Amelie Marie Gaydoul/ Menswear Designer
Amelie Marie Gaydoul studied fashion design at Pforzheim University and then completed an MA in menswear at the University of Westminster in London. She then worked for Norse Projects and Givenchy, among others. She currently lives in Copenhagen and works as a freelance menswear designer for companies in London, Paris and Copenhagen.
Frederike Kintscher/Industrial designer
Frederike Kintscher studied Industrial Design at the University of Wuppertal and completed a Master of Science in Product Design at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, USA. She is involved in the Association of German Industrial Designers - VDID e.V. and has represented it since 2018 in the German Design Day e.V., as vice speaker in the Cultural Council e.V. and in the BEDA Bureau of European Design Associations, in the management of the Council for Euro-pa/International Affairs of the German Design Day. She is an active campaigner for values, sustainability and future-orientation through design. She runs her own studio in Berlin.
Karen Pontoppidan, jewellery artist
Karen Pontoppidanborn in Denmark in 1968, is one of the most renowned jewellery artists of her generation. In addition to numerous solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide, Karen Pontoppidan also works as a curator and author. She trained as a designer of jewellery and utensils in Schwäbisch Gmünd in 1991 and graduated in 1998 in the class of Prof. Otto Künzli at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. From 2006 to 2015 she was Professor of Jewellery and Appliance at Ädellab, Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. In 2015, Karen Pontoppidan was appointed Professor of Goldsmithing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Karen Pontop-pidan lives and works in Munich.
Karen Pontoppidan