Marxen Design

I am an inventor, traveler and industrial designer based in Bremen, Germany. I have worked, lived and studied across Europe and Asia.

After starting with computer sciences, in the end I graduated with a master’s degree in Integrated Design at the University of the Arts Bremen. Integrated Design is an interdisciplinary field of study, which allows to collect experiences in graphic, fashion and industrial design. Thus, enabling one to combine these experiences freely and to gain a broader view on design.

The designer being the intermediary between user, client and manufacturer, I learn everything remotely related to industrial design. May it be welding, CNC-machining, wood working, photography, sewing, screen printing, gardening, programming, printed circuit board design, computational fluid dynamics analysis, sociology, psychology etc. etc. etc. But just to the extent that I can understand what is possible for the real professionals in their respective fields. Jack of all trades master of… design.

It is said that design is a problem solving methodology, but most often identifying the problems that need solving is the hardest part. For example, the question is not ‘what is the best power drill?’ but ‘what is the best way to get a hole into a wall?’ Most likely you are not going to revolutionize hole drilling, so you move on to identify the ergonomic, functional or economic problems of existing power drills. And only then do you tackle the aesthetic problems. This approach of identifying and solving problems from biggest to smallest is not fast but it is where meaningful innovation can be found.

Honors and Awards:

1st place in the category Protective Equipment in the #EUvsVirus hackathon held by the European Commission with over 30.000 participants
Red Dot Award 2017 - Honorable Mention
Second prize in the LG OLED Design Competition 2016 from over 2700 submissions
Werkraum Talent 2016
Nominated as Newcomer of the Year for the German Design Award 2016
IF Student Design Award 2015
Merit-based PROMOS scholarship of the DAAD

Exhibitions:

Cities-Pol(e)is as part of the European Heritage Days 2018 in Athens
European Media Arts Festival 2018
Espacioenter 9th edition
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Video Babel 2017, Cusco, Peru
Athens Digital Arts Festival 2017
Global Grad Show as part of the Dubai Design Week 2016 (Sponsored by her highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammad Al Maktoum)
Tendence 2016
DMY Berlin 2016 (Sponsored by Viessmann)
Ex_it 2014
Best of HfK Design 2011

Curriculum Vitae:

2008 Media Informatics at the University of Lübeck
2010 Integrated Design at the University of the Arts Bremen
2012 Industrial Design at the Nagoya University of Arts, Japan
2014 Bachelor's Degree in Integrated Design
2016 Master's Degree in Integrated Design
2017 Internship at Jacob Jensen Design Bangkok
2018 Marxen Design

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