Henning Knoepfle

Teaching

Years
2002 to 2017
Academy of Art University
Instructor, 2002 to 2017
California State University, Long Beach
Lecturer, 2009 to 2010
Subjects
Transportation design, sketching, studio classes

Alongside studio work

I taught design alongside studio work from 2002 to 2017.

Academy of Art University, San Francisco, 2002 to 2017

Instructor, transportation and automotive design. In the first years I flew from Los Angeles to San Francisco every Friday after work, taught a six-hour class on Saturday and flew back. Later I added an online class, which I kept teaching after moving to China.

Henning Knoepfle with students in a class review at Academy of Art University
In class at Academy of Art University.
Student sketch of an electric coupe with package
Student rendering of an off-road vehicle
Student sketches of a small SUV
Student ideation sketches for a small car
Student renderings of a hatchback
Student rendering of a compact street wagon
Student rendering of an off-road vehicle, front view
Student interior proposal
Student form sketches
Student work from my classes at Academy of Art University. The red hatchback is by Tae-Won Hong.
A student presenting his semester wall of car sketches
Gabriel Bravo presenting his work, transportation drawing class, spring 2008.

California State University, Long Beach, 2009 to 2010

Lecturer in industrial design. I taught the sketching and rapid visualization classes and the junior and senior studios.

Student rendering of a still life
Student marker rendering of a power tool
Student marker studies of a hand tool
Student rendering of a tracked vehicle
Student presentation board for a backpack
Student rendering of a clock
Student marker rendering of a bench
Student rendering of a blender with material details
Student rendering of a bicycle pump and lock
Student concept sketches for a hand tool
Student rendering of a sports shoe
Student rendering of a kitchen tool
Student work, CSULB. Row 1: Mabel Tan, Ayako Otani, Shang-Yu Wang. Row 2: Shang-Yu Wang, Peter Tu, Josue Gonzales. Row 3: Ayako Otani, Angela Wang, Rex Roberts. Row 4: Trenton Williams (two), Jorge Baeza.
Student cardboard model of an excavator
Student cardboard model of a crane
Working models from the second-year studio class, CSULB.
California High Speed Rail, CSULB senior project filmLecture at CSULB: Designing, Surviving and Thriving in China
Left: California High Speed Rail, the CSULB industrial design senior project of 2010. Right: Designing, Surviving and Thriving in China, a lecture I gave at CSULB in 2018.

Audi and Tongji University, Shanghai, 2012

A rear-cabin study for Audi that my Shanghai team ran together with Tongji students: cocoon seating, reclining rear seats, individual audio and rear-cabin interfaces.