This project is now archived and was part of DDW20
Hadrien Fouin / Jan Wertel / Gernot Oberfell
This bicycle helmet Design concept originates from an EU funded collaboration between designers and material scientists, material suppliers, end-users and manufacturers.
It explores how novel materials can help to improve safety and the user experience while commuting or cycling for leisure.
One of the goals was to stimulate interdisciplinary design and material research, process optimization and to develop less toxic and more eco-friendly alternatives in the field of printed electronics.
The unique helmet shape derives from wrapping flat pr
About WertelOberfell
WertelOberfell, a Berlin- Munich based design studio, was founded in 2007 by Gernot Oberfell and Jan Wertel. Both studied Industrial Design in Stuttgart at the State Academy of Arts, a school which is based on the principles of the Ulmer Schule and the Bauhaus.
Their work ranges from furniture, lighting and industrial products to experimental research pieces for companies such as Braun, Gillette, OralB, Neff, Philips, Panasonic, Sony, Bulthaup, MGX by Materialise, Stratasys and others.
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