Cantemir Gheorghiu

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Cantemir Gheorghiu (born August 19, 1982 in Bucharest , Romania) is a German product designer who lives and works in Berlin .

Life

Shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gheorghius' mother, the author Carmen-Francesca Banciu, came to Berlin to receive a literary prize that she was denied at home. She decided to stay in the city, although she originally wanted to travel to Paris to start a new life there. In 1991 she brought Gheorghiu and his two siblings to join them and initially raised them together with her father in the new apartment at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin-Mitte . Gheorghiu, who bears his father's name, attended the Waldorf School in Berlin-Kreuzberg until he graduated from high school in 2001 . Here, the ecological awareness was a major theme, which shaped it sustainably. From 2002 to 2005 he completed a design degree at the Berlin Technical College of Art.

Create

After graduating, he began working as a freelancer, mainly in the field of animation design. In 2006 a stay in New York City followed . A year later he rented an office on Oranienplatz , where he still works today. Irregular payments and the increasing gentrification in his neighborhood bothered him.

In 2010 he built glasses made of paper without glasses, in order to the agency's creative in his environment satirize , often horn-rimmed glasses without diopters contributed. He presented himself with a vendor's tray at a flea market in Berlin-Neukölln and found a surprising number of buyers for his cardboard glasses . He then sold them in the colors of the German flag as part of the World Cup. Orders from companies followed, who ordered the product as an advertising medium with their logo and company colors. Gheorghiu professionalized the design and from then on specialized in the development of products made of paper and other sustainable materials. The first cardboard glasses collection found its way into fashion stores worldwide after Gheorghiu presented them in a guerrilla campaign at Berlin Fashion Week .

In 2012 he founded the company PAPP UP with other articles made of paper and cardboard such as the cardboard bow tie and bags made of paper. In 2013 he presented the product PAPP UV at an optician's fair in Munich . These are sunglasses made of wood-paper-hard fibers and high-quality sun glasses. The model has been on the market since 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tina Groll : Fashion trends: Cardboard glasses make you happy! In: Zeit Online. July 5, 2010, accessed May 7, 2014 .
  2. ↑ http://frame.misterspex.de/2011/01/19/fashion-week-berlin-2011-flashmob-mit-pappbrille/
  3. ↑ Tina Groll: Company founder: With cardboard to an entrepreneur. In: Zeit Online. May 14, 2011, accessed May 7, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated May 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / thecoup.de
  6. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/berlin-aber-oho-papp-up/7717682.html
  7. ↑ http://fantastic.welt.de/von-pappe/20140107
personal data
SURNAME Gheorghiu, Cantemir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German product designer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest , Romania