Wolfgang Bremer

Wolfgang Bremer is an award-winning design veteran with 20+ years of experience and currently serves as the Head of Design at Elli - A Brand of the Volkswagen Group, where he is leading the software and hardware design for all energy and charging solutions by the VW Group.

Prior to that Wolfgang has been a design leader in multiple Fortune 500 companies, like Nokia and SAP, as well as several highly funded startups based out of Germany, Spain, the US, and Canada.

Wolfgang, who is German-Canadian, is the father of two girls, enjoys giving talks about design, likes tweeting fun things about design, and is the host of the design podcast Pixelish – with Wolfgang Bremer, among other things.

A personal message from Wolfgang:

Hi there,

My name is Wolfgang and a while ago I stumbled over Ryan's wonderful Workspaces Newsletter on Twitter and I was amazed being able to get an inside look at the workspaces of some of the most creative people on the planet. And how a m a z i n g some of those desks looked! Like straight out of a really glossy version of an IKEA catalogue - just much, much better of course!

After I spent some time browsing through these wonderful creative spaces, I realized that I started comparing them to my very own setup and I had to admit that mine looked... different. I don't want to say worse, just different. Look, I'm a dad of two and life is busy, even without a global pandemic going on. Also I'm cheap - and by that I mean I'm willing to spend money on things I truly value and not on anything else. And that's pretty much what my workspace looks like - check out some photographs below.

It also made me think of my workspaces while traveling, which are totally make-shift bonkers at times. See, when we moved (back) from Canada to Germany, we spent a couple of months traveling from British Columbia, over Singapore and Malaysia, back to Germany. During that time whenever I needed to get some work done - and I'm a total standing-desk kinda guy - I had to MacGuyver the heck out of whatever was available. And especially that is something I wanted to share with you, as you'll see in the photographs below.

I guess my point is, workspaces can be super sexy (and at times expensive) but to get good work done, they don't always have to be.

Thanks for reading and enjoy!

Wolfgang also has had a handful of make-shift travel workspaces throughout the years. Let's take a look!