Dirk Winkel is a Berlin based product designer, he studied at the University of Arts (UdK) Berlin and finished with a MA in Design Products at the Royal College of Art, London in 2010. Since 2012 Dirk Winkel has been teaching Design Construction at the Industrial Design course of the UdK. Specialising in lighting and furniture design, he worked with many designers and design studios in Berlin and London before setting up his own studio in Berlin in summer 2011. Dirk Winkel work has been featured by Frame, icon, Surface, Monocle, Gestalten Verlag and many others, and was on display at numerous places like Art Basel Miami, the VitraHaus or the London Design Museum and has won several awards and nominations like GOOD DESIGN (Chicago Athenaeum), Swedish Design Award (Svensk Form), Designs of the Year and the German Design Award 2015.
