Johannes Geisler

Johannes Geisler is an award-winning, international working industrial designer and mainly working in the field of industrial, car, automotive, tractor, product, and graphic design, based near Vienna, Austria. After finishing the Ortweinschule for Art and Design in Graz he studied Industrial Design at the FH Joanneum Graz under the guidance of Gerhard Heufler, Gerald Kiska and Achim Storz and was Intern in FUORE DESIGN in Barcelona under Erwin Leo Himmel with furniture and vehicle exterior design. He began as automotive designer at MAGNA STEYR in Graz, working for European premium car OEMS like BMW, MINI, FIAT, OPEL etc. and global Asian brands from 2005 up until 2015. As Senior Designer he was responsible for the exterior /interior design and as Deputy Chief Designer for the approval of series vehicles, show cars and machines as well as tractors. Johannes set up his own business in 2016 be able to work on innovative projects with clients in the long term. Biggest customer is ITL with the Brands SOLIS and SONALIKA. His ability to bring new concepts to production brought him the chance to develop a completely new European product design language of all tractors produced by ITL. The aim was to create a design language which works on the global and European market. More than 160000 tractors per year are now manufactured and sold worldwide under the brand names Solis and Sonalika. Work examples include the Solis 20, Solis 26 and Solis 50 and also facelifts of the Solis 50, Solis 75 and 90 and 110 products, which came on to the market in 2018. In 2019, the St4 line Solis 20, Solis 50 and Solis 90 was rolled out in Asia, Africa and South America. In 2022, the US market was also included with the H24 I S24 I S75 and H 24 CAB tractor line under SOLIS TRACTORS USA. The Solis Nova Design, created by Johannes, is the design benchmark of the whole Solis S75 StageV, S90 StageV and S110 StageV Design, which has been brought to the market 2023 and 2024. The Solis S90 St5 has been awarded 2023 on the Agritechnica Hannover as TOP 3 Utility Tractors of the year.