Interdisciplinary material and product designer Charlett Wenig has a unique and hands-on approach towards the work with mostly underrated materials like bones and bark. Not only does she collaborate with experts in different fields of science and manufacturing to understand the material its entirety, but she is also steadily looking for new ways to create distinctive and aesthetic design objects. Her expertise as a material designer has paved her way towards a career in the sciences, working in the Max Planck Institute of Colloid and Interfaces to investigate the usage of bark for design purposes. The entanglement with a scientific approach towards material is an essential part of her design thinking. The close collaboration with experts in the field of manufacturing, like woodworkers, butchers, potters and many more uniquely specialized craftsmen, is vital to her understanding of the material itself and the possible metamorphosis it may undergo to create a new object. The objects have a strong aesthetic appeal, that cater to the possibilities of the material and the circumstances of their final function. Organic materials are her main focus, more specifically underrated materials that often occur as a by-product of mass produced matter like wood or meat.
Awards:
2017 Dresden Audience Award - The BoneProject
2016, Bremen - Frese Design Preis - The BoneProject
2015, Köln Nominee German Design Award -Dish Concept „Dinieren“
Teaching
since 2017, University of the Arts Bremen / Germany
Theoretical and practical basics of product design
Exhibition
2020, Berlin, Germany – „Time of Waste“ Bark Project
2019, Ypsilanti / Michigan - „Design + Science“ The Bone Project
2019, Heilbronn / Germany „Bundesgartenschau 2019“ - The Bone Project
2019, Köln / Germany „Interzum 2019“ The Bark Project
2018, Herford / Germany „Recycling Designpreis“ The Bone Project
2017, Jönköping / Sweden „Subcontractor“ The Bone Project
2017, Dresden / Germany „Stage Design“ The Bone Project
2016, Bremen / Germany „JA Ausstellung“ The Bone Project
2015, Essen / Germany „Prototype Nature at Folkwang“ The Bone Project
2015, Eindhoven / Netherlands „Dutch Design Week at Piet Hein Eek“ - Project Reculture
2015, Köln / Germany „IMM“ - Concept chair „I Can Feel It in Your Bones“
2014, Hamburg / Germany - „Kampnagel - Farmers and Designers“ - „BoneCrowns“ and „Schmuckstücke“
2011, Poznan / Poland - „Arena Design“- The Installation of Swing Chair „Gnaizdo“
Atelier3punkt
Atelier3punkt is a space for experimental, transdisciplinary and scenographic design.
Founded by material and product designer Charlett Wenig and product designer and color expert Matilde Frank, Atelier3punkt creates design with a holistic and interdisciplinary concept.
The expertise of both designers and their network of design, craft and science enables them to work with new impulses and implement innovative concepts realistic and future-oriented.
The work resulting from a close dialogue with customers. Depending on the project individual expertise or both designers are involved in the design process.