Rainer studied Furniture Design at the Denmarks Design Skole Copenhagen, Product Design at the University of Arts Berlin and completed his degree in Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Deeply committed to creating design with purpose and always having his notepad and a pen at hand, his open-minded approach allows Rainer Mutsch to invite an element of play into his work. Living with his objects for a while is an important part of the design process for Rainer Mutsch, which allows him to investigate into unlocking the full potential of a design piece.
The designer puts his focus on exploring ways of combining materials and state-of-the-art- manufacturing and design techniques to use resources more efficiently. Growing up in the carpenters workshop of his father being surrounded by furniture the designer cultivated a finely tuned awareness about the demands of responsible design and developed an accurate sense of working with human scale measures.

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• 2001: Young Creatives Award, Winner
• 2008: Eternit Design Award, Winner
• 2008: Roemerquelle Design Award, Winner
• 2009: Red Dot Design Award
• 2010: Good Design Award, Chicago
• 2011: Brit Insurance Designs, nominee
• 2011: Green Good Design Award
• 2012: Deutscher Designpreis, nominee
• 2013: Neocon Best of Show Award, Chicago
• 2013: IIDEX Innovation Award, Canada
• 2014: Interior Innovation Award, Cologne
• 2015: Good Design Award, Chicago
• 2017: Global X Design Award, nominee, NYC
• 2017: Light Middle East Awards, finalist
• 2017: HIP Award, Winner, Neocon, Chicago
• 2017: Best of Year Award, honoree, NYC
• 2017: Staatspreis Design, honoree, Vienna
• 2017: Good Design Award, Chicago
• 2018: Design Battle, CIS Styria, winner, Graz
• 2018: Good Design Award, Chicago
• 2019: Leuchte des Jahres, Algae, winner
• 2019: Good Design Award, Ono & Ana, Chicago
• 2020: German Design Award, Ono & Ana, winner
• 2020: German Design Award, Algae, winner