Jacob Pringiers

Jacobs Pringiers, to pursue his passion for design, moves to Milan, continuing his studies in Vevey Switzerland and in Pasadena California, where he is accepted at the renowned Art Center College of Design. After graduating, he returns to Milan and opens a design studio, together with Luca Casini. Successfully collaborates on various design projects for Colgate, Luxottica, WMF, BIC, Nike, RIVA, Fiat… and win several industry awards for their work, the most recent being the prestigious Trend Product Of The Year Award, 2011 in Frankfurt with the design “LULU”, a collection of ceramic vases. At the same time he designs for companies such as Desalto, BRF, eDepadova, Durlet. Guest lecturer in 3D design at the Politecnico di Milano.

Pringiers now divides his time between Milan and Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he is the art director of one of the leading boat manufacturing companies in Asia while continuing to work on various projects internationally. Over the last few years he has collaborated with two important Japanese architects: Tadao Ando and Shigeru Ban opening up a new dimension to his work and future projects. Jacob has always designed with one purpose: to create a new dimension to his work. The designers’ obligation is to fulfil each of these functions to the highest standards, finding harmony and balance between the different parts of the project.