Teams design

Teams design
legal form	GmbH
founding	1956
Seat	Esslingen am Neckar , Germany
management	Reinhard Renner, Klaus Baumgartner, Hans Peter Aglassinger
Number of employees	25th
Branch	Industrial design , interaction design , user experience design , service design , communication design
Website	www.teamsdesign.com
	As of December 31, 2017

Teams Design (brand identity: TEAMS ) is an international industrial design company with headquarters in Esslingen am Neckar near Stuttgart . Teams Design currently has five studios on three continents with around 100 employees, each forming an independent company. Teams Design is listed in the international iF Industry Forum Design creative ranking among the top 100 agencies or in 14th place among independent agencies. To date, Teams Design alone has received over 200 iF design awards.

history

In 1956 Hans Erich Slany founded Slany Design in Esslingen. At this point in time, he presented his concept to Bosch to develop housings for power tools made of plastic instead of the previously common die-cast metal. An idea to make power tools lighter, more ergonomic and safer, because classic die-cast metal housings were unwieldy, heavy and offered insufficient protection against electric shocks. In order to better integrate the new processes into the development at Bosch, the "Making work easier: Ergonomics for power tools" traveling exhibition was designed. In addition, Bosch published a guideline based on Slany's recommendations: “The Influence of Ergonomics on the Design of Power Tools” . Teams Design is responsible for the overall visual product appearance of Bosch.

During this time, Slany and six other designers founded the Verband Deutscher Industrie Designer eV (VDID), Germany's largest professional design association.

Logo until 2015

In order to secure the growing company with new executives, in 1987 Slany appointed the employees Klaus Schön and Reinhard Renner as co-partners and the company was renamed SLANY DESIGN TEAMS. When Slany completely withdrew from the company in 1996, the company was renamed Teams Design GmbH.

In 1998 the international expansion followed with the second location in Chicago under the direction of Paul Hatch. The second German location was opened in Hamburg in 2002 under the direction of Ulrich Warth. When Klaus Schön retired from the company in 2003, Hans-Peter Aglassinger and Klaus Baumgartner took over his shares as co-shareholders. Further international expansion followed shortly afterwards, in 2004 in Belgrade under the direction of Zarko Bubalo and in 2006 in Shanghai under the direction of Jonas Vollmer and An Luo. In 2009 Ulrich Schweig took over the management in Hamburg from Ulrich Warth and in mid-2013 Martin Rauch succeeded Jonas Vollmer as Co-President of the Shanghai location.

Association work

In Germany, Teams is involved in the activities of the Association of German Industrial Designers (VDID). In Chicago, Paul Hatch was the Vice President of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). In Shanghai, Jonas Vollmer worked with the Chinese design company to establish the first IDSA branch outside the United States of America. Jonas Vollmer was Vice Chair IDSA China from 2011 to 2013, responsible for the Shanghai area.

Teams today

Today the company is managed by the three shareholders and managing directors Reinhard Renner, Hans-Peter Aglassinger and Klaus Baumgartner, as well as Paul Hatch in Chicago , Ulrich Schweig in Hamburg, Zarko Bubalo in Belgrade and Martin Rauch and An Luo in Shanghai. The company employs over 90 people worldwide. The largest customers include companies such as Bosch, Intel , Kärcher , Leifheit , Siemens , Silit , Soehnle and Still .

Publications

Eric Chan: 1000 Product Designs: Form, Function, and Technology from Around the World. Rockport Publishers, 2010, ISBN 978-1-59253-638-2 .
Peter Zec: Red Dot Design Yearbook 2009/2010. Avedition, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89939-106-0 .
Marion Godau , Paola Antonelli: Design Directory Germany. Universe, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7893-0389-9 .
Peter Zec: Red Dot Design Yearbook 2007/2008. Avedition, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89939-084-1 .
German Design Council: Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2007. Birkhäuser, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-8092-2 .
Paul Hatch , Deana McDonagh (Eds.); Tatyana Balte (Ill.): REALIZE - Design Means Business, Industrial Designers Society of America. 1st edition. 2006, ISBN 1-4276-0608-0 .
Deana McDonagh: IMPACT: The Synergy of Design, Technology, and Business, Industrial Designers Society of America . 1st edition. 2005, ISBN 0-9752741-3-9 .
Peter Fiell, Charlotte Fiell, Julia Krumhauer: Industrial Design AZ. Taschen, 2003, ISBN 3-8228-2426-7 .
Guenter Ogursky, Gabrielle Stof (Eds.): The Influence of Ergonomics on the Design of Power Tools , Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart.
Peter Zec: German Design Standards DuMont, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7701-4290-X .
Christian Marquart: Industrial Culture - Industrial Design: A Piece of German Economic and Design History: The Founder Members of the Association of German Industrial. John Wiley & Sons, 1994, ISBN 978-3-433-02343-3 .
Peter Strahlendorf: Design Made in Hamburg. New Business Verlag, hamburgdesign, 2010, ISBN 978-3-936182-20-0 .
Patrick Metz: Hamburg's creative 2011/12 . Norman Beckmann Verlag & Design, 2011, ISBN 978-3-939028-28-4 .