Good design is geared around the person.

"Good design must be simple, very simple": Martin Ballendat ought to know. Success, prizes and over 70 design awards underline his philosophy.
He has been working as a freelance designer since 1995. He has produced project work for prestigious brand-name manufacturers in 12 different countries (including Italy, Switzerland, USA…). He also lectures at Graz and Salzburg Universities of Applied Sciences.

Since his working relationship with Dauphin began, he has produced innovative products such as FairPlay, Speed up, Lordo, Matchpoint, @Just plus, Join Me, Open End, Siamo and Plenar2.

Entrepreneur, designer, scholar: Rido Busse has received many awards over the course of his 50-year career and he is still involved in the industry today with his "Busse Design + Engineering" institute in the USA. As a lecturer, sponsor of highly regarded design awards, juror and design expert, he is more in demand today than ever before – right across the industry with roles, for example, at Mercedes, EADS and Stihl.
Professor Rido Busse was the initiator of Plagiarius and the Plagiarius e. V. campaign and for many years now he has been campaigning, with the presentation of this negative award, against product plagiarism.

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The "Dolphin" standing seat was developed for Dauphin by Rido Busse and his team

The trained model maker Manfred Elzenbeck was born in Ludwigsburg in 1944. Since 1983, he has been running a design and construction office. Elzenbeck skilfully combines both his talent for design and his experiences as the head of the development department at a furniture company.

Together with the designer Klaus Haar, he has been developing top-class office chair design since 1983.

@Just and TakeOver are the ergonomically strong results of the working relationship with Dauphin.

Born in 1965 in Cuba, he has studied interior design and received many international awards: This is Daniel Figueroa. Since 1995, he has produced numerous products for the conference, seminar and office furniture sectors.

The designer's service portfolio also includes exhibition and trade fair concepts as well as products for use in living areas.

For Dauphin, he produced the public-area chair range Previo.

Born in 1968 in Straelen on the Lower Rhine, in 1989 Geelen began studying industrial design at the GHS University of Essen. After completing his studies, he teamed up with Robert Kilders to form the "bert&bert" studio to design products in the fields of tableware and office furniture.
In 2005, Norbert Geelen set up his own design studio.

The robust and hard-wearing "Tec Profile" is the result of his working relationship with Dauphin.

This qualified industrial designer gathered many years of experience working as a development manager in industry.In 1987, he founded the internationally active team ITO DESIGN in Nuremberg. His clients include prestigious companies such as Adidas, Deutsche Bahn, Nokia, Villeroy & Boch and of course Dauphin.

Our Bionic chair was developed by Armin Sander.

As a qualified engineer and interior designer, Dietmar Sharping, who was born in Kirchhellen in 1955, today works in the dedicated interior-design office in Rosenheim. Zeppelin, Putzmeister and a large number of renowned agencies place their trust in his expertise.

For Dauphin, the designer has developed the Bobo lounge chair. Dietmar Scharping was also involved in the process of devising the product range for DAUPHIN HOME®