Diffus Design

Diffus Design is a design company and consultancy based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Diffus Design was founded in 2004 by Michel Guglielmi and Hanne-Louise Johannesen as a creative partnership. In 2008 Diffus Design was established as a company.
Diffus Design creates products based on sensor technology merged with traditional materials and craft, with a focus on intelligent textiles, wearable technology, tangible interfaces, composite materials and interactive installations. Diffus Design is in close working relations to other organizations e.g. Forster Rohner, Inntex and Alexandra Instituttet as well as Delft University of Technology.
Diffus Design also undertakes consultancy and research in the fields of interaction design, intelligent textiles and architecture as well as product design for global clients within a wide range of industries, from industrial production to fashion and infrastructure planning.
Diffus Design participates as partners in two European Union research projects funded by the Seventh Framework Programme; CREATIF and Light.Touch.Matters.
The Creatif project is based in the area of smart fabrics. The aim of the project is to design and develop software and a smart fabric printer that can print electronic materials containing inks with interactive capabilities. The consortium consists of three creative partners Diffus Design, Base Structures and Zaha Hadid Architects
and four technical and research based partners University of Southampton, Institut für Textiltechnik Aachen, Grafixoft and Ardeje.
Light.Touch.Matters is a cooperation between product designers, material scientists and the industry. Light.Touch.Matters is to create smart materials that can sense touch and movement and respond with light. The base technologies for the Light.Touch.Matters. project are piezo plastics and flexible OLEDs. The consortium consist of 17 partners from 9 EU countries.