Orientation, information and communication within spaces - for brands, the public sector and cultural institutions worldwide: these are the key areas in which we work.
Peter Eckart and Bernd Hilpert established unit-design in 2000 in Frankfurt. In 2018 we were widening our activity by founding our branch in Bern with Matthias Decker. Today, we are a team of fifteen, developing design solutions to high creative and strategic standards – and successfully putting them into practice. Working with international customers and partners, we implement projects with lasting design quality.
In our projects, we operate as an independent, specialised unit of design specialists, working closely with architects, urban planners, graphic designers and curators. As a result of this, we have built up an international network of professional partners.
Matthias Decker
MANAGING DIRECTOR STUDIO BERN
Graduate in design; studied at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW in Aarau; worked as a freelancer in product and communication design from 2011 to 2015. with unit-design since 2012, becoming partner and managing director at unit-design GmbH in 2002. Since 2018 managing director of the unit-design GmbH in Bern, Switzerland.
Peter Eckart
PARTNER
Graduate in design; studied under Professor Dieter Rams at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg; at Braun AG from 1989 to 1992; worked as a freelancer for multinational companies in product and information design from 1992. Professor of product design at Offenbach University of Art and Design since 1999; founded unit-design in 2000; partner in unit-design GmbH since 2002.
Bernd Hilpert
PARTNER + MANAGING DIRECTOR
Graduate in design; studied at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and at ENSCI in Paris; worked as a freelancer in communication design and exhibition design from 1996 to 1999; with unit-design since 2000, becoming partner and managing director at unit-design GmbH in 2002.
