I love to design for what matters
Good design delights people every day, makes a product useful yet desirable, is innovative, is honest and – yes – is aesthetic too.
Beside providing a careful design sensibility and technical craft, I like to challenge myself, roll up my sleeves and put my hands on complex problems to finally create satisfying solutions and tell relatable emotive stories that matter. And I like working with brands, who care for their users.
Additionally I find great pleasure in collaborating with diverse disciplines and professionals in cross-functional, international teams around the globe.
My approach is to empower the people around me, believing in the catalytic force of teamwork to inspire design development, nurture the creative process and draw out the team’s diverse individual talents, and most of all, to have fun along the way.
For nearly 10 years I'm leading the design team at Wacom (Japan) as member of the Global Product Management. I'm responsible for creating innovative solutions around pen input devices mainly for high professional creatives but for enthusiasts too: pen displays, tablet PC's, opaque tablets. Starting from UX research, product definition, conception, industrial design and out-of-box-experience to prototyping and mass production implementation at ODM's in China and Taiwan.
Since 2007 I'm teaching Industrial Design at the University of Wuppertal, focusing on design methodology, digital creation processes and research projects.
I started my career with founding my own design studio in 1993 right upon graduation as Industrial Design at the University of Wuppertal.
Listed as an inventor in multiple registered patents and credited as the designer in nearly 20 Red Dot, IF and IDSA Product Design Awards.
Director Industrial Design at Wacom
Joined Wacom in 2011 as a lead designer leading the design team since 2018 responsible for building and supporting a team of talented industrial designers, developing future experiences for creative professionals and enthusiasts that consistently meet — or exceed — client expectations: pen displays, tablet PC’s, opaque tablets and more. As member of the Global Product Management team contributing to roadmap planning, developing design strategies and transforming these to award winning design from research and strategy through concept, development and execution, accountable for the creative and technical quality. Working collaboratively with diverse disciplines and professionals in cross-functional, international teams in Europe, Asia and North America.
Inventor of the Wacom Mobile Studio Pro, Lead Designer of Wacom Cintiq Pro and all professional pen displays and pen tablet PC‘s by Wacom released since 2012.
Listed as an inventor in multiple registered patents and credited as the designer in nearly 20 Red Dot and IF Product Design Awards. Also picked up the prestigious American Industrial Design Association Prize for designing Wacom’s innovative first pen tablet PC "Cintiq Companion" in 2014.
Teaching Industrial Design at the University of Wuppertal
Teaching industrial design at the University of Wuppertal since 2007, mentoring and guiding young designers, focusing on design process and design methodology, advanced use of digital creation tools (sketching, modelling, rendering) and assisting in design research projects with industry partners e.g. Braun, Microsoft, Precore.
co-founder dingfest design studio
Studied Industrial Design at Bergische Universität in Wuppertal and upon graduation started my own design studio back in 1993, specialising in industrial design and
Braun, 2008–2011, industrial design top line shaver (co-working with Braun ID team), new design language 3D animation movie.
Deutsche Telekom, 2008, industrial design and visualisation generic multimedia products.
CamDynamics/Leica, 1998–2003, industrial design and mechanical design of a professional view camera.
Industrial design for Bohle (suction lifter, red dot 2001), Clark (forklift components), Philips (car audio), Bar (control devices).
Various multimedia productions for automotive and machinery industries: ThyssenKrupp, Philips, Clark, Hydro, Achenbach Buschhütten, Goebel IMS, Munk, BWG etc.
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