Christoph Behling is a
product designer and the founder of Christoph Behling Design, a London-based product
design studio established in 2004. Behling is also the founding director of SolarLab Research & Design, a
solar-powered transport and architecture company.
Biography
Behling was born in 1970 in
Geneva,
Switzerland and raised in
Germany.[1] He completed a diploma in Industrial Design in 1995 at the Art Academy in Stuttgart.[2]
Career
Behling started his career with design practices in Tokyo and London. In 2004, he founded both Christoph Behling Design and SolarLab Research & Design. He was a teacher of the Design Products course at the
Royal College of Art from 2005 to 2009 and is the curator of the annual Sustain Exhibition at the RCA.[3]
In 2006, Behling launched Serpentine SolarShuttle, a solar-powered boat that can feed unused electricity back into the national grid. The boat won several design awards.[4][1]
Behling has also worked as a product designer for companies communication technology, fashion, luxury goods, watches, water sanitation and transport. He has been the lead designer for
TAG Heuer since 2004.[5][6]
Since 2007, Behling has also worked as the creative director of the Atelier Group, a Paris-based mobile telecommunications communications company. He has collaborated with
Geberit, a European sanitary manufacturer, to reduce water consumption in homes.[citation needed]
Exhibitions
2000 World Expo, Hanover, Germany and Lisbon, Portugal
2002 The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York
2006 The Science Museum, London
2006 Royal College of Art, London
2007 So Watt! Exhibition: Du Design dans l’Energie, Paris
2008 Design of the Year, Design Museum, London
[1]
2009 1.618 Sustainable Luxury Fair, Palais de Tokyo, Paris