Gerhard Friedrich (designer)

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Gerhard Friedrich (born May 29, 1952 in Ginsheim near Mainz ) is Senior Manager of the BMW Automobile design studio and honorary professor in the field of product design at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . He lives in Munich .

biography

Gerhard Friedrich did an apprenticeship as a model carpenter at Adam Opel AG in Rüsselsheim . From 1974 to 1979 he studied industrial design at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences . From 1979 to 1986 he was project designer / project manager in the commercial vehicle design studio area at MAN AG in Gustavsburg and from 1986 to 1988 project manager and deputy head of design at MAN Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH in Munich. Since 1988 he has been a designer and head of design projects at BMW AG in Munich. Since 2008 he has been responsible for the product line management design of all BMW vehicles of the large series, and he is also Senior Manager Design Studio BMW Automobile.

He specializes in the tape rendering technique as a method of form development and has been a lecturer at Pforzheim University in the Transportation Design course since 1984 . At the Joanneum University of Applied Sciences in Graz, he is a visiting professor at the Institute for Product & Transportation Design. In 2012 he was appointed honorary professor at the Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee, where he teaches in the field of product design. Gerhard Friedrich gives lectures and guest lectures at national and international universities. In 2012 and 2014 he was a member of the jury for the Saxon State Prize for Design and the Bavarian State Prize for Young Designers . In the summer semester of 2016, he was the supervisor of the BMW Automated Driving 2030 project as part of the Industrial Design master’s course at the Product & Transportation Design Institute at the FH Johanneum in Graz.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diana Feuerer: From model maker to "chief" designer at BMW. Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, July 4, 2011, accessed on September 14, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Matthias Breitinger: Car of the future: A Braun razor for the road. Zeit Online, November 19, 2013, accessed September 14, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Bavarian State Prize for Young Designers - Jury 2012. Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology, accessed on September 14, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Bavarian State Prize for Young Designers - Jury 2014. Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology, accessed on September 14, 2017 .
  5. ^ Project BMW Automated Driving 2030. FH Johanneum Gesellschaft mbH, accessed on September 14, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Ginsheim