Nikolaus Frank

Nikolaus Frank (born 1964) is a Swedish industrial designer MFA ID, graduated from University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack), Department of Industrial design in 1987. Together with his wife Cecilia Frank he runs the design company Frank Etc. AB in Stockholm, with focus on consumer products and conceptual design based on future technology.

Nikolaus Frank has worked with design groups and clients in Europe, North America and Asia. He has lectured at Konstfack and had management assignments within the telecom sector. He has received a number of awards, such as several Good Design Awards,[1] several Excellent Swedish Design-awards, the international design prizes IDEA Industrial Design Excellence Award[2] and the iF Award for Good Industrial Design.[3] He has also received prices in a number of international design competitions, such as the LG Electronics International Design Competition, the Design The Future International Competition and the Yamaha Audio System International Design Competition.

Nikolaus Frank was a member of the board of the Swedish Society of Crafts and Design (Svensk Form).

Literature

Design:Stockholm, Stockholms Stadsmuseum, ISBN 91-85233-41-2

1900–2002, Svensk form, Internationell design, Hedvig Hedqvist, Bokförlaget DN, ISBN 91-7588-420-8

Sources
  • Föreningen Svensk Form [4]
  • Ny Teknik [5]
  • Scandinavian Design [6]
  • Acela High Speed Train [7]

[8]

gollark: They should probably just not have network access, except for a wired connection to upload maps and such. Unfortunately, someone will definitely do something stupid like... have a 4G connection in it for interweb browsing, make the entire thing run some accursed Android derivative and put the self-driving code on there too, and expose that to the user, and make it wildly insecure.
gollark: I'm sure someone will manage to entirely mess up the security, yes.
gollark: (Just kidding! There's no way car OSes will be (are, probably) non-locked-down enough to do that!)
gollark: It's only a patent so far. But they had *better* not make it necessary to install adblockers on your car or something.
gollark: This makes sense, because social shame things are always right.

References
  1. http://www.chi-athenaeum.org/
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-14. Retrieved 2008-08-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. http://www.ifdesign.de
  4. http://www.svenskform.se
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2015-02-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. http://www.scandinaviandesign.com/svenskform/usf2002/index.htm
  7. http://www.idsa.org/idea/idea2001/G7042.htm
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-22. Retrieved 2008-08-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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