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Prof. Luigi Colani
An important personage of international design and an unquestionable authority in the field of designing. Hundreds of products by the most renowned brands bear the characteristic "Colani" signature. Colani started his career in Paris as an automotive designer. He designed the first car body made entirely of plastic for SIMCA, a small sports car Colani GT - the icon of the 60's lifestyle, eco-friendly and race cars, tankers, gliders and trains. Colani is the author of innovative plastic furniture and consumer and sanitary ceramics forms setting new trends in design, present in products of such manufacturers as Villeroy & Boch, Grohe and Rosenthal. Aerodynamic sports equipment, watches and jewellery designed by Colani became world-famous, not to mention the ergonomic digital reflex camera by Canon, organically-shaped Sony headphones or an unconventionally-shaped Vobis computer. The inexhaustible variety of forms and cutting-edge design ideas include Colani's recent architectural designs.


Hadi Teherani
One of the most creative German architects and designers, Teherani has created new design standards and won many prestigious awards. Ambitious design, well-thought-out functionality and tangible benefits for the user are his professional creed. Hadi Teherani is one of three founders of a renowned architectural design company, BRT Architekten in Hamburg, with a staff of many engineers, architects, interior decorators, graphic specialists, designers, site managers, etc. The company's unorthodox designs include large office buildings (Doppel-X-Haus in Hamburg), stadiums (Rheinhafen in Cologne), stations (Frankfurt airport, main railway stations in Hannover and Dortmund) as well as small designs, e.g. Glasbrücke C&A and Berliner Bogen in Hamburg, Tobias Grau factory in Rellingen. In his own design company, Hadi Teherani AG, he performs design work for such customers as: Kermag, Zumtobel Staff, interstuhl, Carpet Concept, Armstrong DW, Konig+Neurath, Spechral, Tecnoline, etc.


Prof. Stefan Heiliger
A remarkable designer, professor and lecturer of the Higher School of Design in Offenbach, owner of the »Stefan Heiliger Design« company in Frankfurt. Designed for Mercedes Benz in 1964-77. Since 1985, he has cooperated with renowned furniture companies. Heiliger creates his own furniture collections under the "Heiliger Collection" brand. Winner of prestigious awards and distinctions, author of many publications in international specialist press. His designs are characterised by perfect functionality, guaranteeing high comfort of use and pragmatic calculation of manufacturing costs.


Hans-Georg Piorek
Designer, member of VDID (Association of German Industrial Designers), visiting professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Poznań University of Technology. Designs and prepares technological details of products for diverse industries, e.g. office furniture systems, office and conference chairs, consumer goods, household appliances, stadium seats, heating systems.


Andrzej Tomasz Rudkiewicz
	Designer, member of the Association of Industrial Designers and the Association of Finnish Designers ORNAMO. He was awarded the title of the Designer of the Year 2007 by the Institute of Industrial Design as the best designer.


Tomek Rygalik
	A famous Polish designer who achieved spectacular success abroad. A graduate and employee of the renowned Royal College of Art in London, Rygalik runs his own design studio in London, working for such companies as Moroso, Artek and Heal's.


Sotyrys Pantopulos
	An architect, owner of Digital Effect Design Studio. A graduate of the Faculty of Architecture of the Krakow University of Technology, Pantopulos makes conceptual and technical designs for housing and public facility architecture, interior, furniture, and consumer designs.


Prof. Justus Theinert
	Dean of the Industrial Design and Design Theory Faculty at the Higher Vocational School in Darmstadt. His design activity focuses on investment assets, furniture, interior architecture, transport, fashion and accessories, art of exhibition, visual identification of companies and brand image strategies.


Prof. Wojciech Bonenberg
	Deputy Head of the Institute of Architecture and Area Development of the Poznań University of Technology. He is the author of more than 100 designs in the field of public use facilities, industrial and housing architecture, including many works that were awarded or received a distinction. Especially worth noting are his designs of the largest European border terminals: Świecko-Frankfurt (Oder), Koroszczyn-Terespol on the Moscow-Paris route and Olszyna-Forst on the Kiev-Wrocław-Strasburg route.


Lutz Dietzold
	Administrative and professional director of the Hessen Design Centre, marketing manager and assistant managing director of German Design Council (Rat für Formgebung). Dietzold is responsible, among others, for organising such events as a series of international conferences "Architecture for Brands", "German Debate for Designers", the exhibition "German Design in Japan" and the "Material Vision" conference combined with a commercial presentation.


Holger Burckhardt
	Professional Director of Hessen Design Centre, which as a public use facility promotes co-operation between designers and business, industry and science. The centre inspires research and development work and contributes to professional development and education of designers.


Thomas Poth
	Founder of p&p GmbH, a company specializing in innovative woodworking and processing of plastics by means of a vectogram. The vectogram technique is a new computer-based process in which images are transferred to plastic panels by milling.