Prof. Mag.

Thomas Feichtner

 

Portrait

Thomas Feichtner is an internationally established product designer. He was born in Brazil and grew up in Austria. He studied industrial design at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz. He designed numerous products for international brands such as Swarovski, Laufen, Bene, Adidas, Head, Absolut, Augarten Porzellanmanufaktur, J&L Lobmeyr, Neue Wiener Werkstätten, TON and Carl Mertens and realized projects in cooperation with manufactures such as Vitra, Thonet and FSB. His work is positioned midway between industry and handicrafts, mass production and one-of-a-kinds. International exhibitions at the Triennale di Milano, the International Biennial of Design in Saint Etienne, the Austrian Cultural Forum London as well as the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna followed. His work was honoured with international design awards and have been acquired by various design collections. A personal monograph “Thomas Feichtner – Edge to Edge“ was released by the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art and published by Birkhäuser in 2010. From 2009 to 2014 Feichtner was a professor for product design at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel, Germany and in 2011 he was awarded by the Austrian State Award for Design. Since Oktober 2018 he is Head of Institute of the Bachelor and Master Program Industrial Design at the Joanneum in Graz. He lives and works in Vienna and Graz with his wife Simone.

Courses

Industrial Design (Bachelor, VZ)
Wintersemester | Coursecode: B16.0646301 Project 3 6 SWS 8 ECTS Sommersemester | Coursecode: B16.0646602 Bachelor's Thesis 2 (Supervision / Report) 1 SWS 6 ECTS Sommersemester | Coursecode: B16.0646601 Work Placement (Seminar) 1 SWS 24 ECTS Sommersemester | Coursecode: B16.0646204 Visual Communication 2 2 SWS 3 ECTS Sommersemester | Coursecode: B16.0646401 Project 4 6 SWS 8 ECTS Wintersemester | Coursecode: B23.0646109 5x5 Short Project 1 1 SWS 1 ECTS Wintersemester | Coursecode: B23.0646110 Virtual Modeling Basics 2 SWS 2 ECTS Wintersemester | Coursecode: B16.0646502 Seminar for Bachelor Thesis 1 1 SWS 2 ECTS Sommersemester | Coursecode: B23.0646204 Visual Communication 2 2 SWS 3 ECTS Wintersemester | Coursecode: B16.0646501 Bachelor Thesis 1 5 SWS 8 ECTS
Industrial Design (Master, VZ)
Wintersemester | Coursecode: M23.0647106 Project Work Industrial Design 1 / Mobility 6 SWS 14 ECTS Wintersemester | Coursecode: M23.0647110 Project Work Industrial Design 1 / Eco-innovative 6 SWS 14 ECTS Sommersemester | Coursecode: M23.0647205 Seminar Master's Thesis 1 SWS 2 ECTS Sommersemester | Coursecode: M16.0647401 Master's Thesis (Seminar/Supervision) 2 SWS 30 ECTS Sommersemester | Coursecode: M23.0647206 Project Work Industrial Design 2 / Mobility 6 SWS 15 ECTS Sommersemester | Coursecode: M23.0647207 Project Work Industrial Design 2 / Eco-innovative 6 SWS 15 ECTS Wintersemester | Coursecode: M23.0647104 5x5 Short Project 1 1 SWS 1 ECTS Wintersemester | Coursecode: M16.0647301 Work Placement (Seminar/Supervision) 1 SWS 30 ECTS