M1/DTW is a nationally recognized, multi-disciplinary design studio directed by Christian Unverzagt.

Based in Detroit and operating at the intersection of design and cultural production, M1’s work includes a wide range of projects including interiors for Richard Florida’s global think tank at the Martin Prosperity Institute in Toronto, Eminem’s former studio 54 Sound, and the metro-Detroit’s own 6 salon. Print and identity work includes projects for art, cultural and educational institutions, including the Pasadena Museum of California Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the University at Buffalo’s Buffalo Books, University of Kentucky College of Design and the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

M1/DTW has received numerous awards for their work including I.D. Magazine’s Annual Design Review and a ‘50 Books’ award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) for one of the best designed books of the year. M1’s work has been published widely and exhibited in Los Angeles, Austin, Detroit, New York, and Boston.

Unverzagt holds a Master of Architecture with distinction from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles and studied architecture at the University of Michigan and The Bartlett at the University College London. He is currently a faculty member at Taubman College, where he teaches graduate design studio, seminars on representation, and is the faculty advisor for the student journal Dimensions. He lives and works in Detroit.