Lena Ringel (born in Bad Homburg, Germany) is a Berlin-based object designer. She earned her Bachelor’s in Product Design at FH Potsdam (2019–2024) and is currently pursuing her Master’s at the same institution. Her work has been shown at Salone Satellite (2022), Ambiente (2025), and the German Design Graduates exhibition Dare to Design at MAK Cologne.
"Design, for me, begins with touch — with observing how materials behave when they are pressed, broken, or transformed. I don’t try to force them into perfection; instead, I listen to their irregularities, letting accidents and textures become part of the outcome. This process turns making into a dialogue, where material and maker shape each other.
Along the way, I’ve learned that design is not only about function, but also about presence and memory. Encounters with craft, experiments in the studio, and the quiet patience of working with different materials have been the most influential to me. What stays with me are those discoveries that happen in process — when something cracks, resists, or surprises me, and a new form emerges.
My work keeps circling around the same questions: how can an object hold fragility and strength at once? How can materials themselves tell stories, if we allow them to? These are the threads I follow, and they keep unfolding as I go."