Name: Stephan Schulz Born: Schwerin, 1983 Alma mater: 2003-2009 Industrial Design, Burg Giebichenstein, Halle 2007-2008 Erasmus studies at the Design Academy Eindhoven Internships: 2008 Bellini Design Studio, Milan Products: Stellvertreter for Nils Holger Moormann, Aschau im Chiemgau Concrete bowl series "frisch ausgeschalt" for Betoniu, Leipzig (smow)blog: Why Industrial Design? Stephan Schulz: It sort of just developed. I've always built things and experimented with different
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The theme of the 2010 Designpreis Halle is and was "travel" For us travelling to Halle has a special meaning as in a previous life we used to regularly travel to Halle, experience all sorts of perverse inhumane horrors and then travel back to Leipzig glad - once again - to have escaped from the banks of the Saale with our lives. That was then. But since then not only has our life changed but we now see and understand Halle in a completely different light. Thanks largely to another tour;
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This coming Sunday sees the awarding of the 2010 Designpreis Halle. We know. Designpreis. Halle. And no its not for the most passé tag scrawled with an Edding on the side of a deserted tenement. For despite all stereotypes and preconceptions about "Chemie Halle", scratch below the centuries of industrial pollution on the buildings you will find some true talent on the Saale. One reason is Burg Giebichenstein, an art and design college that regularly produces high quality graduates.
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Students. Don't ya just love 'em! Spend years studying and then.... Whereas most sociology, philosophy or art history students eventually end up working in banks, call centres or become King of England; the situation with design students is somewhat more complicated. You don't study design just for the sake of getting a qualification; you study design so that you can work as a designer. Ideally an independent, freelance designer, controlling the entire process and developing your own
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