Sigi Moeslinger

, Antenna
Works with Masamichi Udagawa
Blown forms inspired by beet roots and enclosed in domes.
Sigi Moeslinger GlassLab design program
Austrian, b. 1968
Usually the kind of work we do takes a very long time… Here it’s like an acceleration. You have an idea and then an hour later, it’s made. It’s great.

Sigi Moeslinger was born in 1968 in Vienna, Austria. She studied industrial design in Austria, Switzerland, and the United States. She graduated with a BS in industrial design from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and received a Masters Degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program in 1996. Before co-founding Antenna, Moeslinger worked at Ideo Product Development in San Francisco where she designed for clients such as NEC, Matsushita and GM/Hughes. Moeslinger also worked as an Interval Research Fellow at NYU and at Interval in Palo Alto, California. She has also been teaching design since 1997, and is currently visiting faculty and critic at Yale University School of Art.

Videos: 

In May, 2008, GlassLab presented at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Designer Sigi Moeslinger describes working at GlassLab during this event.

Designers Sigi Moeslinger and Masamichi Udagawa describe working at GlassLab during a two-day design session at The Corning Museum of Glass, June 26 - 27, 2012.

Events: 

Designers Sigi Moeslinger and Masamichi Udagawa work with Museum glassmakers to explore and prototype their design concepts in a public GlassLab session at the Museum’s Hot Glass Show on the Courtyard Stage. Sessions run continuously from... more

GlassLab graced the elegant garden of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, with more than 10 days of design performances. Designers included Harry Allen, Laurene and Constantin Boym, Michelle Oka Doner, Ted Muehling and Tobias Wong. ... more

Process: 
Design concept by Sigi Moeslinger for GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Design concept by Sigi Moeslinger for GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Designer Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Gaffers George Kennard and Dane Jack work with Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning
Gaffer George Kennard works with Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning
Designer Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Designer Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Designer Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Gaffers George Kennard and Dane Jack work with Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning
Designers Sigi Moeslinger and Masamichi Udagawa at GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Designers Sigi Moeslinger and Masamichi Udagawa at GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Designer Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Designer Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Designer Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Designer Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Designer Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Designer Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Designer Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Gaffers George Kennard and Dane Jack work with Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning
Gaffers George Kennard and Dane Jack work with Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning
Designer Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Designer Sigi Moeslinger at GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Design prototypes by Sigi Moeslinger and Masamichi Udagawa for GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
Design prototypes by Sigi Moeslinger for GlassLab in Corning, June 2012
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