Wanderlust BERLIN 2017
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Table of Contents
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Wanderlust?
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Venue
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Location
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Schedule
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Speakers
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FAQ
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Sponsors
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What is wanderlust? noun. a strong desire to travel. The ability of the creative mind to allow itself to sidetrack into curiosity, attempt new ideas, and fearlessly delve into experimentation. Incorporating social values and community strategies plays a central role in that, boosting the gain of one’s own developments.
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Venue
TYPO Berlin takes place at House of World Cultures, which is located right next to the Federal Chancellor’s Office. The conference building is a classic example of modern architecture in Berlin.
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Location
HKW – House of World Cultures John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 10557 Berlin, Germany
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Schedule
Thursday, May 25th
Hall
Show
14:00
Susanne Koelbl Run!
15:00
Jonathan Ford (Pearlfisher) High tech, low tech fusion – creative thinking to transform lives
Eps51 Bi–Scriptual – Designing with multiple script systems
16:00
Lutz Engelke Beyond Creativity – Berlin Manifesto
Rejane Dal Bello Negation
17:00
C O F F E E
B R E A K
18:00
Aoi Yamaguchi Sho Ha Hito Nari: Brushes, strokes and a reflection of self
Marcus Veigel, Marvin Dankbar Fonts in Campaigns
19:00
Peter Bil’ak The best thing about design
Rosa Kammermeier, Julia Nimke Adobe Creative Residency
20:00
Oliver Jeffers The working mind and drawing hand of Oliver Jeffers
21:00
Aoi Yamaguchi, Schneider TM, Mika Satomi Linlow: Towards Transcendence – Interactive Calligraphy & Sound Performance
Stage
Nest
Foyer
Underware From A to Z
Chris Campe (Workshop) Brushpen Lettering Like a Pro
Andreas Frohloff (Workshop) Writing with the broad nib
Nikolaus Netzer CGI Type – spatially dynamic type
Birgit Palma Modular Lettering: Type & Illustration
Viktoriya Grabowska New life for a forgotten typeface. Tactile alphabet in education of blind.
C O F F E E
Patrick Marc Sommer, Vanessa Schnurre (Workshop) Braille
B R E A K
Salom Beaury, Doro Petersen (Workshop) rope_lettering_we love letterpress!
Zofia Oslislo The Insects Project. Problems of diacritic design for central European languages
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Friday, May 26th Hall
Show
11:00
Gary Hustwit Unframed: Storytelling in Virtual Reality
11:00 Michael Johnson Why the best brands are defined first, and designed second
11:30 Stefan Büscher (Škoda), Patrick Märki (KMS Team) »Driven by Inventiveness« – ŠKODA NEXT
12:00
Dominic Wilcox The reinvention of normal
12:00 Thomas Markert (DFL Digital Sports), Heinrich Paravicini (Mutabor) The round ball goes in the rectangular net – the Bundesliga’s new global corporate design
12:30 Simon Umbreit (oddity) New Realities. Social media & influencer marketing at dm drugstores.
13:00 Justus Oehler (Pentagram) Celebrating design heritage
13:30 Jose de Cabo (Olapic), Rema Gouyez-Benallal (Kiehl’s) Success story: How Kiehl’s drives digital brand engagement with visual Earned Content (UGC)
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L U N C H
B R E A K
15:00
Debbie Millman Debbie Millman
15:00 Carola Seybold (Pantone) Today’s role of color in branding
15:30 Evan Wray Case Studies: Building Brand Advocates With Mobile Messaging
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Luke Stockdale Luke Stockdale
16:00 Thomas Michelbach (Strichpunkt), Jochen Rädeker (Strichpunkt) The interface becomes the brand. Digital components in the new Audi CD.
16:30 Holger Schmidhuber, Donatus Landgrave of Hesse Prinz von Hessen
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COFFEE
17:00 Paolo Insinga Juventus | Interbrand
17:30 Michael Pietig (Hilti), Norbert Möller (Peter Schmidt Group) How to change an icon without changing an icon
18:00 Nadine Chahine, Ahmad al-Mahri Dubai Font
18:30 Thomas Müller (Fjord) The day my brand atomized
BREAK
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Gerd Fleischmann What on Earth is ‘Bauhaus Typography’?
19:00
Erik Spiekermann From typesetter to graphic designer and back.
Stage
Nest
Foyer
Eva-Lotta Lamm (Workshop) Sketching – Time to practice and play
Birgit Palma, Daniel Triendl (Workshop) Modular lettering
Drury Brennan (Workshop) From Gothic to Graphic
Paul van der Laan, Erik van Blokland (Workshop) Drawing with the TypeCookers
Andreas Frohloff (Workshop) Writing with the broad nib
Aoi Yamaguchi (Workshop) Japanese calligraphy
Patrick Marc Sommer, Vanessa Schnurre (Workshop) Braille
Salom Beaury, Doro Petersen (Workshop) rope_lettering_we love letterpress!
Nikos Georgopoulos Creating atmospheres
Ishan Khosla The Typecraft Initiative
Chris Campe Doing what you can’t
COFFEE
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Catalogtree 52°30’06.2”N, 13°24’09.1”E
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Saturday, May 27th Hall
Show
11:00
Rich Roat (House Industries) The process is the inspiration
12:00
Henning Wagenbreth Wagenbreth’s Travelling Theatre
13:00
L U N C H
Ivo van Leeuwen, Sander Neijnens TilburgsAns, a typeface for a sans serif city
B R E A K
14:00 15:00
Liv Siddall How to make a monthly music magazine for a 40-year-old record store
Peter Breuer Discard and dispose
16:00
Sebastian Lörscher “Making Friends” – On the road with a sketchbook
Eva-Lotta Lamm Secrets from the road – sketchnoting a 14-month round-the-world-trip
17:00
C O F F E E
18:00
Erik Kessels Your mistakes could change the world
19:00
Michael Johnson Open it all up
B R E A K Ludwig Übele Georg Salden – Typeface rebels
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Nest
Foyer
Eva-Lotta Lamm (Workshop) Sketching – Time to practice and play
Birgit Palma, Daniel Triendl (Workshop) Modular lettering
Chris Campe (Workshop) Brushpen Lettering Like a Pro
Andreas Frohloff (Workshop) Writing with the broad nib
Drury Brennan (Workshop) Schönschrift üben
Aoi Yamaguchi (Workshop) Japanese calligraphy
Paul van der Laan, Erik van Blokland Typecookers critique session
LUNCH
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Patrick Märki (KMS Team) »East meets West«: JINS NEXT Typeface
Borys Kosmynka Wanderlust in the basement of the Book Art Museum of Lodz
COFFEE
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Ksti Hu A victory over the sun
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Speakers
Ahmad al-Mahri
Rejane Dal Bello
Graphic Designer (London)
Assistant Secretary General for the Executive Council, Dubai (Dubai)
Salom Beaury Illustrator (Berlin) Salom Beaury studied communications design in Potsdam and Berlin. She has worked for publishing houses and done illustrations on commission for cultural institutions and private clients. In addition to “urban sketching” and live sketching, she has led numerous workshops at Berlin’s Big Draw Festival, and the sketching festivals in Weimar and Stralsund. In her workshops, she combines technical skill with conceptual creativity. For Beaury, the most important criterion for a successful workshop is a superordinate subject that she uses to tie the differing experience the participants bring to the session to a joint context.
Rejane Dal Bello runs a design studio, based in London, that creates visual identities for national and international clients focusing on the Corporate, Cultural & Non Profit sectors. Our studio works with ongoing collaborations to best suit each project we work on. She is an awarded winning Graphic Designer & Illustrator with a great range of iconic design case studies. Originally from Brazil she began her career working for renowned branding & design over the world, Studio Dumbar (NL) and Wolff Olins (UK). Rejane Dal Bello is regularly feature in international publications and as well as giving workshops and lectures around the world.
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Peter Bil’ak
Peter Breuert
Copywriter (Hamburg)
Type Designer, Designer (The Hague) Peter Bil’ak works in the field of editorial, graphic, and type design and teaches at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. He is running Typotheque, the first foundry to bring webfonts to the market. Recently he started »Works That Work«, magazine of unexpected creativity that rethinks publishing practices.
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Erik van Blokland
Type Designer, Programmert (The Hague) Working with designspaces, writing, reading, generating and doing some analysis.
Peter Breuer studied design and has worked as a copywriter since the early 1990s, attacking subjects such as indwelling catheters, red wine, furniture, meat salads and a few others. Because each new subject brings with it associations that don’t end up as part of the project, and because collecting paper is such a space-saving endeavour, he maintains an archive. For a long time, all it did was grow, but he now uses it as a source.
Jose de Cabo (Olapic)
Stefan Büscher (Škoda) Stefan Büscher studied behavior-oriented marketing in Germany and abroad while completing his degree in Business Studies (Diplom-Kaufmann) at the University of Paderborn. He had 16 years of experience in a wide range of sales functions before joining Porsche in 1997, where he led the Marketing Communications department as General Manager until 2012. He then spent three years working as Brand and Product Manager at Bentley Motors in England. He joined ŠKODA as Marketing and Product Director in 2014, and is responsible for getting the over 120 year-old brand ready for the future.
Co-Founder Olapic (London)
Chris Campe Graphic Designer, Lettering Artist (Hamburg) Chris Campe studied communications design and cultural studies in Hamburg, Paris and Chicago; she is capable of thinking, writing and designing. Her design office All Things Letters specialises in type and creates everything with letters – books, covers, logos, illustrations, spaces and display windows. Following two books about Hamburg (“Hamburg Alphabet” and “Toller Ort”), her newest book “Handbuch Handlettering” will be published in March 2017.
Based in Olapic’s European headquarters in London, Cabo is spearheading the company’s global expansion. Drawing on his extensive global consulting background, Cabo and his team successfully introduced Olapic’s earned content technology to the European market and have secured client partners including AllSaints, Karen Millen, L’Óreal, Pepe Jeans, and Tag Heuer. Born in Madrid, Cabo holds undergraduate degrees from Dublin City University and ICADE University and an MBA from the Columbia School of Business in New York City, where he and his co-founders received recognition and capital from the Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurial Initiative Fund. He previously worked as a management consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, leading technology innovation, marketing and sales projects for large, multi-national corporations. Cabo has been featured extensively in the press and is frequently invited to present at trade conferences on the future of e-commerce.
Nadine’s work has been featured in the 5th edition of Megg’s History of Graphic Design and in 2012 she was selected by Fast Company as one of its 100 Most Creative People in Business. In 2016 her work was showcased in the 4th edition of First Choice which highlights the work of the 250 top global designers practising today.
Catalogtree
Design Studio (Berlin & Arnhem) Catalogtree is a multi-disciplinary design studio based in Arnhem (NL) and Berlin (DE). It was founded in 2001 by Daniel Gross and Joris Maltha, who met at Werkplaats Typografie. Nina Bender joined the studio in 2011. The studio works on commissioned and self-initiated projects. Highly interested in self-organising systems, they believe in ‘Form Equals Behaviour’. Experimental tool-making, programming, typography and the visualisation of quantitative data are part of their daily routine. Recent endeavours include bin packing in book design, etching Chladni patterns and infographics for the International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam. Daniel and Joris also teach at ArtEZ, the Institute of the Arts in Arnhem (NL) and lecture and lead workshops internationally.
Nadine Chahine
Type Designer (London) Dr. Nadine Chahine is an award winning Lebanese type designer working as the UK Type Director and Legibility Expert at Monotype. She has an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading, UK, and a PhD from Leiden University, The Netherlands. Nadine’s research focus is on eye movement and legibility studies for the Arabic, Latin, and Chinese scripts. She has numerous awards including two Awards for Excellence in Type Design from the Type Directors Club in New York in 2008 and 2011. Her typefaces include: the best-selling Frutiger Arabic, Neue Helvetica Arabic, Univers Next Arabic, Palatino and Palatino Sans Arabic, and Koufiya.
Exhibition Stand at the Hannover Trade Fair, FIFA World Football Museum and currently organization of the 12 “Future Energy” Forums at the EXPO-2017 in Astana, Kazakhstan. Lutz Engelke is honorary professor at FH Potsdam Department of Design, cofounder of the CREATE BERLIN Initiative, member of Art Director’s Club Germany as well as cofounder and partner of DENKBANK. His motto “Dare to imagine more” represents the maxim that drives the team at TRIAD Berlin.
Marvin Dankbar Junior Art Director (Deutschland)
Dankbar began as a media designer at cynapsis interactive. He is currently the junior art director and for the last two years, has been responsible for the typography & fonts division. Among other things, he looks at how type can be optimised for all browsers, operating systems, and devices – and which tools work best to achieve that.
Lutz Engelke
Founder and CEO / TRIAD (Berlin) Lutz Engelke, founder of TRIAD Berlin, traverses the border between science and art. An Alumnus of both Freie Universität Berlin and Cornell University New York, his academic studies in literature, psychology, film, and journalism equip him with a strong multi-disciplinary perspective. With offices in Berlin and Shanghai the company is bringing together over 200 employees from 47 professions, different age groups and cultural backgrounds, TRIAD Berlin has been producing award-winning designs and inspiring conceptual experiences since its inception in 1994. Among these projects are national and international benchmarks, such as Brandenburg Gate Museum in Berlin, German Soccer Museum in Dortmund, Siemens
Eps51
Design Studio (Berlin) Ben Wittner and Sascha Thoma both studied visual communications in Pforzheim, Germany. After a few long-term living and working trips to Cairo, Brussels, Paris, Brighton and London they founded Eps51 in Berlin in 2008. The internationally active graphic design studio develops visual concepts with a strong focus on typography and bilingual design. As a result of their extensive research on Arabic and Iranian type and graphic design Wittner and Thoma edited the book series Arabesque—Graphic Design from the Arab World and Persia, Die Gestalten Verlag (2008 and 2011). In 2012 they organized the project RightTo-Left comprising an exhibition of contemporary graphic design from the Arab world and Iran featuring more than 160 posters, as well as lectures, discussions and workshops. Eps51 are currently working on a new book project on multi-script design focusing on 8 different script-systems.
Gerd Fleischmann
Typographer (Ulrichshusen) Born in Nuremberg in 1939. Evacuated to the Bavarian Forest 1943-45. Beginning in 1954, travel across Europe, Turkey and North Africa – from Norway’s North Cape to the Fezzan in Libya. He studied in Erlangen (physics) and Berlin (art and industrial arts teaching, mathematics), including with professors such as Karl Ludwig Schrieber, Fred Thieler, Willem Hölter, Walter Hess, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Carl-Ludwig Furck and Karl Peter Grotemeyer. He set up the first photographic laboratory, along with Klaus (Paul) Märtens and Deidi von Schaewen, in division IV of Berlin’s University of the Arts. In 1965, he began designing books under the pseudonym Lorenz Frank, with his first being Ein Jahr Großgörschen 35. From 1970 – 1971, trusting in the new
policies of Willy Brandt (“we want to take a chance on more democracy”), he worked at the Institut für Kommunikationsplanung (institute for communications planning) in Bonn. From 1971 to 2003, he taught in the design department at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, and did guest professorships around the world, including in Dublin (NCAD); Halifax, Nova Scotia (NSCAD); Hanoi (University of Fine Arts) and San José (Universidad de Costa Rica, Escuela de Artes Plásticas). His book Bauhaus. Drucksachen, Typografie, Reklame (Edition Marzona) was published in 1984. In 1989, he introduced the Macintosh into the design department. He has designed numerous projects and exhibitions on the Nazi era, including among others Irish Country Posters, Köln im Nationalsozialismus (permanent exhibition of the Cologne documentation centre), and is most recently working on Industrie und Holocaust. Topf & Söhne – Die Ofenbauer von Auschwitz (“Industry and the Holocaust. Topf & Sons, the Oven Builders for Auschwitz”). He came to typography accidently and it became his passion.
mark for Pearlfisher’s work, Jonathan leads a successful series of Challengers & Icons interviews with the leaders behind the brands of the future.
Jonathan Ford (Pearlfisher) Junior Art Director (Deutschland)
Never one to accept the status quo, Jonathan continually provokes and questions the world, inspiring Pearlfisher to create design that makes the future better. An advocate of the power of creativity to inspire change, Jonathan has led the creation of some of the world’s most loved challenger and iconic brands and has won numerous awards for his work, including a Gold Cannes Lions for the JME brand creation for Jamie Oliver, and recently celebrated a record-breaking 17 consecutive years of success at the DBA’s Design Effectiveness Awards. Championing the power of the good idea, Jonathan has also been Jury Foreman for judging at both D&AD and Cannes Lions and speaks regularly on the brand, design and innovation conference circuit, on prestigious platforms including PSFK, Cannes Lions and the World Future Trends Summit. When he’s not setting the bench-
Andreas Frohloff Andreas Frohloff, born in Berlin in 1956, manages and develops the relationship to external exclusive type designers of the Monotype libraries. A calligrapher and type designer by profession, Frohloff has been hosting calligraphy workshops for many years. The lecturer at several academies was trained as a sign painter and graphic designer, and graduated in combined special studies in typography and educational sciences.
Nikos Georgopoulos
Viktoriya Grabowska
Type Designer (Poznan)
Art Director (London) Georgopoulos is a Greek graphic designer and art director based in London. Described by London College of Fashion’s Creative Director as ‘sensitive, considered and essentially poetic’, his work spans across graphic identities, exhibitions, publications and websites for the fields of fashion, culture and commerce. Selected clients include Frieze Art Fair; Fashion Space Gallery; London College of Fashion; UDO objects and Helen Storey Foundation. In 2015/16 he was the graphic designer of London College of Fashion and Fashion Space Gallery responsible for the conception and design of exhibition identities, publications and printed material. He has studied Graphic Design and Visual Communication at Vakalo College of Art & Design (BA, MA) in Athens, Greece and at Camberwell College of Arts (MA) in London, where he conducted practice-based research exploring the relation between Identity and Archives. In 2014 he co-directed the promo film ‘Sirens’ for ‘Leon of Athens’ and since 2016 he is a member of the Art Directors Club.
Rema GouyezBenallal (Kiehl’s)
Digital Engagement Manager / Kiehl’s (London) Rema Gouyez-Benallal has been leading the UK Social Media and Digital Engagement strategies for the Kiehl’s brand, part of the L’Oréal Group, for the past year and a half. After graduating with Honours from City University London in 2011, Rema started her career within the publishing and Beauty industries, taking on several roles in Content, Social Media and Digital Marketing beginning with Benefit Cosmetics in their Canadian market. At Kiehl’s, she is responsible for empowering Digital Consumer Advocacy through best-in-class Social Media strategies, Digital Content and Engagement Campaigns. In her spare time, Rema enjoys photography and publishing her visual creations on Instagram.
Viktoriya Grabowska is an Ukrainian-born Polish-based independent type designer. She dedicates herself to different projects that range from type design and research. Her typefaces often cover Latin and Cyrillic. She also works with other designers and type foundries, such as Cornel Windlin Studio, Lineto, Darden Studio, Studio Norm (Dimitri Bruni & Manuel Krebs), Rosetta Type Foundry and Sorkin Type. Viktoriya teaches Type Design at University of Arts in Poznan and School of Form.
He lives with his wife Floria and three children in Kronberg im Taunus. He is an avid rider, breeds Trakehners, and devotes much of his private time and energy to promotional activities for the arts and culture.
Donatus Landgrave of Hesse
Prince and Landgrave of Hesse (Kronberg / Taunus)t Landgrave Donatus von Hessen heads up the family’s Hessische foundation and the non-profit House of Hesse cultural foundation. Both foundations are dedicated to preserving and promoting the dynasty’s art and cultural heritage and making them accessible to the public. The foundations generate the funds for that enormous task with estates and agricultural properties, including the Panker and Schmoel farmsteads in Schleswig-Holstein, a Trakehner stud farm, and two five-star hotels in the Rhine-Main region, the Schlosshotel Kronberg and the Grand Hotel Hessischer Hof. In addition, they mount various outdoor events in areas such as gardens, artisanry, and design, and own the renowned Prinz von Hessen vineyard.
Ksti Hu
Graphic Designer (Berlin) Kristina Huber (aka Ksti Hu) was born in the deep North of Russia. She now lives in the Internet, while working & studying between Frankfurt and Berlin. 2015, she finished her bachelor studies in fashion though being a full time graphic designer. In 2013 she reconstructed K. Malevich’s drafted and not survived costumes of the Opra “Victory Over The Sun” as a collection for the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Her following developed fashion collection was fully based on those previous works and has won several prices. Ksti Hu’s work is as versatile as it is upfront while always pushing the envelope of different fields and media. Over the years, she has been putting several performances, exhibitions and lectures into practice — from graphic design, to politics & fashion — collaborating with different people all over the world.
Landgrave Donatus studied business in Hamburg, with additional training as a real estate economist.
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Gary Hustwit
Oliver Jeffers
Filmmaker (New York)
Artist, Illustrator (New York)
Gary Hustwit is an independent filmmaker and photographer based in New York. He is the CEO and Creative Director of Scenic, a virtual reality content studio focusing on non-fiction VR. Gary has produced 13 feature documentaries, including the design trilogy of Helvetica, Objectified, and Urbanized. His films have been broadcast on HBO, PBS, BBC, and television outlets in 20 countries, and have been screened in over 300 cities worldwide.
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Paolo Insinga Creative Director / Interbrand Italy (Milan) Paolo is the Creative Director of Interbrand in Italy and is responsible for the creative output. From the initial strategic thinking, going through concept and design development, Paolo challenges the creative team to find the most appropriate solutions to grow businesses through branding. Paolo led the team that crafted the award-winning rebranding project for Juventus. Paolo’s fifteen years working experience encompasses multidisciplinary branding projects for a broad range of industries, both for the Italian and the international market. His team envisions and delivers the experience, expression and storytelling that define brands in the real world.
Oliver Jeffers makes art. From figurative painting and installation to illustration and picture-book making, Oliver Jeffers’ work takes many forms. His distinctive paintings have been exhibited in multiple cities, including Lazarides Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Brooklyn Museum and Spring Break Fair (Armory Week) in New York, and Gestalten Space in Berlin.
Oliver’s picture books — including The Incredible Book Eating Boy, This Moose Belongs to Me, The Day Crayons Quit and its sequel The Day The Crayons Came Home ( both #1 NYTimes Bestsellers) and Once Upon an Alphabet — have been translated into over 30 languages. Working in collaboration with Studio AKA, Oliver’s second book Lost and Found was developed into an animated short film that has received over sixty awards, including a BAFTA for Best Animated Short Film.
Picture book awards include the The New York Times Best Illustrated Books, Smarties Award, Irish Book of the Year, The Red House Book Award, British Book Design Award, and The Blue Peter Book of the Year. Oliver won a NY Emmy in 2010 for his collaborative work with the artist and director Mac Premo. In 2013 Oliver co-directed with Mac Premo the video for Ordinary Love by U2, and more recently made art for, and helped art direct, U2’s Innocence and Experience World Tour.
Rosa Kammermeier Graphic Designer, Lettering Artist (Munich)
Michael Johnson Creative Director, Principal / johnson banks (London) Johnson Banks defines then design brands that want to make a difference: tackle hunger; fight for an open internet; raise billions for education; bring culture and enlightenment to the world; shift paradigms and change lives. Johnson’s clients include Cambridge University, Action Against Hunger and Mozilla. His new book, “Branding: In Five and a Half Steps” is a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic.
Rosa Kammermeier is a graphic design and lettering Adobe Creative Resident based Munich, Germany. She’s spent recent years working for design agencies and as a freelancer focused on hand-lettering. As a Creative Resident in 2017, she’ll be working on a personal project titled the Walk of Happiness, in which she’ll place hand lettered messages of positivity on shop windows across Germany. Her messages will be linked and made accessible online. Rosa hopes to capture the attention of people in their daily, consumer-oriented lives and make them smile and think.
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ferences such as in Singapore, Goa, NY, Toronto and Bangkok. He has taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam), Écal (Lausanne) and at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture where he curated a celebration of amateurism.
Erik Kessels Designer, Artist, Curator (Amsterdam) Born in 1966, lives and works in Amsterdam. Erik Kessels is a Dutch artist, designer and curator with great interest in photography. Erik Kessels is since 1996 Creative Director of communications agency KesselsKramer in Amsterdam and works for national and international clients such as Nike, Diesel, J&B Whisky, Oxfam, Ben, Vitra, Citizen M and The Hans Brinker Budget Hotel.
As an artist and photography curator Kessels has published over 50 books of his ‘re-appropriated’ images: Missing Links (1999), The Instant Men (2000), in almost every picture (2001-2015) and Wonder (2006). Since 2000, he has been an editor of the alternative photography magazine Useful Photography. For the DVD art project Loud & Clear he worked together with artists such as Marlene Dumas and Candice Breitz. Kessels writes regular editorials for numerous international magazines. He lectured at the D&AD Presidents Lecture and at several international design con-
Kessels made and curated exhibitions such as Loving Your Pictures, Use me Abuse me, 24HRS of Photos, Album Beauty and Unfinished Father . He als co-curated an exhibition called From Here on together with Martin Parr, Joachim Schmid, Clement Cheroux and Joan Fontuberta. In 2010 Kessels was awarded with the Amsterdam Prize of the Arts, in 2016 nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and is often seen as the most influential creative of The Netherlands.
Ishan Khosla Designer (New Delhi) Ishan Khosla is an artist, designer and teacher who works on a range of projects in typography, graphic and object design. While concept, research and storytelling are strong aspects of his work, he straddles the experimental world of art with the commercial realities of design — where he works on projects in branding, interactive design, books and print design, and projects that have a social impact and involve reinterpreting culture in dynamic new ways. Returning to India in 2008, after a period of 12 years in the US, Ishan felt that there was real need to create an “Indian Design Language” based on Indian traditions, culture, crafts rather than blindly following western design trends. His company, Ishan Khosla Design has been included in New Graphic Design — a book that looks at the 100 leading contemporary graphic designers in the world today. Through the self-funded “The Typecraft Project”, which combines design, technology and craft —
Ishan hopes not only to support some of the languishing Indian crafts but also to create a greater awareness about the beauty and vitality of these traditional Indian handicrafts.
Borys Kosmynka Type & Graphic Designer (Ĺ Ăłdz)
Susanne Koelbl Foreign Correspondent / Spiegel (Berlin)
Borys Kosmynka is a type and graphic designer from Lodz, Poland. He cooperates with the Book Art Museum to revive the spirit of letterpress printing and digitize old type.
Susanne Koelbl, born in Munich, author of books, award-winning foreign correspondent of DER SPIEGEL, host of salons, lover of Persian poetry, Berlin-based owner of a dacha, had an eye-opening experience in the Balkans 15 years ago: A small group of international diplomats, soldiers and helpers stopped the killing and the war. Koelbl has written about conflicts and how to solve them ever since. 70 times she traveled to Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as to North Korea, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, and dozens of other places. The conflicts continue, but she is driven by the knowledge, why there are confrontations, and what it needs to end them.
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Eva-Lotta also is a sought after expert and teacher in the area of sketching, sketchnoting and visual thinking. She is regularly speaking at international design conferences and has been teaching sketching workshops at conferences and for companies for over 5 years. She is currently writing a book on sketching interfaces, based on one of her workshop formats.
Paul van der Laan Type Designer, Typographer (The Hague) Paul van der Laan lives and works in The Hague and is founding partner of Bold Monday typefoundry. He is also staff member of the KABK Type & Media masters course in type design. He has designed a diverse collection of typefaces including Oskar, Flex, Feisar, and a variety of custom fonts for worldwide clients such as Audi, USA Today, General Electric, NBCUniversal and Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
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Eva-Lotta Lamm UX Designer, Illustrator, Visual Thinker (Berlin) Eva-Lotta Lamm is a User Experience Designer, illustrator and visual thinker. She grew up in Germany, worked in Paris and London for a few years before packing up her backpack and go travelling the world for 14 months. She has over 12 years of experience working on digital products as an in-house designer for Google, Skype, and Yahoo! as well as freelancing and consulting for various agencies and her own clients. After being a (semi-)nomad for 2 years, she is now based in Berlin. Besides her UX work, she has been taking sketchnotes at hundreds of talks and conferences and has self-published her notes in several books (www.sketchnotesbook. com). During her world trip, she documented her experience as daily sketchnotes in her travel diary (www.secretsfromtheroad.com).
Eva-Lotta is the illustrator of Content Everywhere by Sara Wachter-Boettcher and The User’s Journey by Donna Lichaw, both published by Rosenfeld Media. In her personal sketching practice, she is exploring the area of Visual Improvisation, where she is looking at the parallels between sketching and improvisation and experiments with how the principles from her regular theatre improvisation practice can be used to inspire visual work.
Ivo van Leeuwen
Thomas Markert (DFL Digital Sports)
Illustrator (Tilburg) Illustrator, painter and graphic artist. Works since 1996 as a freelance artist for Dutch magazines and newspapers. Illustrator of Poetrybooks. Has a history in underground comix. From the mid-nineties till 2008 he worked with S. Lloyd Trumspstein under the name Y.O.W.I (You Order We Ignore). Together they made drawings, paintings, silkscreens and linocuts. In 2005 they released the book, Ontsnapt aan de vrijheid. (Escape from freedom). With typographic designer Sander Neijnens he is currently working on the project TilburgsAns, a typographical portrait of the Dutch city Tilburg.
Director Visual Design, DFL Digital Sports (Cologne)
Sebastian Lörscher Illustrator, Autor (Berlin) Sebastian Lörscher was born in 1985 in Paris and grew up near Munich. He is an illustrator and author living in Berlin. His graphic novels have received a host of honours (including the Sondermann prize from the Stiftung Buchkunst) and are in the catalogues of various publishers in Germany and France. Lörscher’s recent work focuses particularly on the medium of illustrated features. He travels to faraway lands with pencils and sketchbook, and captures his impression in drawings, texts and cartoon strips done in situ.
Thomas Markert is an award winning Creative Director with over 20 years of experience leading the development of innovative, breakthrough creative solutions for leading entertainment and consumer brands including Nokia, Microsoft, MTV and Nickelodeon. Deep understanding of the creative development process, combined with the ability to successfully manage internal teams and external agency partners to produce hi-impact and effective marketing campaigns. About himself: Old School yet Young at Heart
His latest project took him to Bangalore in southern India, Haiti in the Caribbean and finally, the wilds of Austria.
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Patrick Märki (KMS Team) Managing Director and Creative Director KMS TEAM (Munich) »Anything is possible – even if the conditions may be difficult at times. Design is a journey, not a series of fixed principles. Design is the visual expression of a mindset.« Born in 1973 in Basel, Switzerland, Patrick Märki attended the Basel Music Academy from 1990 to 1994. He then studied communication design at the Basel School of Design from 1995 to 2000. He worked as a freelance graphic designer before joining KMS TEAM in 2000. As Managing Director and Creative Director, he is currently responsible for the areas of corporate design and typography. His brand identity clients include Canyon Bicycles, Credit Suisse, JINS, MAN, Porsche Motorsport, Universität Heidelberg and the museum Villa Stuck München. He is a member of the DDC.
Debbie Millman Design / Author / Educator (New York)
Thomas Michelbach (Strichpunkt) Head of Development / Strichpunkt Design (Stuttgart) Thomas Michelbach has been the head of development for the Strichpunkt design agency since May of 2015. The firm, with offices in Stuttgart and Berlin, is among Germany’s largest design agencies. It has won numerous awards and his held a spot in the top ten creative ventures in Germany for more than a decade. Michelbach is head of the digital department, with responsibility for the technical implementation of Strichpunkt’s digital projects, such as websites, e-magazines, and apps. Additionally, he oversees the promotion and development of new digital opportunities and technical innovation. Before moving to Strichpunkt, Michelbach made his name as a co-founder of the NoMoreSleep agency.
Debbie Millman is a designer, author, educator and brand strategist. She host of the award-winning podcast “Design Matters,” the world’s first podcast on design, Chair of the world’s first Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts, the editorial and creative director of Print Magazine and President Emeritus of AIGA. She is the author of six books on design and branding.
A huge fan of simplicity, Thomas loves using design as a process to both f acilitate people and ultimately create clarity in both form and function. He believes that design is a better approach than consulting because it puts people f irst. He wants to give people something to smile about, and make the world a better place, and design is one of the few things that has the power to do this.
Norbert Möller (Peter Schmidt Group) Executive Creative Director / Peter Schmidt Group (Hamburg) Norbert Möller has been the executive creative director since 2003 of the Peter Schmidt Group, currently Germany’s largest brand and design agency in terms of sales. He heads up the corporate design team in Hamburg, and is also a columnist and opinion leader. Among the brands and companies under his aegis are Linde, Henkel, Hilti, Kühne+Nagel, REWE, the city of Hamburg and the Goethe-Institut. Those are all companies with a strong brand presence that have outlasted trends, and are often honoured in international competitions. Norbert Möller studied visual communications at the Braunschweig University of Art. From 1999 to 2003, he was a director of the Peter Schmidt Group, where he has worked since 1992.
Thomas Müller (Fjord) Managing Director, Head of Design & Innovation / Fjord (Berlin) Originally from Germany, Thomas began his career in the US after studying at the Art Center College of Design, and spent 10 years at Razorfish in New York where he w orked as Design Director. More recently he acted as Chief Experience Of f icer at Siegel+Gale before coming on board as Regional Design Director of Fjord in Europe. In his lif e at Fjord, he splits his time betw een three main pursuits. Firstly, creating the environment necessary, as w ell as removing obstacles, in order for his team to be productive. Secondly, managing key client relationships, and building up a Fjord team that spans 4 of f ices. Thirdly, working on new business development including speaking at events, interacting with the media, and helping Fjord Berlin pitch for new business.
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for notable licensees such as Kraft Foods in the US, and Coca-Cola in the Caribbean. After spending a year in the USA, she studied business administration at the University of Mannheim.
Dagmar Nedbal (Mastercard) Vice President Marketing Central Europe (Frankfurt) Dagmar Nedbal has worked for Mastercard since January 2009. Initially the head of marketing, with responsibility for the company’s German marketing, she has been vice president of marketing for Central Europe since April 2015. Her job encompasses classic consumer marketing, sponsoring, media, trade marketing, and B2B sales. Mastercard is an international technology company providing innovative payment solutions. Mastercard’s technology connects consumers, banks, merchants, and governments in more than 210 countries. Nedbal began her career in the consumer goods and foodstuffs industry at McCain Foods, Schöller, and Rudolf Wild/Capri Sun AG in product management, strategic and global marketing, new business development and, most recently, sales management for Eastern Europe. As the head of global marketing for Capri-Sun, she was responsible for brand management
Sander Neijnens Graphic Designer (Tilburg) Graphic designer. Runs his own company Bladvulling since 1991. Besides commissioned work he initiates projects on topics that have his special interest. In 2004 he published the book ‘Shirt numbers’ about the design of numbers on football jerseys. He also wrote two books about the most versatile musical instrument, the accordion: ‘Leporello’ (2006) and ‘The Giulietti Sound’ (2008). Since 2007 he works together with poet Nick J. Swarth in the still running On-Site Poetry project. For this typoetry project he made two modular typefaces. In 2013 he designed the typeface Zwijsen Blokfont that’s used in writing education at Dutch primary schools. His latest project is the design of TilburgsAns, together with illustrator Ivo van Leeuwen.
Since 2015, he has also taught in the photography department – stereoscopy processes, image-based lighting and HDR imaging, as well as the production of virtual reality content.
Julia Nimke Photographer (Berlin) Julia Nimke is a photography Adobe Creative Resident based in Berlin, Germany. She’s passionate about nature and traveling, which are woven into the imagery of her work. As a Creative Resident in 2017, she will use her photography to explore natural and urban places in Europe, while aligning with the four seasons by applying different styles and techniques for each one. She plans to challenge herself by combining videos and photos and pushing her boundaries to discover a unique visual language that will tell compelling stories. Her goal is to inspire people to stay curious and open-minded about the unknown and different.
Nikolaus Netzer Designerer, Photographer, Author (Berlin) A designer, photographer and writer, Netzer studied industrial design at Berlin’s University of the Arts. He worked for various ad agencies and designers, and founded Sommerfeldt & Netzer in 1992; the agency’s focus is graphic and product design, and 3D visualisation. He has authored articles for numerous trade publications such as Macwelt, iPadWelt, MACup, Digital Production, Creative Live and Page. He is a frequent guest on expert panels discussing digital media production, including the Animago Award Conference, the Maxon User Meeting, at Open Web Space or at the SAE Alumni Convention. In 1998, Netzer began teaching three-dimensional and Cinema 4D design at the college of communication and design of the Design Dkademie Berlin, with a focus on visualisation techniques for packaging and product design.
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Group (the Ford Motor Company’s Portfolio of premium car brands) Vivantes (Berlin-based communal health and hospital group) and for the world’s largest airline network, the Star Alliance.
Justus Oehler (Pentagram) Partner / Pentagram Berlin and London (Berlin)
His work has been selected for Communication Arts, D&AD (British Design & Art Direction) and Graphis annuals and has been awarded by the German red dot, the New York TDC, the Tokyo TDC, the German DDC and many others. He is also a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).
He has designed and developed logos and brand identities for the German Museum für Kommunikation, the Deutsche Kinemathek, the World Economic Forum, Italian Fashion House Trussardi, the autonomous Italian region Sardegna, Tiscali, the Premier Automotive
Designer, Cultural Researcher (Katowice) Zofia Oslislo is a designer and culture researcher, currently working as Assistant Professor at the Department of Design, Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice, Poland where her teaching specialties involve typography, digital publication design and type design. In her creative work, she specialises in book design and data visualisation, while her cultural research interests focus around Upper Silesia, her favourite source of creative inspiration.
Justus was born in Tokyo and grew up in Japan, France and Greece. Educated in visual communication in Munich, Germany, Justus Oehler began his design career in 1985 at Büro Rolf Müller. In 1988 he attended the Central School of Art and Design in London and graduated with a Master’s Degree in graphic design. In 1989 he joined Pentagram and in 1995 was invited to become equity partner in the firm. Justus has been involved with the development of corporate and brand identity, and the application and implementation of these identities across all media.
Zofia Oslislo
Birgit Palma Illustrator (Barcelona) Birgit Palma is a passionate multidisciplinary illustrator and lettering addict working and living in Barcelona. Crafting at the sweet spot between modern avantgarde and illustration, she is passionate to deepen her love for illustration every day. What inspires her? Surrealism, op art, nature and its colourful life. She is also an adjunct professor at the Fachhochschule Salzburg / MultiMediaArt.
Heinrich Paravicini (Mutabor) Chief Creative Officer & MUTABOR Co-owner (Hamburg) Heinrich Paravicini (1971- ), together with his two brothers, grew up watching french-translated Japanese Manga shows on TV in Paris. Early on, this, along with the variety of Parisian museums, inspired the 6 year-old Heinrich to draw. He finished high school in Germany. Then he started his studies in Communication at the Muthesius-Hochschule in Kiel graduating with the help of a full scholarship from the DAAD. In 1993, with fellow students in Kiel, he founded the magazine “Mutabor”. The friendship and work with Johannes Plass propelled the magazine to international notoriety – and these two to inseparability. Together they tackled projects in Munich and Hamburg, which resulted in MUTABOR, the design agency, that Paravicini and Plass founded in 1998 and still run to this day.
In the meantime, MUTABOR employs about 100 multi-talented people specialized in brand identity. The identity agency works interdisciplinarily consisting of teams of designers, architects, graphic designers, film makers and interface designers. Some of their customers include Audi, Clariant, Deutsche Telekom, Bundesliga and many others. From Hamburg MUTABOR creates and implements projects worldwide – Berlin, Paris, New York, Moscow and Beijing, to name a few. Since 2012 Paravicini has been a committee member in the ADC Germany. He is a juror at diverse national and international award ceremonies (ADC Europe, Eurobest, D&AD, Cannes Lions and others), a lecturer for brand identity at HAW Hamburg, as well as an inventor, curator, and moderator of the annual Stuttgart “ADC Design Experience” trade fair. With Johannes Plass, Paravicini has published books and publications under the MUTABOR label.
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was Interbrand’s new business and marketing activities in Central and Eastern Europe. He moved to ABB in early 2014 as head of global branding & advertising, where his duties included the support, development, and implementation of ABB’s global brand, as well as the development and production of global ad campaigns. From the beginning of 2015 until February, 2016, he headed up the strategic communications division of the technology consortium “Solar Impulse”.
Doro Petersen Illustrator (Berlin) Doro Petersen studied visual communication and illustration at Berlin’s University of the Arts, and in Bilbao and Barcelona. She is a free-lance illustrator based in Berlin, where she shares a studio with K100. She creates her sensuous drawings, with their wealth of detail, using primarily handmade techniques like sketching, stamping, paper cuts, collage and silk screening. Drawing is movement and mobility of eye, head, hand and pen! Doro Petersen not only follows that motto, she teaches it; as an experienced art teacher, she mounts exciting and playful workshops for art aficionados both small and large. She has developed and implemented workshop formats, such as the popular sketching walks, for museums (Bauhaus Archive, Museum of Decorative Arts, Museum of Prints and Drawings, Buchstabenmuseum etc.), schools, public institutions and corporate groups.
Michael Pietig (Hilti) Global Head of Brand Consulting / Hilti (Liechtenstein) Michael Pietig studied International Marketing in Münster. During and after his studies, he worked for Hutchison Telecom and Orange in the marketing and communications departments. He worked in European sales marketing for Deutsche Telekom in Bonn from 2003 to 2008. While there, he developed and launched an international shop concept, implemented an international BTL ad campaign, and coordinated re-branding activities in Eastern Europe. He began working for Interbrand in 2008 as a consulting director, advising national and international clients on brand creation, brand management and brand evaluation. He was also responsible for world-wide trade fair and retailing concepts for various clients. As a member of management from 2010 to 2013, his portfolio
Pietig has been the head of brand consulting for the Hilti company of Schaan, Liechtenstein since March 2016.
Jochen Rädeker (Strichpunkt)
Mika Satomi Designer, Artist (Berlin)
Co-Founder & Managing Partner Strichpunkt (Stuttgart) Jochen Rädeker is co-founder and managing partner of the design agency Strichpunkt, headquartered in Stuttgart and Berlin. As one of the largest design offices in Germany, Strichpunkt has held its own as one of the most awarded design studios, placing consistently amongst the top 10 creative rankings for over a decade. In 2013, alongside with Kirsten Dietz, he created the Berlin-based design label “TYPE HYPE”. Rädeker is internationally in demand as speaker, author, juror, columnist and featured presenter of lectures and seminars. In addition, Rädeker divides his time inspiring and motivating the young designers of the future, as professor for Corporate Identity and Corporate Design at Constance University of Applied Sciences.
Rich Roat (House Industries) Co-founder & co-owner House Industries (Yorklyn, Delaware) Known throughout the world for its eclectic font collections and far-reaching creative exploits, House Industries has been a standard-bearer for American graphic design for 25 years. House has worked with a diverse list of collaborators including Jimmy Kimmel, Hermès, The New Yorker, John Mayer, Muji, the Estate of Charles and Ray Eames, and Heath Ceramics. Their work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and will be the subject of a major exhibition at The Henry Ford museum in the summer of 2017.
Mika Satomi is a designer and an artist exploring the field of e-Textiles, Interaction Design and Physical Computing. For five semesters, she has been a guest professor at the Weissensee Academy of Art Berlin. She has worked as a researcher at the Swedish School of Textiles and at the Distance Lab, Scotland in the field of practice based design research. She holds BA in Graphic dDesign from Tokyo Zokei University, and MA in Media Creation from IAMAS, Japan. Since 2006 Mika has collaborated with Hannah Perner- Wilson, forming the collective KOBAKANT creating artistic projects in the field of eTextiles and Wearable Technology Art. She is a co-author of the e-Textile online database “How To Get What You Want”.
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Holger Schmidhuber
Carola Seybold (Pantone)
Founding member and chairman / Fuenfwerken Design (Wiesbaden) Holger Schmidhuber studied painting and communications design in Wiesbaden and New York. He is a co-founder and chairman of the agency Fuenfwerken Design AG. The core of his work is strategic brand promotion, and the development of systematic concepts for corporate design and identity. He is a member of the Type Directors Club in New York, the International Design Center Berlin (IDZ), and the Art Directors Club, New York. He lectures at universities, companies, and trade conferences. Holger Schmidhuber has been teaching at various colleges and universities since 2003. From 2008 – 2009, he held a professorship for visual communications at the Free University in Bolzano, Italy; he has been a professor in the time-based media design course at the Mainz University of Applied Sciences since 2010. He is also a visual artist who has shown his work internationally.
Director of Business Development / PANTONE (Stuttgart)
Vanessa Schnurre Assistant Professor, Communications Designer (Kiel) Vanessa Schnurre is an artistic advisor and assistant professor for communications design at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel. In addition to acting as an artistic advisor on student projects, she works as freelance communications designer for cultural institutions, start-ups, and various small businesses, tackling their editorial design, packaging, corporate [RMS1] identity, information design, and event management. In 2016, she organised a three-day symposium at Muthesius called “Pure North – Scandinavian Graphic Design in terms of cultural identity”, with international lectures and workshops.
Carola Seybold has completed her Diploma at the age of 24 years from Lake of Constance University (GRMY) and further finalised her Marketing studies from University of Hohenheim (Germany). Before joining PANTONE LLC in 2008, Seybold has worked as a Senior Consultant at Glasmeier & Partner Int. She works as Director of Business Development for PANTONE LLC in Europe, Middle East and Africa and leading also the Marketing in PANTONE EMEA.
Schneider TM Musician, Composer (Berlin) Schneider TM is a multidimensional music project of Dirk Dresselhaus, named after his nickname Schneider. Since the late 80’s, Dirk has been active in different musical fields. From 1989 until 1997 he played and sang in adventurous rock and pop bands like Hip Young Things and Locust Fudge (both on Glitterhouse Records) before he became more active in electronic music around 1996. Schneider TM is responsible for a couple of experimental electro-freak-pop albums (on City Slang / Mute) including underground-hits like ‘Reality Check’, ‘Frogtoise’ and a cover version of a song by The Smiths called ‘The Light 3000’, a collaboration with Kptmichigan that was hugely acclaimed by the alternative media like John Peel, The Wire etc.. Schneider TM has been credited as one of the main inventors of a music genre called Indietronic or Indietronica. Since 1997 Schneider TM performed a couple of hundreds live
concerts around the globe including renowned international festivals like CTM (Berlin), Sonar Festival / Sonar Sound (Barcelona, Rome, Tokyo), Mutek (Montreal, Mexico City), Arty Farty (Lyon), Pukkelpop (Hasselt), Hultsfred Festival (Hultsfred), Kilbi Festival (Bad Bonn), Frieze Art Fair / Frieze Music (London), Phonem Festival (Istanbul), Numero Festival (Lisboa), Les Siestes électroniques festival (Toulouse), Melt Festival (Gräfenhainichen), Midi Festival (Hyéres), Motomix Festival (Sao Paolo), Todaysart Festival (Den Haag), Dark Mofo (Hobart) and others. As well as work on a variety of oneoff projects – including the production of film music for movies (66/67, In Der Überzahl, Teilhard, Remainder, Continuity etc. with directors like Omer Fast, Ludwig & Glaser etc.), performance theater (The Scorpionfish, Louis & Bebe w/ Joanna Dudley & Rufus Didwiszus) or radio plays (Release, Hochhaus w/ Paul Plamper) – Dirk has been performing & recording with noise & drone outfits like Angel (w/ Ilpo Väisänen of Pan sonic & guests like Hildur Gudnadottir, Oren Ambarchi, BJ Nilsen or Lucio Capece), released by Editions Mego and Real Time (w/ Reinhold Friedl of zeitkratzer, 3 CD box on Blume) on a regular basis since 1999. For a while now, Dirk has also been moving Schneider TM in the direction of instantly composed freeform music, employing varying instruments including guitar, electronics, balafon, effect loops as well as field recordings.
Patrick Marc Sommer Graphic Designer, Co-publisher, Editor (Berlin) Patrick Marc Sommer is co-publisher and editor of the magazine Design made in Germany. He works freelance in Berlin, specialising in publication design and production, with a focus on typography. His projects have included books, magazines, and annual reports, among others. Sommer was a member of the jury for the European Design Award from 2013 to 2017, as well as for the Stiftung Buchkunst competitions “Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung 2016” and “Die Schönsten deutschen Bücher 2017”.
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Liv Siddall Editor (London) Liv Siddall is the Editor of one of the UK’s most loved music institutions, Rough Trade. Working from their Rough Trade East record store, Liv edits their monthly print magazine and curates and records their podcasts and radio shows. Prior to working for Rough Trade, Liv spent four years at It’s Nice That where she was Online Editor and Features Editor – working across their website and print magazine Printed Pages. She is also a contributing editor of Riposte Magazine. She also writes for numerous independent online and publications, is a visiting lecturer to numerous universities and regularly gives talks about magazine publishing. Rough Trade Magazine is a 64-page monthly print publication sold worldwide and in all Rough Trade record stores in London, Nottingham and New York. The magazine – made solely by Liv, in collaboration with designer Bruce Usher – is less of a music magazine, more a “shop” magazine. Made up of
pieces of writing by shop staff, regular features from musicians and in-depth interviews with legendary artists and bands, the zine-like publication provides a personal, friendly, humorous glimpse at the music industry. The magazine prides itself on allowing bands to be represented as they want to be, often handing over pages to them and inviting them to fill them in however they want. It’s a music magazine that wants to be as far from your average music magazine as possible.
Erik Spiekermann Art Historian, Information Architect, Type Designer, Author (Berlin, San Francisco, London) Erik Spiekermann is information architect, type designer and author. Two of his typefaces, FF Meta and ITC Officina, are considered to be modern classics. He founded MetaDesign (1979) and FontShop (1988). He is behind the design of well-know brands such as Audi, Bosch, VW, German Railways and Heidelberg Printing, among others; information systems for Berlin Transit and Düsseldorf Airport and for publications like The Economist. He designed exclusive typefaces for corporations like Deutsche Bahn, Bosch, ZDF (German TV), Cisco, Mozilla and many others. Erik is Honorary Professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen and in 2003 received the Gerrit Noordzij Award from the Royal Academy in The Hague. In 2006 he was awarded an honorary doctorship from Pasadena Art Center. He was made an Honorary Royal Designer for Industry by the RSA in Britain in 2007 and Ambassador for
the European Year of Creativity and Innovation by the European Union for 2009. In 2011 he received the German National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement and the TDC Medal as well as a Lifetime Award from the German Art Directors Club. He was managing partner and creative director of Edenspiekermann with offices in Berlin, Amsterdam, San Francisco and Los Angeles until June 2014 when he moved from that position to the supervisory board. He now runs galerie p98a, an experimental letterpress workshop in Berlin. Erik splits his time between Berlin and San Francisco and London, where his son Dylan lives. A book about his life and work “Hello I am Erik” was published by Gestalten Verlag in 2014.
Daniel Triendl Designer / Illustrator (Wien)
Luke Stockdale Graphic Designer / Artist (Nashville) Luke Stockdale has fulfilled a childhood dream with his studio Sideshow, his own signage manufactory. Along with friends, the shop produces handmade displays using both current and historical techniques. Their entire body of signmaking knowledge will soon be available on the Internet at the Church of Signtology.
Daniel Triendl was born in the mountains of Austria, where he discovered his passion for art and illustration. He has a love of bold colour and consistently uses it in his work as a tool to inject a sense of energy. His striking forms mimic this sensibility often through geometry and abstraction. Daniel believes that experimentation is crucial as an artist, which is why he tries to challenge himself with the mediums he explores. He always try to approach the process in a playful and experimental way. He wants people who view at his work to experience a positive vibe. His client list includes Bud Light, Coca Cola Korea, Bloomberg Magazine, Refinery29, Spiegel Magazine, Völkl Snowboards and Red Bull Media House among many others.
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Ludwig Übele
Underware
Type Designer (Berlin)
Type Foundry (Den Haag / Amsterdam / Helsinki)
Ludwig is a type designer living in Berlin. He runs his own type foundry LudwigType, creates logotypes and custom typefaces and works in the field of brand development. He has received several awards for his type design work. Besides his own work Ludwig collaborates with the great type designer Georg Salden and digitally reproduces and distributes his fonts exclusively on TypeManufactur.
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Simon Umbreit (oddity) Director & Co-founder Oddity (Berlin) Simon Umbreit is the director and co-founder of the oddity agency and has been chaperoning companies and brands through the digital wave for 17 years. Oddity in brief: 120 employees, digital DNA, offices in Stuttgart and Berlin. Selected clients: Walt Disney Company, dm, Krombacher, Mercedes Benz, OBI, Tschibo, Trumpf, Weleda, WWF.
Underware’s work is among the most popular of independent type foundries — happy-go-lucky, high-quality, text-friendly typefaces for both display use and comprehensive typesetting. Underware’s typefaces stand out thanks to unique aesthetics and a considered collective presence. Underware is a refreshing and intelligent team who, while taking what they do seriously, manage to not take themselves too seriously. Founded in 1999 by Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs and Sami Kortemäki.
Marcus Veigel
Dominic Wilcox
Head of Concept, Managing Director, Lecturer (Münster)
Artist / Designer (London)
Veigel studied visual communications in the design department of the Münster University of Applied Science. Since 1996, he has founded several companies, where he was then director, UX designer, or concept developer for digital media. At cynapsis interactive, Veigel has been responsible for the re-launch of numerous web portals (brigitte.de, gala.de) and individual websites. He is a professor of digital marketing at the Münster University and since 2009, has focussed on digital campaigns for a host of brands, publishers, and marketing and media agencies. His is active in various study groups at the non-profit BVDW (German association for the digital economy), speaks at digital events, and serves on the jury of digital competitions.
Henning Wagenbreth Illustrator / Professor at University of Arts, Berlin (Berlin) Born 1962 in Eberswalde, studied from 1982-1987 at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee in East Berlin, works mainly as an illustrator who does the graphic design for his products himself, designs his own typefaces, understands manual and industrial printing technics as an important part of his design process, lives in Berlin, but lived in Paris and San Francisco too, likes to illustrate and design books, posters, newspapers and magazines, in sizes between postage stamps and giant hangers, between commissioned jobs and his own art projects, between single original drawings and paintings and mass produced objects, undertakes detours into animation film, theater and music, works since 1994 as professor of the illustration class at the University of Arts in Berlin. He gave lectures and workshops in many countries around the world.
Dominic Wilcox works between the worlds of art, design, craft and technology to create innovative, thought provoking and surprising objects. The British artist and designer studied at The Royal College of Art in London, graduating in 2002. He exhibits his work internationally and has been commissioned by brands such as BMW MINI, Kellogg’s and Paul Smith. In 2015 he exhibited at museums such as London’s Design Museum and the V&A museum. After the making of the documentary ‘The Reinvention of Normal’, which follows Wilcox and his work, he was invited to be a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert where he showed his ‘Variations on Normal’ ideas. He is now on a mission to inspire the world’s children to become the inventors of our future with his Little inventors project.
Julia Wolf (dm)
Aoi Yamaguchi
Communication, CRM & MCR / dm (Karlsruhe)
Japanese Calligrapher (San Francisco)
Julia Wolf studied business, with a focus on marketing, at the Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences. After spending time abroad in South Africa, she worked briefly in the fashion industry at H&M. Since 2010, she has worked for the convenience store chain dm-drogerie. She began in the marketing department and is now team leader for the company’s customer dialogue, website, and social media sector. Among others, dm maintains a presence on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat, and all the channels are maintained in-house, meaning the dm team creates most of the content itself, without an agency.
Born and raised in Hokkaido, Japan, Aoi Yamaguchi has been trained to master calligraphy learning under Master Zuiho Sato from the age of 6, She is a recipient of numerous awards and supreme prizes at competitive public exhibitions. She also uniquely transforms Japanese calligraphy into physical artistic expression through conceptual performance. She has performed with contemporary dancers, models, and traditional and contemporary musicians all over the world.
Evan Wray Mitbegründer und Vizepräsident / Swyft Media (New York)
Currently residing in Berkeley, California, Yamaguchi continues her work on her conceptual calligraphy installations, exhibitions, and performances as she continues to push the boundaries of traditional Eastern classics and contemporary artistic expression.
Stephen Coles
Sonja Knecht
Writer, Typographer (Oakland, California)
Text-Coach, Copywriter, Translator (Berlin)
Stephen Coles is an editor and typographer living in Oakland and Berlin. He publishes Fonts In Use and Typographica, consults with type foundries on editorial content and with various organizations on typeface selection and licensing.
Sonja Knecht was born in Indonesia, grew up in Venezuela and lives in Berlin. She studied English, Spanish and humanities; she continuously examines the way we design (with) language and letters. As an expert for corporate communications, Sonja works with clients such as Ampelmann, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Berzin Archives, Bosch, Deutsche Bank, DHL, Hering Berlin, Messe Frankfurt, Ottobock, Berlin University of the Arts, and Volkswagen. She was Edenspiekermann’s Director Text and established their blog (2008–2014). For TYPO Talks, she heads their 30-people Editorial Team, started in 2011, and engages on stage since 2015. Sonja teaches, talks about text, and writes about the intercultural and other striking aspects of type.
Stephen is author of the book The Anatomy of Type (The Geometry of Type in the UK), and serves on the board of the Letterform Archive. He was formerly a creative director at FontShop and a member of the FontFont TypeBoard
Johannes Erler Graphic Designer, Art Director, Founder (Hamburg) Johannes Erler was born in 1965 in Hamburg and studied communications design in Kiel. In 1993, he became co-founder and partner of Factor Design in Hamburg, where he grew into one of Germany’s most influential designers. While at Factor Design, he created numerous award-winning logos and editorials for clients from the business and culture sectors. In 2010 he left the company to join Henning Skibbe and Christian Tönsmann in founding the design office ErlerSkibbeTönsmann. From 2012 to 2014, he was also art director of the newsweekly Stern. Erler has written and published a variety of books on design. He is also a popular guest lecturer and speaker at design conferences and colleges, as well as serving on design juries. He lives in Hamburg with his wife and two sons.
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Indra Kupferschmid Typographer, Professor for Typography at HBK Saar (Saarbrücken) Indra Kupferschmid is a freelance typographer and professor at HBKsaar, University of Arts Saarbrücken. Fueled by specimen books, she is occupied with type around the clock in all its incarnations – webfonts, bitmap fonts, other fonts, type history, DIN committees, writing, design work, and any combination of this. She is co-author of Helvetica Forever by Lars Müller Publishers and wrote Buchstaben kommen selten allein, a typographic reference book (Niggli). She consults for the type and design industry and other clients who need help choosing fonts, as well as writing for several different magazines and blogs.
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Jürgen Siebert Marketing Director / Monotype (Berlin) Born in 1954, Siebert studied physics in Frankfurt. After receiving his degree in 1985, he worked as a science journalist (including for the FAZ newspaper), wrote his first book and moved from Frankfurt to Hamburg. There he co-founded the graphics magazine PAGE in 1986, and ran it as editor-in-chief until 1991, when he moved to Berlin. In Berlin, Siebert initially worked for two years for FSI FontShop International, where he published the first FontFonts, FUSE and the FontBook. In 1993, he took over marketing for FontShop Deutschland and in 1996, organised the first TYPO design conference; he started the Fontblog in 2004, and then in 2011, Creative Morning Berlin, as well as the TYPO offshoots in London and San Francisco. TYPO Days followed a year later. Since the autumn of 2014, he has been responsible for the German-language marketing for Monotype GmbH.
FAQ
What should I bring with me to the conference? In addition to a smile and an openness to being inspired, for registration please bring your ID and a print out or mobile screen version of the Eventbrite ticket. Attendees are also encouraged to bring a notebook or a laptop/ tablet for jotting down notes and ideas. Please also feel free to bring business cards (or your creative interpretation) of them for networking.
This is my first TYPO San Francisco. What should I expect? Included in your conference fee is admission to all sessions during the two days of the conference (first come, first served on seating in smaller rooms) and admission to the TYPO After Party on Friday evening at Public Works. TYPO is two days filled with inspirational talks from well-known as well as up-and-coming designers. The conference covers more than just typography – it’s design, culture, society with a little bit of kerning. Check out coverage from last year’s TYPO Labs for a feel of the event.
Where can I pick up my conference badge and materials? What time do doors open for registration? Registration will take place in the main lobby of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, 700 Howard Street. Doors open at 9 a.m. sharp on Thursday and Friday of the conference. There will be an early pick-up option the day before the conference – Wednesday, April 9th at YBCA from 3-5pm. During the conference, the registration desk will be open from 9 a.m. to close on Thursday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, so don’t fret if you’re running a little late.
Is there a dress code? There is no formal dress code. Wear whatever your little designer heart desires!
Is lunch provided? No. There are some really great cafes and restaurants within walking distance from the venue. Stay tuned to our blog, we’ll be posting some recommended spots. We are providing coffee and treats during the afternoon break sessions both days at 4 p.m.
Is there WiFi? Yes! There will be free wireless for all TYPO attendees so you can tweet, Instagram & Facebook our conference.
I lost my wallet! Where can I find it at the conference? All lost and found items will be turned in at the registration table, which closes at 4 p.m. on Friday. After the conference, you may email sanfrancisco@typotalks.com to try and track down your items.
Will there be coat check? No. Coat check will not be provided at the conference.
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I will be unable to attend the conference last minute, can I get a refund? Can I give my ticket to someone else? Cancellations after February 28, 2014 (until March 15, 2014) will cost an administrative fee of $100. There will be no reimbursement after March 15, 2014. If any case of cancellation, please contact sanfrancisco@typotalks.com. Absence from the conference does not entitle you to reimbursement of the admission fee. Canceled tickets will be resold immediately. If you’d like to transfer the ticket to a colleague, please e-mail us at berlin@typotalks.com and we’ll be happy to take care of that for you.
How can I connect with other attendees while at TYPO Wanderlust? TYPO is a great networking opportunity for design professionals and students alike. There are a number of chances to mingle with other attendees: TYPO Happenings: Three interactive art installations will be featured around the conference, giving attendees a chance to connect with a few of our awesome partners and meet fellow conference-goers. Read our blog post for more information. The Tattly Randomizer will also be on location for a surprise designer temporary tattoo. Adobe Typekit Pop-up Library: Take a break from the crowd in this unique lounge space, complete with a curated collection of design books that the Typekit team call near and dear. YBCA’s Exhibitions: During the conference, all of YBCA’s galleries will be open and free to conference attendees. Guests are invited to walk through the exhibits and installations. For exhibit information check out: http://www. ybca.org/calendar Lunch break: Lunch will not be provided at the conference. Attendees are invited to explore the many food spots around YBCA. This will be a great chance to taste some SF eats while meeting new faces. Stay tuned to our blog for some recommendations. You’ll have an hour between 12-1 p.m. each day for lunch, no presentations will happen during this time. Coffee breaks: We’ll host complimentary coffee, tea, and snacks from 4-5 p.m. during both days of the conference. Located in the Theater Terrace, attendees will have the chance to mix and mingle in between speaker sessions. TYPO After Party: Get ready to work your rhythm out on the dance floor! Speakers and attendees are invited to mix and mingle the After Party at Public Works (161 Erie St.) from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday. Enjoy a complimentary beverage from Strip & Go Bare. There will also be a cash bar and food available for purchase. *21+ event.
Can I bring a friend to the After Party? The TYPO After Party is for conference attendees only. You must have your badge for admittance. The venue will open to the public after 10 p.m. and your friends may join you then. All badge holders must arrive by 10 for free admittance.
I’m not 21. Can I attend the after party? Public Works is a 21+ venue. Stay tuned to the blog for suggestions of other events in Berlin on May 27.
I want to attend two sessions but they’re scheduled at the same time! Will recordings of the talks be available after the conference? Yes, most Theater and Screening Room talks will be recorded and uploaded to the TYPO Video Blog in the weeks following the conclusion of the event.
I am press and would like to cover the conference. Can I get a free pass? For press requests visit our Press page.
I’m interested in volunteering for the conference. How can I sign up? Due to an overwhelming response, volunteer shifts are now full.
What is the TYPO Berlin Code of Conduct? TYPO Berlin is a safe space for all participants. Sponsors, volunteers, speakers, attendees, and other participants should strive to treat all people with dignity and respect, regardless of their culture, religion, physical appearance, disability, race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation. People are encouraged to take responsibility for their words and actions and listen to constructively-presented criticism with an open mind, courtesy, and respect. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form.
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