Gunnar FH Spellmeyer

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 Gunnar FH Spellmeyer, 2017 - by Patrice Kunte
Gunnar Spellmeyer, 2017 - by Patrice Kunte

Gunnar FH Spellmeyer (born May 1, 1964 in Osnabrück ) is a German designer and professor for industrial design and design presentation at the University of Hanover (HsH).

Life

Between 1983 and 1990 Spellmeyer studied industrial design with Gerhard Strehl (former rector of the Weissensee School of Art ). On October 10, 1988, he founded the design office “formfürsorge” together with Andreas von Cube, Holger Müller, Andreas Radde, Andreas Schulz, Nikolaus Tams and Stefan Züchner, which he last ran with Nikolaus Tams until 2005.

From 1992 to 1998 Spellmeyer taught at the Werkakademie für Gestaltung in Hanover, had teaching assignments at the Cologne International School of Design (KISD) and the Hanover University of Applied Sciences.

In 2000 Spellmeyer was appointed professor for industrial design and design presentation at today's Hanover University. In 2001 he received an honorary professorship from the United University of Hefei , Anhui Province , China . As a trained existential analyst (see also Logotherapy and Existential Analysis) at the University of Hanover, he initiated a life advice center for students (2010) and ›Nexster‹, today's entrepreneurship center at the University of Hanover. With the expansion of the Entrepreneurship Center, Spellmeyer leads Nexster together with Christian Lehmann and Nora Hesse and is responsible for creativity and entrepreneurship.

As a young designer he was awarded the Lucky Strike Designer Award by the Raymond Loewy Foundation in 1992 . From 2011 to 2019 Spellmeyer was honorary deputy chairman of the board of the creative network kre-H-tiv and is involved in aid projects of the Lions Club Hannover (as president 2016/2017). Spellmeyer has three daughters and lives in the Hanover region.

Act

Spellmeyer is particularly interested in a design that focuses on people and their needs, the so-called "human-centered design" (HCD). He primarily designs consumer goods, furniture, packaging and food, and takes care of relevant innovations in companies.

Spellmeyer worked for companies such as Bahlsen , Bree, Nils Holger Moormann , Haus Rabenhorst , Hutschenreuther , Casala, Oase, Landeskirche Hannover , Sparkasse Hannover, VGH Versicherungen and is a specialist in creative thinking and design thinking .

In the course of his professional activity and dealing with creative people, he concentrated more and more on inventive processes, creative people and their environment, as well as the path of an idea into the world.

Together with his international colleagues in the field of entrepreneurship (Fenny de Boer, Groningen; Sabine Mueller, Dijon; Vaidotas Levickis, Klaipeda; Dick de Vries, Groningen; Michael Damskjaer, Aarhus; Dörte Roloff, Hanover) he became an international for the jointly developed program Entrepreneurship Summer School honored with the ›Innovation and Teaching Excellence Award‹. The program is characterized by an expansion of the design thinking concept and explicitly promotes an attitude of openness and the entrepreneurial personality in an intercultural context.

Together with Mario Leupold and Dörte Roloff, Spellmeyer developed the ›Prototype Party‹ format, which was awarded the Innovation Fund of the City of Hanover. Here, inventors, designers, makers and hackers have the opportunity to test their prototypes early on in front of a live audience.

Teaching

  • 1992–2000 Werkakademie for design in the craft
  • 1996 guest lecturer at the Cologne International School of Design (KISD), Cologne
  • 1996–1998 teaching position at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences
  • 1998–2000 full professorship at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences
  • 2000 until today professorship at today's Hanover University (HsH)
  • 2000–2001 lectures, workshops and seminars at VU Hefei, China
  • 2005–2010 lectures, workshops and seminars at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India
  • 2013 to the present day design thinking workshops in the Islamic world at the Institut Seni Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Java, Indonesia, as well as in Klaipeda, Lithuania and Dijon, France.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1992 Material inspirations, Kolon Gallery, Cologne
  • 1992 formfürsorge, Modus Moebel, Berlin
  • 1992 formfürsorge, Galeria Zoltan, Milan
  • 1992 XXL, Am Saum der Möbel, Art and Space Gallery, Hanover
  • 1996 formfürsorge, Handwerksform Hannover
  • 1998 formfürsorge, Kunstverein Langenhagen

Awards, recordings (selection)

  • 1987 1st prize: ›Furnishing articles‹, competition of the Association of Creative Interior Fitters; Hamburg - garden lounger
  • 1987 and 1988 Design Plus, German Design Council, Frankfurt - Pigment cutting board, Ascher Cenicero
  • 1990 German selection, Stuttgart - ecco cutting board
  • 1991 Peter Steuyvesant selected young designer of the year, Roter Punkt Design Zentrum NRW
  • 1992 Lucky Strike Junior Design Award, Raymond Loewy Foundation, Hamburg
  • 1996 winner of the design competition ›door handle‹ HEWI, FSB, Chamber of Crafts Hanover - door handle
  • 2015 Innovation Fund of the City of Hanover with ›Prototype Party 2.0‹
  • 2015 Innovation and Entrepreneurship Teaching Excellence Award 2015 with ›face‹ of the ›European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE)‹
  • 2018 City Culture Prize of the Freundeskreis Hannover for kre-H-tiv Netzwerk eV

Inclusion in the following collections

  • New collection of the State Museum for Applied Arts, Munich: Cutting board pigment - formfürsorge
  • Vitra Design Museums, Weill am Rhein: Festus stool - formfürsorge
  • Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe, Hamburg: Festus stool, Tell shelf - formfürsorge
  • Museum August Kestner, Hanover: Bandit cabinet, pigment cutting board - formfürsorge
  • MAK, Frankfurt: Cabinet Bandit - formfürsorge
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam: Thor chair - formfürsorge

Publications

  • Friedrich Weltzien, Martin Scholz (Ed.), Et.al .: Material impulses - How design thinking is formed with the material in "The languages ​​of material", pp. 37 - 45, 2016, (Reimer, Dietrich - Verlag), ISBN 978-3-496-01560-4
  • Hardy Seiler, Hendrik Schwedt (Ed.): FuturXchange , 2015, foreword “out of the monologue. And into the future. ”P. 3
  • Institute for Foreign Relations eV (Ed.), Ursula Zeller (responsible): conscious, simple - The emergence of an alternative product culture , exhibition volume of the Institute for Foreign Relations eV, 1998, p. 89: formfürsorge ›bandit‹
  • Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg: Ideas sit , p. 152/153, formfürsorge festus, ISBN 978-3-923859-77-1
  • Carlo Pirovano (Editor in Chief): History of Industrial Design - 1919-1990, The Dominion of Design , Contribution by Herbert Lindinger “Germany: The Nation of Functionalism”, pp. 86-101; 1991, Electa Milan
  • Marion Godau, Bernd Polster: Design Lexicon Germany , p. 182/183 and p. 257; Cologne: DuMont, 2000, ISBN 3-7701-4429-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kre-H-tiv network, board of directors ( memento of the original dated December 23, 2016 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. , accessed December 15, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kre-h-tiv.net
  2. ^ Lions Club Hannover , accessed December 15, 2016
  3. ^ Prototype party
  4. ↑ Studi Baru program at the Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta
  5. ^ Workshop International Design Thinking Yogyakarta
  6. ↑ Modus furniture, exhibitions (see formfürsorge)
  7. ↑ Freundeskreis Hannover celebrates its anniversary. Retrieved December 5, 2018 .


personal data
SURNAME Spellmeyer, Gunnar FH
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer and professor for industrial design design and presentation at the University of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück