Our DESIGN is based on holistic solutions that create ADDED VALUE.
DESIGN STRATEGY – FUNCTION – COSTS are at the center of our considerations at the beginning.
Thomas Starczewski Graduated Designer - founder of designship, has been developing and designing series products for the machinery, furniture and consumer industries since 1984. Against the background of his training in mold making, he studied product design at the HfG in Schwäbisch Gmünd. 1986 started the agency in Ulm under the name Starczewski Design Team. In 1987 the award for Young Artists of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia followed, and in 1995 the El Toro chair was included in the permanent collection of the museum of Applied Arts
”Preußischer Kulturbesitz“ (Prussian Cultural Heritage) and that of the Museum of Architecture and Design - The Chicago Atheaneum. Many successes later and a teaching position at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd and the FH Ulm Digitale Medien, the design team has been operating under the name designship since 2006. In 2017, the company became a GmbH and has since operated under the name designship GmbH. Thomas Koch joined the company as a partner in 2022 and has been managing director since March 2024, his 10th year at designship.
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Thomas Starczewski Graduated Designer - founder of designship, has been developing and designing series products for the machinery, furniture and consumer industries since 1984. Against the background of his training in mold making, he studied product design at the HfG in Schwäbisch Gmünd. 1986 started the agency in Ulm under the name Starczewski Design Team. In 1987 the award for Young Artists of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia followed, and in 1995 the El Toro chair was included in the permanent collection of the museum of Applied Arts
”Preußischer Kulturbesitz“ (Prussian Cultural Heritage) and that of the Museum of Architecture and Design - The Chicago Atheaneum. Many successes later and a teaching position at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd and the FH Ulm Digitale Medien, the design team has been operating under the name designship since 2006.
Creativity is the ability to navigate successfully in a sea of ever increasing possibilities. When the waves of the market hit high and the currents of the economy demand the seemingly impossible, it is important to keep your bearings. In this sense, Designship steers solution goals that produce innovative products and services. This work is based on a holistic conception of design that sees design as an abstract and concrete task at the same time:
Processes of thinking, laws of functionality and emotional aspects come together to produce a new and unmistakable result. Cultural values flow into the work, clarity and openness facilitate orientation. Designship thus propagates a design that does justice to economic, ethical and creative aspects.
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In the center of the university city Ulm, one of the economically strong locations in southern Germany, our premises are located in the green idyll of the ”Heimstrasse“. On 2 floors with our own workshops, we work on ideas and develop future-oriented concepts in close cooperation with our customers.
