 1992 he was a co-founder of the Radi Designers group. Since 2000 Robert Stadler has been working on his own, while still participating in the group. He moves and works in various fields blurring the boundaries between art and industrial contracts.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - 5 Faces: Soda Designers
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“Behind a simple idea or a technical solution may be elegance, too.”
Soda Designers are Nada Nasrallah and Christian Horner. The two met while studying Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at ENSCI / Les Ateliers in Paris. Coming from disparate professional backgrounds, one a cabinetmaker and the other gold/silversmith, they combined their talents and common interest in challenging design projects. Teaching experience at NDC / Kingston University and work experience with Sottsass Associati, Paolo Rizzatto, Bene Office Furniture and Philips Design has had a strong influence on the way Soda Designers work.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - companies: Augarten
“When the refinement of hand-crafted work at the Porcelain Manufactory Augarten meets young talent.“
The history of the venerable Vienna Porcelain Manufactory Augarten can be traced back to the Rococo period, when the company was supplying high society with elegant porcelain tableware and figurines. Augarten porcelain is world-famous for its delicate and graceful shape, its clean lines and exquisite details. Combining sophisticated craftsmanship, artistic design and the latest technical equipment, Augarten blends time-honoured tradition with a contemporary approach to art. The fine porcelain is still produced and painted by hand in the manufactory at Augarten castle. Today Augarten continues focusing on hand-crafted work by highly-skilled painters and edgers – from preparing the raw material to the finished piece. As one of the oldest European names when it comes to porcelain, Augarten has symbolised the continuity of timeless Viennese tradition, art and culture for almost 300 years, feeding today its unique flair for combining the traditional with the modern Augarten with designer Marco Dessi a sure candidates to represent Vienna's cotemporary creativity during SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music in Tokyo
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - companies: ETERNIT
“The creative potential of fibre cement is almost infinite.“
Based in Vöcklabruck, Upper Austria, Eternit-Werke Ludwig Hatschek AG has a long history as a manufacturer of fibre-cement elements. At the end of the 19th century the founder of the Eternit factory, Ludwig Hatschek, purchased Vöcklabruck’s old "Kochmühle" paper mill in 1894 where he succeeded in developing an entirely new material, which was destined to change the roofs of the world. Ludwig Hatschek invented a completely new product, which combined lightness and water impermeability with unbreakability and which was also extremely cost-effective. Considering his invention "a material for the ages", he had this new, revolutionary material patented worldwide under the name "ETERNIT" in 1903.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - companies: Lobmeyr
“Many details are considered for the perfect balance of shape and function.“
Since in 1823 Josef Lobmeyr opened his first little shop in the heart of Vienna, six generations have unveiled the miracle of crystal. Together with designers like Josef Hoffmann, Adolf Loos and Matteo Thun, classics in handmade crystal and chandeliers were born that are appreciated by connoisseurs all over the world. Prominent people as Queen Elisabeth II. and the Sultan of Brunei are clients of Lobmeyr's as well as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jose Carreras as well as Billy Wilder was.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - companies: TEAM 7
“Balancing contemporary design and ecology is our passion.“
In the early 1980s the all-encompassing idea developed to produce furniture in conjunction with nature and in an environmentally sound way. This concern transformed a small carpenter's workshop into an international company within several decades. Local craftsmanship, innovative technology, high-quality materials, worked in harmony with mankind and nature and transformed into handsome design, substantiate TEAM 7's evolution. From the OPUS 1 design classic to the purism of TEAM 7's new furniture lines, its designers create beautiful shapes and forms based on wood raw materials.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - companies: Wiesner-Hager
“Our trend-setting office architecture is based on performance-enhancing and inventive planning concepts.“
The expectations of a workplace are changing. Today’s young professionals have grown up with a Playstation on the floor and a laptop on their knees. Wiesner-Hager, international expert in office architecture, is engaged in such shifting habits. Founded in 1849 as a carpentry business, Wiesner-Hager began the production of seating furniture in1921, focusing more and more on office and contract furniture solutions in the course of the following decades.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - companies: Wittmann
“First-class materials and pure craftsmanship ensure timeless quality when it comes to a genuine Wittmann.“
Timeless design is written with a capital T at Wittmann Möbelwerkstätten, Austrian upholstery manufacturer steeped in tradition. Founded in 1896 as a saddlery, Wittmann has been creating hand-crafted products since then, specialising in high-quality upholstered furniture in the 1950ies that now stands for timeless elegance and life-long workmanship. Alongside countless furniture series created by contemporary designers, Wittmann also opts for selected “classic“ lines which are in accord with the company's credo.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: destilat
“The development of serial products starts with a brilliant idea and ends with fully-developed furniture prototypes.“
Studio destilat is based in Linz and Vienna. destilat develops concepts for complete office and business spaces or for trade-show presentations. At the same time, they support their clients with the joint development of serial products in the field of furniture design. The core competences are furniture, interior and corporate design. And who is behind destilat? A creative mind, a marketing expert and a profound connoisseur of the international furniture branch joined forces in 2006 to found the studio. Their names are Harald Hatschenberger, Thomas Neuber and Henning Weimer, a trio which is about to make a name for itself, at home and abroad.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: dottings
“Clever product design has to be more than just fancy.“
dottings are Sofia Podreka and Katrin Radanitsch. Together they dot the I's and cross the T's when it comes to good design. Lighting, furniture and public spaces are as welcome as their focus on industrial design. Since they graduated from industrial design at Vienna's University of Applied Arts and after studying at Copenhagen's Denmark Design School, they have successfully participated in many competitions and exhibitions. dottings work to create real solutions for their clients.
Back in Vienna from Denmark, Sofia Podreka and Katrin Radanitsch established their two-women studio in 2006. Occasionally they draw upon a wider network of freelancers and specialists.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: For Use / Numen
“We're inspired by the reduced forms of 60s modernism.“
Born in 1998 with one foot in Vienna and two in Zagreb/Croatia, the prolific design group For Use is a real transnational cooperation between Sven Jonke, Christoph Katzler and Nikola Radeljkovic. Numen itself was founded in Zagreb through the collaboration of For Use with Jelenko Hercog and Toni Uroda, graphic and multimedia designers. Numen's initial work is characterized by a radical design based on logical rules and beyond arbitrary aesthetics.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Gavari
“Maybe Gavari violin changes the classical music business.“
26 year-old Italy-born Gerda Hopfgartner is the youngest designer taking part in the design review SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music. After finishing high school in 2001, Gerda Hopfgartner started her design education in Austria focusing on two years of intensive training in the fields of interior design and wood technology in Austria. Various internships, like at interior design studio ARTEC and at a joiner's workshop, helped deepen her skills.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Hausna
“I am inspired by the old masters of seating design.”
Markus Gamsjaeger aka Hausna *art is one of the youngest designers participating in SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music. The 1983 born designer is living and working in Hallstatt (Upper Austria), where he also attended the professional school for woodturning and sculpturing. Five years ago Gamsjaeger started his business Hausna *art designing furniture and objects. Although his favourite material is metal, he mostly combines different materials in his objects, like metal, wood and concrete.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Julia Landsiedl
“We crown jam jars to reflect on everyday culture.“
Product designer Julia Landsiedl started her career with a Master in Law - as a copywriter in advertising and branding. She quit and went on to study product and process design at Vienna’s University of Applied Arts and Berlin’s University of Arts, from where she graduated in 2006. After trainings in Germany, Holland and Switzerland, Julia worked for a year with design consultancy IDEO in Silicon Valley. Besides (and sometimes in) her client work, Julia likes to play. She is interested in human beings, structuring, composing and doubting all of which can inspire an object, an installation, a sketch or just a thought. She currently lives and works in Vienna. Led by a common belief in a human centered and research based approach to design, she has teamed up with Kathrina Dankl and Lisa Elena Hampel from design studio DANKLHAMPEL to work together on various projects since 2008.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Keith Redhead
“Simplicity is complexity resolved .“
We don't know, if it was love at first sight, but after almost 50 years in the UK, the ceramic artist Keith Redhead landed in Tyrol in 2005, where he opened his Quintessence Studio to establish a design and production studio for ceramics in Innsbruck. His 25-year long activity in the British ceramists' scene brought him many collaborations with domestic and foreign companies.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: mano design
“My products don't evoke mass production. Each piece is unique.“
Irony and humour are main aspects of the products by mano design. Hedwig Rotter established the label in 2007 and has specialised on tableware, accessories and interior. Lovers of the extraordinary are on the right spot here: mano design products are made out of classic ceramics as well as rather unusual material for tableware, like silicon and thermoplastic. In regards to content, Rotters’ focus lies on the alienation of materials. Her critical analysis of common user habits often lead to a new definition of objects. Her haptic approach may result in a light bulb moment: When touching the bowl of ceramics it may disguise as an elastic shelter for fruit.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Mark Wallerberger
“My object is to transform a free artistic idea into a marketable product.”
The best ideas are the simplest they say. Sometimes they are right in front of your nose, you just have to see them. Designer Mark Wallerberger put all his attention to a long existing product: A motorcycle helmet. A safety product, which not only protects from roaring air stream, but may be a life safer once in a while. A full visor helmet is not only the most common but the best protection for motor cyclists, but it also has its deficiency: Because a helmet which protects should have the tightest possible fit, in the case it needs to be taken off e.g. after an accident the danger of further injury increases.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Florian Baptist Gypser
“Comprehensive research and analysis leads to new spatial configurations and typologies.“
Florian Baptist Gypser, Architect and Designer in the 3rd generation currently works and lives in Bangkok, Thailand. He grew up in Vienna, Austria as son of an architect. Gypser completed a 3-year apprenticeship in two architecture offices in Vienna, before he continued his education at the University of Applied Art in Vienna in the master classes of Hans Hollein and Zaha Hadid. During one exchange term at the master class of Paolo Piva he started to gain interest in Product Design.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Matthias Kaiser
“The poetry lies in the balance of intent and accident as well asin the interplay of physical attributes.“
After studying product design at New York's Parsons School of Design and after two apprenticeships in Japan with potter Fumitada Moriwaki in Seto and ceramist Takashi Nakazato in Karatsu, he went to Vienna to deepen his skills at the University of Applied Arts. Matthias Kaiser has travelled a lot, mostly in Asia seeking inspiration. He spent 2 years on the indian subcontinent and, for a period of 13 years, he was deep into the culture of iranian dervishes. All along, his vocation „to make pots“ remained.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Paul Kogelnig
“I am carefully choosing the material and technology I work with. The ecological aspect is very important to me.“
After finishing his professional education as a carpenter, Paul Kogelnig went to South Tyrol to study Industrial Design at Freie Universität Bozen. It was in Italy where he founded his first office, the Pervisioni Design Studio, together with Swiss designer Gabriel Heusser in Bologna in 2004.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: ppag architects
"Architecture should be used and understood by using it."
Founded by Anna Popelka and Georg Poduschka in 1995, ppag architects is a team of 12 architects engaged in housing projects, urban planning and furniture design. Both founders studied architecture in Graz as well as at the Ecole d´Architecture Paris-Tolbiac in Paris. From scratch committed to research and progress in architecture, they have been awarded several national and international prizes. Amongst them are the Upper Austrian Promotion Prize and the Viennese Promotion Prize in 1994. In 2005 they received the Adolf Loos States Award for the urban furniture “Enzi“.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Rainer Mutsch
“Designing is all about your own passion and how to communicate this passion.“
Since he opened his studio in 2005, Rainer Mutsch likes to cut his own path – a path full of geometrical forms. His multiple projects, ranging from industrial to interior design, reflect his creed. To have an idiosyncratic attitude, a certain way to view and implement concepts, means to have to initiate own projects and to explore own methods. In a way Rainer is the inventor type who doesn't explicitly wait for the phone call.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Thomas Feichtner
“Design is not about simplifying, but about enriching things.“
After his school years in Düsseldorf, Germany, Brazil-born Thomas Feichtner went to Linz in Upper Austria to study at the University of Arts and Industrial Design where he also lectured for some years after graduating. He also launched his own design office "Thomas Feichtner Industrial Design". In the following years Thomas Feichtner designed numerous products for the Austrian sports industry and harvested international design awards. Together with the graphic designers Bernhard Buchegger and Michael Denoth, he established BDF, an office for visual communication and design in 2001, based in Vienna and Linz which gained reputation through collaborations for big players as Adidas, Bogner, Ron Arad or Swarowski.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Valentin Vodev
“The key to successful design is to understand the system behind and beyond the product.“
Design is used everywhere from the modeling of toys to the cockpit of a lorry. This is the vision of industrial designer Valentin Vodev. Fascinated with driveable objects, his inventiveness ranges from gadgets like radios or laser lighters to shoes to walk and swim. With the critically acclaimed “Roller Buggy“, an hybrid between scooter and stroller, Valentin Vodev finished third at the 11th International Bicycle Design Competition in Taipeh, Taiwan, in 2006.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: VANDASYE
"We try to prevent designing – we rather concentrate on finding the essence of a product."
The founders of VANDASYE, Georg Schnitzer and Peter Umgehen take it down to Bruce Maus’ conclusion: “Now that we can do everything, what will we do?” when it comes to designing. Their approach towards the act of design is not so much s classic one, as they prefer exploring a product or an everyday object until they have found the essence of it. This is the point from where they take action do design, form and create new goods.
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2009-09-03
SPOT ON WIEN - designers: Walking-Chair
“We make things and songs.“
In 1999 the Italian product designer Karl Emilio Pircher met the Swiss graphic designer Fidel Peugeot. Immediate mutual understanding led to settle Walking-Chair Design Studio in Vienna in 2003. Pircher had come from South Tyrol to Vienna to finish product design at the University of Applied Arts. In the end of the 1990s he constructed the first Walking Chair, a moving hybrid chair at the border between art and design. After his diploma Pircher worked for the Lomographic Society where he invented the Lomoclip, the Colorsplash Camera and the Supersampler, harvesting some awards with these gadgets. During the Lomo years, his cooperation with Fidel Peugeot started.
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2009-09-28
SPOT ON WIEN - Sponsor: Lomography
The Lomographic Society is a globally active organization dedicated to experimental and creative analogue snapshot photography. Lomographic pictures are moment-catchers; characterized by vibrant colours, shadowy framing, surprise effects and spontaneity. Boasting over one million members across the world, this dedicated society of “Lomographers” seeks to document life in a never-ending stream of images following the 10 Golden Rules of Lomography such as “don’t think”, “be fast”, “shoot from the hip” and “take your camera wherever you go” – or perhaps the most important one – “don’t worry about any rules.”
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