TORSTEN VALEUR

Born 1966 

Graduated from Royal Academy of Architecture, Department of Industrial Design, Copenhagen, 1993

 

During and after his graduation Torsten Valeur spend time traveling in his beloved northeastern Asia. When not travelling, he worked in Denmark for pyrotechnist Lars Hoffmann Barfod making handcrafted fireworks for Tivoli, Copenhagen’s world famous amusement park, until he joined David Lewis Designers in 1996. 

Torsten Valeur’s first design at David Lewis Designers was BeoCom 2 for Bang & Olufsen in 1997. He has continued designing audio systems, telephones and multimedia products for Bang & Olufsen and has also designed products for other clients such as Asus, Elica and Scholtes (kitchen appliances). 

As a Dane Torsten Valeur has known Bang & Olufsen most of his life. When he was a child, he once made a Bang & Olufsen turntable out of Lego bricks – at that time he never imagined that one day he would design Bang & Olufsen products for real.

Torsten Valeur’s design approach is to pursue original and new ideas – making his design accessible to the user and at the same time ensuring an optimal purpose for the product. His aim is to find solutions that are surprising at first glance and then accepted as natural and easy to use.

Over the years at David Lewis Designers, Torsten Valeur has gradually worked more and more independently, from idea generation to design implementation. In 2007, he became partner of the company, and in his capacity as Head of David Lewis Designers Studio, Torsten Valeur will eventually be at the helm at David Lewis Designers, when David Lewis retires.

AWARDS

Design for Asia Award 2003

Janus de l'industrie 2006

IF design Award China 2010

Good Design Japan 2010