About — Nick Stempel, Studio Anabranch

I design products as integral experiences. Function, form and feeling start together in the first sketch. Nothing is added at the end.

I look for the obvious answer. It is usually the hardest one to find, and the simple object at the end has a long way behind it.

The search starts in the world. I watch how people live with objects and brands. Only then do I shape something.

Then I go into the workshop. I think with my hands. Wood and cardboard give me a shape at full size within an hour. I test the proportion in the room and the weight in the hand.

An object has to solve a clear problem before it goes any further. New production methods interest me, because each one makes a form possible that the old method could not.

I carry a product through every stage. The last screw gets the same care as the first sketch. This works best in a team, where every small step is shared.

At Studio F. A. Porsche I learned industrial precision. At Gridstore I worked at the edge of robotics. At 3rd management and onformative I brought physical and digital work together.

Today this work runs under my own practice, Studio Anabranch. Its core is product and spatial design. Identity and type, research and strategy, photography and film sit around it. DOBERGO is one of its clients.