Prof. Peter Eckart

eckart@hfg-offenbach.de

T +49 (0)69.800 59-168

F +49 (0)69.800 59-151

Cube, room 201a/b

Consultation

by appointment

Discipline

Integrative Design

Product Language

Subject/Area

Design/Product Design

Theory/Science

Faculty

Design

Function

Vice President

Extern

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Vita

Peter Eckart (born 1961) is a designer. He studied product design at the Bergische Universität GHS Wuppertal and later at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK) Hamburg with Prof. Peter Raacke and Prof. Dieter Rams. After winning the Braun Prize (1989), he worked as a product designer at Braun in Kronberg. In 1993 he founded the design office Eckart+Barski Design with Olaf Barski. Products in the field of consumer goods and medical technology were created. In 2000, together with Bernd Hilpert, he founded the design office unit-design in Frankfurt and Bern, which is networked with related disciplines for media, design and architecture, and works on projects in the field of guidance and orientation systems, information design, public and mobility design; among others for: Accenture, ECB, Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Messe Basel, Messe Frankfurt, Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt, Stadt Offenbach, Regionalpark Rhein Main, Stadt Frankfurt, Fraport, Lufthansa, Deutsche Bahn, T-Mobile, Roche, Siemens, VGF, KVV Karlsruhe... The projects have received numerous national and international awards. Most recently with the German Design Award in Gold.

After teaching assignments at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Peter Eckart has been Professor of Product Design and Integrative Design at the HfG Offenbach since 2000, and from 2007 to 2010 he was Dean of the Design Department. 

Peter Eckart was scientific coordinator of the LOEWE research focus "Infrastructure - Design - Society" at the HfG, the first focus in the state offensive for the development of scientific and economic excellence under the leadership of a university of the arts. The Offenbach Institute for Mobility Design (OIMD), which Peter Eckart heads together with Prof. Dr. Kai Vöckler, emerged from the research project.

Projects

Projekte mit dem Büro unit design von Peter Eckart und Bernd Hilpert

Guidance system

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    Messe Basel

    Client: Messe Basel
    Year: 2013
    Focus: Wayfinding & signage systems,
    Project type: Competition, 1. prize
    ​unit Task: Concept, Design and Planning 

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    Messe Basel

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    Messe Basel

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    Ordnungsamt

    Client: City of Frankfurt
    Year: 2009
    Focus: Wayfinding & signage systems
    Client: OFB Projektentwicklung
    ​unit task: Concept, Design and Realization

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    Ordnungsamt

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    Ordnungsamt

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    Swiss Re

    Client: Swiss Re
    Year: 2001
    Focus: Wayfinding & signage systems
    Contractor: Intégral Ruedi Baur, Paris / Swiss Re Deutschland Munich
    ​unit Task: Concept, Design, Planning and Realisation 

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    Swiss Re

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    Swiss Re

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    Deutsche Bank

    Client: Deutsche Bank AG
    Year: 2010
    Focus: Wayfinding & signage systems
    ​unit Task: Concept, Design and Planning

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    Deutsche Bank

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    Deutsche Bank

Messe Basel

Client: Messe Basel
Year: 2013
Focus: Wayfinding & signage systems,
Project type: Competition, 1. prize
​unit Task: Concept, Design and Planning 

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Exhibitions

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    Wetterpark Offenbach, Visitor Centre

    Client: Stadt Offenbach
    Year: 2014
    Focus: Exhibitions & exhibits
    Contractor: OPG Offenbacher Projektgesellschaft mbH Project
    Project type: exhibition, Visitor Centre
    ​unit Task: Concept, Design und Realisation

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    Wetterpark Offenbach, Visitor Centre

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    Wetterpark Offenbach, Visitor Centre

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    Themed landscape park »Wetterpark Offenbach«

    Client: Planungsverband Frankfurt Rhein/Main
    Year: 2005
    Focus: Exhibitions & exhibits
    Contractor: Stadt Offenbach
    ​unit Task: Conception, Design, Planning and Realisation

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    Themed landscape park »Wetterpark Offenbach«

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    Themed landscape park »Wetterpark Offenbach«

Wetterpark Offenbach, Visitor Centre

Client: Stadt Offenbach
Year: 2014
Focus: Exhibitions & exhibits
Contractor: OPG Offenbacher Projektgesellschaft mbH Project
Project type: exhibition, Visitor Centre
​unit Task: Concept, Design und Realisation

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Product and public space

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    Frankfurt signposts

    Client: Stadt Frankfurt
    Year: 2006
    Focus: Public design
    Contractor: Frankfurter Kulturkomitee e.V.
    Project type: Realisation
    ​unit Task: Conception, Design, Planning and Realisation

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    Frankfurt signposts

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    Frankfurt signposts

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    Look-out »Wetterpark Offenbach«

    Client: Stadt Offenbach
    Year: 2006
    Focus: Public design
    Contractor: Planungsverband Ballungsraum Frankfurt/ Rhein-Main, Stadt Offenbach, Deutscher Wetterdienst
    ​unit Task: Conception, Design, Planning and Realisation

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    Look-out »Wetterpark Offenbach«

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    Look-out »Wetterpark Offenbach«

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    Paju

    Client: Hongik University Seoul
    Year: 2009
    Focus: Public design
    ​unit task: Conception, Design, Planning

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    Paju

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    Paju

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    Servicepoint

    Client: Deutsche Bahn
    Year: 2006
    Focus: Corporate architecture & environmental branding
    Contractor: Dietz-Joppien Architekten Frankfurt
    ​unit Task: Conception, Design, Planning and Realisation

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    Servicepoint

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    Servicepoint

Frankfurt signposts

Client: Stadt Frankfurt
Year: 2006
Focus: Public design
Contractor: Frankfurter Kulturkomitee e.V.
Project type: Realisation
​unit Task: Conception, Design, Planning and Realisation

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Publikationen

Anthologies

  • Kai Vöckler, Peter Eckart, Martin Knöll, Martin Lanzendorf (eds.): »Mobility Design. Shaping Future Mobility«. Offenbach Publication Series on Mobility Design. Volume 2: Research. Berlin: Jovis 2023. (Download)
  • Peter Eckart, Kai Vöckler (eds.): »Mobility Design. Shaping Future Mobility«. Offenbach Publication Series on Mobility Design. Volume 1: Practice. Berlin: Jovis 2022. (Download)

Downloads

News

News archive
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5 years ago

The future lies in new forms of mobility: Instead of owning a car it will be easy to use a host of different forms of transport. Mobility will become a service and will tend to be perceived not as an object and more as an intangible event. In future, digital and platform-based...

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6 years ago

Meanwhile in India

Prof. Peter Eckart and Julian Schwarze, research assistant at the HfG, were guests at the India Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee with a workshop on Mobility Design.

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10 years ago

Excursion to Rio de Janeiro -- Merry Samba

16 December, 2014 / 7 p.m. / Linke Kapelle LixoLuxo invites you to a Brazilian Christmas with Bossa Nova, caipirinha, Salgados and pictures from the trip to Rio de Janeiro. In collaboration with Angela Carvalho the participants of the LixoLuxo project from the summer...

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10 years ago

25 years of Deutscher Designer Club e.V.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the German Designer Club (DDC) on 13 November two new volumes of the series iDDC Design Library were presented in the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt/Main. The works also includes a text by Prof. Peter Eckart

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10 years ago

German Mobility Congress

On 12 November, 2014, Prof. Peter Eckart is giving a talk at the German Mobiity Congress.

Calendar

18 June 2019
18 June 2019 Tuesday

HfG + MIT + Computational Design + Mercedes Benz

07:00 PM, Room 312
Plakat steffen reichert b

Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, Schlossstraße 31, 63065 Offenbach/M, Tel. 069.80059-0