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S. BARBIER BOUVET  F. BORKENHAGEN  M. GAMPER  J. HEIN
J. HUNDERTPFUND  M. KUTTNER  M. MEISE  M. SAILSTORFER  
C. SEILLES  J. SENG  J. SEYMOUR  E. SOTTSASS  T. TROUVÉ 
OSKO+DEICHMANN  J. WOHNSEIFER

Jörg Hundertpfund, designer,
born 1960 in Zürich, Switzerland

« Design sucks! Design is essentially a banal art form. It is very good at simulating changes against the background of a diligent belief in progress. Design feels at home and is readily apparent in the spheres of both marketing and modern living trade fairs.
That is where the design draws a picture of orientation and the future which is equal parts cachet and horror—a picture of nimble standstill and, most of all, completely simple. The most distinguished function is the intercession and terms of the ‹authority in passivity of the Modernists›—the design object as gadget or rather the exact requisite of the ‹ simulation of sovereignty ›*. The simulation of movement and advancement is created by the simple exponential progression of goods with the following implication: in a confusing world, simple truths have capital.
To use this and to elbow my way into the system is a pleasure and wish. I would like my works to be understood as a subversion against the inconsistencies and contradictions of ideologies and arguments but mainly against simple-mindedness and boredom. Design, in this sense, is the most effective lubricant. »
(Jörg Hundertpfund)

Between 1981 and 1988 Professor Jörg Hundertpfund studied industrial design at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin with Nick Roericht. Since 1993 he has been a professor at the Fachhochschule Potsdam in the design department. Jörg Hundertpfund was a young member of the Berlin Design Initiative, the impetus and engine of the ‹ N ew German D esign › of the 1980s. His current works have a strong conceptual streak and often deal with audience expectations. Conventions of exhibitions as well as our relationship to objects of everyday use made profane are themes of the designs. In his work he’s especially interested in the relationship between the observer and the object. He often deals with expectations and conventions of his audience. Jörg Hundertpfund was a founding member of the Instituts Für Form Forschung. He was and continues to be involved in numerous exhibitions mainly within Germany.