The Product
is a berlin-based spatial and media-related design practice.

We use the power of good ideas to design unique experiences and things. Our work is concerned with interactions, interiors, graphics, architecture, computational processes, information visualisation, awareness and playfulness.

In the past we have worked in the following contexts. We have conceived holistic design concepts. We have designed spaces. We have created installations. We have animated surface. We have developed objects. And we have extensively thought about the application and combination of new and not so new technologies in meaningful ways.

We have worked with cultural institutions as well as commercial clients. Note that we believe that we are always working together with a client not just for a client; to the benefit of both.

Our work was featured in museums, on trade shows, in visitor centers, in showrooms, in exhibitions and at media art festivals.

In the process of realizing our projects we have developed and visualized meaningful and beautiful concepts. We have written software that catered for rich interactions or created amazingly complex, visual structures and objects. We have assembled hardware to invent new, unseen interfaces. We have created playful experiences that allowed technologically uneducated people to get involved with insanely high technology. And we have collaborated with a significant number of people to achieve truly interdisciplinary projects.

We like to see ourselves as a valuable contribution to every project. We are always open to exploring untreated paths and new ideas. We like to make good things happen.

Selected Awards
2011
Sol, Annual Multimedia Award, Gold
Die Pendel, iF communication design award

2009
Ars Electronica, Award of Distinction

Selected Exhibitions
2011
Sol, Here Comes the Sun, Berlin
Sol, Here Comes the Sun, Potsdam
Anxious Prop Case 4, Stattbad Wedding, Berlin
Wunder, Deichtorhallen Hamburg

2010
Sol, Here Comes the Sun, Dortmund
Leave-A-Comment Toolkit, Locate Me, Haus Bethanien, Berlin
Hits mit Bits, Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin
Game Milestones, Permanent Exhibition in the Computer Game Museum Berlin
Anxious Prop Case 3, Salon Populaire, Berlin

2009
Snow Play, Transmediale Partner event at c-base, Berlin
Tennisfreunde Berliin, c-base, Berlin
Die Quelle, Level Green, VW Autostadt, Wolfsburg
Schau Mal: Die Ladestraße entdecken, Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin
The Turtle Two, Becks Gold Urban Experience, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich

2008
Tennisfreunde Berliin, In the streets of Vilnius, Lithuania

2007
Tennisfreunde Berliin, Rodeo Club, Berlin

Selected Teaching
2011
Aesthetic Potential of Computational Processes, CIID, Copenhagen, Denmark
Rube Goldberg Processor, HfG Karlsruhe
The Aesthetics of Generative Design, CIID, Copenhagen, Denmark

2010
Introduction to Computational Design, CIID, Copenhagen, Denmark

2008
Computational Design Workshop, CIID, Copenhagen, Denmark

2007
Playfulness in Interactive Media, HfG Karlsruhe

2006
Input, Output and Things in Between, UNSW College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia

Selected Lectures
2011
Interaktion im Raum, Fjord Kitchen, Berlin
Virtual Augmented Physical What?, This Happened, Hamburg

2009
Der Prozess, CIID, Copenhagen

2008
It s more fun to compute, CIID, Copenhagen

2007
Well Behaved Interactive Media, Innovationsforum Interactiondesign, Potsdam, Germany

2006
Aesthetics of Mapping, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Playfulness in Interactive Media, Achtung Berlin Festival, Berlin, Germany

2005
Applied Computational Design for Art+Com at Generator X Conference, Oslo, Norway