Ueli Witzig
Ueli Witzig (born May 26, 1946 in Fischenthal im Tösstal , Canton Zurich ) is a Swiss designer .
Life
Ueli Witzig began his training in 1963 with a preliminary course at the Zurich School of Applied Arts, followed from 1964 to 1967 by an apprenticeship in pottery at the Swiss Ceramics School in Renens near Lausanne . In 1967 he did a plastics internship at Weidmann AG in Rapperswil SG . This paved his way into product design . From 1967 to 1968 he studied at the Ulm School of Design . After completing his training, he worked as a designer at Walser Design in Zurich and created the design of mechanical calculating machines for Hermes Precisa and for the professional tape recorder from Sondor Zollikon .
Professional career
- 1964 to 1968 in training
- 1969 to 1972 at Walser Design in Zurich
- Since 1973 as a freelance as an industrial and product designer with his own studio in Wolfhausen in Canton Zurich active
Works
Ueli Witzig created the following designs and shapes:
Tram and trains
For Bombardier Transportation (at that time still Schweizerische Wagons- & Aufzügefabrik AG (SWS) in Schlieren and later Schindler Basel) in the 1970s and early 1980s the exterior and interior design:
- Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich Be 4/6 Tram 2000
- Forchbahn FB 2000
- Neuchâtel tram
- yellow-orange Basel tram
- Swiss Federal Railways Standard Car EW IV Railway car
- Suburban train of the Bodensee-Toggenburg-Bahn (today Swiss Southeast Railway ) and Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon-Bahn (today BLS AG )
- pink-red Rigi railway
Sanitary engineering
For Geberit since 1975 until today:
- all surface-mounted cisterns (170 million pieces produced worldwide)
- all concealed flush plates
- Control switch
- Balena shower toilet
- Urinal partitions
For Keramik Laufen (Switzerland) in the 1980s:
- Revision of the Mobello toilet and sink series
- Revision of the Moderna toilet and sink series
- Capella Oeschbag
For Unilever from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s:
- Gloria shampoo packaging
- Metadent C / Bene-fit / toothbrushes
- Soap
- Soap packaging
- Rexona Douche
Household appliances
For V-Zug in the 1990s:
- dishwasher
- Washing machines
Office furniture
For SITAG since 1981 until today:
- Rows of chairs :
- Sulky chair row
- Soleil / Mondo
- Liberty
- Really
- Reality (60,000 pieces produced per year)
- emotion
- Sitag One
- Furniture rows :
- Cosmos
- Soleil / Mondo
- Ascent
- Cubic
Stilo office furniture in 1975:
- Office corpus
LISTA in the 1980s:
- Office corpus
- Office partitions
- Design office "Artline"
items
- dialog , News for Geberit Partners, May issue> 02: Pages 5 to 7, article High-quality design for everyday life - the fulfillment of a dream
- Mensch & Büro , special edition 3 | 2006: The special issue on the Swiss office furniture industry, pages 12 and 13, article designer from the appointment of Christiane Maruschke
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Funny, Ueli |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss designer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1946 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Fischenthal |