Interview with Timo Brunkhorst
Timo Brunkhorst is a multidisciplinary designer focusing on conceptual objects and graphic design. After studying at the Design Factory International, he worked in various design agencies around…
Designer Interview
5 May 2018
At the beginning there was graffiti. I was up all night long, worked my way through commisioned works for the city and became a part of the city. And as a child, every time I entered the tool shop of my grandfather, I felt the urge to create and built something.
I am a multidisciplinary designer focusing on product design, conceptual objects and graphic design. It is important for me to constantly evolve my working skills and therefore I confront myself with new challenges every time.
Function / usability, Aesthetics and sustainability
Products that have a practical use and objects that tell a story.
there is too much beautiful stuff out there…...one thing I really like is the variety of nature, for example the structure of wood, symmetrical snowflakes and the mysteries about quantum entanglement.
A chocolate bar
Wood, Metal, Pinterest and Blockchain technology is by far the most interesting one at the moment.
When i am traveling or when I am doing adventures, sports resp. when i am relaxed.
Function, usability and aesthetics.
The urge of creating, the wish of perfection, sometime getting lost in the paradox relation of form and functionality.And a lot more...
Pure Satisfaction
If it fulfills the given conditions with a aesthetically fitting to his purpose + an extra touch of Function, usability and or sustainability
Aesthetics and function in combination with its purpose.
Design has to be forward-looking sustainable and easy to understand.
Design is here since day one and will stay forever. Everything needs to be „designed“ or is already designed from the nature.Some design fields will some day in some kind be more automated then today. for example Artificial intelligence…
I was part of the Game Masters exhibition at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg Germany from the 28. Oktober 2016 till 23. April 2017
Different cultures, the world wide web, exchange with friends, adventures sports and with a relaxing cigarette and a drink on the couch with good music and my Moleskin.
I pursue a kind of pragmatism and perfectionism in form of simple and reduced design in a contemporary context.
I am living in Hamburg Germany. The harbor of Hamburg and its maritim flair which comes with it.For me it feels like my design has always a kind of chilly distance to the observer, like the cold and stormy sea.
I normally get booked locally from design agencies for a special project.
Every designer has his own specialties.Searching creative portals for example behance, for a style which one is liked
To be completely into it i need a problem to be solved.
My L16 Series Copper lighting, my self built drawer, bed, my old Cor Conseta sofa and the Kaiser Idell lamp. Pretty much more isnt there, i like to stick with the essentials.
Waking up, taking a shower, having porridge for breakfast, going by bike to an agency i work at the moment, having a good lunch, working round about till 19:00 o clock. Afterwards often meeting up with friends, having dinner and a chat. Coming home do some research on a project i am interested at the moment. Trying to fall asleep.
Focusing on what you love, be patient, always believe in yourself, travel as much as you can and dont give up to learn something new.
positives: i think as a designer you mostly want to be part of or create something new.negative: you analyze and categorize your surrounding by its look and feel, for example i am very influenced by the visual impression.
Simplicity
To be open for something new and to learn how to express what you want to say.
My tool box, from a caliper rule to a band saw, the World wide Web, the Adobe Creative Suite and Cinema 4D, my feedly feeds and pinterest.
If it is a free and self organized project i go with the flow. If it's not, I split the relevant parts of the project, for example research, first drafts etc. then I divide it through the whole amount of time in reasonable parts.
From one day to a couple of years.
What are you exactly designing?
To present my own product for the first time.
Geometry Global, Redeleit und Junker and Just Blue
Creating something totally new, because you have the most influence in every kind of aspect.
I am up for new things and open to what comes next, whatever it may be.
By myself, most of the time. Exchange in some way with other people is always good and should not be forgotten.
There is a upcoming series i am working currently on. Rearranged pieces of some special processed objects I produced in the past 6 years. The Series is in its final stage, the main missing parts are some frames, which I want to build out of oak.
info@timobrunkhorst.de