About
Brit Leissler studied design at the Koeln International School of Design as well as the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and worked for several years as a designer for various companies in Germany and Switzerland before coming to London in 2005. Here she graduated in 2007 from the Royal College of Art with a master degree in product design.
Her ambition is to add value to the experience of design, using an eclectic alchemy of different mediums and disciplines to combat the monotony of urban life: Combining tactility driven product design with film making, performance, graphic design and music, she seeks to place Art & Commerce in bed together to create beautiful »bastard« children. Her work is highly conceptual with a strong playful and emotional flavour, delivering its own unique style signature. It has been well received at international exhibitions and in both, magazine and online features.
Since autumn 2007 she has been busily engaged in establishing her own London based »Shoot the Stylist!« design studio, having undertaken design consultancy and commissioned work for the BBC, Vodafone, Lago SpA (Italy) and others. She also is experienced in international design workshops, having assisted over several years at the Vitra Summer Workshops in Boisbuchet (France) and co-directed the LagoStudio workshops in Padova (Italy). Brit has recently started to work as a regular correspondent for Core77.
When taking a break from the design world she writes, sings and composes quirky electronic pop from the tough to the romantic (her current project being »Happy Trigger«) and spreads her own brand of creative karma around the world. Brit travels a lot, loves all forms of eccentricity, joins up the dots and enjoys to get into interesting conversations with all kinds of weird and wonderful people. She doesn’t eat animals, is hot for cheese, loves the Kensington Squirrels, robotic dance moves and life enhancing ideas.
COMPETITIONS & AWARDS
Winner, RCA Society + Thames & Hudson Artbook Prize, 2007
Winner, Princess of Wales Award, 2006/07
Royal College of Art Bursary, 2005 to 2007
Finalist, Qee Competition, Playlounge, 2004
Winner, GWA Junior Agency, 2003
Winner as “Most Significant Trend Select“, Genius Loci Lab Award, Future Concept Lab, 2002
Finalist, Design Report Award, 2002
Finalist, “Best Music Video“, International Filmfestival Oberhausen, 2002
2nd Prize, Mecon New Talent Award, 2001
EXHIBITIONS
2008
»D_Art Lab – Turning Point Design«, Fondazione Pistoletto/Cittadellarte, Torino World Design Capital, Torino, Italy»Sheltered: The Bus stops here« Gallery @ Oxo, Oxo Tower, London
»This Is The Time…This Is The Record of the Time« ElectroEtre Hybrid Art Symposium, Perth, Australia
»Casa di Lago« Salone del Mobili, Milan, Italy
»Kids.Modern« Dulwich Christison Hall, London
2007
»All light! – All right?« Hangaram Design Museum/Seoul Arts Centre, Seoul, South Korea »This Is Not Art« Electrofringe Festival, Newcastle, Australia »New Moves« Aram Gallery, London »Baggage« Israel Design Centre, Holon, Israel »BBC Blast / Design Your Future« Serpentine, Kensington Gardens, London »The Great Exhibition« Kensington Gardens/Royal College of Art, London »Charming Disaster« Shoreditch Townhall, Caretaker‘s Cottage, London »Scene of Tone« for Yamaha, Fouri Salone, Spazio Bugatti, Milan, Italy
EARLIER
»Disturbance« Great Eastern Hotel, London, 2006 »Made by Machine« directed by Ron Arad, Fouri Salone, Zeus, Milan, Italy, 2006 »Rocksteady« Furniture Fair / Passagen, Gallerie Classen, Cologne, Germany, 2004 »The Show« KISD Gallerie, Cologne, Germany, 2004 »Can the Can?!« Fouri Salone, Salone Satellite, Milan, Italy, 2002
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