Iskos Berlin

Iskos — Berlin Design was built on a partnership between Boris Berlin and Aleksej Iskos. Boris Berlin is an industrial and graphic designer (multidisciplinary designer), born in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) in 1953, and graduated from the Institute of Applied Arts and Design in St. Petersburg in 1975. Aleksej Iskos was born in 1965 in Kharkov, Ukraine. He studied architecture at Kharkov’s Institute of Civil Engineering and later the theory of education at the State Institute of Pedagogy. The company works within the fields of industrial, furniture and graphic design. The firm was only established in late 2010, but Boris and Aleksej had already been working together for a number of years. In 1987, Boris co-founded Komplot Design, where Aleksej was employed as an assistant for more than 11 years. This long and fruitful cooperation has allowed them to develop a shared philosophy of design. In their own words, “We see design as the art of storytelling. This story is normally quite complex, consisting of semantics, morphology, materiality, the technology of objects and many other elements. But the clearer your story is, the more likely people are to understand it. The more surprising you make your story; the more likely they are to remember it. And finally the more you make people smile; the more likely they are to love it!""Our aim is to retain the best elements of Komplot’s philosophy of design and to make them sharper, clearer and more precise. At Iskos — Berlin, we look to experiment with new technologies and materials, to explore their impact on everyday objects. These objects have their own individual stories, which are also part of a wider narrative concerning the way we interact and think about things. By allowing the materials to choose their own direction, to speak for themselves, we try to bring a novel twist to this ongoing (and unending) story." "The motto of the Nautilus was 'Mobilis in mobili', which means 'changing within the changes' or 'movement within mobility'."