Komplot Design is a design studio based in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. It was founded in 1987 by Danish architect Poul Christiansen and Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n-born designer Boris Berlin. The company works within the fields of industrial

Industrial design

Industrial design is the use of a combination of applied art and applied science to improve the aesthetics, ergonomics, and usability of a product, but it may also be used to improve the product's marketability and production...

, graphic

Graphic design

Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...

 and furniture design.

History

Poul Christiansen (born 1947) graduated as an architect from the Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1973. From 1969, he worked as a freelance designer, designing for companies like Danish lamp manufacturer Le Klint

Le Klint

Le Klint is a Danish light funiture company known for its lamp shades made out of pleated and folded paper.-History:The design was originally created by the architect Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint in about 1900 for his own use. Unlike previous models of pleated lampshades it had a collar which kept it...

 and Herman Miller].

Boris Berlin (born 1953) was born and educated as a [[graphic designer]] in [[Saint Petersburg]], then working with the design of [[optical instrument]]s and [[aerospace]] equipment before moving to Denmark in 1983. From 1984-87, he worked as a graphic designer.

Poul Christiansen and Boris Berlin founded Komplot Design in 1987.

Work

Komplot Design has developed products for a large number of clients and manufacturers such as [[Hay (company)

Herman Miller (office equipment)

Herman Miller, Inc., based in Zeeland, Michigan, is a major American manufacturer of office furniture and equipment, as well as furniture for the home. It is notable as one of the first companies to produce modern furniture and, under the guidance of Design Director George Nelson, is likely the...

 award (for product)excellence, atSpectrum, London (for Genus chair)

2003 Gold Award, Best of NeoCon (for Genus chair)

2003 Innovation Award, Best of NeoCon Chicago Firniture Fair (for Gubi chair)

2003 100% Design / Blueprint Award, Best Product (for Gubi chair)

2003 Prix de la Fonctionnalité, Paris (for Genus chair)

2003 Design 100, Metropolitan Home

Metropolitan Home

Metropolitan Home was a magazine published by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. The magazine focused on "high-end modern design and interiors, blended with intelligent reporting, to connect with a progressive reader mindset." It was originally published from 1974 through 1981 as Apartment Life,...

 (for Non chair, "Cleverest use of rubber since the eraser").

2004 1st Prize for The Best Design Item in Latvia Furniture Fair, September 2004 for Python chair.

2004 Danish Design Prize for "Gubi" chair.

2oo4 Red dot design award

Red dot design award

The Red Dot Design Award is an international product design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. There are prize categories for product design, design agencies, and design concepts. Since 1955, designers and producers can apply for the prizes with the winners...

 (for Gubi chair)

2004 Forsnäs Prize (for Gubi chair)

2005 1st Prize for The Best New Export Products of Latvia 2005 for Python chair)

2006 Formland Spring Award (for Pot for One Flower)

2007 Best of the Best of Red dot design award

Red dot design award

The Red Dot Design Award is an international product design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany. There are prize categories for product design, design agencies, and design concepts. Since 1955, designers and producers can apply for the prizes with the winners...

s winner,Germany, (for GUBI Chair II)

2008 Forum AID Award (for NOBODY Chair)