Michael Lanz

lanz.design.consultingGraz, Austria

Michael Lanz is a product designer and design strategist. He began his career in 1991 in the design department of Siemens AG. From 2007 to 2018, he was one of the owners/managing directors of the international design agency designaffairs. In 2018, designaffairs became part of Accenture. Lanz has won numerous international design awards, including the iF Gold Award. Parallel to his role at designaffairs, he was a lecturer at TU Dresden and, from 2014 to 2018, head of the Institute for Product & Transportation Design at FH JOANNEUM in Graz. Since 2019, Lanz has been a member of the Advisory Board for Creative Industries of the BMAW, Austria. In 2023, Lanz left Accenture and founded lanz.design.consulting. In addition to his work as a design consultant, Lanz has been a partner at Vagabund Moto since 2024.

(November 2023)

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