Otto Watt

Profile Born in Tremezzina (Como) in 1945. Master in Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico of Milan in 1969. From 1973 technical manager of Kartell, in charge of the development of projects of furniture and plastic laboratory equipments. Since 1979 freelance industrial designer for various companies: Alfa Romeo Auto, Alias, Alessi, Arabia–Finland ,Cinelli, Colombo design, Brevetti Gaggia, JcDecaux, Ideal Standard, Luceplan, Legrand, Mandarina Duck, Omron Japan, Philips, Olivetti, Vitra, etc. Exibitions "Creativitalia" Tokio1990, and a personal exhibition at the “Design Gallery”, Matzuia Ginza in Tokio1990. “XVIII Triennale in Milan” 1992, "The lightness" section of "Il giardino delle cose". "Mestieri d'Autore "1993 in Siena "Design, miroir du siècle", at the section "Le sens et la matière", Paris 1993 “Mutant materials in contemporary design“ at MOMA – NewYork 1995, Meda – Rizzatto exibition at Binnen Galerie–Amsterdam 1996 Lighting Affinities –Milano 1996 Designer of the Year , personal at Salon du Meuble – Paris 1999 "Italia e Giappone design come stile di vita" – Yokohama, Kobe 2001 Design and Elastic Mind– Moma 2008 Triennale di Milano Il Design Italiano oltre le crisi – 2014 Youthful – spazio Domus, Milano 2015 The Bauhaus#itsalldesign. Vitra Design Museum 2015 Teaching and research From 1983 to 1987 lecturer on industrial technology at Domus Academy. Seminars at International Design Symposium in Fukui , at Workshop Design Quest in Osaka, and at Design Center in Tokyo. From 1995 lecturer at Politecnico of Milan "Corso di Laurea di Disegno Industriale" with a design lab. From 1995 to 1997 member of Board of Designlabor Bremerhaven From 2003 to 2007 lecturer at IUAV in Venice with design workshops. From 2016 Member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Politecnico di Milano Several lectures and seminars such as Chicago, St.Louis at Washington University, Stockolm, Miami, San Paulo, Taipei, Ulm, Istanbul, Toronto, Mexico, HongKong, Firenze, Oslo, Istanbul, Lausanne, Seul , Chicago Awards 1989 "Compasso d'oro" Lola lamp(Luceplan) 1994 "Compasso d'oro" "Metropoli" lamps (Luceplan) 2008 "Compasso d'oro" MIX lamp (Luceplan) 2011 "Compasso d'oro" Teak table(Alias) 2016 "Compasso d'oro" Flap acoustic panel (Caimi Brevetti) 2005 “Hon Royal Designer for Industry” Londra RSA 2007 "INDEX:award" Solar Bottle 1992 "Design Plus” Titania lamp, Luceplan 1994 "European Design Prize", Luceplan 1995 "Industrie Forum design" Hannover UNI – X family lamps, 1996 "Industrie Forum design" Hannover Titania Clamp lamp 1997 Good design Gold Prize–Japan Meda chair, Vitra 1998 I.D design review ’Best of category’ Meda chair, Vitra 1999 Designer of the year, Salon du Meuble de Paris 2000 Bundespreis Produktdesign Meda chair, Vitra 2001 Good Design Award Chicago Athenaeum Water Jug, Arabia 2002 Reddot Award knives, Iittala Finland 2006 "Design Plus" e “Light of the future” MIX lamp, Luceplan 2012 Best of – Design Plus per OttoWatt, Luceplan 2014 Best of Neocon (U.S.A) Silver Award Flap, Caimi Brevetti 2015 German Design Award Flap, Caimi Brevetti 2016 DesignEuropa Awards (EUIPO) Flap, Caimi Brevetti 2016 Good Design Award Chicago Athenaeum Origami, Tubes Some products are part of permanent collection of Museum of Modern Art of Toyama and since 1994 The Museum of Modern Art in New York, includes in its Design Collection "Light light" chair 1987, "Soft light" chair 1989, “Longframe” 1991 by Alias, and "On–Off" lamp by Luceplan 1988. Bibliography Alberto Meda di Francesca Picchi Collana Prontuario– Abitare Segesta edizioni – 2003 Il design di Alberto Meda–Una concreta leggerezza di Domitilla Dardi Ed. Electa 2005 I Protagonisti del design–Hachette 2012 – Alberto Meda He works and lives in Milan.