Oliver Vogt (industrial designer)

Oliver Vogt (* 1966 in Essen ) is a German designer . Since 2006 he has held the professorship for industrial design at the Kunsthochschule Kassel . Vogt's activities focus on the areas of industrial design and curating. His topics are new manufacturing processes, especially post-industrial processes such as 3D printing and the further development of products with regard to a brand philosophy.

Life

From 1986 to 1989 Vogt studied German and art at the University of Paderborn a. a. at Pasierbsky . In 1990 he moved to the then Berlin University of the Arts (now the University of the Arts ), where he studied industrial design. During his studies he worked as a freelance writer and producer for various TV stations (e.g. for WDR, Spiegel-TV, Pro7). In 1996 Vogt completed his industrial design studies with the subject of net for design, design for a network with Hans Nick Roericht and Egon Chemaitis. From 1992 to 1993 he worked as a freelance designer for Roericht product development in Ulm. One of his main projects there was the development of a video telephone and video conference software for Telekom, which won an iF Award .

During his work at Hans Roericht he got to know Hermann Weizenegger , with whom he founded the design agency Vogt and Weizenegger in Berlin in 1993 . In addition to their work in the field of industrial design, the work of the designer duo has been shown in various exhibitions in museums and galleries in Denmark, France, Great Britain, Holland, Italy, Japan and the USA. Vogt and Weizenegger produced the first 3D-printed chair, the “Sinterchair”, which was produced live at the Ambiente trade fair in Frankfurt in 2002 . The duo also gained notoriety with the “Blueprint” project (1993), a series of do-it-yourself furniture. With the construction plan, users acquired the license to replicate the furniture at the same time.

Oliver Vogt has been a professor of industrial design at the Kassel University of Art since 2006 . He was also visiting professor at the HGKZ Zurich (now ZHDK ), at the University of Lund , Sweden, and at the CEDIM, Monterrey , Mexico. He lives in Berlin and Kassel.

Ideas and concepts

Vogt's role in the Vogt and Weizenegger agency was, in particular, the writing down of ideas, concepts and utopias that formed the basis of V + W's activities. In connection with the Sinterchair project , Vogt drafted a manifesto for the factory of the future in 2001, the essential idea of post-industrial production as it is being realized today in the course of the maker movement with the idea of ​​consumers as producers or prosumers .

Vogt also worked with the Berlin band 2raumwohnung , for which Vogt received a gold record in 2005. Another focus of Vogt is advising brands. For the company Fottana, Vogt developed the slogan "Change your mood" in the course of the revival of the Möve brand in 2000, a basis for the reformulation of the company philosophy. In addition, a new signet (bird and typo) was designed, which is still used today. He developed the word "Ableton" for the software manufacturer Ableton AG .

Publications (selection)

• V + W PRIVATE BOOK. ISBN 3-00-015966-5 .
• with Hermann Weizenegger: V + W Design Matrix. Hantje Kantz, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7757-1813-4 .

Articles and contributions

• Codes: keys to design. In: Milev, Jana (ed.): Design cultures. The expanded concept of design in the design field of cultural studies. Karlsruhe 2013, ISBN 978-3-7705-5534-5 .

• Text contribution to the exhibition LIEBER GAST by Volker Albus (Galerie im Karmeliter Kloster, Frankfurt 1996)

editor

• with Tanja Seiner: PET MARKET. Class for design. Kassel 2016, ISBN 978-3-945824-03-0 .
• with Tanja Seiner: TOOLS. , Class for Design, Kassel 2015, ISBN 978-3-945824-00-9 .

Curatorial activities

• 2017 The Butterfly Project, exhibition at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in autumn 2017 during documenta 14
• 2012 Res Publica / Res Privata together with Susanne Prinz at the Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin
• 2009 walk, head of the annual exhibition at the art college in Kassel
• 2007 The Foreign Room, exhibition at the Art School in Milan
• 2007 Digitalability, exhibition for the Designmai Festival in Berlin
• 2006 Design-Film-Pool, Shots on Brave New World, Berlin / Stockholm
• 2005 Shooting Stars of Europe, Designmai Festival, Berlin
• 1998 The Imaginary Manufactory, Berlin, Tokyo, New York, London, Prague (1998–2005)
• 1996 SMART CHINA, Frankfurt

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1994: Möbel Perdu , “Blueprint”, Hamburg
• 1994: Galerie Blau, in "allez les bleus", Freiburg
• 1996: Galerie Zwinger : “Infinity”, Berlin
• 1996: Arosa - 2000 Gallery , in “Smart China”, Frankfurt
• 1996: Museum of Modern Art Louisiana , in “Design and Identity. Aspects of European Design “, Louisiana, Denmark
• 1997: Galerie Schipper & Krome, in “Volles Haus”, Berlin
• 1997: Museum of Decorative Arts and Design , in "Design and Identity". Ghent, Belgium
• 1998: Vitra Design Museum , in “consciously simple”, Weil am Rhein
• 1998: 1st Berlin Biennale , KW , “The Jekyll and Hide Cabinet” with Andrea Zittel , Berlin
• 1998: Asylum for the blind in Berlin , in “Die Imaginäre Manufaktur”, Berlin
• 1999: Trico-Gallery , in “Die Imaginäre Manufaktur”, Tokyo, Japan
• 1999: MoMA PS1 in "Children of Berlin", New York, USA
• 2000: Friedrich office , in M ​​(odel) 4 8, Berlin
• 2000: Galeria Luisa Delle Piane , in "Babybloom, Milan, Italy"
• 2000: 17th Int. Kortrijk Biennial, “DIM 2000”, Kortrijk, Belgium
• 2000: Gallery Binnen , “Thougt Spaces”, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2001: Galleria Massimo di Carlo , "DIM 2001", 40th Salone Internationale del Mobile Milano, Milan, Italy
• 2001: Galerie Schipper & Krome, "PLAN A", Berlin
• 2003: Rotes Rathaus Berlin , in “Berlin Flag Update”, Designmai 2003, Berlin
• 2003: Vitra Design Museum Berlin, in “Design Berlin!”, Designmai, Berlin
• 2006: MARTa Herford , "V + W Design Matrix", Herford
• 2017: Vitra Design Museum in “Hello Robot! Design between man and machine. ”MAK
• 2017: MAK in “Hello Robot! Design between man and machine. "
• 2017: Kunsthochschule Kassel , in “Butterfly Project”, during documenta14, Kassel

Design awards (selection)

• Red point for "high design quality" - D-light - Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia, 1994
• DDC grand jury - designers evaluate design - blueprint - 1994
• Heinz Glas Flakon Competition - Special Prize - Berlin, 1995
• Svedex door competition - 2nd prize - Munich, 1996
• Red dot for "high design quality" - Infinity - Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia, 1996
• Design Plus for Pure Glass, Frankfurt, 1999
• Red dot for "high design quality" - Monobag - Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia, 1999
• Red point for "high design quality" for Pure Glass - Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia, 1999
• IF Prize Industry Forum Design Pure Glass - Hanover, 1999
• Award for the best new product - New York Home Textile Show - Möve Badaccessoires - New York, USA 2000
• Form for Pulp, Frankfurt, 2000
• Design Plus for Sweetcase - Frankfurt, 2001
• IF Prize Hannover for the "going to the beach" collection by MÖVE, Hannover, 2001
• Red point for "high design quality" for Four Star - Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia, 2002
• Interzum Award 2007 for "high product quality" - Jungwerk furniture castors - Cologne 2007
• Red point for "high design quality" - Jungwerk furniture castors - Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia, 2008

Collections (selection)

• (c) hair in the German Hygiene Museum, Dresden
• FNAC, Fonds national d'art Contemporain, Paris
• Works by V + W in the MARTa Museum Collection, Herford
• Sinterchair in the Vitra Design Museum , Weil

literature

• Mateo Kries and Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (eds.): Hello Robot! Design between man and machine ( exhibition catalog of the MAK and the Vitra Design Museum), Weil am Rhein 2017, ISBN 3-945852-10-2 .
• Andrea Mehlhose and Martin Wellner (eds.): Modern Möbel, 150 years of design , hf ullmann, Potsdam 2009, ISBN 3-8480-0029-6 .
• V + W design matrix: Marta Herford, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7757-1813-3 .
• Christian Wurster (ed.): V + W private book. A book about Vogt and Weizenegger . Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-00-015966-5 .
• “Vogt, Oliver; Weizenegger, Hermann «. In: Mel Byars: The Design Encyclopedia , The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2004, ISBN 0-87070-012-X .
• Winfried Scheuer: Reading book for designers , Hohenheim-Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-89850-018-7 .
• Marion Godau and Bernd Polster: Design Directory Germany, Pavilion, London 2000, ISBN 1-86205-333-2
• Mel Byars. "Guerrillas in Our Midst: Oliver Vogt and Hermann", ID (magazine), January – February 2001
• Georg C. Bertsch. "Vogt + Weizenegger". Domus (magazine), No.793, May 1997

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} KhK - Vogt, Oliver. In: kunsthochschulekassel.de. Retrieved October 8, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Bürdek, Bernhard E .: Design: History, Theory and Practice of Product Design . 3. Edition. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-7643-7028-9 , p. 101 .
3. ↑ Kulturwissenschaften - Pasierbsky (University of Paderborn) In: uni-paderborn.de , accessed on September 4, 2018.
4. ^ Vogt + Weizenegger. In: designlexikon.net. Retrieved October 9, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Oliver Vogt: Network for design - design for a network. Retrieved October 11, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Product development Roericht / Ulm: 505 videophones. 1992, accessed October 9, 2017 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} exhibitions. In: hermannaugustweizenegger.de. Retrieved October 9, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Elfi Kreis: One chair in 20 hours. Vogt + Weizenegger produce one-offs made to measure with the help of computers. In: tagesspiegel.de. June 27, 2003. Retrieved October 9, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Anja Dilk: Sleek homemade. Two young Berliners sell pattern sheets that customers can use to make their own furniture. In: taz.de. August 6, 1994, accessed October 9, 2017 . 
10. ↑ 032c WHAT'S NEXT? No. 3 . Berlin 2001.
11. ↑ Nora Sobich: The metamorphosis of the everyday: Vogt + Weizenegger turn ordinary things into the unusual. In: tagesspiegel.de. July 27, 2000, accessed October 9, 2017 . 
12. ^ Documenta 14: Butterfly Project. Retrieved October 9, 2017 . 
13. ↑ VOGT + WEIZENEGGER. Collection en ligne | Center national des arts plastiques In: cnap.fr , accessed September 4, 2018.
14. ↑ design-museum.de Search for Sinterchair .