Werner Aisslinger

Born in Nördlingen, Germany Werner Aisslinger (1964) is working and living in Berlin / Germany. He  studied  Design at the University of Arts in Berlin. While still a student at the UdK in Berlin, he worked for Ron Arad and Jasper Morrison in London and Michele de Lucchi in Milan. In 1993 he set up his studio in Berlin working in productdesign, conceptual design and brand architecture.
Werner Aisslinger has been a visiting teacher at the University of Arts in Berlin in 1994 and the Lahti Design Institute, Finnland in 1997 . From 1998 until 2005 he was a Professor at the productdesign-department at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Since 2006 he is member of the board of the trustees of Raymond Loewy Foundation and of the jury of the Lucky Strike Design Award.
The works of the designer Werner Aisslinger cover the spektrum of experimental, artistic approaches, including industrial design and architecture. He delights in making use of latest technologies and has helped introduce new materials and techniques to the world of product design like for his unique gel furniture.  The "Juli chair" was the first item of furniture to use a new type of foam called "polyurethanintegralfoam" and became the first German chair to be selected as a permanent exhibit at the MoMA in New York since 1964. In the process he has created striking designs and received awards from all over the world — from Milan's Compasso d'Oro, to the Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany, to the Red Dot Award or FX Award in the UK.
His work is permanent exhibitet in international Museum collections like  the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the French Fonds National d´Art Contemporain in Paris or the Museum Neue Sammlung in Munich and the vitra design museum collection in Weil, Germany