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erage computing power – thanks to high quality technical components from prestigious manufacturers such as Asus or Intel. “From the hard-drive to the ventilation and DVD drive, we carefully assemble various components and build them into the case, which then gets specifically manufactured in Switzerland for our customers,” Fabian Bigler adds. Established in 2006, the small company consists of the two friends Stefan Tschanz and Fabian Bigler, who founded the business together as partners. Having met by chance as flatmates in a temporary flat share in Bern around ten years ago, the good friendship has transformed into a fruitful business partnership. None of them had any classical training as designer or technician.“What we have is the interest in aesthetics, our creativity and our experience. Paramount is probably also our friendship. New ideas (useful, as well as completely unrealistic ones) often develop when good friends have a glass of wine together or let their ideas flow free until late at night,”Fabian Bigler says. Stefan Tschanz developed the design and found partners for the manufacturing of the shell. He is the creative and technical head of the Mood Cube. As a creative all-rounder, he worked as a bus driver, photographer, consultant and much more and therefore brings a lot of life experience into the business. And because opposites attract, Fabian Bigler is the perfect match for Stefan Tschanz:“I primarily arrange the entire administration in the background because I’m a professional accountant. Stefan had an idea and every idea needs somebody who deals with the numbers. Therefore, the foundation of Mood Food GmbH was a logical consequence.”
Focussing on creativity, flexibility and experimenting, the small company doesn’t have a management team telling them what to do to be as efficient as possible or to generate as much revenue as possible.“We also don’t have any shareholders in the background speculating on dividends and stock quotations. After all, freedom is the best friend of creativity. We simply do what we enjoy,”Fabian Bigler explains. He adds:“As independent entrepreneurs we have the freedom to spend our time experimenting
and trying new things, such as inventing computers made of leather or concrete.The aesthetic is especially important to us.That’s why it’s not enough for a computer to solely perform well. We want it to also be beautiful and that it becomes part of the interior furnishings.”Either the technical performance or the exceptional design stands at the fore in many products, but both are important for the unique Mood Cube. www.mood-cube.ch
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