Brendle Andreas, Rinke Laurens

“Andreas Brendle has been working in machine automatization technology, then studied and taught Interaction Design at University of Applied Science, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. This mixture of technical approach with design & art thinking evolves in interesting interactive installations. Andreas is furthermore cofounder of the design studio www.17k.de, which realizes complex installations for trade fairs and museums.

Laurens Rinke is a freelance interaction designer and front-end developer and is engaged in the development of low and high fidelity prototypes.
He studied interaction design at University of Applied Science in Schwäbisch Gmünd and finished his studies in summer 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts. With his bachelor project he won the Future Award Frankfurt in the technology section.
2015 he got nominated for the German Design Award 2016 as Newcomer. Already during his studies, he began to teach lower semester in media technology. Meanwhile he is teaching in three different courses at University of Applied Science in Schwäbisch Gmünd as well as a regularly workshop at DHBW in Ravensburg.”