About

Lisa Klingersberger is an industrial and textile designer specialized in folding. Her studio in Salzburg works at the threshold of geometry and material: developing folded products, limited editions, sculptural works, and material research for brands, cultural institutions and creative industries. She combines digital tools and machining processes with analogue, hands-on making.

The folding practice traces back to a 2007 lecture by Biruta Kresling at Kunstuniversität Linz, where Lisa completed an Industrial Design Scionic® master alongside a parallel bachelor's in textile design, built on a year of mathematics studies at Universität Salzburg. Her master's thesis, Purpose Driven Computational Origami in Industrial Design, set the agenda the studio has been working through ever since.

Twelve years of professional design practice include positions at ForPeople in London, Johannes Scherr Design and Lucy.D in Vienna, and Lisa's own studio in Salzburg since 2015. Commissioned work includes the plated Frakta Bag Workshop for IKEA in 2026. Alongside the studio, Lisa has been teaching folding at university level for a decade: at Kunstuniversität Linz, TU Wien, and FH Salzburg.

The studio's projects can be seen under WORK. Teaching engagements, workshops and brand activations are listed under TEACHING and the upcoming events are in NEXT.

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Studio Services

Folding Design Projects

Lisa designs products and limited editions across client commissions, self initiated and as research for teaching. Geometric studies, crease-pattern development, digital and analogue workflows, 3d-prints and material tests. With her background of industrial design she delivers the design process including research, ideation, concept creation, 3d rendering and prototyping and the development of the final piece.

FOLDED WORK

Teaching folding, talks and events

Academic lectures, immersive folding workshops and brand activations at events. Participants work with their own hands and feel the materials directly, providing a folding experience that stays with them. The folding sessions are building skills in hand-eye coordination, aesthetics and geometry, working patiently until you create something with your own hands and without a screen. Lisa even sees a strong meditative element in folding, the repetition of folds along the paper can set you in a flow state while creating.

TEACHING FOLDING