Alain Berteau Designworks Architect and designer Alain Berteau runs his Brussels-based award-winning agency developing products, creative strategies, interior designs or buildings for brands such as BULO, ABV, OBJEKTEN SYSTEMS, MONTIS, WILDSPIRIT, SPHAUS, AGC, DELVAUX, DAIMLER, RVB, DARK, TOSSB, among many others. His work is recognized for versatile convenience, simple but decisive functional innovations and smart eco-friendly solutions.

Where does a product designer get his ideas from? From new materials that encourage challenging new applications. From new production techniques that make the previously unthinkable possible. And by observing everyday life manifesting unsatisfied needs. It is in this arena that Zurich designer Beat Karrer together with his team develops new products which resound favourably with his renowned clientele such as Anthologie Quartett, Ballfinger and Designerslabel (Germany), Boffi and Corian/DuPont (Italy), Offecct (Sweden), Burri, Röthlisberger, Kidsmodern and Tossa (Switzerland) or TossB (Belgium). As well as among the juries of international competitions in Belgium, Germany, Spain and Switzerland that awarded Beat Karrer with several prizes for his designs which often are unusual in their approach yet very functional and practical in their daily application. Nowadays Beat Karrer is also an active visiting teacher, lectures all over Europe, participates in juries and leads workshops for example for the Vitra Design Museum. Beat Karrer's ideas have appeared in many publications and various books.