Industrial & Product Design
Objects from first research to production-ready detail — concept, CMF, 3D modelling, prototyping and technical drawings. Developed with Mercedes-Benz, Coca-Cola and Rolls-Royce Power Systems.
SELENE STUDIO — Industrial and product designer — Munich · Berlin · Rome. Industrial, product and graphic design.
Industrial, product and graphic design.By Diana Zillner — identity, interface, object.
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14
Projects
4
Industry partners
3
Cities
2019
Designing since
03 / Selected work
Every project,
start to finish.
14 projects
01
Connected
A modular speaker system that gives every participant of a hybrid meeting their own sound.
02
Selene
My own label: hairpins made by hand, photographed, packaged and brought to a shop.
03
Cyber MOG
An autonomous farm vehicle that removes weeds mechanically instead of chemically.
04
Olympia Equestrian Centre
A site map for a 1972 Olympic venue — and the brochure that grew out of it.
05
Bendy
A milled beech hook that is also a shelf, held together by plug connections and precise cuts.
06
Smart Packaging
Blister strips that snap in half and a box that carries its own leaflet — medication packaging rethought.
07
Original Crate
One beverage crate for two bottle sizes — flip it and the inlay reorganises itself.
08
UDT
A modular waiting space for a Berlin station, designed around different ages and abilities.
09
Glass, Light and Water
Few elements, one movement — a sculpture built to make motion look effortless.
10
Hairpiece Cook Book
A biomaterial developed from scratch, documented as a recipe book, and worn as a hairpiece.
11
Rituals
A short-term project asking whether our daily rituals give us security or just the feeling of it.
12
Imagining Charms
Rome, translated into jewellery — an artichoke, an obelisk, and the city’s everyday symbols.
13
Wormzzzy
Tap it and it reacts. A shy, worm-like frame with a touch strip, a temper and an Arduino inside.
14
Fantasy Farm
Illustration, editorial design and self-publishing — a whole world drawn in vector line art, published on Amazon.
01 / About
Diana Zillner.
I am an industrial designer from Munich. I graduated in Industrial Design at HTW Berlin in 2023, after four years in Berlin, and I am currently studying for an M.Sc. in Product and Service Design at Sapienza University of Rome.
My work runs across industrial design, product and packaging design, and graphic and editorial design. Most of the projects here started at university, often in a team and often with a company on the other side of the table — Mercedes-Benz, Coca-Cola, Rolls-Royce Power Systems. The rest I started myself, because I wanted to keep making things after my degree.
- Fantasy Farm
Self-published colouring book for kids.
- Olympia Equestrian Centre Munich
Wayfinding map, brochure and signage.
- M.Sc. Product and Service Design
Sapienza University of Rome — Advanced Design Studio, Smart Object, Laboratory of Aesthetics.
- Selene
Own label for handcrafted hairpins.
- B.A. Industrial Design, HTW Berlin
Bachelor thesis “Connected” with Rolls-Royce Power Systems.
- PackVision
German Packaging Institute (dvi) with Coca-Cola.
- Cyber MOG
Cooperation project with Mercedes-Benz AG.
- Berlin
Studies and first design projects.
02 / Services
What I do.
Four fields, one way of working: research first, then form, then the files someone can actually build from.
Packaging Design
Structural and graphic packaging: dielines, material choices, information layout and the digital layer around it. Certified by the German Packaging Institute for the Coca-Cola PackVision project.
Graphic & Editorial Design
Wayfinding systems, brochures, books and information design — from a site map for an olympic venue to a self-published children’s book.
Illustration & Craft
Drawn characters, jewellery concepts and handmade objects. Where a product needs a voice rather than a spec sheet.
04 / Process
How I work.
Every project follows the same sequence, which brings content, requirements and execution together.
Orientation
Briefing, content, technical and product-specific requirements.
Concept
Design direction, variants, and the basis for deciding between them.
Design
Finalisation, design system and details, worked through to production.
Handover
Ordered files, guidelines and specifications for implementation or manufacturing.
05 / Contact
Tell me what you are
planning.
Scope, goals and constraints are enough to start with. I will come back with questions or the next steps.