Nils Krüger (Designer)

Nils Krüger (* 1970 in Leipzig ) is a German product designer and professor of design with a focus on design and mobility at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art .

biography

Krüger completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer. From 1990 to 1996 he studied product design at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin and graduated with a diploma. During his studies, he completed semesters abroad in the USA and France. Afterwards he was a master class student and received a one-year DAAD scholarship for Paris . From 1996 to 1999 he worked for the media agency "Art + Com" and as a freelance designer. From 1998 to 2003 he was teaching at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule berlin, the Technical University of Berlin (TU) , the University of Technology and Economics Berlin (HTW) and the HTW Dresden . In 2004 he was appointed to the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences , where he was Professor of “Product Design with Digital Media” in the Design Department until 2014.

In 1999, Nils Krüger founded büro + staubach (GmbH since 2002) with Christina Finger and Helmut Staubach, a design office with a focus on mobility and the objectification of innovations in the field of media processes, in which he is still active as a managing partner to this day.

Since 2014 he has been Professor of Design in the Product Design Department at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art. His teaching with the perspective of "design and mobility" examines and develops approaches for future forms of mobility using the means of design. He understands design as a socially, economically and culturally relevant process, which cannot only be attached to the objective.

Web links

• Nils Krüger at the Weißensee Academy of Art in Berlin
• office + staubach gmbh