Young Guns

Based In: Fuerth, Germany
Originally from: Nuremberg, Germany
verenahennig.com

VERENA HENNIG is an internationally working Creative Director and Designer from Germany. She studied Graphic Design and Visual Communication, and has worked for renowned practices such as SAGMEISTER & WALSH in New York; SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG in Munich and PERNILLA OHRSTEDT in London. In 2012, Hennig opened her design practice, STUDIO VERENA HENNIG, followed by her own product brand in 2015.

The studio explores and combines the fields of art, architecture and design by investigating the questions of our daily lives and strives to engage its audiences with intelligent, compelling and distinctively created design solutions by altering the familiar.

STUDIO VERENA HENNIG produces projects for clients ranging from culture to industry, from products up to small architectural designs. Selected clients includes MINI/BMW, DEZEEN, SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, DEUTSCHE BAHN.

Hennig started creating products outside of her client-based-work, and in 2015 turned the new passion into her own product brand, VERENA HENNIG. The brand creates furniture, lighting and accessories to enhance the everyday life by altering the familiar. The products are available in selected stores around the world.

In 2016 Hennig was named TOP 50 Best German Designers by ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST and was nominated for the GERMAN DESIGN NEWCOMER. Her work has won awards from the GERMAN DESIGN AWARD, RED DOT, ADC Germany, ICONIC AWARD for Interior Innovation among others.