About
Us
We are a very friendly bunch of creative tinkerers!
We add value to your brand and products by delivering useful and beautiful solutions.
We aim for creative thinking, technical discipline, and pragmatism to deliver successful products.
We have a 25-year proven track record in designing successful, award-winning, revenue-generating products.
Above all, we are passionate about what we do!
Jörg Schlieffers
Managing Director/Father/Adventurer
Thinkable Studio was founded by Jorg Schlieffers in 2005. As former European Design Director for Symbol Technologies, the global leader in enterprise mobility and data management systems, he spent almost a decade designing award-winning user-centric barcode-scanning and data management systems for a broad variety of retail and industrial applications.
Over 15 years
of innovation
We are an international product design firm specialising in consumer, industrial and medical products, located in Offenburg, Southern Germany.
OUR
CLIENTS
OUR
AWARDS
Our work has been awarded major design awards, including two IDEA Gold Awards, Silver awards, iF Awards, Red Dot Awards and multiple Good Design Awards. Our work has been exhibited by museums and widely published. To date we hold over 60 design and utility patents.
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Red Dot Award
DS8100 Healthcare Zebra Technologies
Ultra-Rugged 3600 series Zebra Technologies
MC18 Mobile Computer Zebra Technologies
HC1 Headset Computer Motorola Solutions
IF Design Award
Rhino DS 3600 Zebra Technologies
MP6000 Bioptic Imager Motorola Solutions
LS1900 Cobra Barcode Scanner Symbol Technologies
Good Design Award
Rhino DS 3600 Zebra Technologies
LS1900 Cobra Barcode Scanner Symbol Technologies
Phaser P460 Barcode Scanner Symbol Technologies
IDA Award
Helios 1.0 Gold
Project OMNI Silver
Man In A Cage, Honorable Mention
IDSA International Design Excellence Awards
HC1 Headset Computer Finalists for Motorola Solutions
LifeStick concept SILVER Award, Datascope
P460 Phaser Barcode Scanner GOLD Award, Symbol Technologies
MK9 Motorcycle GOLD Award, Machineart
Other Design Awards
Edison Bronze Award HC1 Headset Computer, Motorola Solutions
IJL Editor's Choice award 'Impossible Jewellery' range SAXONS OF OXFORD
Jewel Street Men's Jeweller of the year SAXONS OF OXFORD
CES Innovations Award HC1 Headset Computer, Motorola Solutions
Chrysler Design Award finalist for Corporate Design Group recognition
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, Permanent Collection and Retail Futures Exibit for Symbol Technologies, Personal Shopper System
ID Magazine Annual Design Awards Design Distinction for Symbol Technologies, P460 Phaser Barcode Scanner