Adam & Harborth Design Office

Jörg Adam
Born in 1968 in Dusseldorf. From 1990 to 1996 he studied industrial design at the »College for Visual Arts Hamburg« and at the »Art College Berlin-Weißensee, College for Design«, where he finished his diploma at Prof. Helmut Staubach and Prof. Dr. Heinz Hirdina.
From 1996 to 1998 he worked as industrial-designer at Mediport Design, Berlin. In 1998 he founded together with Dominik Harborth the design office Adam and Harborth in Berlin.
He lives and works in Berlin.

Dominik Harborth
Born in 1968 in Freiburg in Breisgau. From 1990 to 1996 he studied Industrial Design at the »College for Visual Arts Hamburg« and at the »College Berlin-Weißensee, College for Design«, where he finished his diploma at Prof. Helmut Staubach and Prof. Dr. Heinz Hirdina.
From 1996 to 1998 he worked as a free Industrial-designer in Hamburg and Berlin. In 1998 he founded together with Jörg Adam the design office Adam and Harborth in Berlin.
He lives and works in Berlin and Munich.

Jörg Adam and Dominik Harborth founded in 1998 the design office Adam and Harborth in Berlin. They worked in the areas product- and graphic design and also in the development of exhibitions and design oriented contents of techings.

Adam and Harborth are in charge of their offices in Berlin and Munich of the product lines of different customers. Special attention finds their works for Konstantin Slawinski - housewarming objects. The SL- accessories-collection is caused and advanced. throwzini, clote and xyz where shown at the Ambiente 2005 in Frankfurt. At last their design hikhak was presented in 2006.

Customers
By now their work in the areas product- and graphic design for different companies international and national. To their customers belong: Very Lustre – Diamond Cutting, Konstantin Slawinski, Autostadt Wolfsburg, Blindenanstalt von Berlin, BSO – Berliner Sinfonie Orchester, Fink Medien AG, Landeshauptstadt München – Fremdenverkehrsamt, rap.ID, Deutsches Klingenmuseum, Theater Freiburg, details, Swatch, Siemens, Thonet and other.

Schooling
They teached in product design at the College of Arts, Berlin; the École des Beaux-Arts, Saint-Étienne (France); the College for Design, Karlsruhe; the College for Technique and Economy, Dresden; the College for Arts Berlin-Weißensee; the Escola Superior de Artes e Design Berlim na Bahia, Salvador (Brasil); the Funda Community Center, Soweto (South Africa) and at the Esti Art Academy Tallinn (Estonia).

Prizes
For their works they received many prizes, like the »Mart-Stam-Preis«, a special award at the »Lucky Strike Junior Designer Award« and at the »nachlux – Competition for Innovative Light Design«.
In 2006 their design »clote« of the Council of Design in the selection »World Champion – Design Germany«. Because of the Tendence Lifestyle 2006 in Frankfurt their chopping board series „hikhak“ was shown in the special show »Form 2006«.

Web-Site from Adam & Harborth Design Office: http://www.adamundharborth.de/