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IF DESIGN AWARD 2025
Charles O. Job was one of 130 international judges of the IF DESIGN AWARD 2025.
Judging Home Furniture + Decoration with Werner Aislinger , Germany and Mia Cullin, Sweden.
December 2024
CRAFTING CHANGE 2, LUANDA.
Charles O. Job is one of 4 Masters, invited to participate in the second edition of Crafting Change 2, hosted by Creative Hub of CIPRO-GROUP in Luanda, Angola. Founded in 2019, the Hub serves as a dynamic link connecting the campus in Luanda to International African Designers, to promote and amplify creativity and Africa Design, from conception to production and distribution.
Alda: Fashion Designer
Masongui : Sculpture
Abel: Ceramics
Charles O. Job: Design
July, 2024
BIG SEE PRODUCT DESIGN AWARD 2024
Flip by Charles O. Job has been recognised by the BIG SEE Curators and nominated for the BIG SEE Product Design Award 2024
https://bigsee.eu/call-for-entries-big-see-product-design-awards-2024-curated/
DAKAR DESIGN BIENNALE 2024
Charles O. Job has been selected by Commissioner Ousmane MBAYE to participate in the section of the fifteenth edition of the Dakar Biennale dedicated to Design.
GLOBAL DESIGN & THE CHICAGO ATHENAEUM 2024
Charles O. Job is winner of Prize Designs for Modern Furniture + Lighting® Award Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum 2024, for his armchair SKETCH
https://prizedesignsaward.com/projects/sketch-armchair-2024/
GLOBAL DESIGN & THE CHICAGO ATHENAEUM 2024
Charles O. Job is winner of Prize Designs for Modern Furniture + Lighting® Award Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum 2024, For his armchair PLANKS
SIT FURNITURE DESIGN AWARD, 2024
Charles O. Job is Winner in the Home Office furniture section of the SIT Furniture Design Award 2024 with his Stackable Storage containers TOTEM.
https://www.sitaward.com/winners/sit/2024/471/0/
JURY, PRIX LIGNUM 2024
Charles O. Job is member of the Jury for the Prix Lignum 2024, Region West.
Marc Angélil, Jurypräsident, Architekt, ETH Zürich
Axel Simon, Hochparterre AG
Annette Spiro, ETH Zürich
Martin Schaub, Robert Schaub AG
Patrick Gartmann, Ferrari Gartmann AG
Christine Urech, Niuform GmbH
Charles O. Job, Architecture & Design
May 2024
IF DESIGN AWARD, 2024
Charles O. Job was group leader and of 132 international judges of the IF DESIGN AWARD 2024. With 11,000 entries from 56 Countries, the 2024 edition marked 70 years of IF Design.
DESIGN WEEK LAGOS 2023
Charles O. Job was appointed curator and one of the keynote speakers of the design section of Design Week Lagos, 2023. Tasked with selecting promising design talent to be included in the Exhibition.
SIT DESIGN AWARDS, 2023
Charles O. Job was Keynote Speaker, and one of the laureates at the SIT DESIGN AWARDS ceremony held at the KKL Luzern. Switzerland.
ASIA PACIFIC DESIGN COUNCIL. INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS GLOBAL GALA 23
Charles O. Job was one of 6 Laureats of International Design Competitions and Guest speakers at the Asia Pacific Design Council (APDC) International Design Awards Gala Global Forum 2023, which took place between the 16th. - 19th. July in Beijing & Shijianzhuang city.
Speakers included:-
Charles O. Job. Winner SIT 2020-
Michael Sae. Winner DNA 2021 -
Kris Lin. Winner DNA 2021 -
Larry Wen. Winner IDA 2020- Poyang Chu. Winner IDA 2020-
C. A Lin. Winner AMP 2019
Beijing & Shijianzhuang city. 2023
RABAT DESIGN WEEK 2023
Charles O. Job was one of the speakers during the innaugration of the first Rabat Design Week under the high patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, on 10-12 May. Invited by the curator Hicham Lahlou.
Other Speakers Included:
Mugendi Kanampiu M’RITHAA, WDO Senator (Kenya)
Bertrand Derome, Managing Director WDO (Canada)
Anne Asensio, Board Member WDO and VP Dassault Systemes (France)
Alon Razgour, Professor Witzo - University of Haifa (Israel)
Pier Paolo Peruccio, Board Member WDO and Professor Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
Samir Bennis, Director General TRAREM (Morocco)
Selma Lazrak, Designer and Architect (Germany, Morocco)
NEW YORK TIMES, DESIGN.
Charles O. Job was one of the featured Designers in the reportage
“Nine Furniture Designers from Across the African Diaspora”
Curated by designer Jomo Tariku, his choices ranged across generations, styles, materials and geographical points in the African diaspora. Many of the designers have not received formal training. What they have in common, he said, is a powerful and inspiring spirit of self-fulfillment.
Andile Dyalvane. Cape Town. South Africa
BOA, OI Studio. Los Angeles. USA
Cheryl Riley. USA
Hamed Ouattara. Burkina Faso
Jean Servais Somain. Ivory Coast
Mimi Shodeinde. Great Britain
Paul Jeffrey. USA
Michael Puryear. New York. USA
FLIP
FLIP is an ultra-slim, wall mounted, storage compartment that fold down to reveal a foldaway writing desk. It was launched during the Dutch Design Week 2022 by VIJ5.
October 2022
DESIGN WEEK LAGOS
Charles O. Job is one of the exhibitors at the Design Week Lagos 2022.
October 2022
D&AD AWARDS 2022
Charles O. Job is one of the international Judges of the D&AD Awards 2022 in the spatial Design category
SIT FURNITURE DESIGN AWARD 2022
Charles O. Job was one of the international judges of the SIT furniture Design Award
Art'EXPO MOROCCO 2022 IN PARIS
Charles O. Job, was one of the designers invited to take part in the Art’Expo Morocco in Paris under the title of living together and diversity.
WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 2021
Charles O. Job was Jury member of the World Architecture Festival 2021, in the category INSIDE with Tetsuya Metsumoto and Heather Dodd.
October 2021
SIT AWARD WINNER
SKETCH armchair by Charles O. Job is SIT 2020 AWARDS winner in the Category Armchair
TRINITY BUOY WHARF DRAWING PRIZE 2021
Charles O. Job was on the Jury of the Working Drawings Award section, of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Prize with Leonie Bell & Paul Finch.
September 2021
BENCH & BED (B&B)
charles o. job’s contribution to the Design Biennale Zurich. A Bench that transforms into a Bed (shelter), financed with the advertising generated by the Billboard at the back of the structure. It is not an answer to the problem of Homelessness. It is a vision for a caring society. On show at the Old Botanic Gardens from the 12th. of August.
aug. 2021
VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM
SKETCH designed by Charles O. Job has been selected to join the permanent collection of the Vitra Design Museum.
May 2021
FURNITURE FOR LILLE. WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2020
vis-a-vis by charles o. job is selected as public seating for the world design capital in 2020, the city of Lille in the north of france.
D&AD AWARDS 2020
charles o. job is one of eight international judges in the Spatial Design category of the 2020 D&AD Awards. D&AD Pencil has been the world’s beacon for creative excellence since 1962. Due to the global pandemic, 260 judges virtually convened to discuss, debate and award the best work from 20,000 entries to be awarded D&AD Pencils.
iF DESIGN AWARD 2020
charles o. job is one of 78 independent and international jurors of the iF DESIGN AWARD 2020 in Hamburg, Germany. judging 7,300 design entries from 56 countries.
feb. 2020
PECHA KUCHA AT TEO JAKOB, GENEVA
charles o. job is one of a selection of swiss designers presenting their work on the ocassion of the design days in Geneva, hosted by Teo Jakob and Espaces Contemporains
oct. 2019
3 DAYS OF DESIGN 2019, COPENHAGEN
charles o. job is the curator of the 3 Days of Design at the residency of the Swiss Embassy in Copenhagen
copenhaghen 2019
Q&A RAPID URBANISATION IN AFRICA & BRAZIL
charles o. job is one of the panel discussing the theme of rapid urbanisation in Africa & Brasil, on the occasion of the Architekturfilmtage,
zürich 2018.
EXHIBITION DESIGN TURKEY 2018
Charles O. Job, Cécile Hummel and Axel Gampp, led a Summer School to Istanbul. The students worked with Gorbon Tiles to design and produce their own ceramic Tiles. The results of this exploration were on display at the Istanbul Design Week, 2018, in collaboration with 700DCC, Istanbul (Sinem Kocayas, and Cihan Sirolu)
nov. 2018
DESIGNER'S SATURDAY
Charles O. Job with Satyendra Pakhale at Designer’s Saturday, in Langenthal.
nov. 2018
TALKING DESIGN INNOVATION
charles o. job is one of the chosen designers in the series of conversations by Panerei about Design with Designers.
nov. 2018
DESIGN TALK SPÄTI & DESIGNGUT
Monika Schärer, in conversation with Charles O. Job, Alfredo Häberli/Designer, Nadja Stäubli/Schönstaub, Anna Meier/enSoie
nov. 2018
MANOLO
manolo by charles o. job was among the products showcased by Africabydesign at this year’s Design Junction in London.
sept. 2018
DESIGN TURKEY AWARDS 2018
charles o. job is one of the international jury evaluating the entries for Design Turkey industrial design Awards 2018. The award scheme is organized with the collaboration of the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Trade, the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) and the Industrial Designers’ Society of Turkey (ETMK)
AFRICA & LATIN AMERICA: Rising Design / Design Emergente
charles o. job with marva griffin and hicham lahlou at the opening of the exhibition at the salone satellite, during milan design week 2018. the exhibition showcased a selection of designers from africa curated by hicham lahlou & latin America curated by fernando and humberto campana.
apr. 2018
FINALISTS SWISS PAVILION
“no man is an island” shared resources by team PACK was one of the five selected finalist projects in the competition for the swiss pavilion for the architecture biennale 2018 in venice. team PACK: corina ebeling / cornelia faist / brigitte lampert / katharina hofer / Charles O. Job
jun. 2018
JURY, IF Design Awards
charles o. job is one of 63 international jurors who convened to pick the winners of the if design award 2018 from 6,402 entries in Hamburg germany.
feb. 2018
THREE EASY PIECES
the armchair thee easy pieces by charles o. job is one of 5 finalists for the Design award FDA in Singapore
dec. 2017
Neue Räume Exhibition
charles o. job is one of eight established Swiss designers in a group exhibition with aurel aebi, jörg boner, alfredo häberli, stephan hürlemann, moritz schmid, this weber and stefan zwicky at the neue räume design exhibition 2017.
nov. 2017
DESIGNERS' TALK 2017
in the run-up to a group exhibition at the neue räume furniture design exhibition, established swiss designers convened to discuss current trends and future challenges facing «swiss design». the interviews included aurel aebi, jörg boner, alfredo häberli, stephan hürlemann, Charles O. Job, moritz schmid, this weber and stefan zwicky.
nov. 2017
HOLZPIXEL
holzpixel designed by charles o. job & andrea grasser for the berne university of applied sciences (bfh) was awarded the silver medal at designers saturday, 2016 in langental.
nov. 2016