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“Turning the conceivable into reality” The Reddot Design Award, the Federal Award for Ecodesign and the German Design Award – these are just a few of the awards received by Mehnert Corporate Design, a Berlin-based full-service agency specialising in communication and product development. The team, centered around founder and owner Prof. Kurt Mehnert and head of office operations Peter Kutz, has time and time again demonstrated its ability to turn innovative design ideas into reality.
to quote Elon Musk: ‘I could either watch it happen or be a part of it’.” Design happens everywhere According to Prof. Mehnert, good design is more important than ever, due to its medial omnipresence. He sees in design the
TEXT: MARILENA STRACKE I PHOTOS: MEHNERT CORPORATE DESIGN, WERDER BREMEN, HEIKE KANDALOWSKI
The story of Mehnert Corporate Design begins in the early ‘90s, when Kurt Mehnert was invited to the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau, in order to assist the university in developing its Department of Integrated Design on the grounds of the historical Bauhaus campus. For Mehnert, proximity to Berlin – where he had studied – represented a return to his roots and proved to be a huge factor in deciding where to base his company – Berlin having long been one of the world’s great creative hotspots. 104 | Issue 78 | September 2019
Since 2008, Prof. Mehnert has taught and conducted research at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, where he served as acting president from 2009 to 2017. In 2017, he developed the Industrial Design Institute (IDI) at Zhaoqing University in China, of which he has remained acting president until today. “At the same time, I never stop learning: teaching in China means sharpening your view of global market observation and the development of the future,” he explains. “In that sense, I count myself very lucky to be involved. Or
PROF. KURT MEHNERT - Founder & Owner.