Newcomer 2017
Winner

Benjamin Würkner

At the German Design Awards 2017, Benjamin Glöckner received the prestigious distinction Newcomer of the Year. The product designer impressed with his work, which explores material research and generative design processes. What makes this honour unique is that it recognises not just a single project, but his entire portfolio and creative profile.

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Benjamin Würkner is a structural thinker. In his works, he enjoys translating bionic models into either highly complex or minimalistically simple objects that move in a creative field of material, form and structure, thereby demonstrating great sensitivity to material properties. His affinity for architecture and interdisciplinary work is reflected in his holistic spatial concepts as well as in the product language of his product designs, in which he exploits innovative potentials with new material properties and technologies.