Tobias Grau

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The logo of the Tobias Grau company

Tobias Grau (born March 2, 1957 in Hamburg ) is a German designer .

Education and professional career

After studying business administration in Munich, Tobias Grau went to New York in 1983 to the Parson School of Design, followed by an internship in the development department of Knoll International in Pennsylvania .

In 1984 Tobias Grau started as a freelance designer in Hamburg with interior design work for offices of agencies as well as smaller companies and fashion stores. For these facilities, designs for lights and furniture were created , which were realized with special craft businesses for these facilities. From this work, Tobias Grau developed the first lighting collection, which was presented under his own name at the imm cologne in 1987 . The most famous lights in the Tobias Grau collection include Tai, Bill, George, Soon, Oh China.

Prizes and awards

• International design award of the Design Center Stuttgart in gold
• International design award of the Design Center Stuttgart in silver
• 2011 Reddot Design Award "best of the best"
• iF Product Design Award in gold
• iF Product Design Award in silver
• 2004 Gold Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany
• TUBE recessed spotlight program iF product design award 2008
• TAA Too pendant lights 1999
• Table lamp Soon International Design Award Baden-Württemberg in Gold 2002
• Table lamp Bill 11 W International Design Award Baden-Württemberg in Gold 2005
• 2006 Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany in gold
• XT Plug + DIM switch range Dim International Design Award Baden-Württemberg in silver 2009
• Falling Star Floor Interior Innovation Award 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.creative-inneneinrichter.de/themen-produkte/praemiert-2011.html
2. ↑ http://www.ifdesign.de/beitragsdetails_d.html?offset=7&sprache=0&award_id=142&beitrag_id=34192
3. ↑ http://ifdesign.de/beitragsdetails_d.html?offset=99&sprache=0&award_id=50&beitrag_id=8305
4. ↑ http://www.awmagazin.de/artikel/tobias-grau/page/1
5. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article938051/Design-Preis-Gold-fuer-Grau.html
6. ↑ http://www.design-center.de/internationaler-designpreis-2002.html
7. ↑ http://www.design-center.de/internationaler-designpreis-2005.html
8. ↑ http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/management/koepfe/chaot-und-perfektionist/2612656.html?p2612656=all
9. ↑ http://www.lichtnews.de/internationaler-designpreis-baden-wurttemberg-2009/
10. ↑ http://www.german-design-council.de/wettbewerbe/interior-innovation-award/galerie-2011.html