Kilian Schindler. Product Design. Gartenstrasse 62, 76135 Karlsruhe. After having studied at the State University of Media Art and Design in Karlsruhe (Germany), as well as at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Artes Décoratifs in Paris (France), he passed his diploma at the department of Product Design in 2008. Several of his projects were exposed at curated exhibitions. Far from the common cliché of garden gnome aesthetics Kilian Schindler explores the peculiarities of german allotments. Doing so he composes rarely or casually preceived aspects into products that affect the beholder in both familiar and strange ways at the same time. Extracting well-known elements from their usual context and rearranging them like a collage extends their means of use to private room scenarios