Thomas Feichtner

Thomas Feichtner

Thomas Feichtner (* 1970 in Vitória / Brazil ) is an Austrian industrial designer .

Life

Thomas Feichtner was born in Vitória in 1970 to Austrian parents . After completing school in Linz and at the Waldorf School in Düsseldorf , he studied industrial design from 1990 to 1995 at the University of Artistic and Industrial Design in Linz , where he also taught himself from 2002 to 2005. In 1997 Thomas Feichtner started his own design studio and initially designed sporting goods and capital goods. From 2005 he began to increasingly design products for Austrian manufactories and traditional craft businesses as well as individual experimental pieces for exhibitions. Between 2001 and 2009 he was a partner in an agency for visual communication in Linz and Vienna, from which he separated in 2009. From 2009 to 2014 Thomas Feichtner was Professor of Industrial Design at the Muthesius Art College in Kiel . Since October 2018 he has been head of the bachelor's and master's degree courses in industrial design at the FH Joanneum in Graz . He lives in Vienna and Graz with his wife Simone Feichtner and his son Ferdinand, who was born in 2008 .

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During his studies, Thomas Feichtner designed numerous products for the Austrian sports industry, such as skateboards and snowboards for heavy tools or ski bindings for Tyrolia and Fischer . Later also skis for Head and Blizzard . In the field of visual communication, Thomas Feichtner worked for companies such as Swarovski , adidas eyewear , Linz09 European Capital of Culture and the British-Israeli designer Ron Arad . After his early success as an industrial designer, Thomas Feichtner has devoted himself to experimental product design since 2005 and designed for traditional manufacturers such as J&L Lobmeyr , Porzellanmanufaktur Augarten , Carl Mertens (cutlery factory) , Neue Wiener Werkstätten, Wiener Silbermanufactur and Stamm and realized independent projects in cooperation with Vitra and FSB. His works found their way into various design collections, such as the collection of the MAK - Austrian Museum for Applied Arts / Contemporary Art .

Awards

• State Prize for Design 2011, Federal Ministry of Economics, Family and Youth , Vienna, Austria.
• reddot design award 2010, Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia e. V. , Essen, Germany.
• European Design Award 2009, IDA International Council of Graphic Design Associations , Athens, Greece.
• CCA Venus Award 2009, Venus in Bronze, Creativ Club Austria , Vienna.
• Josef Binder Award in silver 2008, design austria , Graphic and Product Design Association, Vienna, Austria.
• Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2007, German Design Council , Frankfurt, Germany.
• Global Awards 2006 Finalist, International Awards Competition, New York Festivals, New York, USA.
• Josef Binder Award 2006, design austria, Graphic and Product Design Association, Vienna, Austria.
• Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2005, German Design Council , Frankfurt, Germany.
• Josef Binder Award 2004, design austria, Graphic and Product Design Association, Vienna, Austria.
• BIO19, Biennal of Industrial Design Ljubljana 2004, Architecture Museum Ljubljana. Slovenia.
• Gustav Klimt Prize 2004, Vienna, Austria.
• Red dot design award 2004, Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia e. V., Essen, Germany.
• International Advertising Festival Cannes 2003, Shortlist Cannes, Print and Outdoor, Cannes, France.
• IF Design Award 2002, International Forum Design Hannover , Germany.
• Design Prize Switzerland 2001, Design Center AG , Langenthal, Switzerland.
• IF Design Award 2001, International Forum Design Hannover, Germany.
• CCA Venus Award 2000, Venus in Bronze, Creativ Club Austria, Vienna, Austria.

literature

• Thomas Feichtner, Design Unplugged, Sketches / Sketches. Ed. MAK - Austrian Museum for Applied Art / Contemporary Art and Image Law GmbH , Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Günter Schönberger, Michael Hausenblas. Birkhäuser Verlag , Basel, ISBN 978-3-0356-1000-0 .
• Thomas Feichtner, Edge to Edge. Eds. Peter Noever , Shonquis Moreno, Lilli Hollein , Bernhard E. Bürdek, Michael Hausenblas. 2010, MAK - Austrian Museum for Applied Arts / Contemporary Art , Birkhäuser Verlag , Basel-Boston-Berlin. ISBN 978-3-0346-0342-3 .
• The Forum Design case. Edited by Martin Hochleitner , Gabriele Hofer. Norbert Artner, Bernhard E. Bürdek, Kristina Schönhuber, Thomas Feichtner, 2010. Upper Austrian State Gallery Linz , Publication N 1 - Library of the Province, Weitra. ISBN 978-3-902414-37-3 .
• Once Upon a Chair, Design Beyond the Icon. Eds. Robert Klanten , Sven Ehmann, Andrej Kupetz, Shonquis Moreno. 2009, Die Gestalten Verlag , Berlin, New York. ISBN 978-3-89955-256-0 .
• Shine and ruin. Eds. Vitus Weh, Tulga Beyerle , Brigitte Felderer, Angelika Höckner, Gerald Moser, Susanne Jäger, Christian Lerch , Ingrid Loschek , Wolfgang Pauser, Thomas Trummer, Vitus Weh and others. 2009 Folio Vienna / Bozen. ISBN 978-3-85256-479-1 .
• Desire The Shape of Things to Come. Eds. R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, A. Kupetz, S. Moreno, A. Mollard. 2008, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, New York, ISBN 978-3-89955-218-8 .
• The Independent Design Guide, Innovative Products from the New Generation. Ed. Laura Houseley, 2009. Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, UK. ISBN 978-0-500-51457-3 .
• Examples of Austrian Design. Edited by Thomas Redl, Andreas Thaler, 2000 Löcker Verlag, Vienna. ISBN 3-85409-346-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Feichtner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website
• design austria
• Feichtner, Thomas . basis wien
• FH JOANNEUM Graz, Head of Product & Transportation Design, Prof. Mag.art. Thomas Feichtner

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Links to members . Art University Linz
2. ↑ Directory of persons: Prof. Mag. Art. Thomas Feichtner . ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2013 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. 
3. ↑ Prof. Mag.art Thomas Feichtner. Retrieved on October 3, 2018 (German). 
4. ^ Tyrolia Free Flex Plus . ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 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. dip >> product 
5. ↑ Fischer FX 10 . ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 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. dip >> product 
6. ↑ XP 100, X40 . ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 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. dip >> product 
7. ↑ J. & L. Lobmeyr.
8. ↑ Carl Mertens - Design-oriented cutlery and gift items made of stainless steel.
9. ↑ Furniture & upholstered furniture - KAPO group of companies - windows, doors, furniture and upholstered furniture.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ^ Wiener Silber Manufactur.
11. ^ Tribe: Thomas Feichtner
12. ↑ Linz stool. ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 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. dip >> product 
13. ↑ FSB 5930. ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dip >> product 
14. ↑ Thomas Feichtner, Edge to Edge, eds. Peter Noever, Shonquis Moreno, Lilli Hollein, Bernhard E. Bürdek, Michael Hausenblas. 2010, MAK - Austrian Museum for Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel-Boston-Berlin. ISBN 978-3-0346-0342-3
15. ^ "State Prize Design 2011: List of Prize Winners" (accessed on July 1, 2016)