Knockoutdesign story
Knockoutdesign started in 2006 as an informal collective of three designers (Magda Juszczak, Dorota Kabała and Maya Ober). In the beginning of 2009 it turned into a registered studio executed by four designers:
Marta Florkowska-Dwojak, graphic designer
[Visual Communication and Graphic Design Faculty, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland (2001-2006)]
Magda Juszczak, furniture designer
[Product Design and Architecture Faculty, Academy of Fine Arts Poznan, Poland (2001-2008)]
[Product Design Faculty, CIDI, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico (2003-2004)]
Maya Ober, product designer
[Product Design and Architecture Faculty, Academy of Fine Arts Poznan, Poland (2001-2006)]
[Product Design Faculty, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel (2006-2008)]
Dorota Kabała, urban furniture designer and interior designer
[Product Design and Architecture Faculty, Academy of Fine Arts Poznan, Poland (2001-2006)]
[Architecture Faculty, IAAC, Barcelona, Spain (2007-2008)]

Knockoutdesign is a studio of four designers specialized in fields of: product design, furniture design, urban furniture and exhibition design and graphic design, being so versatile Knockoutdesign offers its clients A-Z design services. Knockoutdesign is present during whole design process (concept, prototyping, implementation to production, realization supervision). Knockoutdesign studio stretches between Warsaw, Wrocław (Poland) and Tel Aviv-Yafo (Israel) and is open for international mobility according to the needs of each project.

Knockoutdesign Plus - is a call for creative cooperation with designers, architects, sociologists, filmmakers and everyone whose work and enthusiasm we admire, based on the needs of the project that we are working on.

AWARDS

2008
Ryszard Kapuściński's path in Mokotowskie's Fields park in Warsaw, public space design project. Knockoutdesign project was chosen to realization by the City Council
2in1 VOX industrie design contest, 3rd prize for Reader's Shelf

2007
Art of packaging - debuts 2006, 1st prize

2006
New Bijoux, honorable mention
Anarchitecture, EASA.PL contest, 2nd prize
Amaze everyone, disc on key design contest, honorable mention

EXHIBITIONS

2010
re.product 02, Museum of the City of Gdynia, Gdynia, Poland
Designboom Mart 2010, International Contemporary Furniture Fair, New York, USA

2009
Warsaw under construction, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
Black and white - Polish Young Design, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Palermo Design Week, KNOCKOUTDESIGN was chosen to represent Poland among other EU countries designers
Goodbye design, BWA Wroclaw, PL
Womanish design, Silesian Castle for Art and Enterprise, Cieszyn, PL
2in1, Silesian Castle for Art and Enterprise, Cieszyn, PL

2008
Usefull/useless, BWA Wroclaw, PL
Design.pl, Designblok, Prague, CZ
LDZIGN Łódź Design, Łódź, PL
Gdynia Design Days, Gdynia, PL
Future design - Time for relax, Institute of Industrial Design, Warsaw, PL
10xPL, Marseille, FR

2007
Knockoutdesign, Budapest, HU
Lift, Erszebet Ter, Designhet, Budapest, HU
Designmai Youngsters 2007, Arena, Berlin, DE
Salone Satellite, Milan, IT

2006
Designmai Youngsters 2006, Kunstfabrik, Berlin, DE
Survival 4, Wrocław, PL

COMMISSIONS

Adam Mickiewicz Institute www.iam.pl
BWA Design Gallery www.wroc.pl
City of Warsaw www.um.warszawa.pl
Institute of Industrial Design www.iwp.com.pl
Ochota - Warsaw City Council www.ochota.waw.pl
Pleneria www.pleneria.pl
Polish Institute in Budapest www.polinst.hu
SPOT Foundation www.spot.poznan.pl