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Mendel Heit Design Lab is a manifold design studio in Berlin.
One particular focus lies in combining new technologies with handcrafted heritage.
About MHDL
Ranging from brand architecture to eyewear development, our design work can be booked for furniture, home products, jewelry, accessories, exhibition stands, interactive installations, digital experiences or even research projects.
The studio has been around since 2009.
We have 15+ years of experience with brand and interior architecture, industrial design, and 3d digital design tools.
Mendel Heit
Design Director
Mendel Heit is a french-german industrial designer who lives and works in Berlin.
He studied at the ENSA Nancy (F) and finalized his studies at the HBK-Braunschweig (D). While working on projects for VW, die Bahn, he was also working at the Institute for Transportation Design in Braunschweig.
After his diploma in 2006 he started gathering experiences as a designer at the Jerszy Seymour Design Workshop while working on several products and shows (Vitra, Moulinex, Magis, etc..). He then worked as a freelancer in companies specialized in interior architecture, exhibition design and interactive experiences, like Coordination Berlin, ART+COM, or Avantgarde.
He created the Mendel Heit Design Lab in 2009 and continued mixing a more experiential design practice and spatial branding projects. Read more here
Mendel Heit Design Lab
multiple – open
We believe in the human story that make objects interesting and valuable.
Our passion for technology and new fabrication processes take us to new fields of computer generated shapes
Clients and cooperation partners include Framepunk, Vista Alegre Atlantis, Trinkle 3d, Stilnest, habitat, Meisenthal France, Syntop.io, Cristalleries de Saint-Louis, Jack Morton, Avantgarde, Deutsche Telekom, Futurest, ART+COM, Yorb Design, Avantgarde QA, Makerlab, the Anxious Prop, Collignon Architektur, Ester Bruzkus, and Mason Juday amongst many others.
Team
An agile network
We have a lot of connections to manufacturers, crafstmen and vendors who can make your project come to life. Even for the second life of our designs.
Always on the lookout for interesting people to join us on our journey of object experiments and spatial projects, we regularly offer internships.
Many thanks to these former team members:
Oscar Pluchery, Charhrazed Krichen, Felix Pollock, Ina Nguyen, Agathe Revaillot, Melina rieger, Denizay Apusoglu, Margot Bouffort, Paul Thüroff, Joanna Hoffmann, Pamela Esquivia Flores, Jan Van Riesenbeck, Fleur Moreau, Luc Wattendorf
Want to join us? Drop us a line and send us an application with CV and portfolio!
Software:
- Adobe Suite
- Figma
- Grasshopper
- Rhino 3d
- Cinema 4d
- Blender
- V-ray/D5/Enscape
- Arduino
In-house Prototyping:
- lasercutting/engraving
- cnc milling
- 3d printing
- woodworking
- ceramics/plaster
- basic metal and plastics
- Electronics and soldering
- classic ID modelmaking
Material Focus
- Porcelain
- Glass
- 3d printed materials
- Wood
- Recycled materials
- Silicones & resin