MARKUS BISCHOF produktdesign

Markus Bischof is a product designer who trained as a joiner and studied integrated product design at Coburg University of Applied Sciences. Born in 1980, he worked for Karim Rashid in New York in 2005 and spent 2008 to 2010 shaping the design of Trumpf punching machines before opening MARKUS BISCHOF produktdesign in Nuremberg in 2010.

Since then the studio has produced more than 300 concepts, designs and products across lighting, living and office furniture, capital goods, hospitality and residential interiors, and brand design, earning numerous international design awards. Bischof works from the credo “Products beyond function” and “FUNctional design”, arguing that a product succeeds through its identity, its handling, its use of production processes and its care for resources.