Adam Wehsely-Swiczinsky

Adam Wehsely-Swiczinsky (born June 25, 1971 ) is an Austrian industrial designer, guitar maker and musician.

Portrait of Adam Wehsely-Swiczinsky 2015

Life

Adam Wehsely-Swiczinsky is the son of Hilda and Helmut Swiczinsky with siblings Nana Swiczinsky and Benjamin Swiczinsky . He is married to Tanja Wehsely and has one son.

education

After graduating from the alternative secondary school ESL Coop, Wehsely-Swiczinsky attended Bundesrealgymnasium II in Vereinsgasse from 1986 to 1990, from which he graduated with the Matura . Between 1990 and 1994 he worked as a self-taught instrument maker, musician and carpenter. In 1999, the external apprenticeship final examination for the carpentry apprenticeship followed. From 1994 to 2000 he studied industrial design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna , from which he graduated in 2000 with honors as Mag. Art. In 2017 he completed his external training as a master plucked and stringed instrument maker.

job

Even before graduating from the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2000, Adam Wehsely-Swiczinsky worked in architecture offices as a designer & model maker, stand builder and carpenter. He then founded the industrial design studio AWS design team . From 2000 to 2003 he was the head of the design department for ski bindings at TYROLIA (HTM sports and leisure equipment). Wehsely-Swiczinsky has received numerous design prizes. In exhibitions and fairs, such as presentations by PAD goes international in New York, Tokyo, London and Barcelona, ​​in 2008 at Design Match 08 in Prague, at the Palermo Design Week , and in 2009 and 2011 at the Vienna Design Week , his products and Drafts exhibited. He has been running the guitar manufacturing company Mada Guitars since 2017.

Wehsely-Swiczinsky started his musical career at the age of 13 with Florian Prix, among others. After his own compositions in the grunge era with the group Moon 44, Adam Wehsely-Swiczinsky accompanied Şivan Perwer & Willi Resetarits on bass and played guitar in the synthpop group at least in a box . Wehsely-Swiczinsky plays guitar with Hornyphon and bass and vocals with Extra: Gone. At the end of 2010 he founded the music project Goatmen with Florian Prix, and in early 2013 their first album "Before it Rains" was released.

From 2013 to 2017 Wehsely-Swicinsky was chairman of the parents' association of the Erich Fried Gymnasium. He is manager of the expert cluster for industrial design at Design Austria, and since September 2017 chairman of the Initiative Neue Wirtschaft.

Teaching

In the years 200-2003 the designer taught industrial design for plastic technicians at the TGM Technological Trade Museum , from 2002 to 2005 he taught as a lecturer in industrial design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna , class of Prof. Bořek Šípek. Since March 2020 Wehsely-Swiczinsky has been teaching industrial design in the course "human factor and sports engineering" at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien

Awards

• 2007 nomination for the Austrian Adolf Loos State Prize for Design with the semi-acoustic guitar “Mada Caimes”.
• 2009 IF Design Award for the "Dorso Arexa" orthosis by Otto Bock .
• 2009 Reddot Design Award for the “Prestige” carbon ski binding from Tyrolia .
• 2010 Silver German Design Award 2010 for the "Dorso Arexa" orthosis by Otto Bock.
• 2011 Red Dot Design Award for the “Malleo Sprint” ankle orthosis from Otto Bock.
• 2011 Red Dot Design Award for the alpine ski binding "HEAD LX" from Head (sporting goods manufacturer) .
• 2011 Red Dot Design Award for the alpine ski binding "TYROLIA SX" from Tyrolia.
• 2011 Plus X Award High Quality & Design for the alpine ski binding "TYROLIA SX 10" from Tyrolia.
• 2013 Reddot Design Award for the touring & freeski binding "AAA-Series" from Tyrolia.
• 2013 Plus X Award: quality, design & functionality for Tyrolia's "Attack" binding.
• 2013 IF Design Award for the "Soft Backs" back bandages from Otto Bock
• 2014 German Design Prize for the "Soft Backs" back bandages from Otto Bock
• 2015 Plus X Award: quality, design & functionality for Tyrolia's "Free Flex Evo"
• 2015 IF Design Award for the "Agilium Freestep" and "Malleo Tristep" orthoses from Otto Bock
• 2016 IF Design Award for "Ottobock Dyneva" for Otto Bock
• 2017 German design award for the "Ottobock Dyneva" for Otto Bock
• 2017 Austrian State Design Prize: "Excellent" rating
• 2018 TIA Top Innovation Award "Top Outstanding Designer" Adam Wehsely-Swiczinsky
• 2018 IF Design Award for " Ottobock Liner Design"
• 2019 Austrian State Design Prize for "Ottobock C-Brace": nomination

Web links

• aws designteam
• Friends of friends interview
• Die Presse - Product Design: Sound with gut feeling
• The standard - the processor
• thegap.at - Forget designer furniture!
• The standard Adam Wehsely-Swiczinsky "The wood for my guitars grows in Vienna"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vienna Design Week
2. ^ Mada Guitars
3. ↑ Goatmen
4. ↑ Design Austria's expert cluster for industrial design
5. ^ Initiative New Economy
6. ^ Mada Guitars
7. ^ ORF Ö1 ( Memento from January 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ if design award 2009
9. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: red dot design award )
10. ↑ German design award 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
11. ↑ Otto Bock scores five times in the "red dot award"
12. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: red dot design award )
13. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: red dot design award )
14. ↑ 2011 Plus X Award ( Memento from March 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ red dot design award  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
16. ↑ plus x award
17. ↑ IF Design Award 2013
18. ↑ encyclopedy-german-design-council.de
19. ↑ plus x award
20. ↑ IF Design Award 2015
21. ↑ [1]
22. ↑ [2]
23. ↑ Liner design. Retrieved April 24, 2018 . 
24. ↑ BMDW: State Prize for Design 2019 awarded. In: OTS.at. September 26, 2019, accessed September 26, 2019 .