Teams Design

TEAMS Design is an international industrial design firm with headquarters in Esslingen near Stuttgart. Currently TEAMS Design has five studios on three continents, with more than 90 employees. TEAMS Design is listed in the international iF Industrie Forum Design creative ranking among the top 100 agencies and to number 14 in the independent agencies. To date, teams design alone has received more than 200 iF Design Awards.

History

In 1956, Hans Erich Slany in Esslingen near Stuttgart Slany Design. At this time he had Bosch in the conventional way to develop his concept, housing for power tools made ​​of plastic instead of metal die-casting, presented. An idea to power tools lighter, more ergonomic and safer, because classic die-cast metal housing were bulky, heavy, and offered adequate protection against electric shocks. " Ergonomics for power tools facilitate work" traveling exhibition designed to better integrate the new processes in the development of Bosch that was. In addition, Bosch published a guide, based on the recommendations of Slany: "The impact of ergonomics to the design of power tools ." Team Design is responsible for the visual product overall appearance of Bosch.

During this time, Slany founded with six other designers the Association of German Industrial Designers Association ( VDID ), Germany's largest job-specific design association.

In order to secure the growing company with new leaders, called Slany 1987 employees Klaus Beautiful and Reinhard Renner to co-shareholders and the company was renamed SLANY DESIGN TEAMS. As Slany 1996 completely withdrew from the company, the company was renamed TEAMS Design GmbH.

Followed in 1998 by the international expansion with the second location in Chicago under the direction of Paul Hatch. The second German location was opened in Hamburg in 2002 under the leadership of Ulrich Warth. When Klaus Schön 2003 withdrew from the company, took over Hans -Peter Aglassinger and Klaus Baumgartner its interest as a partner. The continued international expansion took place a short time later, in 2004 in Belgrade. Headed by Zarko Bubalo and in Shanghai in 2006 under the leadership of Jonas Vollmer and An Luo 2009 took over Ulrich Schweig line in Hamburg by Ulrich Warth and mid-2013 sparked last Martin Rauch Jonas Vollmer as co- president of the Shanghai site from.

Association of employees

In Germany team is involved in the activities of the composite German industrial designer ( VDID ). In Chicago, Paul Hatch was the vice president of the Industrial Designers Society of America ( IDSA ). In Shanghai Jonas Vollmer worked with the Chinese design company from the first IDSA field office outside of the United States of America to etablieren.Jonas Vollmer was 2011-2013 Vice Chair of IDSA China, responsible for the area of ​​Shanghai.

Team Today

Today the TEAMS Design GmbH is headed by the three shareholders and managers Reinhard Renner, Hans -Peter Aglassinger and Klaus Baumgartner and. At the sites of Chicago Paul Hatch, Hamburg by Ulrich Schweig, Belgrade by Zarko Bubalo and Shanghai by Martin Rauch and An Luo The company employs over 90 people worldwide. Major clients include companies such as Bosch, Intel, Kärcher, Leifheit, Siemens, Silit, Soehnle and lactation

Publications

• Eric Chan: 1000 Product Designs: Form, Function, and Technology from Around the World. Rockport Publishers, 2010, ISBN 978-1-59253-638-2.
• Peter Zec: Red Dot Design Yearbook 2009/2010. Avedition, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89939-106-0.
• Marion Godau, Paola Antonelli: Design Directory Germany. Universe, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7893-0389-9.
• Peter Zec: Red Dot Design Yearbook 2007/2008. Avedition, 2007, ISBN 978-3-89939-084-1.
• German Design Council: Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2007 Birkhäuser, Basel 2007, ISBN 978-3-7643-8092-2. .
• Paul Hatch, Deana McDonagh (ed. ); Tatyana Balt (Ill.): REALIZE - Design Means Business, Industrial Designers Society of America. 1st edition. 2006, ISBN 1-4276-0608-0.
• Deana McDonagh: IMPACT: The Synergy of Design, Technology, and Business, Industrial Designers Society of America. 1st edition. 2005, ISBN 0-9752741-3-9.
• Peter Fiell, Charlotte Fiell, Julia Krumhauer: Industrial Design AZ. Bags, 2003, ISBN 3-8228-2426-7.
• Peter Zec: German design standards DuMont, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-7701-4290- X.
• Christian Marquart Industrial Culture - Industrial theme: A Piece of German Economic and Design History: The Founder Members of the Association of German Industrial. John Wiley & Sons, 1994, ISBN 978-3-433-02343-3.
• Peter Strahlendorf: Design Made in Hamburg. New Business Publishing, hamburg design, 2010, ISBN 978-3-936182-20-0.
• Patrick Metz: Hamburg Creative 2011/12. Norman Beckmann Verlag & Design, 2011, ISBN 978-3-939028-28-4.