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Jan Klingler is an industrial designer who enjoys finding design inspiration in the most unexpected of places. He is currently available for freelance projects.

Designer Jan Klingler and Queen Silvia of Sweden. Photo: Henrik Garlöv/The Royal Court of Sweden

Designer Jan Klingler and Queen Silvia of Sweden. Photo: Henrik Garlöv/The Royal Court of Sweden

janklingler@icloud.com

—Education

2018 MFA Design, Konstfack — Stockholm, Sweden

2015 B.A. Industrial Design, HAWK — Hildesheim, Germany

—Exhibitions

2022 Design Museum Gent — Brussels, Belgium

2021 3 Days of Design — Copenhagen, Denmark

2021 Dutch Design Week — Eindhoven, Netherlands

2021 Museum de Fundatie — Zwolle, Netherlands

2021 Romania Design Week — Bucharest, Romania

2020 Volvo Studio — Stockholm, Sweden

2020 Formex — Stockholm, Sweden

2020 DesignMarch — Reykjavik, Iceland

2020 House of Sweden — Washington D.C., USA

2020 Light + Building — Frankfurt, Germany

2019-20 Dunkers Kulturhus — Helsingborg, Sweden

2019-20 Design Museum/Beazley Designs of the Year— London, England

2019 Designart Tokyo — Tokyo, Japan

2019 Form/Design Center — Malmö, Sweden

2019 Interzum Trade Fair — Cologne, Germany

2019 Salone di Mobile — Milan, Italy

2019 ArkDes Museum for Architecture & Design — Stockholm, Sweden

2019 Stockholm Furniture Fair — Stockholm, Sweden

2018 The Glass Factory — Boda Glasbruk, Sweden

2018 Konstfack spring exhibition — Stockholm, Sweden

2017 After Fair/Stockholm Furniture Fair — Stockholm, Sweden

2014 IMM Cologne — Cologne, Germany

—Recognition and Awards

2020 Formex Nova Nordic Designer of the Year, Swedish nominee

2020 Design Plus powered by Light + Building Award

2019 Beazley Designs of the Year

2019 Dezeen Awards longlist

2019 ein&zwanzig German Design Council shortlist

2019 Ung Svensk Form Award

2018 SSES Validator Grant

—Publications and Reviews

“Bacteria Lamp - Jan Klingler” Damn Magazine 02/2022

“Jan Klingler’s Bacteria Lamp is a Crossover between Science, Art, and Industrial Design” Scandinavian Mind 09/2020

“Formex Nova Nominee 2020 Jan Klingler” FORM - Magazine for Nordic Architecture and Design 01/2020

“Art Meets Science in These Dazzling Lamps Made of Microbes” Scientific American 07/2019

“These Lamps Preserve the Bacteria of your Favorite People, Pets, and Places” Fast Company 03/2019

“Jan Klingler’s Microbiological Lamps are Made from Bacteria Swabbed from Your Loved Ones” Sixtysix 03/2019

“Lights with Patterns Created by Bacteria” Material District 02/2019

“Jan Klingler’s Bacteria Lamps are ‘Modern Fossils’ as well as Lights” Dezeen 02/2019

FORM - Magazine for Nordic Architecture and Design 12/2018

—Workshops

2019 The Glass Factory, Glass Tech-Hack — Boda Glasbruk, Sweden

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Jan Klingler is an artist and industrial designer from Germany who currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden.

He received his BFA in Industrial Design from the Faculty of Design in Hildesheim, Germany in 2016, and his Master's Degree in Individual Study/Industrial Design at Konstfack University in Stockholm, Sweden in 2018. 

Jan enjoys finding design inspiration in the most unexpected of places. He is currently available for freelance projects.