Dott 07 and Northumbria University School of Design Present

25-26 October 2007
NewcastleGateshead

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  • Janet Abrams
  • Andy Altmann
  • John Bates
  • Durrell Bishop
  • Christoph Boninger
  • Tim Brown
  • Allan Chochinov
  • Matthew Collings
  • Gillian Crampton-Smith
  • Chris Downs
  • Richard Eisermann
  • Ignacio Germade
  • Clive Grinyer
  • Joe Heapy
  • Peter Higgins
  • Frans Johansson
  • Heather Martin
  • Nico Macdonald
  • Lynne Maher
  • Sarah Maynard
  • Jeremy Myerson
  • Vicky Richardson
  • Jonathan Sands
  • Tom Savigar
  • Peter Saville
  • Richard Seymour
  • Richard Shed
  • Ed Silk
  • Daljit Singh
  • Stefan Stern
  • Deyan Sudjic
  • John Thackara
  • Austin Williams
  • James Woudhuysen

Christoph Boninger

Christoph Boninger studied Industrial Design in Munich and Los Angeles. In 1982, as his diploma, he designed the world's first laptop PC, displayed today in Munich's Neue Sammlung. After his degree he worked in Munich then moved to New York in 1987 to build up a design department for Siemens USA. In 1990 he returned to Germany to manage several Siemens design organisations until 2006, when he left to start brains4design. He works in the area of furniture design and his designs are in the permanent collections of museums in Europe and the US. These exhibits include the aluminium Soest stool, the patented SAX-table for ClassiCon and the A-bowl, which can be seen at the MoMA in New York. In 2005 he published FORM:ETHIK, winning a New York Type Directors Club award. Christophe lectures at various universities and is curator of the Haniel Foundation and Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen.