Product Designer Judith Höfel

Judith Höfel describes her motto:

"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them" _{(Antoine de Saint-Exupery).}

"It is my motivation to design objects which communicate an idea, a starting point, a concept, a fundamental idea which I am pursuing. An object obtains a meaning – be it an idea, a thought, a question or a humorous moment".

Curriculum vitae

Date of birth: 16 July 1975
Place of birth: Pforzheim/Germany

• 1994 school-leaving exam & university entrance qualification with Maths and Fine Arts as special  subjects
• 1994 -1995 stay in the USA, studying English and Applied Arts at Southwestern Oregon Community College
• 1995 -1998 Berufskolleg für Formgebung von Schmuck und Gerät, Pforzheim (College for Jewellery  and Equipment Design)
• 1998 -2003 Studies at Hochschule für Gestaltung Pforzheim (studying Jewellery and Everyday Life Objects at Design College Pforzheim)
• 2001 Practical semester at Esther Brinkmann's in Geneva
• 2003 Graduation under professors Johanna Dahm and Christine Lüdeke
• Since 2004: working as a self-employed designer

Exhibitions (Selection)

• 2000 Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich: "Alles Schmuck – Einzelstücke" (Museum for Design, Zurich: "All Jewellery – Selected Items")
• 2001 Talente 2001, München (Talents 2001, Munich)
• 2001 Musée d’ Orlogerie, Geneva: Vitrine d´actualité
• 2002 Gallery Marzee, Nijmegen: "Ein Ausflug ins Alltägliche" ("A Trip into Everyday Life")
• 2002 Gallery Ra, Amsterdam: "Lepels"
• 2003 Klinkenmuseum, Solingen: "Löffel" ("Spoons")
• 2003 Reuchlinhaus, Pforzheim: "Zwischenspiel" ("Intermezzo")
• 2003 Museum voor hedendaagse Kunst, s`Hertogenbosch: "Crazy table"
• 2004 The Gallery Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales: "Spoons"
• 2004 Augustinermuseum, Freiburg: "Landesausstellung Kunst, Handwerk, Gestaltung" ("Regional  Exhibition Arts, Handicrafts, Design")
• 2005 Gallery Moha, Vienna: "> EUR 50.- "
• 2005 Gallery Sofie Lachaert, Tierode: "Dinner for two"
• 2005 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam: “ Hoezo lepels?”

Work on Public Collections

• Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Awards

• 2003 Rotary Club Pforzheim Schlossberg Promotion Award for the best interdisciplinary dissertation
• 2004 Recognition by the federal state of Baden-Württemberg

Publications (Selection)

Journals:

• Kunsthandwerk & Design, 1/2001
• Journal des musees, d´art et d´histoire Genève, no. 3
• Schmuck Magazin (Jewellery Magazine), 4/2001
• Design Report 10/02
• Interni, No 11
• Experimenta, 49
• Elle Decoration, 6/2004
• Elle Decoration, Poland, September/October 2004
• Schmuck Magazin (Jewellery Magazine), 1/2004
• Stil & Markt Tisch & Küche, 2/2005

Catalogues/Books:

• Einzelstücke, Schmuckkünstler aus Linz, Pforzheim und Zürich (Selected Items – Jewellery  designers from Linz, Pforzheim and Zurich)
• Talente 2001, Sonderschau der 53. I.H.M. (Talents 2001 – Special show of 53rd I.H.M.)
  Lepels/ Spoons, Gallery Ra, July 2002
• Monatsringbuch, Herausgeber (publisher) Barbara Schmidt
• Landesausstellung B-W, Kunst, Handwerk, Gestaltung 2004 (Regional exhibition B-W, Arts,  Handicrafts, Design 2004)
• Multipli di cibo - Foodesign Guzzini Made in Germany
• What do you mean, spoon? Museum Boijmans van Beuningen

Website:  www.judithhoefel.de