Bernhard Osann

The industrial designer Bernhard Osann was born in Augsburg, Bavaria, in 1979. Before his studies, he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and worked as a freelancer in this field for several years. In 2005 he began studying sculpture at the Wilhelm Wagenfeld School in Bremen. From 2008 to 2016 he finally studied industrial design at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg, from which he graduated with a diploma. Since then, Bernhard Osann has been working as a freelance industrial designer in his own design studio in Hamburg, mainly devoting himself to lighting and furniture.

When developing his products, Osann is passionate about exploring physical limits, working with geometric shapes and striving for unconventional solutions in order to create radically simplified design objects that appeal with minimalist aesthetics and functional dynamics.

This passion can be seen in the interior objects designed by Osann: for the Italian lighting label Nemo he designed lights such as the Bird table lamp or the Neo floor lamp, where a stable stand is guaranteed by perfectly balanced elements. His designs' sculptural aesthetics is owed to his studies of sculpture, whereby the phenomenon of balance and movable elements have a high priority.

Bernhard Osann's most important works include various lights for Nemo as well as the Watn Blech wall shelf for Moormann from 2013. His awards and nominations prove that Osann is already a fixture in the German design landscape: for example, he won the 2020 for the Neo lamp coveted Wallpaper Design Award, for the German Design Award he was in the finals as a "Newcomer Finalist" in 2020.