Werner Aisslinger

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

He studied from 1987 to 1991 at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, and from 1989 to 1992 Jasper Morrison, Ron Arad and the Studio de Lucchi in Milan. In 1993 he founded his studio Aisslinger in Berlin. At the National Academy of Design in Karlsruhe, he was from 1998 to 2005 professor of design. Since 2006 he is a permanent member of the Board of Trustees of the Raymond Loewy Foundation and sits on the jury of the Lucky Strike Designer Award.

Aisslinger's interested in new materials and technologies. This presents his view today innovations - unlike in the recent past, in which alone the shape in mind.

Works by Werner Aisslinger, were included in the collection of several museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Fonds national d'art contemporain and the new collection. He has received several design awards including the Red Dot Design Award, in which he sat on the jury, or the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany.

One of his works is the 2003 designed Loft Cube, a mobile living cube. The idea behind the 39 square meter dwelling is to be able to carry on a temporary place to live and the cube as needed with a helicopter or crane to a new home on. The presentation took place on the roof of a former cold store, the present headquarters of Universal Music Germany, on the Spree River in the context of the Berlin Designmai 2003. Today, the Loft Cube is in the sculpture park of the Haus am Waldsee in Berlin. Audi used the Loft Cube in advertising for the A3 Sportback. During the Baden-Württemberg State Garden Show 2012 the company Häfele Nagolder the Loft Cube is used for presentation of furniture, distinguished by special functions. The living cube was set for it on a pontoon in the river Nagold. In the spring of 2013, Werner Aisslinger transforms the Haus am Waldsee into a Home of the Future, and thus introduce his central theme of the material transfer by means of numerous furniture and object examples, both Aisslinger's first institutional survey exhibition in Germany.

The Swiss furniture manufacturer Vitra manufactures since 2004, designed by Werner Aisslinger office furniture line " Level 34 ". Based on a 34 cm high bank different modules are combined in it.

Aisslinger received on 12 January 2014, the award A & W Designer of the Year of establishment magazine A & W Architektur & Wohnen.