Werner Aisslinger

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Loftcube by W. Aisslinger on the occasion of Designmai , Berlin 2003

Werner Aisslinger (born November 3, 1964 in Nördlingen ) is a German designer with a focus on product design , design concepts and brand design.

Career

From 1987 to 1991 he studied at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and from 1989 to 1992 worked for Jasper Morrison , Ron Arad and Studio De Lucchi in Milan. In 1993 he founded his studio Aisslinger in Berlin. From 1998 to 2005 he was professor of design at the State University of Design in Karlsruhe . Since 2006 he has been a permanent member of the Board of Trustees of the Raymond Loewy Foundation and sits on the jury of the Lucky Strike Designer Awards .

Act

Aisslinger's interest is in new materials and technologies. In his opinion, this gives rise to innovations today - unlike in the more recent past, when the focus was solely on the form.

In the mid-1990s, he was able to win over the telephone company E-Plus as his first major customer by winning a design competition . Other competitions, such as Otelo , followed. At the same time he developed various furniture projects such as the July Chair and the Endless Shelf (Red Dot Award 1994). The Juli Chair was awarded in 1996 as the first chair design since 1964 by the Museum of Modern Art and included in its permanent collection. Over the years, other of his works have been accepted by various museums, including the Fonds national d'art contemporain in Paris, the Neue Sammlung in Munich and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein.

In close cooperation with z. B. Mercedes Benz Flötotto , DuPont , Berker , BASF , Interlübke and various hotels around the world have created various product designs over the course of time, such as light switch series and bathroom & kitchen fittings, up to complete conversions and extensions of hotels and interior designs for shops, bars or Television studios.

He received various design awards, such as the Red Dot Design Award , for which he was also a member of the jury, or the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Loftcube

One of his works is the Loft Cube , a mobile living cube , designed in 2003 . The idea behind the 39 m² house is to live temporarily in one place and, if necessary, to be able to transport the Cube to a new place of residence with a helicopter or crane. The presentation took place as part of the Berlin Designmai 2003 on the roof of a former cold store, now the headquarters of Universal Music Germany, on the Spree. Today the Loft Cube is located in the sculpture park of the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin. Audi used the Loft Cube in advertising for the A3 Sportsback . During the Baden-Württemberg state horticultural show in 2012 , the Loft Cube was used by the Nagold company Häfele to present furniture that is characterized by special functions. He has been with Häfele in Kreuzlingen / Switzerland since 2015 . In the spring of 2013, Werner Aisslinger transformed the Haus am Waldsee into a Home of the Future , using numerous furniture and object examples to present his central topic of material transfer, which was also Aisslinger's first institutional overview exhibition in Germany.

Vitra

The Swiss furniture manufacturer Vitra has been manufacturing the "Level 34" line of office furniture designed by Werner Aisslinger since 2004. Various modules are combined in it on the basis of a 34 cm high bench.

Exhibitions (selection)

Awards (selection)

  • Design Plus Award , Frankfurt • 1992 for "otto chair"
  • Red Dot Design Award , Germany (multiple awards since 1994 for various products)
  • Design Biennale, Ljubljana • 1998, 2000
  • Compasso d'Oro , Milan • 2004
  • FX Award UK , United Kingdom • 2005 for “Level34” - Vitra
  • European Hotel Design Awards Winner, Michelberger Hotel, London • 2010
  • Designer of the Year , A&W Architektur & Wohnen • 2014
  • German Design Award , PAD Collection • 2016

Web links

Commons : Werner Aisslinger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Representation of Werner Aisslinger ( memento from March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at the bottom of the "Designer" page at conmoto.com
  2. ↑ Werner Aisslinger. Architect designer. Stilwerk, June 20, 2019, accessed June 10, 2020 .
  3. ^ Website of the designer
  4. ↑ Loftcube - Mobile residential architecture in Berlin Baunetz Wissen
  5. ↑ Illustration of the Loft Cube
  6. ↑ Nagold is experiencing a real world premiere. Black Forest Bote , April 5, 2012
  7. ↑ »Häfele Cube - More life per square meter«. (PDF) ARCHITEKTURFORUM KONSTANZKREUZLINGEN egV, February 25, 2015, accessed on June 10, 2020 .
  8. ↑ house at the forest lake. International contemporary art in Berlin: Werner Aisslinger - Home of the Future , accessed on April 22, 2013
  9. ↑ https://www.vitra.com/de-de/corporation/designer/details/werner-aisslinger Werner Aisslinger at Vitra.
  10. ↑ https://www.pinakothek.de/ausstellungen/werner-aisslinger-house-of-wonders Werner Aisslinger House of Wonders.
  11. ↑ https://www.report-k.de/Wirtschaftsnachrichten/Koelner-Wirtschaft/Werner-Aisslinger-ist-AW-Designer-des- Jahreses-27726 Werner Aisslinger A&W Designer of the Year.
  12. ↑ A & W Architektur & Wohnen Award Award ceremony: A&W Designer of the Year 2014 , accessed on January 16, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Aisslinger, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer with a focus on product design, design concepts and brand design
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordlingen