DESIGN ABROAD 2019
GERMANY
&
08.28~~~09.15
NETHERLANDS
WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
THE CREW
Anna Hart Bella Barni Chancellor Gardiner Crystal Tam
Erin McCoy Jordan Matthews Joyia Squires June Heimendinger
WWU
Kara Philipovich Lauren Wallach Megan Todd Nick Griffin
Noah Ostrow Teagan Wood
THE CREW
Sean Norton
Brittany Schade Kacey Morrow
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NAV
07 BERLIN
39 AMSTERDAM
Itinerary, 9
Itinerary, 41
Bike Tour, 13
Van Gogh Museum, 45
Welcome to Berlin, 11 Museum of Letters, 17 DDR Museum, 19
Street Art Tour & Workshop, 21 Teufelsberg, 25
Topography of Terror, 27 East Side Gallery, 29 Potsdam, 31
Bauhaus Dessau, 33
Hamburger Bahnhauf, 35 Mainz, 37
Welcome to Amsterdam, 43 MOCO, 47
Droog Collection, 49
Architecture Boat Tour, 51 Stedelijk Museum, 53
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The Green Box, 57
Outtakes, 81
PROFESSIONALS Berlin University of the Arts, 59
BLOOPERS
NAVIGATION
WWU
More Sleep, 61
Studio Skulptur, 63 Monotype, 65 Betahaus, 67
Martina Flor Workshop, 69 Less, 71
Valiz & Mind Design, 73 Thonik, 75
ACHTUNG! & Kraftwerk, 77
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BERLIN
BE RLIN POTS DA M DE S SAU M A IN Z
BERLIN
ITIN E RA RY 8.29
Orientation
Welcome Dinner
Berlin City Bike Tour Museum of Letters
8.31
DDR Museum
Street Art Tour & Workshop
9.1
Teufelsberg
Topography of Terror
9.2
The Green Box
East Side Gallery
Berlin University of the Arts
Potsdam
Bauhaus, Dessau
9.4
More Sleep
Studio Skulptur Monotype
ITINERARY
8.30
9.3
9.5
Betahaus
Hamburger Bahnhauf
9.6
Martina Flor Workshop
9.10 Less
Gutenberg Museum
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BERLIN
WE LC OM E TO BER L IN The group met at the hotel for the first night to have a group dinner and get
the next eleven days. We
traveled to the restaurant with a tour guide to get
accustomed to the public transportation. After the dinner, we took a group
sunset walk along the Spree
WELCOME TO BERLIN
comfortable in our home for
river, where we got a little preview of the beautiful
architecture of Berlin. Our first mishap of the trip,
but definitely not our last,
happened shortly into the
walk where half of our group
got separated. It was a good start to the trip.
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BE RLI N C ITY BI KE TOUR Fat Tire Bike Tours took us
around Berlin to all see the
major landmarks in the city. We biked for four hours
around town with multiple stops to learn about our surroundings. From the
university that Albert Einstein attended to the very
spot that Adolf Hitler’s body was allegedly burned, we
opened our visit to Berlin
with a very heavy, but also
very relevant, history lesson.
BERLIN
BERLIN CITY BIKE TOUR
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“
Came with another, stayed for the city. - RONAN
BERLIN
BERLIN CITY BIKE TOUR
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MUSEU M OF L ET T ER S The Museum of Letters was created in 2005 in
order to preserve the many
typographic signs of Berlin.
All of the signs were unique; some were neon, others
were hung up on the walls, and the rest were stacked into piles. They even had an E used in the cinema
explosion in ‘Inglourious
Basterds’. We spent time in the museum sketching the
various letter forms. It was
a great opportunity to cool off from the heat and snap some sweet photos.
BERLIN
MUSEUM OF LETTERS
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BERLIN
DDR MUSEU M Here, we learned what life in Eastern Germany was like
before the fall of the Berlin
Wall. With many interactive chance to “drive� a Trabant,
there was plenty of things to maintain our interest. At the very end of the exhibit, we got to go through a mock
DDR MUSEUM
sections, including the
DDR household, complete
with a bathroom and kitchen to dig through.
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BERLIN
ST R EET ART TO U R Starting off with a tour
through the streets of Berlin, we were shown artwork from people we learned about,
Foos. The guide taught us
about specific pieces before bringing us to a decorated courtyard. Here, there
were places to get a drink, museums to look through,
STREET ART TOUR
such as El Bocho and Josef
and even more street art decorating the walls.
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S TR E E T A RT WOR KS HOP At the end of the tour, we
were taken to a workshop to learn about street art
in a more hands-on way. Everyone carved out a
different stencil and spray painted their own piece.
With about two hours for the entire process, a lot of the project was done
working in the moment. In other words, almost none
of the final products were planned. This resulted
in unique, very freeform
pieces for everybody to take back home.
BERLIN
STREET ART WORKSHOP
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T E UFE LSBE RG On a mountain entirely
made out of WWII rubble,
we toured a United States listening station that was
active during the Cold War. The station was shut down
BERLIN
TUEFELSBERG
and has been reclaimed
by street artists who have
painted works throughout the property. Every open
surface was spray painted over, creating a uniquely beautiful area to explore
while we learned about the stations history.
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TOPOGRA PHY OF T E RROR Topography of Terror is a
walks you through the rise
the site of the headquarters
year by year, documenting
history museum located on of the Nazi Regime from
1933-1945. We visited on the
80th anniversary of Germany invading Poland. Berlin
provides free admission to this museum, to allow
anyone access to the history of Germany in WWII and of
the tragedies committed by
the Nazi Party. The museum
and fall of Nazi Germany elections, policies, war
crimes, the Holocaust, and
the people who committed
these actions. The museum
is a necessary visit if you are
ever in Berlin, the knowledge of history provided by this museum is vital to ensure
we never commit the same violent acts again.
BERLIN
TOPOGRAPHY OF TERROR
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E AST SI DE GA LLE RY Ready to experience
firsthand some of the most
famous art murals of Berlin, our study group began the mile long walk along the
remnants of the Berlin Wall. We finally had the chance
to see for ourselves pieces
like Kani Alavi’s, It Happened In November, Thierry Noir’s cartoon heads, and the recognizable Fraternal Kiss by Dmitri Vrubel.
BERLIN
EAST SIDE GALLERY
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SA N S S OUCI PAL AC E Taking a quick break from the city life, the group
headed to the calm and
pretty town of Potsdam.
There, we had four hours to explore freely. While four
hours sounded like forever at first, we found that in reality, our time passed quickly. We all separated, some people
checking out the local stores while others explored the Sanssouci Palace. It was
only a twenty minute walk
from the shopping district, making Potsdam an area
where rich and royal history collides with small town Europe suburbs.
POTSDAM
SANSSOUCI PALACE
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DESSAU
BAU H AUS Every design student has
building, and sat in some
being able to visit Dessau
lucky enough to attend in
heard of the Bauhaus, and ourselves was definitely a highlight of the trip for
everyone. Getting a guided tour of the world famous
modern design school felt recognizable appliances around every corner. We
walked through the Master’s
2019, which happened to be the 100 year anniversary of
the Bauhaus. Many of us even bought special 100 jahre
posters to remember it by. BAUHAUS
extremely surreal, with
very notable chairs. We were
houses, studied the color choices throughout the
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HAMBU RGER BAHN HOF For many of us, this was one of the few modern
art museums we had ever
attended. The experience,
while being very interesting, was also very strange.
With videos on the art of masturbation and silent
dance presentations where visitors are surrounded by performers, it was nearly impossible to be bored. It was the first time this
museum was part of the itinerary, so there were
surprises for everyone!
BERLIN
HAMBURGER BAHNHOF
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MAINZ
G UT EN BERG MUS EU M Before travelling to
Amsterdam, we took a stop Mainz. We were able to see
original copies of the 42 line bible in a guided tour. They
also walked us through how the printing press works, asking for a volunteer to
print a page to take home
with them. While there was
only one volunteer chosen,
GUTENBERG MUSEUM, MAINZ
at the Gutenberg Museum in
everyone got a chance to
create their own prints in the following workshop.
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AMSTERDAM
B OAT TO UR
DRO O G MO CO M US E UM ST E DELIJK MUS E UM
VA N GO GH M US E UM
AMSTERDAM
AMSTERDAM
ITIN E RA RY 9.11
Van Gogh Museum
9.12
Droog Collection
Architecture Boat Tour
ITINERARY
MOCO
9.13
Valiz & Mind Design Thonik
Studio Kraftwerk
9.14
Stedelijk Museum Goodbye Dinner
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WELCOME TO AMST ER DAM
AMSTERDAM
After an early morning and a brief four hour train ride
to Amsterdam, we arrived in the rain to Hotel Meininger. decompress and then got
oriented to the area by our
kind tour guide. After we got our bearings, we sped off to the Van Gogh museum for the afternoon.
WELCOME TO AMSTERDAM
We had a short moment to
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AMSTERDAM
VA N GOGH M US E UM Fresh off of the train, our group headed to the Van
Gogh Museum. There, we got of works by Van Gogh,
including The Potato Eaters, Sunflowers,
and Bedroom in Arles.
VAN GOGH MUSEUM
to see the largest collection
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MOC O Here, works by street artists such as Banksy and Andy Warhall were on display. Some of Banksy’s most
recognizable work, including Girl With Balloon, were out
for us to see for ourselves. Along with the street art
and sculptures, there were
entire rooms functioning as interactive art pieces that viewers could literally stand inside of.
AMSTERDAM
MOCO
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DROO G C OL L EC T ION Droog is a conceptual
design company with pieces available to either buy or
view. Going at our individual paces, our group observed the unique products on
display. Almost all of the pieces were extremely
experimental and most of the time were unlike anything we had seen
before. There were multiple
areas to explore, including a garden, a cafe, and a library.
AMSTERDAM
DROOG COLLECTION
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A RC H I T ECT U R E B OAT TO UR To finish off a busy day,
us. We got to learn about
two hour boat tour through
Amsterdam and the unique
our group participated in a Amsterdam. We were
surrounded by extremely
diverse architecture, which
we got to see from the water as we were taught about the history of buildings around
the buildinging process of problems that come with
living in a city built around
canals. By request, we were
dropped off at the entrance of an outdoor bar, where many of us ate dinner.
AMSTERDAM
ARCHITECTURE BOAT TOUR
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S TE DE L IJ K M US E U M The Stedelijk Museum was
the final event of the entire trip. The collection was
huge, ranging from De Stijl
works, to strange videos, and even to a Japanese poster
design exhibit. Going through everything took at least
two hours, and that doesn’t
include exploring the gift shop at the end of the visit.
AMSTERDAM
STEDELIJK MUSEUM
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PROFESSIONALS
PROFESSIONALS
T H E GR E EN BOX
BERLIN
The first firm we visited on
our trip was The Green Box, an independent art book
publisher based in Berlin. spoke with us about her
experience in design and publication work. It was
wonderful to get a taste of
the print scene in Berlin and
THE GREEN BOX
Anja Lutz welcomed us and
learn from someone inside the industry.
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Books are an artwork, not documentation. - ANJA LUTZ 57
PROFESSIONALS
BE R L I N U N IVER SIT Y OF T H E A RT S
BERLIN
Guided by Pascal Kress, we had the opportunity to compare a
BERLIN UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS
German design university to
what we know back in Seattle. A
quick presentation was given by
a student, showcasing her online magazine that experimented
with how a reader reads through an article. Finally, we sat with
Kress to hear about the overall experience of working for a design university in Berlin.
“
Ask yourself ‘How would I love to work’ and ‘How would I love to live’. - PASCAL KRESS
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PROFESSIONALS
MOR E SL EEP
BERLIN
Early Wednesday morning we met Torsten Bergler
at the firm More Sleep and their partner firm Friends of Friends. More Sleep is
agency that creates high end branding and advertising. More Sleep is all about
building “The Experience,”
something seen within their
own work space. The hosting area is fitted with curtains
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- TORSTEN BERGLER
MORE SLEEP
an international creative
Never design from your head, get in the head of the client.
that allow them to completely open up the second floor or
break it up into smaller rooms.
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ST U DIO SKU L PT U R
BERLIN
Lana Belton, Madeleine Berg, and Emma Skaaning are the minds behind the design agency Studio Skulptur.
They are an international brand agency who set
their goals high and then
fly past them. They are all about building a strong
base, which can be found
in their team’s work ethic. Work hours are strict, to
counteract overworking,
and Fridays are set aside to allow the designers to have
fun creative play together as a team. This is done to keep
motivation and morale high, which is further supported by the work environment decorated by the teams
own pottery and designs.
PROFESSIONALS
STUDIO SKULPTUR
The world won’t run out of projects. - EMMA SKAANING 63
MONOT Y PE
BERLIN
Monotype is the last
the typefaces and helps
foundry world. They
designing type. The firm
man standing in the type recently completed their
development of Helvetica Now, a full redesign and update of the digitized
Helvetica font family. They took us through the entire process of remaking the
font, from pointing out the problems to presenting
their solutions. They also showed us the work of a
type engineer who codes
automate the process of presentation finished off
with a Q/A session between us and an employee who
specialized in font quality
assurance. He had prepared multiple examples of his job, which was looking for the miniscule problems for a
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variety of different fonts.
We are in the business of reinventing ourselves. - HENNING KRAUSE
PROFESSIONALS
MONOTYPE
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PROFESSIONALS
BE TA H AUS BERLIN
We began our morning with a group
for the past two decades, followed
coworker space for designers, they
talking about ways civil disobedience
breakfast at Betahaus. Betahaus is a hold a ‘Betabreakfast’ event biweekly where speakers come and talk to the
We had a local from Seattle who came and talked about her growth as a
designer across digital marketplaces
can be a tool for citizens who need to be heard.After the pitches finished,
we got a guided tour of the Betahaus. It was a tightly woven collaborative space across multiple floors filled with designers and firms.
BETAHAUS
members and any visitors who come.
by a member of Extinction Rebellion
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M A RT I N A FLOR WOR KS HOP
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BERLIN
Believe in yourself so others do too. - MARTINA FLOR
PROFESSIONALS
For seven hours, we worked with the amazing Martina
workshop. Everyone chose
a different short saying and
got to work bringing it to life. With occasional lessons on
how to hand letter, along with pointers from Martina as we worked, everyone was able
to leave with a finished piece. Afterwards, we purchased
MARTINA FLOR WORKSHOP
Flor on a hand lettering
some of her merchandise
from the studio and shared our lettering as a group.
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“
Show them why you are motivated to be here. - LISA REIMANN
PROFESSIONALS
LE S S
MAINZ
Less was the only firm that
most notable jobs they did
it was made up of a small
is known for their wine, so
we visited in Mainz, and
group of talented designers. In fact, there were only two people. However, they had intern. They focused on many different forms of
design, however one of the
there is a large market for
the product. It was wonderful to see their work being
implemented across various styles and products for their team size.
LESS
just expanded by hiring an
were for wine bottles. Mainz
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VALIZ & MIN D DESIGN
AMSTERDAM
We got to meet with
Astrid Vorstermans and Niels Schrader at their
west Amsterzdam studio in the historical Het
Sieraad building. Astrid
is the founder of Valiz, an
independent international publisher that specializes in the social domain and
contemporary art. She has broadened her career in
Amsterdam by adding to the missing “critical discourse� in the city.
Niels is a concept-driven information designer as
well as the founder of Mind Design. In his work, Niels utilizes his fascination
with numbers, data, and algorithms to challenge
his audience in how they process visual data.
PROFESSIONALS
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What can we do that the computer can’t? We can understand the world. - NIELS SCHRADER
VALIZ & MIND DESIGN
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Don’t be afraid of getting technical, just play. - ROY TERHORST
PROFESSIONALS
T HON I K
AMSTERDAM
Thonik is a design firm
located south of central Amsterdam. We had the opportunity to listen to
Roy Terhorst, the firm’s designer. Roy explained
Thonik’s unique approach of initiating the majority of the
THONIK
main motion graphics
company’s designs through
animation, then manipulating them to static print graphics.
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AC H T UNG ! & KRA FTWE RK
AMSTERDAM
Kraftwerk is a creative design agency that finished our design firm tours with a bang. They showed examples of their work with UX, including their websites,
apps and successful projects. The atmosphere of this firm was laid back and comfortable, fostering great discussions about design amongst the group.
PROFESSIONALS
- JOOST AND BART
ACHTUNG! & KRAFTWERK
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You’re done designing when there’s nothing left to strip.
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PROFESSIONALS
T H A N K YO U
THANK YOU
Thank you to all the firms, schools, and spaces that welcomed us with open arms to teach us about their part of the design world. Everyone we visited had their own words of wisdom that we will carry with us into our own professional careers and hopefully pass on to future students like us. It is exciting to meet designers across the world and see how they put their own personal twist on their work. Thank you for spreading your knowledge and thank you for continuing to design a better world. - WWU DESIGN STUDENTS
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BLO OPE RS
Ona Heart Belle Bambi Scancellor Gardyner Kriistal Tahm
Aaron Mckoy Gordon Mattttfews Joya Skiyers July Himendinger
BLOOPERS
Car-a Fylipovik Laren VVallak Meagon Tod Nyk Gryffin
Shawn Nortan Teegin Whood
BLOOPERS
No-Ah Ahhstrow
Britney How Unfortunate Cacee nnorrow
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