Luigi Colani (1928 - 2019)

Luigi Colani is considered one of the most important designers of our time, who for more than 50 years has revolutionized our ideas of how the world of products can be designed. He has left his mark in all industries. Cars, cameras, airplanes, PCs, furniture, pianos ... almost everything he has redesigned and optimized in his typical organic forms, and there is hardly a design award that he has not received in his long career. For many years he has passed on his extensive knowledge as a professor at various universities. 

Colani attended the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin before studying aerodynamics at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he studied sculpture and painting. Even then, he was fascinated by the malleability of the material, and indeed, in his case, creative work on the product and on a free sculpture are quite comparable. Here as there, the organic, the flowing form plays a role. And last but not least: As a designer as well as a visual artist, Colani "thinks" and sketches with drawing pencil and plaster model.