DESIGNER - Daniel Gafner
“My work lies between different design disciplines. I have to keep a wide overview in order to create new ways. The breaking out and fusing of existing professions will be a way of creating changes in the world.“

daniel@postfossil.ch

Dipl. Designer FH (final decree 2006, FHNW CH)
Dipl. furniture carpenter (Diploma 1998)

Work experiences
2009 lecturer at the FHNW, Workshop „critical design“
2008 independent Designer, projects in the fields of interior, product Design, fashion and art
2004/05 Exchange semester at HFK-Bremen in Fashion design

Awards and Nominations
2008 „bronzener Hase“ for „first light“ die besten 09, hochparterre and swiss television
2008 design report award for “first light”, SaloneSatellite, Milano, IT
2007 design award „form 08“ f0r „unité de vernissage“ defdef, CH
2007 nominated for Swiss federal award of design
2006 third price European Fashion Award: „Local-global“ of the German Apperal Industry Foundation

Exhibitions
2009 neue räume’09, Furnitue fair, Zurich CH
2009 von A bis Züst eine Bibliothek geht auf reisen, art exibition, La Perla, Zurich CH
2009 DMY International Design Festival, Berlin D
2009 Salone satellite at furniture fair Milano IT
2009 Crash The Oil at College Corner, Zurich CH
2008 Salone satellite at furniture fair Milano IT
2008 Plattform 08, unité de vernissage, Zurich, CH
2006 Pixel analogien, welcome in real life!, Lukyloft Galerie, Hamburg D
2005 Airlift project, Kunstraum Walcheturm Zurich CH
2005 Insert coin, Kunstraum Walcheturm Zurich CH

Articles/ Publications
2009 limited edition, Birkhäuser verlag
2008 Desire, the shape of things to come, Gestalten Verlag
2008 Design report, about design report award
2008 Hochparterre, about young designers
2008 Hochparterre, die besten 08
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24.-26.09.2010
Design ON OFF Lausanne