EOOS: Designing Impact

Lars Müller

ISBN 10: 3037787813 / ISBN 13: 9783037787816

Published by Lars Müller Publishers Apr 2025, 2025

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Neuware -This publication looks back on the last thirty years of EOOS and documents its evolution from a classic, internationally renowned design studio to an organization that redefi nes the role of design and strives to inspire upcoming generations of designers. In the early 2010s, EOOS closed a successful chapter of shop design for customers such as Adidas and Armani to instead focus on the global sanitation crisis affecting three billion people. The studio's two main areas of work, internationally successful furniture design and social design geared towards social impact, might appear contradictory at first glance. However, on closer inspection, what emerges are a common attitude, an equal demand for quality and a fi eld of tension, traced here using numerous examples. Already fifty years ago, the polemical critic of the design discipline Victor Papanek demanded that designers in the Global North should devote at least ten percent of their work to the real problems affecting all people. The story of EOOS serves as an example of how this can be achieved successfully.EOOS is an international design studio from Vienna, founded in 1995 by Martin Bergmann, Gernot Bohmann and Harald Gründl with a focus on furniture design. EOOS has long-standing partnerships with clients such as Walter Knoll, Keilhauer and Carl Hansen & Søn. This portfolio is complemented by product design work for Alessi, Duravit and Zumtobel. In the fi eld of social design, partners such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Caritas, the Red Cross and other NGOs and foundations help EOOS to achieve its social goals through design.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: EOOS: Designing Impact
• Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers Apr 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037787813
• ISBN 13: 9783037787816
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 241W x 167H x 32D millimeters 241 millimeters width by 167 millimeters height by 32 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1284 grams

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Synopsis

From furniture for commercial interiors to solutions for sanitation crises across the globe, EOOS redefines the role of design as a tool for social change

In the early 2010s, the design studio EOOS pivoted from commercial interiors for clients such as Adidas and Armani to the global sanitation crisis affecting three billion people. Its story serves as a testament to the power of highly successful companies making changes for social impact.