designschneider

2015 Golden Key Award Winner - Belgrade Furniture Fair 2015:
Artisan Invito collection
2014 Nomination - Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland:
Maxwell & Williams, BISOU porcelain service
2012 Interior Innovation Award: Rodam, Perspektive table & Kanon chair
2011 iF –Design Award: JIA Inc., Family Bowls
2010 red dot award: JIA Inc., Family Bowls
2010 Nomination - Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland:
Steinberg Armaturen GmbH, Structure – single lever basin mixer
2010 iF –Design Award: Steinberg Armaturen GmbH, Structure
2010 red dot award: Steinberg Armaturen GmbH, Structure
2009 Good Design Award: Steinberg Armaturen GmbH, Structure
2008 Nomination - Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland:
Berndorf, Perspectives – cutlery
2008 red dot award- Berndorf Perspectives/cutlery
2007 red dot award - Villeroy & Boch AG, Marchesi – cutlery
2005 red dot award - FORMvorRAT, Up_Down
2003 Innovations Forum Practical World 2003, Cologne Fair:
third price for Lenz Easy – bathtub with cabinets
2002 Design Plus - Villeroy&Boch Kensington – cutlery
2001 red dot award - sam inline/series of water taps
2001 iF –Design Award “best of category” - Zwilling Twincollection – knives
2000 red dot award -Zwilling Twin collection, tea/coffee
2000 iF –Design Award - Zwilling Twin collection – cheese knives
1999 Design Plus - Hoesch Clever – series of shower enclosures
1999 red dot award - Zwilling Twincollection – cheese knives
1998 Good Design Award - Zwilling Twincollection/cheese knives
1996 iF –Design Award - mono Zeug/Tools/cooking knives
1995 Form design award, Frankfurt Fair - mono Zeug/Tools/cutlery
1993 Haushahn Design Award - second price
1992 the new cutlery award, Blade Museum Solingen - third price

designschneider was founded in 1993 by Michael Schneider in Cologne.

In 2009 designschneider moved to Berlin, when Jan-Patric Metzger joined the studio.

designschneider is dedicated to product design focusing on furniture design, tableware and sanitary ware. The design studio has an international client base and is committed to designing new products which are unique, beautiful and functional.

Michael Schneider: “My vision of success is creating products that will be used and enjoyed on a daily basis.”

Michael Schneider
1962 born in southern Germany
1984-1989 Studied Product Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Prof. Richard Sapper
1989 diploma
1987-1992 Designer at Phoenix Design in Stuttgart
1992-1993 half the world trip for 6 months
1993 opening designschneider in Cologne
1996+1997 invitation of the Korean Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP): design advisory program of Korean companies; lectures at Korean design schools
2000 visiting lecturer at the RWTH (Faculty of Architecture) in Aachen, one-week seminar: “public design for handicapped people”
2003 visiting lecturer at the University of Arts (UDK) in Berlin, summer term 2003: semester project: “x – table”
2006 visiting lecturer at the National Institute of Design NID in Ahmedabad/India: semester project “Indian Take-Away/Indian Picnic
2012-2015 Professional qualification of the furniture sector in Egypt: design trainings for Egyptian designers
2013 HKDW: Jury member of the “Hong Kong Design Awards 2013”
2014 assigned Master at the De Tao Academy/Shanghai
2015 FURNEX EGYPT: Jury member of the “FURNEX Awards 2015”
2017 Technische Hochschule Köln – Institute KISD one-week seminar: project “on the road”
2020/2021 Technische Hochschule Köln – Institute KISD
Winter semester, middle term project “out of the box – part I”
2021 Technische Hochschule Köln – Institute KISD
Summer semester, middle term project “out of the box – part II”