Scholarships
2006 - Scholarship Finland, German Academic Scholarship Foundation 2005 - One-year scholarship Italy, German Academic Exchange Service 2004 - Scholarship for gifted students, German…
Awards for supervised student research projects (from 2018)
2025 - Competition of the ADC*E Art Directors Club of Europe - Student Silver Award, David Zech: "THEA - Hand Rehabilitation in…
Activities as juror and reviewer
2025 - Juror, ADC Competition | Art Directors Club 2024 - Juror, Federal Ecodesign Award | IDZ / Federal Ministry for the Environment 2024 - Juror, ADC Competition |…
Awards for design work as Designer and UX Lead (until 2018)
2018 Annual Multimedia Award - Silver (3x). DDC - Good Design (2x). German Brand Award - Gold. German Brand Award (7x). German Design…
Prof. Tom Philipps is primarily involved in the fields of healthcare and individual mobility . Sustainable solution approaches and systems in the sense of the circular economy are an integral part…
Individual mobility
2020-22 - "Innovative local mobility " - Head of sub-project 10 in the "System innovation for sustainable development (s:ne)" project at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences,…
Design methodology
since 2005 - "The cesar methodology" - hybrid model for structured innovation and design processes
2013 - "Zwei+zwei" - Methodology and project management of an open…
Sustainability
2017/18 - "Darmstädter Weg" - Development of a reusable cup system for the Darmstadt region, taking into account a validatable depth of effect of a sustainable circulation system,…
Healthcare
2022 - "CASA " - Development of a pneumatic support insert for dynamic patient positioning in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - R&D project, ZIM-AiF, funding code: KK5147003RU1
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beyond that
2013 - "Paperworld" - Development of a trade fair stand concept as part of a generative room design, VVK e.V., contract research
2010/11 - "MultiTouch" - Development of a new…