Dirk Winkel

Dirk Winkel is a Berlin-based product designer, graduated from the Royal College of Art in London (MA Design Products) in 2010. Specializing in lighting and furniture design, he founded his design studio in Berlin in the summer of 2011. Motivated by the idea of ​​formal purism as a fundamental principle of sustainability, he is particularly interested in exploring the limits of mass production techniques, redesigning paradigms of light and lighting, and studying new materials and their ecological and aesthetic potential.

Since 2012, he has taught Construction in Design within the Industrial Design program at UdK Berlin (Berlin University of the Arts). In 2022, he was appointed visiting professor of product design at HBKsaar. His work has garnered numerous awards and nominations, including the Swedish Design Award (Svensk Form), Designs of the Year (London Design Museum), the German Design Award (Special Mention), and the Editors' Choice Award (Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair).