Thomas Feichtner was born in Vitória, Brazil. After attending school in Düsseldorf, Germany, he graduated at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria. After completing studies in industrial design, he founded his own design office. Feichtner initially designed industrial goods and numerous products for the Austrian industry, and was honoured with international design awards like the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany, the European Design Award, the Josef Binder Award and the Designpreis Schweiz. Besides his activity as a product designer for Head, Tyrolia, Fischer and Blizzard, Feichtner also worked in the area of visual communications for the likes of Swarovski Optik, Adidas Eyewear or the British-Israeli designer Ron Arad.
Today, he is an internationally established designer based in Vienna. His work is focused on artistic aspects and a more experimental approach. In search of an independent mode of operation that went beyond globalization and mass production, he designed products for such traditional crafters as J&L Lobmeyr, Neue Wiener Werkstätten,Wiener Silber Manufactur, Augarten Porzellanmanufaktur und Carl Mertens, and realised freelance projects in cooperation with Vitra and FSB. International exhibitions at the Triennale di Milano, the Gansevoort Gallery in New York, the International Biennial of Design in Saint Etienne, the Designhuis Eindhoven, the Austrian Cultural Forum London as well as the MAK, the Museum for Applied Arts in Vienna followed. His works have been acquired by various design collections. A personal monograph “Thomas Feichtner – Edge to Edge“ was released by the MAK and published by Birkhäuser in 2010. Feichtner is a professor for product design at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel, Germany and was awarded by the Austrian State Award for Design 2011. He lives and works in Vienna with his wife Simone Feichtner.