Kerstin Nolte

Kerstin Nolte is an industrial designer based in Hamburg who describes her work as design with a fine sense of touch: objects people like to hold and use. Her speciality is cutlery, table accessories and writing instruments, developed from the first idea through to market launch.

Trained as a goldsmith in Hamburg before studying industrial design in Berlin and Braunschweig, with an internship at Volkswagen and jewellery commissions for the Aalto Gallery in London, she spent fifteen years from 1991 at M.H. Wilkens & Sohne. Freelance since 1995 for consumer-goods companies, she has also worked on lifestyle projects for BMW, Mini, Richard and Esprit and on stationery for Hartung, and she has received twelve design awards.