About Us
The brand's name The CRYPTIDE is refering to cryptids - the species of cryptozoology, like the Yeti or the Bigfoot ... or Nessie of Loch Ness. Whether these rare creatures exist or not, we want to gently bring them into day-light.
We appreciate co-existence.
By exploring the possibilities of computational design and additive manufacturing in it's engineering and it's aesthetics, The CRYPTIDE shows innovation that wouldn't become a reality with conventional manufacturing tools.
The label's creature-like designs are meant
to evoc the animus in the machine-artefact,
in wearable the object.
Designer and founder Stephan Henrich
As a pioneer in design for additive manufacturing and 3d-printing Stephan Henrich works at the intersection of architecture, narration, design and robotics.
Besides The CRYPTIDE, he is running his design and research office Stephan Henrich - Robotikdesign und Architektur since 2011 in Stuttgart, Germany.
Stephan studied architecture in Stuttgart and Paris and he worked in architecture and engineering offices e.g. Schlaich Bergermann and Partner and Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering, Juergen Mayer H, Berlin and R&Sie(n) Architects, Paris.
With R&Sie(n) Architectes he worked as an associate in numerous projects e.g. shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2008, 2010, 2018), the Musée des Arts Moderns, MAM/Paris, the Tinguely Museum, Basel, Kunsthaus Graz and Mori Center, Tokyo.
He realized robotic projects for the french artist Philippe Parreno.
As a partner in FESTO's Bionic Learning Network he developed the 3D Cocooner a 3D-printing robot that builds endless fiber-reinforced lattice structures freely in space.
Stephan was a visiting associate professor at USC in Los Angeles. He has taught at the Die Angewandte in Vienna, U-Penn in Philadelphia, Cornell University, NY and the Architectural Association London and was a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck.
He was a fellow at the Akademie Solitude in Stuttgart.
Stephan has held lectures e.g. at the École national supérieure d’architecture Paris-Malaquais, the Städelschule, Frankfurt, at U-Penn, Philadelphia and at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA and at EuropeanRoboticForum 2023 in Odense, Denmark.
