Ingo Maurer

Ingo Maurer (12 May 1932 – 21 October 2019) was a German industrial designer who specialised in the design of lamps and light installations. He was nicknamed "poet of light". He unsuccessfully advocated for declaring light bulbs as world cultural heritage.

Awards

2000 Lucky Strike Designer Award of Raymond Loewy Foundation, Germany 2002 Collab's Design Excellence Award, Philadelphia Museum of Art 2003 Georg Jensen Prize, Copenhagen

Literature Helmut Bauer (Editor): Ingo Maurer. Making Light. Nazraeli Press, Portland 1992 Ingo Maurer (ed.): The International Design Yearbook 2000. Laurence King Publishing, London 2000, 240 p. (Essays by Philippe Starck, Ron Arad, Mario Bellini and Jasper Morrison) Alexander von Vegesack et al.; Ingo Maurer: Light – Reaching for the Moon. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein 2003 Michael Webb, Jamee Ruth, Marisa Bartolucci (ed.): Ingo Maurer. Compact Design Portfolio. Chronicle Books, San Francisco 2003 Kim Hastreiter et al.: Provoking Magic. Lighting of Ingo Maurer. Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York 2008