I USED TO BE A DESIGN STUDENT

FRANZ KAFKA

MANFRED KRPLIN

STEVE MALKMUS

Roads grow
out of
travelling them!

Without attitude,
its just shuffling
things around

No more
absolutes,
no more
absolutes

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AUTHORS AND EDITORS

PUBLISHER

I used
to be
a design
student

Frank Philippin and

Billy Kiosoglou
Brighten the Corners
London/Darmstadt
United Kingdom/Germany

Laurence
King
Publishing

I used
to be
a design
student
Then

Now

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First of all, wed like to thank the

Hochschule Darmstadt (Germany),
where Frank is a professor, for granting
the sabbatical during which the
research for this project took place.
Without this great academic tradition,
it would have been impossible to give
this book the kick-start, time and
attention it needed.
Thank you also to the tutors and
designers who were influential during
our studies. At Camberwell College of
Arts, London: primarily Andy Long but
also Alex Lumley, Jim Fielding and
Lawrence Zeegen; at the Royal College
of Art: Margaret Calvert, David Cross,
Dan Fern, Ian Gabb and Alan Kitching;
and, of course, all the other people in
both places who had an impact on us in
one way or another during our studies.
For later years, when we were trying
to find our way in the real world, we
have the following people to thank:
Jeremy Myerson at the Helen Hamlyn
Research Centre, Nina Lemmens at the
DAAD (German Academic Exchange
Service) and all our other clients who
have enabled us to run a successful
design studio for the last 13 years.
Regarding teaching, I (Frank) must
greatly thank (or perhaps blame)
Adrian Spaak, for without him I would
have never committed to it in the
way that I have done.
Our thanks also go to everyone at
Laurence King Publishing, especially
Jo Lightfoot who supported the project
from the start and Susie May for her
help in the editorial process.
Last, and definitely not least, a big
thank you goes to all the designers
who took part in this project. Finding
the time to patiently answer our
numerous questions and to track down
old student works while running an
established design practice isnt easy,
so we greatly appreciate their support
and contribution!
We would also like to thank all the
designers who contributed to our
research but whom we were not able
to feature in the final book .

Portrait photos on inside flaps,

comparative spread pages 2223 and
on designer project spreads of Antnio
S. Gomes (then/now) by Jos
Albergaria/Pedro Ca, Bernd Hilpert
(then/now) by Eibe Snnecken,
Danijela Djokic (now) by Tom Ziora,
Emmi Salonen (now) by Jere Salonen,
Fons Hickmann (now) by Johannes
Bock, Kirsty Carter (now) by Martin
Hartley, Lars Harmsen (now) by Halim
Dogan, Laurent Lacour (then) by Meike
Lacour, Liza Enebeis by Dennis Koot,
Margaret Calvert (now) by Steven
Speller, Oliver Klimpel (now) by
Anna Gille and Sebastian Kissel,
Sascha Lobe (now) by Michael
Schnabel, Sven Voelker (then/now)
by Marcus Meyer/Frederik Busch.
Work photos on designer project
spreads of Emmi Salonen (now) by
Jere Salonen, Kristine Matthews (now)
by Doug Manelski (top and bottom two)
and Cassie Klingler (central two).
Portrait photos of the authors (page
256) by Tagore Leet (then) and
Kai von Rabenau (now).

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BACKGROUND

THE PROCESS

THE QUESTIONS

The idea for this project came

when we were invited to give
a talk at our old college,
Camberwell College of Arts
(London, UK), 12 years
after our graduation. For the
talk, we presented old student
projects alongside work we
had done in the professional
world and looked for
connections between them.
Initially, we werent sure
how fruitful this comparison
would be, but we quickly
realized that the connections
were there once we started
looking. These were
sometimes conceptual, other
times visual, but there was
also a certain attitude that
permeated the work. So,
without necessarily being able
to say exactly why, the work
always felt that it belonged to
the same people.
The students responded
very well to the talk because
they could relate to the college
work and see how it fed into
future projects. We also felt
that it helped bridge the
student and professional
worlds a little, demistifying the
transition from one to the
other, reassuring students that
they neednt tremble with awe
at the professional world, but
instead remember that most
practising designers used to
be design students too.
And it was also strangely
reassuring for us to revisit old
projects and see that no matter
how much our lives and work
may have changed and
developed, there was
something there that was still
fundamentally the same.

Realizing that other peoples

work would also offer such
insights, we invited graphic
designers to share both a
student project and a
professional project with us.
These two works could be
similar conceptually or visually,
or share a certain attitude or
approach. They didnt have to
be the designers favourite
projects but, rather,
memorable projects of which
they were fond, or which they
considered to be defining in
their development as a
professional.
Our selection of
contributors was pretty
personal: some we had met
during our studies (fellow
students or tutors), others
during our teaching (fellow
tutors or students) and others
are practising designers whose
work we have always liked.
Between them, the designers
featured in this book have a
total of 832 years of working
experience and have spent
309 years studying (see
pages 2021).
The aim of this publication
is to trace the links between
past and present work, and
look at each designers
particular methodology and
attitude. We see this book as a
resource students can use and
will hopefully learn from, as
well as something teachers
can use in their practice.
For professionals, the book
provides a great opportunity to
have a peek at colleagues
student work. And for the
participating designers, its an
opportunity to get all those
unseen student projects
(brilliant or slightly confused)
out of the black leather
portfolio, and give them a
much-deserved public
platform.

Being a designer is often a

vocation, so its difficult to split
the person from the work. We
therefore asked contributors to
give us feedback not only on
their practice and influences,
but on such incidental things
as their weight, favourite food
or their most valued
possession, to help get a
sense of what the person
behind the work might be like.
We decided to look at all these
personal details alongside
each other, comparing
responses of different people
to the same questions, for an
overall portrait of the design
community (see pages 823
and 234253).
TEACHING DESIGN

Teaching for the past

15 years has made me
very interested in the
different means by
which good design finds
its expression. What I
often see is that attitude
(towards design, and
also towards life in
general) plays a major
role in the kind of
solutions one finds,
and consequently in the
kind of designer one
becomes. A better
description for this is
the German Haltung,
which describes attitude
and mindset, as well
as ones posture
a persons stance,
notional and physical.
It is the Haltung of
each contributor that
we are looking for in
this project. What kind
of Haltung do different
graphic designers have?
How important is it in
creating a piece of
design? What role does
it play in how ones
work is received by
others? Is it subject to
change? Is Haltung
individual or can we
adopt that of another?
And most of all: does
Haltung visibly
manifest itself in
moments when things
fall into place, when we
realize and understand,
when the penny drops?
FRANK PHILIPPIN

A certain way
of doing things
Preface
5

QUESTION & ANSWER: COMPARISONS PART I

Wake-up time
Mode of transport
Favourite food
Weight
Exercise
Most valued possession
Student years
Portrait
Then

QUESTION & ANSWER: COMPARISONS PART I

Wake-up time
Mode of transport
Favourite food
Weight
Exercise
Most valued possession
Professional years
Portrait
Now

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

08:00

08:30
09:00

09:00

10:00

Earlier than 09:00

I wanted to

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

08:00

07:30

07:00
10:00

08:30
12:30

Around
08:00

08:00

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

12:00

07:00

09:00

10:00

It depended
on my daily
condition and
classes

07:00
07:30

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

09:00 or
10:00

10:00
11:00

09:00

09:00

Late

07:30

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

MAKI SUZUKI

08:30ish

06:30

07:00

08:00

08:30

08:00

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

08:00

It varied

09:00
09:30

09:00

Mostly
around
08:00

10:00

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

Around
08:00

07:00

07:00

09:00
11:00

07:00

10:00

SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Early

09:00

06:00

09:00

07:00
08:00

Around
08:00

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

AVERAGE / EARLIEST/ LATEST

Stayed up
from night
before

07:30 (train
to catch)

A 08:46
E 06:00
L 12:30

What time did you get up

each morning?
Then
8

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

07:00

09:30

07:00

06:00
08:00

Later than
I need to

07:00

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

07:45

08:15

07:00
10:00

07:45

Around
08:00

07:00

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

10:00

07:30

09:00

08:00

It depends on
projects
usually at
08:30

05:30

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

07:00

07:00
08:30

09:00

09:00

Not so late

07:30

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

06:30ish

06:30

07:00

07:30

06:15

09:00

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

07:30

It varies

07:30

07:00

08:00 at
the latest

07:00

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

Around
08:00

08:00

05:00
07:00

07:00
09:00

I dont use an
alarm clock, but
generally I wake
up around 07:30

06:30

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Very early

06:00

06:00

07:30

07:00

Around
08:00

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

AVERAGE / EARLIEST/ LATEST

05:30

No rule,
I go to work
by bike

A 07:22
E 05:00
L 10:00

What time do you get up

each morning?
Now
9

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

Muscledriven
transport

Bus

Train

The tram

Driving

Car

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Train

Mountain
bike

Walking

Train

Walking

The tube

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

By foot

Car (VW
Beetle,
1200cc), bus,
train, tram

Bicycle
(secondhand)

Bicycle

Walking

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Bicycle or
rail

Public
transportation

Bus

Underground

In Brighton, I lived a
stones throw away
from the university and
walked every morning
along the seafront
(Full answer, p. 228)

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

MAKI SUZUKI

Bus (in
British
style)

1: Bicycle
2: Car

Walking

Public
transport

Bicycle

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Bicycle (of
course
being Dutch
and poor)

Train

Bicycle

Car or bike Walking

Car

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

Bicycle

Bicycle

Walking,
running
and train

Walking

Walking,
biking

Walking

SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Bicycle

Flying

Train

Bicycle

Foot

Bicycle

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Car

My red
Peugeot
205 GTI

1 CYCLE
2 WALK
3 TRAIN, CAR

What was your favoured

mode of transport?
Then
10

ANDREAS GNASS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

Bus

Train

Imperial
Speeder Bike or
any other form
of individual
transportation

Walking

Car

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Train

Race bike

Walking

Car and
train

Cycling

Le mtro

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

By foot

Car (Volvo
V50), bus,
train, tube,
plane

There are
several bicycles
to choose from
(mostly new)

Car

Walking

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Bicycle or Public
high-speed transport
rail

Bicycle

Bicycle

I walk to work every

day I live really
close to our East
London studio, its
a ten-minute walk

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

Car (in
American
style)

1: Bicycle 2: Walking
3: Train 4: Aeroplane
Cars dont mean much
to me. Walking is about
having time

Walking

By foot (but
currently have
to drive
everywhere)

Four
bicycles

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Car; I dont drive much

but really enjoy it when
I do. I have a 1976 gold
metallic MercedesBenz 280 SE (its a
classic)

Train

Bicycle

Walking

Taking the
train and
walking

Bicycle

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

Bicycle

Walking

Walking,
running,
cycling and
train

Walking

Walking,
biking, flying
across
oceans

Taxi

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

Transport with
no systemforced stopovers

ANDREW STEVENS

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Bicycle and Flying

train

Train

Porsche

Car

Bicycle

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Car

My
Cannondale

1 CYCLE
2 WALK
3 TRAIN

What is your favoured

mode of transport?
Now
11

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

I didnt have a
favourite food

Rigatoni
Siciliana

Pasta
fredda

Bacon
sandwich

Kelloggs
Smacks

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Chinese

Pasta
pesto

Fruit

Fast food

Vegetarian

Cadburys

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

Cake

German
German
(Currywurst potato
mit Fritten) pancakes

Korean
BBQ

Korean

Good
homemade food

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Japanese

Anything from
the students
cafeteria

Pasta with
tuna

Tomato
Soup

Ive always kept a very

balanced diet. It makes
me happy to eat well.
When I had little money,
food was
(Cont. opposite now)

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

MAKI SUZUKI

Pasta

Pasta

Tafelspitz

Marmite

Probably
pasta

Being French and

being a vegetarian
was a national
joke
(Full answer, p. 229)

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Pasta

Pasta

Hummus, and the

soups and spicy
sauces of my
Korean flatmate

All kinds

Whatever was
available within
a limited budget

Spaghetti
bolognese

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

Indonesian
(my mother
comes from
Indonesia)

Cheap

Pasta

Taco Bell
bean
burritos

I love all things

food, but I am
addicted to just
one: coffee

Indian food

SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Canadian

Italian
cuisine

Zrich veal
with cream
sauce and
mushrooms

Ksesptzle
(Thimble
dumplings
made with
cheese)

Bread

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Pasta
Anything
that wasnt
dehydrated

1 PASTA
2 CHEAP, CHOCOLATE, KOREAN, VEGETARIAN
3 ALL OTHER FOOD

What was your

favourite food?
Then
12

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

Still dont have a

favourite food. I do
like fish, different
kinds of pasta and
good entrecte and
lamb though

Homecooked
peasant food
(pasta, rice)

Spaghetti
alle
vongole

Rendang

Good restaurant
food (typical
local kitchen
all over the
world)

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Japanese

Anything that
has been
prepared in
the oven

Fruit

Slow food

Vegetarian

Le potau-feu

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

Cake

Italian (pasta,
antipasti and
salad)

Anything Japanese,
except for the crab
brain that my wifes
relatives invited me
to taste once

Korean
BBQ

Seafood,
Korean and
Japanese

Good
homemade food

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Probably still
Japanese
or Korean

Anything but
from the
students
cafeteria

Schnitzel

Gambas al
aquillo (giant
prawns in
garlic)

never cut, it was

always my top priority.
I perhaps eat out a little
more now. In terms of
favourites, it has always
been chocolate

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

Pasta

Home-cooking and
good restaurants.
There is a great
Lebanese restaurant
here in Karlsruhe I
love to go to

Tafelspitz

Marmite

Japanese
food of
various kinds

Fish, still

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Thai food

Pasta

Pasta and
good wine

All kinds

Whatever is Spaghetti
available
bolognese

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

Indonesian, Japanese
Japanese,
French

Sushi and
home-made
bread

Chicken
shawarma

I love all things

food, but I am
addicted to just
one: coffee

Cheese

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Italian,
Ticinese

Japanese
cuisine

Tiny bow
Shanghainese
soup dumplings

Ksesptzle
(thimble
dumplings
made with
cheese)

Bread

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Peaches in pie,
in cobbler, in
anything or just
by themselves

Pasta

1 JAPANESE
2 PASTA
3 KOREAN

What is your
favourite food?
Now
13

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

75kg

67kg

Same (as
now)

68kg

Lighter
(than now)

Approx.
70kg

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

60kg

70kg

54kg

10kg less

64kg/50kg

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

70kg

66kg

75kg

65kg

Approx.
61kg

50kg

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

70kg

72kg

52kg

75kg

57kg

53kg

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

MAKI SUZUKI

58kg

Not enough 71kg

A bit less
(than now)

51kg

65kg

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

75kg

72kg

Too much

70kg

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

71kg

60kg

65kg

63kg

I was 4kg 80kg

lighter than
now

SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

62kg (of which

10kg was
Schoggi after
moving to
Switzerland)

Not
enough

82kg

74kg

60kg

67kg

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

AVERAGE /HEAVIEST/LIGHTEST

48kg

Cant
remember
really

A 65KG
H 82KG
L 48KG

How much did

you weigh?
Then
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ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

75kg

73kg

Same (as
then)

78kg

Heavier
(than then)

Approx.
75kg

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

73kg

75kg

54kg

10kg more

64kg/50kg

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

80kg

77kg

80kg

65kg

66kg

59kg (all
muscle of
course)

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

80kg

75kg

56kg

80kg

64kg

53kg

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

61kg

A little more,
but still not
enough

75kg

A bit more
(than then)

54kg

73 kg

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

80kg

75kg

Far too
much

85kg

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

67kg

65kg

75kg

86kg

I am 4kg
heavier
than then

80kg

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

52kg

Too
much

89kg

77kg

70kg

71kg

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

AVERAGE /HEAVIEST/LIGHTEST

50kg

I dont weigh
myself, really.
Dont have
scales at
home

A 70KG
H 89KG
L 50KG

How much do
you weigh?
Now
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ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

Skiing,
skateboarding

Football

Trampolining

None

Dancing

Freeclimbing

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Yoga,
swimming
and running

None/None

Walking

Nothing

Cycling,
walking

Roller-skating,
biking,
swimming,
jogging

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

None

Running,
Taekwondo

Occasionally
yoga for
stress relief

Push-ups
in dorm

Football,
strength
training

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Walking and
cycling as a
mode of
transport

Very little daily

exercise,
smoking over
a pack a day

None

Table
tennis

Tennis

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

MAKI SUZUKI

Not much

Cycling, mountainbiking, swimming,

surfing, skiing,
cross-country,
sailing

Windsurfing,
mountainbiking,
funsports

Cycling
Walking
quickly
everywhere

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

I played some
squash; the
only sport
I enjoy

Walking

None (apart
from cycling
to college)

Taekwondo None

None

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

Basketball

Football (very
rarely) and a
lot of walking

Running

None

Capoeira

Cycling,
walking

SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Cycling, hiking,
swimming,
wandering,
water-skiing

Skiing,
tennis

None

None

Running
and
swimming

Skateboarding

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Cigarette
breaks

Not sure

1 NONE
2 CYCLE
3 WALK

(Cont. opposite now)

What type of exercise

did you do?
Then
16

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

ANDREAS GNASS

Badminton,
snowboarding

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

Football

Bicycling my Aikido (but

son to school havent done
any sports since
every day

ANTNIO S. GOMES

Running

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Yoga and
climbing

None/
Aikido

my daughters
birth)

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

Walking

Cycling

Cycling,
walking,
running

Roller-skating,
biking,
swimming,
jogging

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

None

Running,
swimming

Cycling,
jogging

Overall
exercise at a
gym three
times a week

Track,
conditioning,
strength
training

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Walking and
cycling as a
mode of
transport

Kalaripayattu
Tennis in the
early mornings
during summer
season, no more
smoking

Walking
Cycling,
swimming,
Feldenkrais

Tennis

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

Not much

I just love
sport, but I
would never go
to a gym

Jogging,
snoring
every night

Yoga
occasionally

Cycling

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

I have stopped
going to the gym,
as it gives me
no pleasure so
currently I am a
lazy bastard

Walking

Running,
cycling

Gym

Still
nothing

Cycling

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

Cycling,
walking

Basketball, Swimming (if

at all) and a
rowing,
lot of walking
the gym

Running,
swimming,
gym and
cycling

None

Sometimes I catch
a yoga class, but
mostly I just move
the mouse around

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Bird-watching, crosscountry skiing, cycling,

gliding, hiking, ice
skating, kayaking,
snowshoeing, strolling,
swimming, wandering,
yoga

Tennis,
skiing

Running

None

Not enough
running and
swimming

Running

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Yoga

Cycling

1 CYCLE
2 NONE, RUN
3 WALK

What type of exercise

do you do?
Now
17

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

No one thing
really comes
to mind

My
professional
equipment

Bike

Sony
Walkman

At the time
I didnt care
much about
stuff

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

iMac G3

Camera

Books

My Mac G4 None

My bike, my
pictures and
one piece
of art

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

VW Beetle
1200cc

My sketchbooks
I was pretty poor
and cant remember
owning anything
else of real value

Family and one

external hard
drive that had
all the data in
my life

Books

Walkman

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

My Ricoh
GR 35mm
camera

My
computer

My Nikon
camera

My portable
radio

All my Apple products

and I am not ashamed
to admit it. I love my
iPad, iPhone, MacBook
Pro. I have had a Mac
since I was 13 years old

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

MAKI SUZUKI

My latest
design
project

My camera and my first

computer

My books

My family, my
photos, my Mac
(sad but true), my
ability to see things
in a certain way

Comic
books
collection

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

A German
Perzina piano
from the
1920s

My work

Computer
+ Sony
camera

Comic
collection

A watch

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

If family is a
possession,
my family

My 45
camera

My camera

I had an original
copy of How to
Have a Number
One the Easy Way
by the KLF

SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

A toolbox with
instruments
(Swann-Morton
scalpel, marble,
roller, Caran

Books

Silkscreen
equipment

My most expensive
asset at the time was a
Paul Smith suit
actually, it was the first
G3 PowerBook for
approx. 4,000

Sepak
takraw ball

Self-restored
Vespa Tourist
150 (1960)

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Not sure

My comics
collection

1 COMPUTER
2 CAMERA
3 BOOKS

(Full answer, p. 231)

What was your most

valued possession?
Then
18

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ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

No one thing
really comes
to mind

The studio in
which I am
a partner

Family

Camper
van

My young
daughter

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

MacBook
Pro

Computer

Books

My vinyl
collection

None

My watch, my
bike, my
pictures and
one piece of art

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

House,
office

Hand-built
Italian racing
bicycle

Family and four

external hard drives
that sync twice a
day automatically
and still contain all
the data in my life

Books and
my works

MacBook
Pro (sad,
I know)

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

My Ricoh
GR Digital
II camera

My health

My Leica
camera

My cheap
digital
camera

Documenta 5 poster
by Ed Ruscha in 1972
its my favourite piece
of graphic design. I love
that he made type up
out of little ants

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

My children
Finn and
Nell

Its not a valued

possession, but my
family is something
very important to
me now, more than
anything else

My kids (but
oh I dont
possess
them)

My books

Same as
then

A copy of
Steal This Book
by Abbie
Hoffman

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

A Japanese
Yamaha grand
piano from the
1990s

My work

My flat

Book
collection

My art
collection

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

Family, books,
shields, ceremonial
outfits, bis poles
from the Asmat

Currently my new
sofa, otherwise a
painting by Peter
McDonald and a
few books

My notebooks
from the past
years

My hands

I have an original
May 68 poster. Its
the one with the riot
policeman holding
a baton

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

The diamond
necklace from
my husband

Books

My dads
watch

My most beautiful
material thing is a
40-year-old Porsche

Sepak
takraw ball

Wedding
ring

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Not sure

My bike

1 BOOKS, FAMILY/CHILDREN
2 COMPUTER
3 CAMERA

(Full answer, p. 230)

What is your most

valued possession?
Now
19

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ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

8 (2)

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

MAKI SUZUKI

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

10

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

10

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

AVERAGE /LONGEST/SHORTEST

A 6
L 10
S 3

How many years

did you study?
Then
20

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

13

22

12

15

15

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

44

10

13

17

10

10 (2)

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

21

25

15

16

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

13

10

13

11

58

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

22

19

16

16

12

11

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

16

53

13

13

12

19

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

19

12

19

12

12

15

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

26

20

23

11

11

13

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

AVERAGE /LONGEST/SHORTEST

12

A 16
L 58
S 7

How many years have

you been working?
Now
21

ANDREAS GNASS (98)

ANDREW STEVENS (94)

ANNELYS DE VET (95)

ANTNIO S. GOMES (95)

BEN BRANAGAN (97)

BERND HILPERT (96)

BRIAN WEBB (68)

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER (99)

DANIEL EATOCK (98)

DANIJELA DJOKIC (98)

EMMI SALONEN (00)

RIC & MARIE GASPAR (99)

FONS HICKMANN (93)

HANS D. REICHERT (82)

HOLGER JACOBS (97)

HOON KIM (07)

HYOUN YOUL JOE (03)

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI (96)

JAMES GOGGIN (97)

JAN WILKER (98)

JULIE GAYARD (95)

KAI VON RABENAU (98)

KEN GARLAND (53)

KIRSTY CARTER (93)

KRISTINE MATTHEWS (96)

LARS HARMSEN (94)

LAURENT LACOUR (00)

LIZA ENEBEIS (96)

LUCINDA NOBLE (99)

MAKI SUZUKI (98)

MARC V. D. HEIJDE (93)

MARGARET CALVERT (62)

MARION FINK (99)

MARTIN LORENZ (97)

MATTHIAS GRLICH (00)

MICHAEL GEORGIOU (84)

NIKKI GONNISSEN (93)

OLIVER KLIMPEL (96)

PAUL BARNES (92)

P. KRISHNAMURTHY (98)

RENATA GRAW (08)

RICHARD WALKER (96)

SANDRA HOFFMANN (90)

SASCHA LOBE (90)

STEFAN SAGMEISTER (84)

SVEN VOELKER (99)

TIM BALAAM (98)

URS LEHNI (99)

YASMIN KHAN (04)

YVES FIDALGO (00)

Portrait
Then
22

ANDREAS GNASS (09)

ANDREW STEVENS (10)

ANNELYS DE VET (10)

ANTNIO S. GOMES (10)

BEN BRANAGAN (10)

BERND HILPERT (10)

BRIAN WEBB (09)

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER (10)

DANIEL EATOCK (10)

DANIJELA DJOKIC (10)

EMMI SALONEN (10)

RIC & MARIE GASPAR (10)

FONS HICKMANN (10)

HANS D. REICHERT (10)

HOLGER JACOBS (10)

HOON KIM (11)

HYOUN YOUL JOE (10)

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI (10)

JAMES GOGGIN (10)

JAN WILKER (10)

JULIE GAYARD (10)

KAI VON RABENAU (10)

KEN GARLAND (11)

KIRSTY CARTER (11)

KRISTINE MATTHEWS (10)

LARS HARMSEN (11)

LAURENT LACOUR (10)

LIZA ENEBEIS (11)

L. NEWTON-DUNN (10)

MAKI SUZUKI (10)

MARC V. D. HEIJDE (10)

MARGARET CALVERT (04)

MARION FINK (10)

MARTIN LORENZ (10)

MATTHIAS GRLICH (11)

MICHAEL GEORGIOU (10)

NIKKI GONNISSEN (10)

OLIVER KLIMPEL (11)

PAUL BARNES (11)

P. KRISHNAMURTHY (10)

RENATA GRAW (11)

RICHARD WALKER (10)

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI (10)

SASCHA LOBE (11)

STEFAN SAGMEISTER (10)

SVEN VOELKER (09)

TIM BALAAM (10)

URS LEHNI (10)

YASMIN KHAN (10)

YVES FIDALGO (10)

Portrait
Now
23

PAGES 2629

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PAGES 4245

PAGES 4649

Andreas Gnass
Hochschule
Darmstadt
Germany

Andrew Stevens
Royal College of Art
London
United Kingdom

Annelys de Vet
Hogeschool
voor de Kunsten
Utrecht
The Netherlands

Antnio S. Gomes
Faculdade de Belas
Artes da
Universidade de
Lisboa
Portugal

Ben Branagan
Kingston University
London
United Kingdom

Bernd Hilpert
ENSCI Les Ateliers
Paris
France

PAGES 5053

PAGES 5457

PAGES 5861

PAGES 6265

PAGES 6669

PAGES 7073

Brian Webb
Canterbury
College of Art
United Kingdom

Christian Heusser
Hochschule fr
Gestaltung und
Kunst Basel
Switzerland

Daniel Eatock
Royal College of Art
London
United Kingdom

Danijela Djokic
Hochschule fr
Gestaltung
Schwbisch Gmnd
Germany

Emmi Salonen
University of
Brighton
United Kingdom

ric & Marie Gaspar

Central Saint
Martins College of
Art & Design
London
United Kingdom

PAGES 7477

PAGES 7881

PAGES 8285

PAGES 8689

PAGES 9093

PAGES 9497

Fons Hickmann
Fachhochschule
Dsseldorf
Germany

Hans Dieter Reichert

UniversittGesamthochschule
Essen
Germany

Holger Jacobs
Royal College of Art
London
United Kingdom

Hoon Kim
Rhode Island
School of Design
Providence
USA

Hyoun Youl Joe

Dankook University
Seoul
South Korea

Isabelle Swiderski
Emily Carr Institute
of Art & Design
Vancouver
Canada

PAGES 98101

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PAGES 110113

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PAGES 118121

James Goggin
Royal College of Art
London
United Kingdom

Jan Wilker
Staatliche Akademie
der Bildenen Knste
Stuttgart
Germany

Julie Gayard
Camberwell College
of Arts
London
United Kingdom

Kai von Rabenau

Central Saint
Martins College of
Art & Design
London
United Kingdom

Ken Garland
Central School of
Arts & Crafts
London
United Kingdom

Kirsty Carter
University of
Brighton
United Kingdom

PAGES 122125

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Kristine Matthews
Royal College of Art
London
United Kingdom

Lars Harmsen
Hochschule
Pforzheim
Germany

Laurent Lacour
Hochschule fr
Gestaltung
Offenbach am Main
Germany

Liza Enebeis
Royal College of Art
London
United Kingdom

Lucinda Noble
Royal College of Art
London
United Kingdom

Maki Suzuki
Royal College of Art
London
United Kingdom

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PAGES 162165

PAGES 166169

Marc van der Heijde

Academy of Art and
Design St. Joost
Breda
The Netherlands

Margaret Calvert
Chelsea
College of Art
London
United Kingdom

Marion Fink
Royal College of Art
London
United Kingdom

Martin Lorenz
Hochschule
Darmstadt
Germany

Matthias Grlich
Hochschule
Darmstadt
Germany

Michael Georgiou
Vakalo College of
Art & Design
Athens
Greece

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PAGES 178181

PAGES 182185

PAGES 186189

PAGES 190193

Nikki Gonnissen
Hogeschool
voor de Kunsten
Utrecht
The Netherlands

Oliver Klimpel
Hochschule
fr Grafik und
Buchkunst Leipzig
Germany

Paul Barnes
University of
Reading
United Kingdom

Prem
Krishnamurthy
Yale College
New Haven
USA

Renata Graw
University
of Illinois at
Chicago
USA

Richard Walker
Camberwell
College of Arts
London
United Kingdom

PAGES 194197

PAGES 198201

PAGES 202205

PAGES 206209

PAGES 210213

PAGES 214217

Sandra Hoffmann
Schule fr
Gestaltung
Basel
Switzerland

Sascha Lobe
Hochschule
Pforzheim
Germany

Stefan Sagmeister
Universitt fr
angewandte Kunst
Wien
Austria

Sven Voelker
Hochschule
fr Knste
Bremen
Germany

Tim Balaam
Camberwell
College of Arts
London
United Kingdom

Urs Lehni
Hochschule
Luzern
Switzerland

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PAGES 222225

PAGES 226231

Yasmin Khan
CalArts California
Institute of the Arts
Valencia
USA

Yves Fidalgo
ECALEcole
cantonale dart
de Lausanne
Switzerland

Appendix 1 with additional

information on the
education and further
influences of the
50 designers

Student work of 50
graphic designers
Projects Then
24

PAGES 2629

PAGES 3033

PAGES 3437

PAGES 3841

PAGES 4245

PAGES 4649

Andreas Gnass
U9 visuelle Allianz
Offenbach am Main
Germany

Andrew Stevens
Graphic Thought
Facility (GTF)
London
United Kingdom

Annelys de Vet
Brussels
Belgium

Antnio S. Gomes
barbara says...
Projecto Prprio
Lisbon
Portugal

Ben Branagan
London
United Kingdom

Bernd Hilpert
unit-design
Frankfurt am Main
Germany

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PAGES 5457

PAGES 5861

PAGES 6265

PAGES 6669

PAGES 7073

Brian Webb
Webb&Webb
Design
London
United Kingdom

Christian Heusser
Equipo
Basel
Switzerland

Daniel Eatock
London
United Kingdom

Danijela Djokic
Projekttriangle
Stuttgart
Germany

Emmi Salonen
Studio Emmi
London
United Kingdom

ric & Marie Gaspar

ricandMarie
Paris
France

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Fons Hickmann
Fons Hickmann m23
Berlin
Germany

Hans Dieter Reichert

HDR Visual
Communication
East Malling
United Kingdom

Holger Jacobs
Mind Design
London
United Kingdom

Hoon Kim
Why Not Smile
New York
USA

Hyoun Youl Joe

Hey Joe
Seoul
South Korea

Isabelle Swiderski
Seven25
Vancouver
Canada

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James Goggin
Museum of
Contemporary Art
Chicago
USA

Jan Wilker
karlssonwilker
New York
USA

Julie Gayard
Jutojo
Berlin
Germany

Kai von Rabenau

mono.graphie
Berlin
Germany

Ken Garland
London
United Kingdom

Kirsty Carter
A Practice for
Everyday Life
London
United Kingdom

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PAGES 142145

Kristine Matthews
Studio Matthews
Seattle
USA

Lars Harmsen
MAGMA Brand
Design
Karlsruhe
Germany

Laurent Lacour
Hauser Lacour
Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Liza Enebeis
Studio Dumbar
Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Lucinda
Newton-Dunn
space-to-think
Los Angeles
USA

Maki Suzuki
bke
London
United Kingdom

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PAGES 150153

PAGES 154157

PAGES 158161

PAGES 162165

PAGES 166169

Marc van der Heijde

Studio Dumbar
Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Margaret Calvert
London
United Kingdom

Marion Fink
Basel
Switzerland

Martin Lorenz
TwoPoints.Net
Barcelona
Spain

Matthias Grlich
Studio Matthias
Grlich
Darmstadt
Germany

Michael Georgiou
G Design Studio
Athens
Greece

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PAGES 174177

PAGES 178181

PAGES 182185

PAGES 186189

PAGES 190193

Nikki Gonnissen
Thonik
Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Oliver Klimpel
Bro International
London
United Kingdom

Paul Barnes
London
United Kingdom

Prem
Krishnamurthy
Project Projects
New York
USA

Renata Graw
Plural
Chicago
USA

Richard Walker
KK Outlet/
Kesselskramer
London
United Kingdom

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PAGES 198201

PAGES 202205

PAGES 206209

PAGES 210213

PAGES 214217

Sandra Hoffmann
Robbiani
Visual Studies
Berne
Switzerland

Sascha Lobe
L2M3
Stuttgart
Germany

Stefan Sagmeister
Sagmeister Inc.
New York
USA

Sven Voelker
Sven Voelker Studio
Berlin
Germany

Tim Balaam
Hyperkit
London
United Kingdom

Urs Lehni
Lehni-Trb,
Rollo Press,
Corner College
Zrich
Switzerland

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PAGES 222225

PAGES 226231

Yasmin Khan
Counterspace
Los Angeles
USA

Yves Fidalgo
Fulguro
Lausanne
Switzerland

Appendix 1 with additional

information on the
work experience and
further influences of
the 50 designers

Professional work of 50
graphic designers
Projects Now
25

STUDENT YEARS

GERMAN

Andreas Gnass
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Shout out loud when your idea

is good, shut up if not +
Dont take yourself too
seriously

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1999

Hochschule Darmstadt
(Germany)

Because it was a jump in at

the deep end I had no
contacts and no ideas about
business. I like the self-made
aspects and that the project is
taken beyond the pure design
aspects. The project was
also the starting point of
the collaboration with Brita
Wiesbach, which is still
ongoing.

TUTOR(S)

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Self-initiated diploma
project to design a
fashion publication that
had nothing to do with
fashion
COLLEGE

Prof. Sandra Hoffmann

Robbiani (see also
pp. 194197)
COLLABORATOR(S)

Brita Wiesbach (design),

Marijan Kojic (text)

To have worked on the project

after our diploma. We only
managed a short comeback as
a T-shirt warehouse called
sheeg.com.
OUTCOMES

TECHNOLOGY

Brief yourself!

Brain

FEEDBACK

TIME SPENT

200 hours
TYPEFACE

Monospace 821,
animated Helvetica

It worked we got the industry

contacts and realized a nearly
real photoshoot and a printed
supplement.

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Our goal was to make

a real-life project as
a diploma project, not
a fantasy project.
A fashion magazine
in Darmstadt was a
really absurd idea in
the Darmstadt of 1999.
The aesthetics grew
around the plan of
connecting with fashion
people but with nearly
no budget to spend.
So at the end there was
no style/look that we
liked because of its
beauty or coolness
it had one story, a basis
and was still fragile and
searching not like
a dogma. The sum of
elements and media
made the message.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

I didnt have a
favourite food
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

Bike

Project Then
26

The Hafen 2 project

developed in a similar
way. In the beginning,
the client had different
ideas on how to
establish a new urban
place with music/caf/
art in Offenbach am
Main (Germany). But
there was no clear idea
of where exactly the
journey would lead.
Like our diploma
project, the Hafen 2
was considered as
temporary based in
a harbour wasteland,
the buildings should
have been demolished
within a few years.
While searching and
specifying its way of
being the design grew
and changed. It was
distorted and rebuilt.
For me its great to
see design as a vivid
aspect, not as the
end of a road.

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

OFFENBACH AM MAIN, GERMANY

13

Andreas Gnass (U9 visuelle Allianz)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Curiosity and a little bit of

modesty + Staying relaxed

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2004ongoing

We support this cultural project

with special pricing, but have
a lead position according to
every question of visual
communication. I also like the
fact that it is playful.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Corporate identity for

Hafen 2, a non-profit
association suesswasser
e.V. Art and Culture
in Offenbachs harbour
plus a network of many
associated creative minds
CLIENT

Hafen 2, Offenbach am
Main (Germany)

OUTCOMES

Expand the briefing!

FEEDBACK

The brand is well known and

highly recognizable while
being in constant flow.

COLLABORATOR(S)

Brita Wiesbach Gnass,

Sabrina Hahn,
Valerie Rapp
TECHNOLOGY

Brain
TIME SPENT

100 hours
TYPEFACE

OSK, Akzidenz Grotesk

DO YOU TEACH?

Typography one year

in Darmstadt, three
years at the Free
University of Bolzano.
I stopped in 2010
because I was a little
bit bored of not having
enough time for
designing, and it
was a very long way
to travel between
Bolzano (Italy) and
Offenbach (Germany).

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

I still dont have a

favourite food. I do like
fish, different kinds of
pasta and good entrecte
and lamb, though

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

The main aspect in

teaching design is to
sensitize the students
to ask the important
questions. The second
point is to give answers
to some basic questions.
Thats all.

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION NOW

Family

Project Now
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ANDREAS GNASS, 1999

ANDREAS GNASS, 2004ONGOING

U9 VISUELLE ALLIANZ

STUDENT YEARS

BRITISH

Andrew Stevens
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Learn the basics of good type, layout and

colour it wont make you a mundane
designer. It will give you a foundation and a
better chance to get a job + Dont forget
there are students in other departments
you may find yourself working with them
after college
YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

FEEDBACK

1990

I grew up when photographers

like Paul Reas, Paul Graham
and Martin Parr were working,
photographing the dusty
corners of places, rather than
the Henri Cartier-Bresson
traditional black-and-white
approach to the world, and in
that work I could see a Britain
that I recognized. This is
something I also try to do with
my work, and that is very much
present in this project:
observation, reference to the
vernacular. I also like the use
of the typeface Snell
Roundhand a very unrefined
vision of refinement.

Some posters fell down during

the degree-show exhibition
and the cleaners binned them,
so I guess thats a negative
feedback. My peers liked it,
although I dont think it has
much commercial appeal.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Invite a speaker to college

and design a poster for it.
I chose the photographer
Paul Reas
COLLEGE

Royal College of Art,

London (United Kingdom)
TUTOR(S)

Margaret Calvert was

head of course then,
Derek Birdsall was head
the previous year, but
mostly I spoke with peers
on this project
TECHNOLOGY

Litho and silkscreen

TIME SPENT

23 months
TYPEFACE

Snell Roundhand
(an unrefined vision
of refinement)

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

The overprinted typography

should dominate more; it
should have been stronger.
Also, I kept the box white so
that the images would read
better but that wasnt
necessary, and in retrospect
I see it was a compromise.
I should have left it brown, and
just printed onto it as it was.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Rigatoni Siciliana
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

Sony Walkman

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Physicality, reference
to the vernacular,
mixing rawness with
graphic things.

Project Then
30

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

22

Andrew Stevens (Graphic Thought Facility)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Energy + Clarity

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1999

It was the first time we were

given the whole budget for
design and production, and
could really consider a project
in its entirety. We were able to
change the usual full-colour,
coated-paper approach and
instead print the job in a single
colour, but use the money
saved to print on good paper.
Then, full colour came in at
the start of the prospectus,
for the illustrations of Kam
Tang, a visual journey of the
MA course. I especially like
the treatment of the imagery
for each department, as this
can be very tricky when dealing
with different departments
from within the college with
different ideas about the
type of images required.
Instead, we proposed to scan
the colleges press clippings
(of which the RCA has a rich
archive). This was more
relevant as it showed the
scope of the work, but crucially
tied the whole prospectus
together graphically, as every
department was described
through photocopied press

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Design the prospectus for

the Royal College of Art,
working within an existing
budget and with the
different college
departments
CLIENT

Royal College of Art,

London (United Kingdom)
COLLABORATOR(S)

GTF members +
illustrator Kam Tang
TECHNOLOGY

Offset
TIME SPENT

At least 6 months
TYPEFACE

Futura Bold and a

monospace font
(I think Souvenir)

clippings. I especially like

the presence of a News of
the World clipping for the
Vehicle Design spread
(not sophisticated, but
important) and the map of
the RCA building, essentially
a scan of the previous
years prospectus.
WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

Nothing really.
OUTCOMES

We were asked to do
the prospectus for the
following year.
FEEDBACK

Good, as we were also asked

to do it for the following year.
I dont know if it increased or
decreased application
numbers, though.

DO YOU TEACH?

I have been external

examiner at Chelsea
College of Art and
Design, London (UK).
More recently at the
National College of Art
and Design (NCAD)
in Dublin (Ireland).

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Home-cooked peasant
food (pasta, rice)
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Camper van

Its not possible to

teach a sensibility,
but by encompassing
creativity, resourcefulness and originality
you can create the
framework for someone to develop.

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ANDREW STEVENS, 1990

ANDREW STEVENS, 1999

GRAPHIC THOUGHT FACILITY

STUDENT YEARS

DUTCH

Annelys de Vet
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Use your own vision and

mentality in order to form
design decisions +
Dont believe your professor

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1995

The image is about pop culture

and the representation of sex.
Its a still of Madonnas Like a
Virgin video clip that has been
repeated only by zooming in.
Nothing changes, but the
repetition makes the story.
The other image is a remake
with a remake. A sex doll is
photographed from the same
perspective as Madonna in
her clip, and that image is
screenprinted on tiles, referring
to traditional Delftsblauwe
tiles. Again, the repetition
changes the representation
and makes the vulgar images
safe and normal.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Make different sequences

within the theme of
climax. I chose to focus
on the concept of
orgasm.
COLLEGE

Hogeschool voor de
Kunsten (HKU), Utrecht
(The Netherlands)
TUTOR(S)

Paul Gofferj
TIME SPENT

3 months

FEEDBACK

Invitation to exhibit it at two

external places.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION THEN

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

The quality of repetition,

the strength of patterns.

Project Then
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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

12

Annelys de Vet
A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Same for both: Use your own

vision and mentality in order to
form design decisions

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

FEEDBACK

2011

This is a set of 12 tea towels

that together create a calendar
of the Dutch village
Puttershoek. Each towel
represents a local theme or
story that is specific for the
month. So in September it
shows the types of apples and
potatoes that are being picked
in that month; in October it
shows the process of making
sugar in approximately 30
words because the village is
famous for its sugar factory.
The calendar as a whole
puts the normal at the centre
and shows how special and
characteristic that is. The
graphic design is based on
old Dutch tea towels.

The local people appreciate

the project a lot; much more
than they realized before it was
finished they never could
imagine what the full project
actually meant. There is also a
website, big monthly banners
in the quarter, a publication for
all new citizens and a website,
www.kalenderputtershoek.nl.
The locals were proud and
excited that their story was
woven in the towels. At the
same time, people who are not
connected to the village
appreciate the set of towels
for the design and the
particular stories. Ive sold
more towels to outsiders than
to insiders. The project was
shortlisted for the Dutch
Design Awards.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Develop a calendar for a

new area in the Dutch
village Puttershoek. I
designed 12 tea towels,
one for each month, with
regional lists of words that
express the cultural or
botanical characteristics
of the village. The tea
towels were produced by
the Textile Museum in
Tilburg.
CLIENT

Binnenmaas (village)
& SKOR
TIME SPENT

3 years
TYPEFACE

Ceacilia by
Matthias Noordzij

DO YOU TEACH?

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Previously: Design
Academy Eindhoven
(The Netherlands),
Communication
Department
Currently: Head of
Design Department,
Sandberg Instituut
Amsterdam
(The Netherlands).

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION NOW

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Yes.

Project Now
35

ANNELYS DE VET, 1995

ANNELYS DE VET, 2011

STUDENT YEARS

PORTUGUESE /SOUTH AFRICAN

Antnio Silveira Gomes

A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Design affects the way we perceive

information. Students must understand
the consequences of their work before
placing a new artefact into the world +
I would like to quote Cedric Price:
Technology is the answer, but what
was the question?
YEAR OF PROJECT

TIME SPENT

1995

1 month

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

TYPEFACE

To make a short
documentary film to
be presented in a class
critique simulating a
festival ambience, for
which we also had to
design a poster and
a booklet

Letraset, hand-lettering
(mostly scrawl), system
font (probably Arial)

COLLEGE

Faculdade de Belas
Artes da Universidade de
Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal)
TUTOR(S)

Aurelindo Ceia
COLLABORATOR(S)

Jos Albergaria (coauthor) Pedro Correia

(voice dubbing and
translations)
TITLE OF PROJECT

b.b.w: The Life and Times

of Bill Burst Williams
TECHNOLOGY

Hi8 amateur camcorder,

Polaroid Sx70 film,
Letraset, photocopied
images, Rotring artpen,
Indian ink, Tipp-Ex, sticky
tape, watercolours,
paintbrushes, a PC and
an overused Epson jet
printer, scenery paper
and glue.

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

Our response to the brief

was inadvertently closer to the
mockumentary form, which
made the whole experience
more interesting as a learning
device playing with narrative
to reach a critical understanding
of an artists work, in this
case, that of the artist Bob
Flanagan.
WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

Nothing.
OUTCOMES

The storyline for the film was

a fake (five-minute) biopic
constructed around the artist
and poet Bob Flanagan in an
attempt to understand the
relationship between his art
and the excruciating pain he
felt during his performances.
We first traced his identity
(under a fictitious name) and
then cross-examined his work
through the eyes of four
stereotypical art-scene
characters. Due to technical
restrictions, the film was shot
in one take. We designed a
huge map/collage to be the
main scenery and making

the film involved walking over

it, shooting one continuous
take, and dubbing live music
from tapes and doing sound
effects like a bad Kung Fu
movie. We had to shoot the
film more than once to get it
right, so in a way it was like
choreography. It was a
physically tiring project and we
felt a certain satisfaction when
we managed to get it right.
Making the scenery a 42metre illustrated chart and
then walking all over it as
we filmed also put us in a
destructive relationship with
our own work, echoing
Flanagans sadomasochism.
We never had any particular
fondness for Flanagans
performance work, yet as we
delved deeper into his writings
we encountered an incredible
consistency in his thought.
FEEDBACK

There were some negative

responses, given the brutality
of Flanagans work. Still, the
film was later chosen for an
experimental video festival and
it now belongs to the Lisbon
Municipal Videotheque
archives. We never got to
send the film to Bob Flanagan
because he passed away
soon after, in 1996.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Pasta fredda
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

At the time I didnt care

much about stuff

Project Then
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PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

The contexts were very

different, but there were
nonetheless natural
similarities between
the projects. The student
project is about a body
of work that spreads
over 20 years of
suffering; the
professional one is a
moment in time where
two communities
mingle and celebrate
over a thousand years
of difference. Both
challenge us as
designers to represent
problems of identity:
an artist with a chronic
disease and the identity
he constructs through
his work; the autonomy
of a Gypsy community
that bought land in a
European country and
began to settle. Each
problem is addressed
in both projects through
a mapping device:
a family tree, a street
map or an imaginary
cartography functions
as scenery. And both
projects were made
with minimal costs in
resources such as fonts
and paper output.
In the case of the
Baralha project, we
worked not-for-profit.

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LISBON, PORTUGAL

15

Antnio Silveira Gomes

(barbara says Projecto Prprio)
A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

To approach any exercise with a serious

attitude even in the simulated scenarios
that are common in design schools +
To be able to listen even if you feel you
know what a client is about to say

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

OUTCOMES

2010

The fact that the book

embodied a powerful visual
statement for the identity of
this particular Gypsy family:
their need for territorial
autonomy as a sedentary
group, going against their
natural nomadic heritage.
We as Europeans become
more nomadic as the Gypsy
community becomes
sedentary. We designed
a tree showing the 70 family
members and shaped it to
resemble the official flag of
this ethnic Gypsy group.

The performance comprised

a series of documentary videos
and live shows with actors,
musicians and choreographers.
These were made within the
gypsy dwellings and in the
surrounding woods. Some
were the result of workshops
with the community and others
were interviews. I visited the
camp before our work on the
book started and quickly
realized that the context wasnt
about performance but about
understanding and interacting
with an incredibly autonomous
culture. The project opened
my mind towards the complex
issues regarding Gypsy
integration in Portugal, to their
semantic and cultural codes
(the Portuguese word for
gypsy is quite demeaning)
and their social organization
as a tribe.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

To design a book, map,

website and signage for
a street performance
festival that took place
within a Gypsy family
commune
CLIENT

Marco Martins
(film director and
scenographer)
COLLABORATOR(S)

Claudia Castelo (art

direction and production)
Alexandre Castro (web
and graphic design),
Patrcia Maya (graphic
design), Maiadouro
(printing)

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

A few insignificant technical

details in the binding and
layout.

TITLE OF PROJECT

Baralha
TECHNOLOGY

2 iMacs, laser printer,

desktop publishing
software: CS3,
Fontographer, Google
Earth

FEEDBACK

Most responses
were positive.

TIME SPENT

3 months
TYPEFACE

Gentium + 2 custom fonts

(Cristiana, Deus Viveaqi),
hand-lettering sampled
from the walls of the
Gypsy dwellings

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Spaghetti alle vongole

YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

My young daughter

Project Now
39

DO YOU TEACH?

Currently guest lecturer

at the Universidade de
Coimbra Faculty of
Computer Sciences
(Portugal). Lecturing
Design III (studio
practice).
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Yes. I am a teacher.
As a design student,
I learned how to
appreciate design
thinking as an
autonomous discipline,
to defend my work
reasonably and
respectfully, accepting
an honest critique from
my tutors, distinguishing
between good and
bad ideas, working on
developing an idea
through creative
speculation, working
and sharing ideas
collaboratively. I also
mastered drawing (even
though I dont practise
it much). Apart from
this, a copious amount
of theory solidified my
understanding of
philosophy and history.
Nevertheless, I still feel
I should have learned
more practical skills
in school.

ANTNIO SILVEIRA GOMES, 1995

ANTNIO SILVEIRA GOMES, 2010

BARBARA SAYS PROJECTO PRPRIO

STUDENT YEARS

BRITISH

Ben Branagan
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Enjoy yourself +
Dont do what you
think your tutor
wants to see

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1997

This is one of the first pieces

of graphic design I made as
a student I was doing my
foundation at the time. It has
a loose and casual feel, largely
inspired by not knowing what
I was doing, which I like a lot.
I had a lot of fun in the print
workshop making the
backgrounds I still like
experimenting with different
materials and processes in
both my professional and
personal work today.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Produce a typographic
poster using one of a
selection of poems
COLLEGE

Kingston University,
London (United Kingdom)
TUTOR(S)

Chris Draper
TECHNOLOGY

Letterpress proofing
printer, photocopier, Mac
TIME SPENT

1 day
TYPEFACE

Impact

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

There are lots of

similarities between
the two a limited
colour palette, use of
overprinting and
processes these are
things that crop up
quite a lot in my work.
Despite this visual
overlap they are, for
me, emblematic of two
different areas of my
practice as a designer.
The one from my
student days is more
indicative of personal
motivations and
interests in my work
that extend beyond a
professional context;
an outlook on design
and communication
that really began
during my time at art
school. The later one is
typical of lots of the
work I have done while
running a small, oneman studio; its not one
of the big or more
involving projects that
I would naturally refer
back to when thinking
about my work. Its a
smaller, more everyday
project that, while much
more practical than the
first, shares a common
outlook.

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

The way the typography reads

across the page needs a lot of
work, and I am not keen on
Impact as a font.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Bacon sandwich
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

No one thing really

comes to mind

Project Then
42

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

Ben Branagan
A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Openness +
Resilience

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

2010

This was a small project I

undertook alongside some
teaching I was doing on the
design communication course
at Epsom. I originally suggested
a different solution for the
posters, which at the time I felt
was far more interesting and
exciting graphically. However,
for one reason or another that
one didnt make it and this
solution emerged in a kind of
ad-hoc manner after further
discussions with staff at the
college. I like solutions that
emerge in this organic way.
Looking back at it now, I think
it works a lot better than the
original proposal I submitted.
As a simple typographic piece,
its something I am very
pleased with.

The intention for the project

was to produce a template or
system that would allow
posters to be produced at
short notice for upcoming
talks. Exploiting the positioning
and the colour of the
overprinted section would give
each poster an individual
quality while creating a set of
posters that worked as a
family. Due to complications,
the subsequent series never
happened, so I was left with
a single poster rather than the
multiple configurations and
versions I had in mind when
designing it.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Design of template and

initial poster for a series
of talks organized by the
Graphic Design
Department at Epsom
University
CLIENT

UCA Epsom Graphic

Design Department
TECHNOLOGY

Mac, offset litho

TIME SPENT

2 days
TYPEFACE

Franklin Gothic

DO YOU TEACH?

Design Communication,
Bachelor & Master of
Arts, Chelsea College
of Art & Design (UK);
Graphic Design
Bachelor of Arts, UCA
Epsom (UK).
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

You can teach design,

certainly the technical
aspects; the creative
side of it is harder.
I learned a lot at college,
but I have also learned
a lot since I dont see
them as two really
distinct periods but
part of the same
development. The most
important thing to take
from college is an
understanding of your
own practice, understanding the type of
work you want to be
involved in and how you
will approach it.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Rendang
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

No one thing really

comes to mind

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BEN BRANAGAN, 1997

BEN BRANAGAN, 2010

STUDENT YEARS

GERMAN

Bernd Hilpert
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Be sure that your work is

relevant + Never think you
are the benchmark of the
things you do

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1996

The most important part of the

project was to look into a
subject: to reflect the
background, to discuss the
statement, to answer the
question. During my student
time, we were pushed to open
our minds and to look for
solutions that were not
obvious. Today this is still the
basis of my work.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

We often had very open

briefs that dealt with
essential questions of
our daily life tools or
spaces. The brief for
this project was thinking
about the future way of
housing and living.
COLLEGE

ENSCI Les Ateliers,

Paris (France)
TUTOR(S)

Prof. Marc Bertier

COLLABORATOR(S)

The student team and

my professor (see above)
TECHNOLOGY

The most important tool

was my fineliner (today
the Penxacta). Besides
that, it was the Mac with
its software (Mac LC III)
TIME SPENT

6 months, as one of two

projects (and without
really finishing it)

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

Nothing. But the result depends

on the time of its origin. It
reflects your personal background and experience, but is
also influenced by trends and
the general spirit of the time.
OUTCOMES

A new level of experience.

Each project is a step forwards
regardless of whether you
think that the result is OK.
FEEDBACK

The students work was shown

on several occasions, but only
in the context of the college.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Kelloggs Smacks
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

My professional
equipment
PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Apart from an approach

that was similar, both
projects deal with
space, perception and
context.

Project Then
46

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY

15

Bernd Hilpert (unit-design)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

To have your own idea +

To have your own idea and
to be able to realize it

YEAR OF PROJECT

TECHNOLOGY

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2009

The most important tool is my

Penxacta. Besides that, it is
the Mac with its software
(Powerbook G4). Interestingly,
I still use software I learned
to use during my time as a
student with the old serial
version.

For this project, the main

question was to find a design
expression that suits the
sensitive and serious context
of the site. To bring together all
dimensions of design to a wellbalanced and appropriate
setting; the product and its
making, the positioning, colour,
surface, type and the graphic
layout.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Design of a visitor
information system for a
Nazi concentration camp.
CLIENT

Mahn- und Gedenksttte

Ravensbrck (The
Ravensbrck National
Memorial)

TIME SPENT

6 months; as one of
15 projects

COLLABORATOR(S)

The team in the studio

and the project partners,
the client and the architect
(Wolfgang Lorch + Niko
Hirsch), other specialized
designers and not to
forget the people who
did the production.
The idea of co-operation
is essential to my work
as a designer.

TYPEFACE

FF Unit

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

See answer opposite (then).

OUTCOMES

See answer opposite (then).

FEEDBACK

Besides the feedback within

the team, from colleagues or
in the specialized press,
I know that each day there is
somebody using or reflecting
the design products I realized
(without getting the reaction
of the recipients in most
cases).

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Good restaurant food

(typical local kitchen
all over the world)
DO YOU TEACH?

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION NOW

No.

The studio in which

I am a partner

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Yes, its possible and

necessary. The designer
has to be formed on
different levels:
personally, technically
and culturally.

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BERND HILPERT, 1996

BERND HILPERT, 2009

UNIT-DESIGN

STUDENT YEARS

BRITISH

Brian Webb
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Dont ever apologize

for a job + If youre not
enjoying it, dont do it

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1966

My student piece isnt one of

the best things I did at college,
but it is memorable for several
reasons. It was designed in
1966. Its a poster for a lecture
by Arnold Schwartzman, who
had been at college a few years
before me. He was working at
ATV television at the time and
went on to win an Oscar for his
Los Angeles Olympics film.
The reason its memorable for
me is that it was about that
time I discovered ideas rather
than decorating the surface.
The lecture was going to be
on TV graphics. I thought if
I photographed a TV screen
(ideally with an image of
Schwartzman on it), enlarged
it to poster size and called it
Between the Lines, that it
would make an interesting
poster. First problem: I didnt
own a TV set. The photographing of TV screens was
hit and miss with a 54 plate
camera and I only had a
couple of sheets of film.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Design a poster for a

lecture
COLLEGE

Canterbury College
of Art (United Kingdom)
TUTOR(S)

Stanley Hickson,
Head of College
TECHNOLOGY

54 negative and
photographic print,
Letraset type
TIME SPENT

2 weeks thinking,
2 days doing
TYPEFACE

Cooper Black Italic

A friend at college had an old

portable TV. There was a
lunchtime news programme;
I wanted a face and Harold
Wilson (the prime minister at
the time) appeared on the
screen and I took two quick
shots. The negatives were very
thin when I processed them,
but enough to get an image
now I could do it easily on a
computer. As I looked at it,
I thought the prime minister
should be announcing the
lecture in a TV-screen-shaped
speech bubble. In close up the
image was pretty crude. I had
thought of putting the type
between the lines. As a large
poster you could read the face;
close up you could read the
type, and the image at 425
lines per inch became a
pattern. I began to like design
with several layers of meaning.
OUTCOMES

Design is more than surface

decoration.
FEEDBACK

Arnold liked it.

ANYTHING ELSE

Most of the projects I did

at college were typeset and
printed letterpress.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Chinese
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

Books

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

An idea doesnt have to

be instant; it can sneak
up and tap you on the
shoulder.

Project Then
50

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

44

Brian Webb (Webb& Webb Design)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Insatiable curiosity +
See above plus a bit of
diplomacy

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2009

As then (see answer opposite)

using type elements to add
a layer of meaning.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Design a piece to
illustrate a lost or
forgotten word
CLIENT

The Art of Lost Words

(The National Literacy
Trust)
TECHNOLOGY

Letterpress/inkjet
TIME SPENT

2 weeks thinking,
2 days doing

OUTCOMES

Using letterpress to solve

a plegnic (adjective: acting
by a blow, striking like a
hammer) process.
FEEDBACK

A couple of magazines
reproduced it.
ANYTHING ELSE

After 30 years of using

computer type, I now use
letterpress and computers.

TYPEFACE

Wood Letter Grotesque,

Gill Sans Bold

DO YOU TEACH?

Visiting Professor at
University of the Arts
London (UK), Honorary
Fellow at University
College of the Creative
Arts London (UK) and
lectures, assessing, etc.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Japanese
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Books

Yes, if youre lucky. It

took me five years to
meet a tutor (Edward
Hughes) who talked
about ideas and
problem analysis.

Project Now
51

BRIAN WEBB, 1966

BRIAN WEBB, 2009

WEBB & WEBB DESIGN

STUDENT YEARS

SWISS

Christian Heusser
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Try as many disciplines as the

school offers, especially those
that do not seem to fit your
tastes at first glance, and
be bold + The first idea isnt
always the best one

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1999

It was my first poster.

I like the size of it.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

To translate an object of
choice only in black and
white. After that, design
an F4 poster for the
chosen object on a freely
chosen topic.

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

The influence of the school is

too visible. Nowadays I would
certainly design it differently.
OUTCOMES

Hochschule fr
Gestaltung und Kunst
Basel (Switzerland)

The most important thing

was to learn that the sketches
had to match the end result
in size in order to get a feeling
for the proportions.

TUTOR(S)

FEEDBACK

Michael Renner

At the time, a fellow student

asked me if I had won a
contest with that poster.
I had to admit that I hadnt
sent it in.

COLLEGE

TECHNOLOGY

At first drawing by hand,

then using Illustrator
TIME SPENT

2 days a week over one

semester
TYPEFACE

Frutiger

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Pasta pesto
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

My Mac G4

Both posters deal

with contemporary
expressions of art,
music and dance.
The way the type has
been used is similar.
The main message
is big and not set
horizontally.

Project Then
54

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

BASEL, SWITZERLAND

10

Christian Heusser (Equipo)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

The drive to explore and solve

problems to want to discover
something new + The ability to
throw a good idea overboard
and start afresh, even when
pressed for time

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2010

The colours, the silence and

the space.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Design the visual concept

for the Contemporary
Dance Festival in
Neuchtel. Elaborate a
low-cost concept,
adaptable to several
formats, in this case F4.
CLIENT

ADN Neuchtel
COLLABORATOR(S)

I discussed the sketches

with my partners at
Equipo (Roman Schnyder
and Dirk Koy).
Photography: Anja
Fonseka.

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

Unfortunately, the picture does

not capture the essence of the
movement of the dancers.
OUTCOMES

Working with a client you get

along with amusing,
entertaining is sometimes
worth more than making lots
of money.
FEEDBACK

The client still likes it.

TECHNOLOGY

Photography, Photoshop,
Illustrator, InDesign
TIME SPENT

3 days
TYPEFACE

DIN
DO YOU TEACH?

Hochschule fr
Gestaltung und Kunst
Basel, Hochschule fr
Technik Rapperswil,
Universitt Basel
(both Switzerland):
a seminar in visual
communication in the
degree programme of
Human Computer
Interaction Design.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Anything that has been

prepared in the oven
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

My vinyl collection

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

I believe it is possible to
sensitize students to
topics such as type,
form, space, images, etc.
Then theyll need some
time to exercise
designing.

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CHRISTIAN HEUSSER, 1999

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER, 2010

EQUIPO

STUDENT YEARS

BRITISH

Daniel Eatock
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Explore, invent +
Scalpels are very sharp

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1998

Sculpture as a punchline.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

OUTCOMES

Self-initiated

Life affirmation.

COLLEGE

FEEDBACK

Royal College of Art,

London (United Kingdom)

Smile.

TUTOR(S)

No tutor
TECHNOLOGY

Brain & hands

TIME SPENT

5 minutes

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Fruit
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

None

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Both responses
to givens.

Project Then
58

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

13

Daniel Eatock
A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

For both: curiosity

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT

2010

Sculpture as a punchline.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

OUTCOMES

Self-initiated

Life affirmation.

CLIENT

FEEDBACK

Made for Book Show at

Eastside Projects

Smile.

TECHNOLOGY

Brain & hands

TIME SPENT

5 hours

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Fruit
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

None

DO YOU TEACH?

Yes, at many places.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

50% possible.

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DANIEL EATOCK, 1998

DANIEL EATOCK, 2010

STUDENT YEARS

ORIGINALLY YUGOSLAVIAN, GERMAN FOR 11 YEARS

Danijela Djokic
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Do everything with passion +

Dont be lazy

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1998

The simplexity: the simplicity

of the visualization and the
complexity of the information;
the design, that I made it alone,
that there are no unexplained
questions.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Design a new information

system
COLLEGE

Hochschule fr
Gestaltung Schwbisch
Gmnd (Germany)
TUTOR(S)

Prof. Frank Zebner

TECHNOLOGY

Director

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

Nothing.
OUTCOMES

I discovered my profession.
FEEDBACK

Diploma grade 1,0.

TIME SPENT

4 months
TYPEFACE

Arial

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Fast food

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION THEN

The challenge to present

highly complex themes
simply, in terms of
visualization and
content; to maintain a
subtly playful approach;
to make the information
architecture clear.
The enthusiasm the
applications evoke
in the user.

My bike, my pictures and

one piece of art

Project Then
62

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

STUTTGART, GERMANY

17

Danijela Djokic (Projekttriangle)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Ambition and passion +

See above and business sense

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2010

The fun in using it, the easy

way of explaining complex
data, the collaboration between
designer, programmer, sound
designer,conceptual designer,
client, etc.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Design a multi-touch table

with 5 applications
CLIENT

Milla & Partner GmbH and

E.ON Kraftwerke GmbH
COLLABORATOR(S)

Freelancer: Florian
Streckenbach

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT

The colour, but it is the

brand colour
OUTCOMES

I learned new skills.

TECHNOLOGY

Flash
TIME SPENT

4 months
TYPEFACE

FEEDBACK

Red Dot Award Best of the

Best 2010, iF Award 2011,
Designpreis Deutschland
2012 nomination.

Polo

DO YOU TEACH?

Yes, at Fachhochschule
Potsdam (Germany),
Interface Design,
Information Architecture
and Visualization.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Slow food
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

My watch, my bike,
my pictures and
one piece of art

The basis of all is to

learn the basics. This is
what you can teach.
To get another point of
view is what students
can learn. But creativity
and an aesthetic feeling
is something you
cant learn.

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DANIJELA DJOKIC, 1998

DANIJELA DJOKIC, 2010

PROJEKTTRIANGLE

STUDENT YEARS

FINNISH

Emmi Salonen
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Avoid automatically applying your

style to a project let each
assignment influence you, your
approach and the way you work +
Be nice to people, be respectful

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2000

I like the simplicity of the

outcome. It also talks about
the same issue that is at the
core of my practice over a
decade later: environment and
sustainability.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Editorial design: design

a front cover for Baseline
magazine, for a feature
on a chosen subject.
Mine was excessive
packaging.
COLLEGE

University of
Brighton (United
Kingdom)
TUTOR(S)

Lawrence Zeegen

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

I dont like the lack of attention

to detail on the student work.
But I suppose I didnt know
what to look for. Now I would
remake the label and shoot the
image, not scan it and do the
work in Photoshop.
OUTCOMES

TECHNOLOGY

QuarkXPress

I learned something.
FEEDBACK

I cant remember.

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

I like that both of

the designs have an
idea behind them,
a reasoning. Both

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Vegetarian
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

editorial design briefs,

that required a captive
cover design. Neither
has decorative trims
added to the final
layout, playing with
core elements and
simplicity. Both deal
with environmental
and sustainability
issues.

iMac G3

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66

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

10

Emmi Salonen (Studio Emmi)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

For both: listening and

a willingness to learn

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2008

Because it is an example of
current work that I like stylewise, and its designed with
the environment in mind;
printed with vegetable-based
inks on recycled stock, with
minimum print. In fact, there
is no print at all on the cover.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Year Book conveying

information about the past
and future of the Finnish
Institute in London (United
Kingdom)
CLIENT

The Finnish Institute

in London (United
Kingdom)
TECHNOLOGY

InDesign

OUTCOMES

I learned something and

got paid.
FEEDBACK

People seem to like the

simplicity of the solution.

DO YOU TEACH?

Yes. I lecture in graphic

design at various
universities, including
Nottingham Trent,
Ravensbourne and
Brighton (all UK).

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Vegetarian

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION NOW

Of course you can teach

design. It helps if one
wants to learn it. There
is no real right or wrong
way of designing,
but you can help with
pointing out what to
look for as a tutor, in
order to make things
look good or look a
certain way.

MacBook Pro

Project Now
67

EMMI SALONEN, 2000

EMMI SALONEN, 2008

STUDIO EMMI

STUDENT YEARS

FRENCH

8 (2)

ric & Marie Gaspar

A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Try all the techniques you can

while you are at college; try not to
be afraid of design solutions that
look bizarre and weird and dont
match the surrounding visual
landscape + Dont forget humour
and fantasy in your work
YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1999

We like the way the objects,

printed scale 1, are very simply
displayed on the page. Objects
are juxtaposed without any
commentary. The viewer is
engaged to think his own
narration.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

To design the degree

show catalogue of
the graphic design
department
COLLEGE

Central Saint Martins

College of Art & Design,
London (United Kingdom)
TUTOR(S)

Geoff Fowle
COLLABORATOR(S)

Holly Mackenzie and

Tomako Takasu for
the photographs

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

The cover of the inside

brochure is weak.
OUTCOMES

It was basically our first printed

project, so we learned a lot
while conceiving it. It
eventually figured in the
D&AD annual the year after.
FEEDBACK

TECHNOLOGY

Offset printing and

die-cutting

We dont see the work of the

students so this catalogue is
useless.

TIME SPENT

5 months
TYPEFACE

Officina

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

On both projects,
objects are displayed
on the pages in a very
simple way. Texts
concerning those
pictures are placed
at the end of the
publications to allow
pictures a wider life.
The chronology of
the work of the
Bouroullecs is erased,
the property of the
students objects also.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Cadburys
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

Camera

Project Then
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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

PARIS, FRANCE

10 (2)

ric & Marie Gaspar (ricandMarie)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Openness students shouldnt

wear the graphic designer jacket +
Punctuality, reliability

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2008

Similarly (see answer

opposite then), we like the
dialogue we built between
drawings and photographs.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

To design a catalogue
for an exhibition about
two designers
CLIENT

Ronan& Erwan
Bouroullec
COLLABORATOR(S)

Ronan& Erwan
Bouroullec
TECHNOLOGY

Offset printing

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

The photoengraving is
not optimal.
OUTCOMES

We got a better comprehension

of the two designers.
FEEDBACK

What have you done for this

project, really?

TIME SPENT

3 months
TYPEFACE

Century Schoolbook,
Monotype Grotesk

DO YOU TEACH?

No.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

The best tutors we had

in the two colleges we
attended were not
practitioners. What they
taught was about ideas
and concepts. They told
us how to re-question
a brief and how to
structure an idea. If we
had to teach, we would
follow this. How a
project finally looks is
the students concern,
not really the tutors.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Le pot-au-feu
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

Computer

Project Now
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RIC & MARIE GASPAR, 1999

RIC & MARIE GASPAR, 2008

RICANDMARIE

STUDENT YEARS

GERMAN

Fons Hickmann
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Be curious + Be afraid but

go for it nonetheless

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1993

Because of its complexity.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

Create a poster on the

theme of ideology and
planning concepts
before and after 1945

The bad printing. We didnt

have enough money and had
to squeegee it ourselves.

COLLEGE

A poster.

Fachhochschule
Dsseldorf (Germany)

FEEDBACK

TUTOR(S)

Cant remember
COLLABORATOR(S)

Oliver Iserloh,
Stefan Nowak

OUTCOMES

Uwe Loesch said,

Ah, you did that!
ANYTHING ELSE

I am using the question to

say that nuclear energy isnt
a good idea.

TECHNOLOGY

Screenprinting
TIME SPENT

4 weeks
TYPEFACE

Typewriter

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Cake
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Birds

Project Then
74

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

BERLIN, GERMANY

21

Fons Hickmann (Fons Hickmann m23)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Curiosity + Curiosity

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2010

Because of its simplicity.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

Create a poster on the

theme of search for
freedom and hunt it
down!

The uncertainty whether it is

brilliant or banal.

CLIENT

Labor fr Soziale und

sthetische Entwicklung
(Laboratory for Social and
Aesthetic Development)

OUTCOMES

A poster.
FEEDBACK

Thorsten Nolting said

Thanks, Lena said Burner!
and Uma said Oha.
ANYTHING ELSE

TECHNOLOGY

Screenprinting

See answer opposite.

TIME SPENT

1 day
TYPEFACE

Helvetica

DO YOU TEACH?

Professor at the
University for Applied
Arts Vienna (Austria)
until 2007. Since
2007, Professor at
Universitt der Knste
Berlin (Germany) in
Graphic Design.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Cake
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Its not possible to

teach someone how to
be talented, but one
can encourage students
to explore new paths
and show them where
the entrances to those
paths might be.

Project Now
75

FONS HICKMANN, 1993

FONS HICKMANN, 2010

FONS HICKMANN M23

STUDENT YEARS

GERMAN

Hans Dieter Reichert

A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Sometimes its hard, but hang in there; be

true to yourself; earn less money but do
better work; think about your responsibility
within society + Anyone who has never
made a mistake has never tried anything
new and Only a life lived for others is a
life worthwhile (Albert Einstein)
YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1983

Designing, experimenting,
thinking, creating.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Type studies
COLLEGE

UniversittGesamthochschule
Essen (Germany)
TUTOR(S)

OUTCOMES

Learning a skill, self-esteem.

FEEDBACK

Encouraging remarks and

constructive critique,
good mark.

Hans Nienheysen,
Lazl Lakner,
Willy Fleckhaus
TECHNOLOGY

Paste-up, photocopy,
PMT darkroom, Letraset,
photo composition

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

In my view, there are

similarities or traces
in my approach between
1983 and 2011: then,
I drew my freehand
constructed letterforms
in an analytical style.
I tried to understand,
tried to make the information transparent and
tried to communicate
my thoughts. I still work
this way today. There
are also similarities or
traces in my attitude
towards design. In the
abstraction exercise
Life, death, eternity,
it is the aim of designing
something that has
moral undertones,
even philosophical
tendencies, and to be
honest and straight.
In terms of style, there
are similarities between
then and now too the
use of a crafted (striving
for perfection) linear,
straight, reductionist,
clean design almost
Calvinistic. I do like
engineered, electronic
and hand-produced

TIME SPENT

Forgot
TYPEFACE

Hand-rendered

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

German (Currywurst
mit Fritten)
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

VW Beetle 1200cc

Project Then
78

products. The reason

I publish Baseline
magazine and related
items in printed and
in electronic form is
that I believe in
communicating and
sharing views, thoughts,
experiences and, if you
like, philosophies.
Although that deeper
thought, the moral
purpose of publishing,
was not apparent to me
when I was studying, it
just led towards it later
on in my professional
life. It is a bit like
one follows ones
inner voice. Also life
suggests the way one
takes! It seems to me
that I approach graphic
design from a point of
view that relates more
to thinking/calculating,
analyzing, reducing,
simplifying, structuring,
planning, rather than
emotional graphic
design. Its roots might
be in my cultural
upbringing but in the
field of graphic design
I have a tendency to
approach graphic
solution mostly with
typography/photography
rather than illustration
and painting.

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

EAST MALLING, UNITED KINGDOM

25

Hans Dieter Reichert

(HDR Visual Communication)
A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Idealism, motivation, perseverance, talent,

honesty, curiosity + Communication skills,
open-mindedness, willingness to learn,
ability to see ones place and responsibility
within society and to provide a good
service as well as explaining it

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2011

Interaction between author,

designer, printer and
distributor. Learning about the
various subjects. Baseline
discussions (subject: editorial
contents and its visual
interpretation/design among
members of staff). Educational
purpose. Knowledge transfer
and how to communicate in
a visually effective and
purposeful way.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Design of a magazine
(Baseline)
CLIENT

Bradbourne Publishing Ltd.

COLLABORATOR(S)

Clients, office staff,

authors, printers,
programmers. (Designer:
Johnathon Hunt; design
assistants: Peter Barnes,
Luke Borgust, Chloe
Wooldridge; contributing
editor: Arnold
Schwartzman)
TECHNOLOGY

Apple Mac, programming

TIME SPENT

Several days/weeks
per issue

OUTCOMES

Pleasure, intellectual
exchange.
FEEDBACK
DO YOU TEACH?

Compliments, increased sales

and invitations to guest
lectures, professional
recognition in the academic
and professional world.

I taught Visual
Communication at:
Bath Spa University
(UK), 198999; Reading
University (UK), 1999
2005; assessor at
Northampton University
(UK), 200005; guest
lectures in the UK,
USA, Switzerland and
Gerrmany.

TYPEFACE

Various mainly
Akkurat (sans serif) and
Kingfisher (serif)

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Yes, you can teach

various elements of
design: discipline,
how to see things
differently, how to
develop responsibility
in communication,
how to develop
personality. I teach
students to become
self-motivated and see
design as a valuable
profession/service
to society. I teach
them to see design
as holistic, and
encourage them to
be curious about
everything.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Italian (pasta, antipasti

and salad)
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

House, office

Project Now
79

HANS DIETER REICHERT, 1983

HANS DIETER REICHERT, 2011

HDR VISUAL COMMUNICATION

STUDENT YEARS

GERMAN

Holger Jacobs
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Learn the basics of typography, punctuation

and printing. Experiment and dont rush
into producing professional-looking work.
If you are committed, hard-working and
love what you do, things will happen +
Never follow a particular style just because
it seems popular
YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1997

It was a simple project (but

had a complex meaning).

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Self-initiated
COLLEGE

Royal College of Art,

London (United Kingdom)
TUTOR(S)

Russell Warren-Fisher

OUTCOMES

It was the last project I did in

college and somehow marks
the end of a journey exploring
the relationship between
content and form.
FEEDBACK

COLLABORATOR(S)

Matthew Rudd was my

first-year assistant at the
college and he helped
me a great deal

The fashion chain Whistles

showed my work in their shop
windows.

TECHNOLOGY

Laser-cut vinyl letters on

painted wooden blocks
TIME SPENT

Just a few days

TYPEFACE

Helvetica

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Both projects deal with

materiality. In Splitwords
I was curious to explore
the physical aspect
of words and how their
meaning can change.
For the Paramount
signage, we printed
patterns on the front of
thick blocks of clear
acrylic while the actual
information went on
the back. Depending
on the angle of view,
this information is more
or less obstructed.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

German potato pancakes

YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

My sketchbooks I was
pretty poor and cant
remember owning
anything else of real value

Project Then
82

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

15

Holger Jacobs (Mind Design)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Never, ever think its

cool being a designer +
Willingness to take risks

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2008

It was a complex project (but

had a simple meaning).

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Identity and signage for

a club and restaurant
occupying the top three
floors of a London
skyscraper
CLIENT

Paramount
COLLABORATOR(S)

My colleague Craig
Sinnamon
TECHNOLOGY

Screenprinting on acrylic

OUTCOMES

The design for Paramount

was our first attempt to
develop a visual identity that
was not based on a singular
logo. Instead we developed
a flexible system of abstract
patterns that express the
height of the building.

DO YOU TEACH?

Currently Visiting
Professor for Typography
at Fachhochschule
Dsseldorf (Germany).
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

My college education
was not very systematic.
In Germany I started
studying illustration
because graphic design
seemed very technical
and boring to me at the
time. It was only when
I came to England that
I became interested in
typography, because it
was taught in a more
experimental way as a
form of self-expression.
Actually, it was not
taught at all; our tutors
just encouraged us to
mess around with type
on the photocopier.
During my MA, I focused
more on ideas than on
style and used the time
to teach myself the
typographic basics
I rejected so much in
Germany. Looking back
at my education, I think
it is very important to
teach the basics of
typography and go
through simple exercises
of form finding. This
might be boring and
hard work, but many
ideas develop through
experimentation with
form, not just through
concept development
and research.

FEEDBACK

The project was published in

several books and magazines.
ANYTHING ELSE

TIME SPENT

About 3 months
TYPEFACE

Futura

As in college, I am still
suspicious of the idea of
a fixed meaning. Working
mostly on identity projects,
I often reject concepts that
aim to be a visual translation
of brand values and look
for a certain honesty and
directness in form.
The Paramount identity
is a good example, as it
relates to architecture and
certain features of the
building. It was difficult to
explain this to the client,
who originally wanted to put
more emphasis on exclusivity
and communicate a certain
up-market feel.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Anything Japanese,
except for the crab brain
that my wifes relatives
once invited me to taste
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

Hand-built Italian
racing bicycle

Project Now
83

HOLGER JACOBS, 1997

HOLGER JACOBS, 2008

MIND DESIGN

STUDENT YEARS

KOREAN

Hoon Kim
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Build up broad possibilities for

your future, but those possibilities
and goals should be specific +
Everyone changes every single
second your thoughts may
change as you grow

YEAR OF PROJECT

TECHNOLOGY

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2006

Digital print, hand binding, etc.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

TIME SPENT

I am the place where

I am a map of
Providence onto which
are transposed the
symbols of aural
memories of places.
This project explores the
possibilities of bridging
the gap between public
space and personal
space. This map provides
subjective representations
of personal memories
of places, inviting users
to visit them, to revisit
the artists memories,
and experience their
own auditory sense of
the area.

4 months

School projects always

encourage an experimental
approach, which enables the
designer to think and act
more deeply and more
broadly with enough time.

TYPEFACE

Univers Mono and Courier

Univers Mono is a customized
typeface for Wire, a British
magazine I worked on as a
designer. James Goggin (see
also pages 98101) was
an art director for the
magazine and my boss at
his studio (Practise).

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

If I had had a bigger fund,

I would have spread the
map books out throughout
public places for free to
encourage citizens to linger
and engage in public spaces.
OUTCOMES

I learned how spaces, people

and sounds are related and
interact with each other.
Also, how to represent the
topic in print media with paper
quality size, weight,
thickness, texture and sound.

COLLEGE

Rhode Island School of

Design, Providence (USA)
PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

TUTOR(S)

David Reinfurt

Both projects are

firmly related to the
relationships between
real spaces and spaces
of graphic media.
I believe designing
graphic media is
comparable to
constructing and
composing architectonic
elements. A piece of
paper, an interactive
and scrollable browser,
or a transforming
print format is a space
given to designers.
To get the essence
of an idea, the designer
must guide the audience
to explore and
experience the
surrounding spaces.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Korean BBQ
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

Family and one external

hard drive that had all the
data in my life

Project Then
86

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

NEW YORK, USA

Hoon Kim (Why Not Smile)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Curiosity + Punctuality

YEAR OF PROJECT

TECHNOLOGY

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2011

Offset print, etc.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

TIME SPENT

A Sustainable Future
for the Exumas
Environmental
Management, Design,
and Planning is an
international conference
addressing both current
strategies and future
possibilities for the
Exumas. The event was
held by the Ministry
of the Environment of
the Commonwealth of
the Bahamas in
conjunction with the
Bahamas National
Trust and the Harvard
University Graduate
School of Design.

3 months

Projects with real clients

require a logical approach
through specific processes
and methodology, which leads
to the best result within a
given timeline.

TYPEFACE

Pin a typeface that Why

Not Smile has been working
on for many months; 15
weights in its family will be
published soon. It is inspired
by Pinball, a classic typeface
found in an old Letraset
catalogue.

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

We preferred a specific print

skill for gradation colours, but
couldnt find any printer to do
it in the States. Consequently,
the print quality was not that
good. Now for the book, which
is the last part of the project,
we are trying to find better
ways to represent gradations
by mixing PMS and CMYK.
OUTCOMES

How to visualize space

within various media is still
something I am learning.
I have thought a lot about how
features can illustrate the real
space: a minimal identity, print
media with multiple pages that
reflect the dimension of time,
a website requiring various
interaction and kinetic
hierarchy, etc.

CLIENT

Harvard University
Graduate School of
Design, Cambridge (USA)
COLLABORATOR(S)

Two senior designers, one

developer and one intern

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Korean BBQ
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

Family and four external

hard drives that sync
twice a day automatically
and still contain all the
data in my life

Project Now
87

DO YOU TEACH?

Pratt Institute, New York

(USA), Graduate Visual
Communication Design
Department, Graduate
Thesis, and Harvard
University, Cambridge
(USA), Graduate School
of Design, Portfolio and
Graphic Design.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

I always encourage
students to be critical
thinkers, focusing on
design philosophy and
methodology, as well as
design authorship, as
I learned at school.
Graphic design is not
only about visual
substances. It meets a
wide variety of studies
and fields such as
technology, new media,
public environments,
language, literature,
philosophy, psychology
and architecture. Hence,
in courses, students
need an organized
curriculum focusing on
how to analyze and
establish correlations
judiciously as an author
and director.

HOON KIM, 2006

HOON KIM, 2011

WHY NOT SMILE

STUDENT YEARS

SOUTH KOREAN

Hyoun Youl Joe

A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Be generous in experimentation
and have confidence +
Be honest about your work

YEAR OF PROJECT

COLLABORATOR(S)

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2003

Mostly classmates

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

TECHNOLOGY

A research project about

Hanguels each-phoneme
system. For the project,
I designed a new font
based on the typeface that
Kim-Do-Bong designed as
a proposal for the eachphoneme writing system.

Offset print for the poster and

book

I was totally into the Korean

typography system at that time.
I wrote a B.F.A. thesis entitled
The Possibility of EachPhoneme System of Hanguel.
I also designed a Korean
typeface Kim-Do-Bong,
which has a different
typographic system. I spent a
lot of time writing the research
paper and designing the font.

COLLEGE

Dankook University,
Seoul (South Korea)

TIME SPENT

Approx. 3 months as a
research project
TYPEFACE

Kim-Do-Bong Bold. I designed

the font and, based on that,
have since proposed a new
Korean typeface system.

TUTOR(S)

Professors at the college

and classmates of mine

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

This was very time-consuming

and I feel that it needs even
more research to support the
point I was trying to make.
OUTCOMES

Understanding Korean
typography its character,
structure, system and history.
FEEDBACK

Positive: modernity, simplicity,

dryness. Negative: simplicity,
dryness, lack of function.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Korean
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

Books

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Formal approach of
dealing with typography.

Project Then
90

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA

Hyoun Youl Joe (Hey Joe)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Confidence and experimentation +

Understanding co-workers needs
and thoughts (clients, editors,
curators, artists, etc. )

YEAR OF PROJECT

COLLABORATOR(S)

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2010

Curator: Jihye Kim; coordinators: Yoonyoung Kim,

Hayoung Lee; photo and
documentation: Jihye Ahn;
artists: Kyungmi Kim, Sunmi
Kim, Soorin Kim, Jisu Kim,
Jin Kim, Junghyun Park,
Hyewon Park, Jangmi Beak,
Yurim Song, Hyejung Shim,
Hyesook Yong, Jinsuk Kim,
Gahyun Yoon, Woonyung Ja,
Jangeun Cho, Nguyen Thi
Chau Giang, Inkyung Huh

I could somewhat understand

how hard Vietnamese peoples
life is in Korea as foreigners,
because I studied in the USA.
The exhibition The Letter from
Huynh Mai communicates not
only a Korean bias towards
strangers, but also the politicalsocial tension between Korea
and Vietnam.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

To design a poster,
a postcard and the
exhibition graphics for
the exhibition The Letter
from Huynh Mai.
This exhibition was
created to remember
the Vietnamese woman
Huynh Mai, who was
killed by her Korean
husband.
CLIENT

The independent curator

Jihye Kim

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

Offset printing for the book

and poster, copperplate stamp
for the postcard, rubber stamp
for the exhibition design

After completing this project,

I visited Vietnam for another
related project. The work was
done without having visited/
experienced Vietnam before.
Now that I have been there,
I would totally redesign it all.

TIME SPENT

OUTCOMES

Approx. 1 month

An understanding of how
to work/collaborate with
others (curators, artists,
photographers, clients).

TECHNOLOGY

TYPEFACE

SM Gung Seo Regular,

Courier Regular

FEEDBACK

DO YOU TEACH?

Simplicity, symbolic meaning.

Graphic Design and

Editorial Design at
Dankook University and
Kookmin University,
Seoul (South Korea).
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Most Korean students

studying graphic design
have great difficulty in
solving problems by
themselves, since their
attitude to learning is
a passive one. I quite
often see beautifully
executed results, but
the causal relationship
between process and
outcome is unclear and
insufficient. As a tutor at
college, I try to create an
active environment
through diverse
discussions.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Seafood, Korean and

Japanese
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

Books and my works

Project Now
91

HYOUN YOUL JOE, 2003

HYOUN YOUL JOE, 2010

HEY JOE

STUDENT YEARS

CANADIAN/FRENCH

Isabelle Swiderski
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Sketch, sketch, sketch +

Dont fall in love with your ideas

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1996

I still think the concept

is strong.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

As part of a year-long
graduation project, we
were meant to identify
a need or issue and
propose a solution.
The brief I set for myself
was to shed some light
on the reasons behind
the impending collapse
of wild salmon stocks
on the western coast of
Canada. Title of work:
Spirit in the Water.
COLLEGE

Emily Carr Institute of

Art & Design, Vancouver
(Canada)

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

I would design it differently.

OUTCOMES

It is one of the most

memorable aha! moments
of my student life. I would
say I learned the meaning of
concept while working on
that project. What you might
call the penny dropping.
FEEDBACK

Mostly positive due to the use

of technology and the ties
between native folklore and
scientific reality.

TUTOR(S)

Deborah Shackleton
TECHNOLOGY

Pen and paper,

Macromedia Director
TIME SPENT

No idea
TYPEFACE

Officina
PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Both display a desire

to balance concept/idea
and craft/materials.
I still believe that strong
ideas can be rendered
beautifully and that this
combination is the most
desirable. This is not
an original thought,
but nevertheless its
one that fuels my
approach to design.
When I further develop
my processes and
technical abilities, the
work steadily improves
and remains fulfilling.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Good home-made food

YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

Walkman

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

VANCOUVER, CANADA

16

Isabelle Swiderski (Seven25)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Curiosity + Tact

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2010

The cover works nicely

bysubtlyunderlining the
theme of the conference.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

To design a functional
programme for the CPAs
biennial conference
CLIENT

Canadian Payments
Association
TECHNOLOGY

Pen and paper, CS4

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

There are always details I wish

to tweak after the fact.
OUTCOMES

That having clients who trust

you and value your work leads
to more enjoyable and better
work.

TIME SPENT

About 45 hours
TYPEFACE

Akkurat

FEEDBACK

Positive feedback for use of

materials and usability.

DO YOU TEACH?

Varied course at Emily

Carr University of Art &
Design (Canada).
Currently 4th year of
BA, Advanced Print
Publications.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

It is possible to teach
the principles of design
as well as its history and
evolution in context.
A student only becomes
a designer when they
internalize the principles
and connect them to
their own life experience
and approach to develop
their own voice. But
thats only my opinion.
I happen to teach design
and try to balance
technical apprenticeship
with idea development
methodologies. Ive
observed that there
seems to be no time
for formal clientmanagement tips.
Perhaps thats for
the best?

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Good home-made food

YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

MacBook Pro
(sad, I know)

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ISABELLE SWIDERSKI, 1996

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI, 2010

SEVEN25

STUDENT YEARS

BRITISH (BORN AUSTRALIAN)

James Goggin
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Keep studying + Beware of

graphic design

YEAR OF PROJECT

COLLEGE

OUTCOMES

1998

Royal College of Art, London

(United Kingdom)

An appreciation for letterpress,

and the basic act of actually
printing the work youve
typeset as a designer. The
project was one of several
I made at the RCA that
connected printed matter to
a conceptually logical spatial
situation: here, a revolving
postcard rack, suggesting a
spinning globe.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Open brief, edition of 550

postcards printed during
letterpress classes at RCA
with Alan Kitching. My idea
was to take the grid of a
revolving postcard rack (5
columns by 10 rows = 50
cards) and place it over a map
of the world. From each grid
square, a major city or body
of water was chosen. Each
name was typeset letterpress cities printed with red,
waters with blue. Five sets of
50 postcards were produced,
and then set out geographically
onto the rack, top to bottom
(north to south) and around
the five columns, east to west.
A 51st card was also printed,
titled In Transit. This was the
name of the project, but also
documented the unseen transit
of a postcard navigating
its way from the sender to
the recipient.

TUTOR(S)

Alan Kitching
TECHNOLOGY

Letterpress
TIME SPENT

2 weeks (approx.)
TYPEFACE

Helvetica
WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

This is a project I could still

imagine doing today; there is
nothing I would change.
A lot of my work relies on
serendipity and chance. Here
it involved coming across an
old postcard rack in the
Holborn area of London,
outside a pharmacy that had
closed down. I eventually
pulled it in to my studio at the
RCA, and it sat there for many
months before I came up with
a project to make use of it.
The postcard project involved
many themes that recur in my
work: the postcard as a valid
medium, alternative cartographic representations of
the world, attempts at making
graphic manifestations of a
sense of place, and at making
the intangible visible (the
transitional state of a postcard
between dispatch and
delivery).

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Japanese
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

My Ricoh GR
35mm camera

FEEDBACK

No negative feedback.

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

There is a certain consistent

logic in typeface choice,
which you can find in a lot
of my projects. For In Transit,
I wanted the postcards to
feel generic, the idea of the
postcard as a touristic proof
of location (I was really
here) distilled to its logical
graphic conclusion: just a
place name printed on a
blank card, no picture
necessary. Helvetica Bold
worked for this, and, if
I recall correctly, the main
reason could well have

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been the fact that the set of

Helvetica lead type contained
enough characters for me
to set up all 50 postcards
without having to take the
settings apart for different
place names. The two colours
of red for cities and blue for
seas were borrowed from
general map and atlas colour
palettes. For Interstate, the
road signage of the USA and
The Netherlands dictated
type choice without having
to really think about it. The
colours were an admittedly
obvious combination of stars
and stripes, Dutch flag and
a slight De Stijl reference
with the yellow. Again, these
self-determined parameters
set up a rational system
that allowed me to avoid
worrying about such design
distractions as typeface and
colour choice.

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

CHICAGO, USA

13

James Goggin (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

For both: Studiousness

YEAR OF PROJECT

2010
PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Self-published postcard,
announcing my studio
and family move from Arnhem
to Chicago, printed on a Ricoh
colour stencil duplicator at
Knust in Nijmegen, The
Netherlands, on my very last
day before leaving for the USA.
CLIENT

Myself
TECHNOLOGY

Ricoh Priport JP8500

Digital Duplicator
TIME SPENT

1 day (approx.)
TYPEFACE

Interstate
WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

Ill take any chance I can get

to make more postcards,
and it is of course a logical
format for a moving card.
Since high school, the typefaces
I have most appreciated have
been vernacular, engineered
(rather than necessarily
designed) specimens. Having
moved around a lot growing
up, the subtle differences in
commonplace typographies
like road signage and car
licence plates drew my
attention as the first indicators
of cultural difference when
arriving in a new country.

The typeface (actually the FHWA

Series fonts, aka Highway
Gothic developed by the
United States Federal Highway
Administration in the 1940s)
is one that I grew up with when
visiting the USA, and from my
early years in Australia and
New Zealand, where the font
is also used for road signage.
In its contemporary Hoefler &
Frere-Jones redrawn format,
the font was overused (UK
supermarket chain Sainsbury
has plastered its branches with
it for years) and is therefore
not one I would ever really use
myself. But given that the font
is also used on Dutch road
signage, it seemed appropriate
to acknowledge this littleknown DutchAmerican
design connection. Hence
the postcards title:
ArnhemChicago Interstate.

was only in my last days of

living in The Netherlands that
I was finally able to print a
project with them. I asked
Joyce, the resident printing
expert, a lot of questions about
stencil printers, inks and
comparisons between Ricoh
and Riso models (the two main
Japanese companies that
manufacture stencil printers).
As a result, I hired a new Riso
MZ 1090U one of my first
acts as Director of Design,
Publishing and New Media
upon arriving at the Museum of
Contemporary Art Chicago.
FEEDBACK

No negative feedback.

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

The Ricohs yellow ink is slightly

too bright, making Chicago
a bit difficult to read.
OUTCOMES

I was finally able to spend some

time at Knust, the stencilprinting part of Extrapool, an
experimental art/sound/print
arts and residency centre in
Nijmegen. It was a place Id
admired from afar, and then
visited a few times with
Werkplaats students. But it

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Probably still Japanese

or Korean
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

My Ricoh GR Digital II
camera

DO YOU TEACH?

Intermittent and itinerant

visiting critic and lecturing.
Most recently: CalArts
(California Institute of the
Arts), Valencia (USA);
Elam School of Fine Arts,
Auckland (NZ); Konstfack,
Stockholm (SE); ISIA
(Istituto Superiore Industrie
Artistiche), Urbino (Italy);
Werkplaats Typografie,
Arnhem (NL); ArTEZ Institute
of the Arts, Arnhem (NL);
ECAL (Ecole cantonale dart
de Lausanne), Lausanne (CH).
Lecturing about typography,
graphic design, contemporary
art, design history and
theory, and architecture.

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IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

I think there has to be

something to start with,
a certain instinct, motivation
and interest. A lot of what
I consider to be good design
involves a capacity for
reading, critical thought,
writing and research. And a
wide-ranging knowledge of
design and art history,
history in general, politics,
philosophy, critical theory,
cultural studies, literature,
film, etc. Im still trying to
catch up in this regard, and
think that a much more
rounded liberal arts
programme should be taught
as a fundamental part of any
graphic design programme.
It is possible to teach
typography, however, and
Im amazed how many
contemporary graphic design
courses seem to leave this
part out. In the same way
that I think graphic design
study should involve all of
the aforementioned fields,
I also think typography
should be taught across
all other fields: in art,
architecture, English
literature, law, science, etc.
Its the foundation of written
language, crucial for
everyone to have a good
understanding of.

JAMES GOGGIN, 1998

JAMES GOGGIN, 2010

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO

STUDENT YEARS

GERMAN

Jan Wilker
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

You suck use this status

wisely, then its only temporary +
Its a long-distance run,
not a sprint

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1998

Other than a faint romantic

feeling for my first cover
design assignment in school,
nothing.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Create a magazine, with

cover and interior spreads
COLLEGE

Staatliche Akademie der

Bildenen Knste Stuttgart
(Germany)
TUTOR(S)

OUTCOMES

I remember that specific little

rush one gets when creating.
FEEDBACK

Nothing in particular.

Prof. Pospischil
TECHNOLOGY

Freehand/Photoshop
TIME SPENT

1 week
TYPEFACE

Handwriting in Freehand
with Wacom tablet

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Anything from the

students cafeteria
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

My computer

Obviously the reduced

colour palette, with
mainly black type on
white, as well as a
generally very playful
approach. I am still not
good with colours,
it seems.

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

NEW YORK, USA

10

Jan Wilker (karlssonwilker)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Curiosity and openness +

Staying open and curious

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2006

This is still one of my favourite

projects, due to the complete
lack of intellectual construct
in its creation.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Catalogue design for the

Guggenheims biannual
Hugo Boss Art Prize
CLIENT

The Guggenheim
Foundation
TECHNOLOGY

OUTCOMES

See opposite page (then),

only stronger.
FEEDBACK

Positive throughout.

Illustrator/InDesign
TIME SPENT

3 months, on and off

TYPEFACE

Akzidenz Grotesk

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Anything but from the

students cafeteria

DO YOU TEACH?

I teach at Parsons
School of Design in
New York (USA),
a class about process,
and Ifrequentlyhold
workshops, also on
process.

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION NOW

My health

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Yes, but I cant offer

any proof yet.

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JAN WILKER, 1998

JAN WILKER, 2006

KARLSSONWILKER

STUDENT YEARS

GERMAN-FRENCH

Julie Gayard
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Have fun with the projects and

your fellow students +
Take the fun seriously

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1994

The directness of it. I took

the brief literally, with a twist:
I let the journey describe
itself through typography:
the movements of the tube
itself are drawing the lines of
the letters; my hand is just
holding the pen.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Describe your journey

to college through
typography
COLLEGE

Camberwell College
of Arts, London (United
Kingdom)

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

Darren Lago

Why is it just a big page

full of sketches? Why didnt
I turn it into a font?

TECHNOLOGY

OUTCOMES

TUTOR(S)

Pen on paper, photocopier

TIME SPENT

2 weeks
TYPEFACE

No particular fonts
photocopied fonts, drawn
fonts, handwriting,
typewriter (no computer
yet)

I remember enjoying the

looseness of the lines, and the
fact that I was not controlling
the pen but the shakings of
the tube was. It felt childish
but good. Maybe it felt
refreshing compared to other
projects that were usually
more idea-based.
FEEDBACK

My friend Ed Gill, also a

student at Camberwell and
a graffiti artist, really liked an
F of it. I enlarged it.
ANYTHING ELSE

Sometimes the pressures

of a deadline force you to be
intuitively effective with
minimum effort and time!
FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION THEN

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Obviously the handdrawn type, both small

doodles blown up
much bigger. But also:
the stripped-bare
looseness and lightness
of both of them,
the childish style.

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

BERLIN, GERMANY

13

Julie Gayard (Jutojo)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

For both: Enthusiasm

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2008

The lightness of it. And the fact

that I did it almost absentmindedly, like a doodle, and
they liked it instantly.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Design record sleeves

for a series of 12-inches
called Based On
Misunderstandings with
a crafty feel and cheap
production
CLIENT

Sonar Kollektiv Records

COLLABORATOR(S)

Jutojo Partners Toby

Cornish and Johannes
Braun
TECHNOLOGY

Pen on paper, scanner,

Photoshop and InDesign,
press plant for record
sleeves

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

The fact that the three covers

from the series are all slightly
different on the back. I dont
remember why; I think the
artist wanted slight changes,
or it was cheaper to not
print the whole back solidly?
I wonder
OUTCOMES

Finding that I should draw

more often and that it is
refreshing to do something
very intuitive and quick,
effortless yet effective.
FEEDBACK

TIME SPENT

2 weeks
TYPEFACE

Avenir, Akzidenz Grotesk,

Century Gothic

Its unreadable! But thats

the point (based on misunderstandings) so its OK.

DO YOU TEACH?

No.

ANYTHING ELSE

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

See answer opposite (then).

I think teaching design

should be a mix of
design theory, technical
and craft skills, and
learning how to develop
ideas. At Camberwell
College I learned to
think of graphic design
in a wider sense that
it is not just layout and
typography, but also
an idea, which can be
communicated through
a performance, a song,
a photo, a film which
was mind-opening, but
also confusing sometimes. I think I got lost
in all the possibilities
sometimes and probably
thats why my projects
never came to an actual
final stage!

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION NOW

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JULIE GAYARD, 1994

JULIE GAYARD, 2008

JUTOJO

STUDENT YEARS

GERMAN

Kai von Rabenau

A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Follow your own path +

Dont do it for the money or
glamour neither will
come true

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1998

I like the simplicity of it, which

works well with the music it is
meant to capture; the bowls
were photographed in a
staircase in Prague, where
they were placed to catch
raindrops leaking through the
ceiling in the last piece of
Tabula Rasa is a passage
that is very reminiscent of
dripping water.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

The visualization of music,

taking three different
genres (pop, jazz,
classical); this work
represents the album
Tabula Rasa by Arvo Prt
COLLEGE

Central Saint Martins

College of Art & Design,
London (United Kingdom)
TUTOR(S)

Chris Corr
TECHNOLOGY

35mm black-and-white
photography and
screenprint
TIME SPENT

1 month
TYPEFACE

If only I could
remember
maybe Times?

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Pasta with tuna

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

I would probably change the

typography a little now, but on
the whole, I still like it very
much.
OUTCOMES

I learned that you cant control

everything: I had gone through
a long and tedious process
of setting up an image that I
had had in my mind to capture
the mood of the music; it was
a staged studio shot that finally
felt lifeless and contrived and
had very little in common with
the recording I tried to
visualize, which has a certain
lightness and depth hard to
put into two dimensions.
At the end of the album, if you
listen very carefully, you can
hear the musicians leave the
room one by one it was that
sort of reality that was
missing.

Desperate for some sort of

solution, I went through my
archives of photographs and
came across this image,
which Id taken on a spur of
the moment, and I realized
that this photograph had
everything that Id wanted to
recreate in the studio. In short,
it was perfect, and I learned
that sometimes you have to
discard all your previous ideas
and let life take over to find
a solution to a project. I also
believe that it was this image
that got me accepted to the
MA course at the RCA, since
the head of the course back
then was a huge fan of the
album by Arvo Prt and could
obviously relate to my
interpretation.
FEEDBACK

The image was part of the

visual aspect of my BA thesis
on the visualization of sound;
it received very good feedback
from my tutors, as far as
I can remember.

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION THEN

My Nikon camera

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PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Visually, they definitely

share a certain aesthetic
that is reduced and
controlled, but also very
graphic and composed.
Even though I was a
student in graphic
design, I quickly
discovered that I was
more interested in the
image-making side
of design namely
photography than in
typography or layout.
At college, I still wanted
to learn as much as
possible about
everything, so I tried to
combine photography
with other areas, such
as typography and
screenprinting in this
example. Later you learn
that you need to focus
to go further, deeper,
so I eventually decided
to concentrate on
photography. But I think
that my background in
graphic design is still
very visible in the work
that I produce today,
even though I do not
consider myself to be
a designer anymore.

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

BERLIN, GERMANY

11

Kai von Rabenau (mono.graphie)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Insistence and
genuineness +
Insistence and
detachment

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

FEEDBACK

2010

I like the simplicity of it, where

you rely simply and purely
on your subject, without any
additional effects or tricks;
the distanced posture of the
photographer versus the
obvious humanity of the
portrayed.

The image hasnt really

been exhibited yet, so theres
been little feedback so far.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

One image from the

self-initiated portraits
series Typologies 03:
The Nameless Iran
Orphans, which
assembles portraits
according to varying
parameters
CLIENT

Self-initiated
TECHNOLOGY

Medium-format colour
photography
TIME SPENT

3 weeks

OUTCOMES

This image and this series

made me change my mind
about where I want to go with
my photography; after working
for ten years in mainly editorial
photography, which is very
close to graphic design in
terms of working to a given
brief, finding the best possible
solution to a problem within
a given set of circumstances,
this series made me want to
work in a different environment
to have more freedom to
produce images that will
stand on their own.

ANYTHING ELSE

Funnily enough, with

mono.kultur, we just finished
our latest issue on ECM
records, who published the
Tabula Rasa album. So another
circle comes to an end.

DO YOU TEACH?

No only individual
workshops, mainly at
Bezalel Academy in
Jerusalem (Israel).
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Yes, I do. I learned a

lot at college, namely
to sharpen a sense
for aesthetics and
composition, but also
how to develop and
edit ideas, to find my
own personal approach.
I think design teaching
needs to maintain an
individual approach,
to let students build
their own style and
creative process. And
to develop a sense for
quality what is good
and what isnt.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Schnitzel
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

My Leica camera

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KAI VON RABENAU, 1998

KAI VON RABENAU, 2010

MONO.GRAPHIE

STUDENT YEARS

BRITISH

Ken Garland
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Acquire skills +
No warning

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1953

Because I like making

creatures out of anything.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Experimental typography
project using found items
of letterpress

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

COLLEGE

Edward Wright, who ran the

project, loved it.

Central School of Arts &

Crafts, London (United
Kingdom)
TUTOR(S)

Edward Wright
TECHNOLOGY

Letterpress

Nothing, I love it.

FEEDBACK

ANYTHING ELSE

I have always seen monsters

(and Im sure Im not the only
one) in the most mundane of
materials. In 1953 it was spare
bits of type matter; in 2009
it was fire hydrants.

TIME SPENT

3 hours

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Tomato soup
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

My portable radio

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Monsters.

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

58

Ken Garland
A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

For both: An open mind

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2009

The Jewish fire hydrant

excited me particularly,
as it had chutzpah.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

I set my own brief.

Wherever I go in the
world, I look out for fire
hydrants that excite me
CLIENT

FEEDBACK

People email me about

the book to tell me they
love it.

Self-initiated
TECHNOLOGY

Photography
TIME SPENT

3 months

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Gambas al aquillo
(giant prawns in garlic)
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

DO YOU TEACH?

Currently at University
of Brighton (UK),
Visiting Professor in
Graphic Design. Overall
53 years as a teacher.

My cheap digital camera

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Skills and relations

between arts.

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KEN GARLAND, 1953

KEN GARLAND, 2009

STUDENT YEARS

ENGLISH

Kirsty Carter
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

None

YEAR OF PROJECT

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF CONT.

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2001

What if Tufte chose to express

a visual analysis using
Duchamp and vice versa?
My study of the twoartists
suggests that my previous
perception of them as
extremes was an oversimplification. Theyshare
similar methods of creativity.

This was the beginning of

many projects in my last year
at Brighton University where
I was exploring my interest
in conceptual art, reading,
gaining knowledge about
contemporary art. This was
a very positive time.

COLLEGE

The visual language of this

project is very pragmatic, dry
and lacks real feeling; the
visualization of the design
was not my top priority. It was
an exercise in research and
dealing with information.
Of course now, both the
concept and visualization
of my projects fit better
together, I am more confident
designing. My last year at
Brighton was a lot about
experiments and research
and why I wanted to continue
my education and go straight
into postgraduate studies,
as it was clear to me I was
still developing, and my very
particular way of being a
designer, bringing together
my interests.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

This project was set to

choose an example of
rationalist graphic
communication and a
contrasted example of its
irrational counterpart.
I chose Tufte/Duchamp,
Duchamp/Tufte, Esoteric/
Exoteric. Edward Tufte
(author of Visual
Explanations) represents
for me the extreme of the
scientific analysis of visual
problems. He intends
a clarity of expression,
an immediacy of
communication. Marcel
Duchamp intended his
Large Glass to reveal its
secrets through slow
release with adeliberate
obscurity of expression.
His analysis of visual
problems was highly
personal, even eccentric.

University of Brighton
(United Kingdom)
TUTOR(S)

Daniel Eatock (see also pp.

5861), Frank Philippin (see
also p. 256), Lawrence Zeegen
TECHNOLOGY

Freehand, QuarkXpress
TYPEFACE

Helvetica Neue Bold,

Helvetica Neue Medium

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Ive always kept a very

balanced diet. It makes
me happy to eat well.
When I had little money,
food was
(Cont. opposite now)
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

All my Apple products and

I am not ashamed to
admit it. I love my iPad,
iPhone, MacBook Pro.
I have had a Mac since
I was 13 years old

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PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

The strongest similarity

is of course the subject
matter. I never wanted
our studio or myself
to develop a distinct
visual style; the project
is born from research
and content that
determines its form.
For example, each
of the projects are
approached typographically in very different
ways, a justified sansserif compared with a
sans-serif left-aligned
book and that is just the
beginning. People work
with us because of our
approach, not because
they want a particular
visual style. Every
project ends up looking
so different because
they are often very
different projects. More
importantly, the book
feels more confident
and uses colour!

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LONDON, ENGLAND

Kirsty Carter (A Practice for Everyday Life)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

To explore +
To keep exploring

YEAR OF PROJECT

TECHNOLOGY

2010/11

Adobe InDesign, Photoshop

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

TYPEFACE

Exhibition Histories book

series. To produce 15
books, each dedicated to
a contemporary art
exhibition since 1955,
publishing 3 books per
year and feeling like a
book series with a target
audience of academics,
curators and students.

Adobe Garamond Regular,

Adobe Garamond Italic,
Neuzeit Office Bold,
Neuzeit Office Italic,
Neuzeit Office Regular

CLIENT

Lucy Steeds, Teresa

Gleadsowe,Pablo
Lafuente,Charles Esche
(Afterall Books)
COLLABORATOR(S)

A Practice For Everyday

Life (the whole studio was
involved in some shape
or form)

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

This was one of my favourite

projects we produced in
2010 the series seems to
sum up our passion, love and
interest in contemporary art.
The research/history and our
growing knowledge of this
subject is what perhaps makes
our studio somewhat specialist
in this field. This is one of the
first publications we have
designed that is now printing
its 2nd edition; I am sure that
is a sign of success!

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

never cut, it was always

my top priority. I perhaps
eat out a little more now.
In terms of favourites, it
has always been
chocolate
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

Documenta 5 poster
by Ed Ruscha in 1972
its my favourite piece
of graphic design.
I love that he made type
up out of little ants

DO YOU TEACH?

I have never had a

regular teaching
position at any college,
but I have been a
visiting lecturer and
lectured at many. One
or two years into A
Practice for Everyday
Life, we were regularly
asked to teach, but we
(Emma Thomas and I)
both felt we werent
ready to teach then and
how much knowledge
we could really pass on
at that point. Now its
perhaps a different
story. We did and still
do often teach in the
capacity of lecturing
and workshops. I have
taught at many different
institutions and different
kinds of students all
over the world. We love
this way of teaching,
where you can set workshops, give a huge
amount of enthusiasum
and input into a brief to
get the students
thinking; it makes us
excited to see what
they will produce. The
only trouble is that we
never build up a relationship with any of the
students, which I am
sure is where the real
joy begins!

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IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Of course! I think it is
an incredible education,
a design education.
It was time to evolve,
experiment, research,
collect, investigate and
learn. Some of my
teaching was quite
formal; we learned
typography formally at
Brighton in workshops
about Typographic
detailing but also had
time to just explore my
concepts. At the Royal
College I had access
to an incredible library
of books and periodicals
and other designers
archives. I would have
never had this without
a design education.
Throughout my education I had conversations,
dialogues and critiques
with some of the most
inspiring design
practitioners, which
I learned a lot from,
both what I wanted to
be and want I didnt
want to be. But most
importantly, I was
taught by the great
people around me the
fellow design students
I was at college with.

KIRSTY CARTER, 2001

KIRSTY CARTER, 2010/11

A PRACTICE FOR EVERYDAY LIFE

STUDENT YEARS

AMERICAN

Kristine Matthews
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

a: To American students in particular:

Travel the world. Live in another country
b: Take risks. Now is the time to do it +
Dont let your fears get in the way of
admitting what you really want
then go after that thing

YEAR OF PROJECT

COLLABORATOR(S)

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

1996

My collaborators were the

100 people I sent cards
to (especially the ones who
responded)

I'd probably change the title of

Now Here This.Then again
maybe not.

TECHNOLOGY

Good fodder for some

handwriting analysis.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

A self-initiated project. A brief

to myself. Coming out of a
more commercial design
background and entering grad
school, I was interested in the
idea of introducing chance/
luck/randomness to my work.
I wanted to create a project to
let loose in the world and see
what came back. (Also, other
people have more interesting
ideas than I do, so I thought
I would ask lots of people
to send me theirs.)
COLLEGE

Royal College of Art,

London (United Kingdom)
TUTOR(S)

Siobhan Keaney, Margaret

Calvert, Richard BonnerMorgan, Russell Warren-Fisher
(I cant remember if one in
particular was offering
significant critique on this
project; they each tutored
me at various times at the
Royal College)

Postcards printed letterpress.

Book cover printed letterpress,
inside pages printed offset
(printing donated by the White
Dove Press)
TIME SPENT

Oh goodness, I cant remember.

It lasted at least three or four
months altogether, I think.
(Long, pleasant hours in the
letterpress studio making the
cards and cover / Happy times
at the postbox collecting
replies as they trickled in /
Forever trying to make the
handwriting look good in the
book before hitting on the idea
of translating handwriting to its
typeset equivalent.)
TYPEFACE

Helvetica Compressed (title),

Bell Gothic (body)
WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

I like that the book is now all

around the world, tucked onto
various peoples bookshelves.
Even for non-designers, people
tend to remember it, as the
content is so personal.

OUTCOMES

FEEDBACK

Positive: I think people were

pleasantly surprised to find
that if they made the effort to
fill in and send back the card,
they eventually got a book in
return.Negative: Some friends
of my parents accused me of
incorrect spelling (in the title).
It's supposed to be word-play,
referring to where you are
(not what you hear). Makes
me wonder how many other
people silently pity my spelling
faux pas.
ANYTHING ELSE

Looking at Now Here This

and the subsequent global
onslaught of email, social
media, blah blah, I lament the
rapid decline of the postal
service and the personal letter.
The variety of stamps that
I received on the replies to
Now Here This could have
merited their own project.
Some students of mine
recently did a project on
this subject, which I love:
www.positivepost.org
Long live the stamp!

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Pasta
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

My latest design project

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PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Both feature content

collected from the
audience of the project
itself. Maybe its
laziness, but I always
find that if you ask the
right question of your
audience, you will get
unexpected results
that are much more
interesting than what
you would come up with
yourself, even if you
stared hard at a blank
sheet of paper for days
on end. Now Here This
certainly proved that to
me, and I have returned
to the idea for various
professional projects.
There is nothing better
than crafting the right
question (and by that
I mean, not too specific,
but not too general),
then waiting to see
what people come up
with. I never cease to
be entertained and
inspired.

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

SEATTLE, USA

22

Kristine Matthews (Studio Matthews)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Willingness to work hard and

at the same time take risks +
Ability to read people well

YEAR OF PROJECT

TECHNOLOGY

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2010

Title sign (IDEA) is made up

of wood blocks laser-etched
with written replies that were
collected using photocopied
response cards. The rest of the
interior was a combo of wood
and caster structures, IKEA
curtain rails used for the display
system, paper posters and
some yellow vinyl graphics.
The oversize flipable map is
printed direct to substrate,
two-sided on an eco
corrugated board.

It was one of those nice

situations where the client
has been pummelled into low
expectations by previous
projects. They are used to
working in poor facilities
without much of a public face.
The Idea Space gives them
a showpiece. We did it for
a pittance, but their gratitude
and excitement makes all
the difference. I went in the
other day to see how its
faring over a year later and
they had updated posters
up and it was neat as a pin.
Very gratifying.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

The SCIDpda (Seattle

Chinatown International
District Preservation &
Development Authority)
wanted to create a resource
centre for the neighbourhood,
which includes Chinese,
Japanese and Korean
communities. It would become
the go-to spot for business
owners and residents to find
out about local programmes
and resources. In line with
SCIDpdas mission, it would
work to improve the local
neighbourhood and build
cross-cultural communities.
CLIENT

SCIDpda
COLLABORATOR(S)

Cassie Klingler, designer at

Studio Matthews.And the
client Joyce Pisnanont was
great in collecting lots of
responses from the local
community for the IDEA wall.

TIME SPENT

Start to finish, about six months

for the whole space. (Several
long months trying to figure
out what the client needed the
space to be and to do; another
month to work out the design
for the space, including
collecting the responses for
the IDEA title; then high-speed
build-out in a few weeks to
meet with their grant deadline!)

OUTCOMES

See answer opposite (then).

FEEDBACK

Positive: The client loved it and

we got great feedback from
the community at the opening.
Who can resist having their
ideas burned into wood?

DO YOU TEACH?

I am an Assistant
Professor in Visual
Communication Design
at the University of
Washington, Seattle
(USA) and teach
Exhibition Design,
Design Foundations,
Graduate Seminars,
Visualizations, etc.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

TYPEFACE

I think you can certainly

teach the basic tenets
of design; good typography, what makes a
photograph compelling,
blah blah. But though
I am a university design
professor (aside from
my studio), I am still
uncomfortable in the
role of saying what
is right and what is
wrong in design.
Who am I to say? This
probably makes me not
as strong a teacher as
I should be. I prefer
showing my own design
work and leaving it for
the audience to decide
whether it is good in
their book.

Various handwriting for block

signage. Helvetica throughout
space (the client needed to be
able to use templates of ours
to create new posters, etc., but
they work on PCs with a barebones font list. So Helvetica/
Arial was the safest bet).

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Pasta
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

My children Finn and Nell

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KRISTINE MATTHEWS, 1996

KRISTINE MATTHEWS, 2010

STUDIO MATTHEWS

STUDENT YEARS

GERMAN

Lars Harmsen
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Work awake + Get out of

the dogma house

YEAR OF PROJECT

TIME SPENT

1992

4 months

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

TYPEFACE

Self-initiated diploma
thesis: creating
experimental typography
with the help of self-built
printing machines

Chicago, DIN and a bunch of

custom-made fonts

COLLEGE

Hochschule Pforzheim
(Germany)
TUTOR(S)

Prof. Manfred Schmalriede

and Prof. Thomas Ochs
TECHNOLOGY

The printing machines

were built out of wood
and steel. The typesetting
was done on a Macintosh
SE and printed on a 300
dpi laser printer. Photography and typography
were then collaged page
by page and colourcopied on a Canon colour
copy machine. A book
documents the process,
the machines and the
final prints.

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

Was done during the time of

transition between analogue
and digital. It was a very
intense project done in a very
short time, completed with no
diversions.
OUTCOMES

Great satisfaction and the

love of working on both selfcommissioned projects
and assigned ones.
FEEDBACK

Best Graphic Design diploma

thesis of the year.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Pasta
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

My camera and my
first computer
PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Both are selfcommissioned work

and have handmade
as well as digital
elements.

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

KARLSRUHE, GERMANY

19

Lars Harmsen (MAGMA Brand Design)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Curiosity + Intelligence

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2010

It was a great opportunity to

visit Senegal and meet
extraordinary people. It was
a very intense project carried
out in a very short time,
with no diversions.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Design an exhibition
about identity at the
Goethe Institute in Dakar,
Senegal
CLIENT

Goethe-Institut Dakar,
Senegal

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

A few more weeks would

have been good to work with
more local artists.

DO YOU TEACH?

Professor of Typography
and Design at
Fachhochschule
Dortmund (Germany).

COLLABORATOR(S)

Andr Rsler (illustration),

Christian Ernst (photography) and a local signpainter using stencils
TECHNOLOGY

Black-and-white laser
prints on wood board, oil
on canvas, photo prints,
wall paintings

OUTCOMES

Inspiration. And a small book

presenting text from Muhsana
Ali and Amadou Kane-Sy,
both from Senegal (A cause
de mon histoire personnelle,
je nai pas dattachement
une seule identit) and
showing our work.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Design is about seeing

and putting together,
organizing. I encourage
students to check all
kinds of path. They have
to discover the world
and themselves.
Nowadays a lot of
students are imprisoned
in a shelter of wealth.
Everything seems to
be accessible, easy,
cool. I hate that. I want
them to jump off the
cliff and learn to fall,
not to be perfect,
not to be safe, not to
think its over before it
starts. They have to
walk on glass. New is
dead, long live new.
The happy accident is
a hook. To teach design
you have to bring
people to reflect on
what they are doing and
why they are doing it.
Design is not about
making things nice.
A designer is not a
hairdresser. A designer
should be able to see,
hear, smell and taste
more than others in
order to reflect and act.

FEEDBACK
TIME SPENT

2 weeks
TYPEFACE

The ambassador of Germany

in Dakar bought four pieces
of work.

Helvetica and custommade fonts (e.g. stencil

typefaces from the signpainter we worked with)

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Home-cooking and good

restaurants. There is a
great Lebanese restaurant
here in Karlsruhe that
I love to go to
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

Its not a valued

possession, but my family
is something very
important to me now,
more than anything else

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LARS HARMSEN, 1992

LARS HARMSEN, 2010

MAGMA BRAND DESIGN

STUDENT YEARS

GERMAN

Laurent Lacour
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Think big + Dont think small

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2000

The deep and thorough

research we conducted into
Sdraum meant that the
project was relevant to and
was well received by the
local population and official
bodies. The aesthetic decisions
we made on the project
were also informed by the
research we had carried out.
The implementation of the
project was based on a multidisciplinary communication
design approach, and drew
on other areas of expertise
as well (see Collaborators).

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

1: Development of
art/design projects to
establish an identity for
Sdraum, a region south
of Leipzig (Germany).
2: Photographic (visual)
and contextual research
on the development
(history and heritage)
of Sdraum with
interviews, etc.
COLLEGE

Hochschule fr
Gestaltung Offenbach
am Main (Germany)

OUTCOMES

Knowledge.

TUTOR(S)

Prof. Ruedi Baur

COLLABORATOR(S)

Many people from the

region: politicians, landscape architects, cultural
organizations, etc.

FEEDBACK

Very positive feedback and

reactions, especially in the
local press.

TECHNOLOGY

Digital imaging, video,

photography, graphic
design, sound recordings,
product design, modelling
(mixed materials), etc.
TIME SPENT

1 year
TYPEFACE

Not relevant

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Tafelspitz
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

The interdisciplinary
approach and the depth
of research.

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY

16

Laurent Lacour (Hauser Lacour)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Good conceptual thinking, quick

in bringing ideas to paper (or any
other media) and open to any
kind of culture + See above, plus
very good at managing discourse
with clients

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2009

It was an exciting interdisciplinary project with the

focus on teamwork. Very
interesting interactive exhibits
and a good symbiosis between
architecture and design.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Development of a fair
(consumer electronics and
home appliances IFA
2009) identity for Siemens
CLIENT

Siemens Elektrogerte
GmbH, Ulrich Twiehaus

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

The client, who didnt stick

with us afterwards despite
our good work.

COLLABORATOR(S)

Meso: digital imaging;

Franken Architekten:
architecture, exhibition
stand construction, etc.

FEEDBACK

Very positive feedback/

reaction, awards, etc.

TECHNOLOGY

Digital imaging, video,

photography, graphic
design, sound recordings,
architectural design,
interactive design and
programming
TIME SPENT

6 months
TYPEFACE

Not relevant

DO YOU TEACH?

Professor of Corporate
Design at Fachhochschule Dsseldorf
(Germany).

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Tafelspitz

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION NOW

Yes it is: but it is more

about teaching a kind of
thinking and discourse
than teaching visual
skills.

My kids (but oh I dont

possess them)

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LAURENT LACOUR, 2000

LAURENT LACOUR, 2009

HAUSER LACOUR

STUDENT YEARS

BRITISH-AMERICAN-WELSH-GREEK

Liza Enebeis
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Whatever you do, explore the

extremes, and dont lose your
sense of humour + If there is
something else you want to do
apart from design then do
something else

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1996

Because of its roughness.

The project was mapping points
of view on the definition of
the book.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

The project was

specifically designed for
the Work in Progress
Show just before our
graduation
COLLEGE

Royal College of Art,

London (United Kingdom)
TUTOR(S)

Liz Leyland
TECHNOLOGY

A mix between handdrawing and a typewriter

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

I wish I hadnt sliced it into

15 pieces I am still not sure
what I was thinking.
OUTCOMES

An insight about the nature

of the book.
FEEDBACK

It was generally liked, with

comments such as its
typically Dutch (which I found
strange at the time).

TIME SPENT

2 months
TYPEFACE

Typewriter

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Marmite

There are more

similarities in the
concepts than in
the visual style.
Both projects map
information, one
in words and the
other with images,
although the starting
point to both was
the same: in-depth
research.

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION THEN

My books

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

16

Liza Enebeis (Studio Dumbar)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Curiosity + A sense of humour

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2010

I like the concept of creating

a universe for a University, and
enjoyed collaborating with the
designers in the studio to
create the map that was the
basis for the identity.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Redesign the identity for

the University of Twente
(The Netherlands)
CLIENT

University of Twente
(The Netherlands)
COLLABORATOR(S)

For this particular project

we were a fixed team of
three at Studio Dumbar
and another eight people
on and off depending on
the phase

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

Nothing yet.
OUTCOMES

Everything is possible.
FEEDBACK

DO YOU TEACH?

The project received a lot

of reactions as it was
not the usual approach for
a university identity.

No.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

I think its possible to

teach design. At college
I learned my most
important lesson:
staying foreign. The
more comfortable you
are in a situation, the
more likely you are
to let things go by
unnoticed.Travel to a
foreign country, and
suddenly you notice
different sounds, smells,
colours, temperatures,
structures, behaviours
For the locals these
things go by unnoticed;
locals are immune to
their surroundings.
As designers, photographers and creatives,
we are constantly
seeking to be in a nonimmunized state, to be
able to look at the same
question and always
solve it in a different
way.Immunity is our
worst enemy. If we learn
to remain foreign we
will always see what
goes by unnoticed.
This is what I would
like to teach.

TECHNOLOGY

Hand-drawings redrawn
in Illustrator
TIME SPENT

1 year
TYPEFACE

Univers

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Marmite
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

My books

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LIZA ENEBEIS, 1996

LIZA ENEBEIS, 2010

STUDIO DUMBAR

STUDENT YEARS

BRITISH

Lucinda Noble
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Make the most of your time, facilities

and access to people and resources.
And enjoy! + Foresee the challenges
in the professional world and start
considering how you will incorporate
them into your design vision

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

ANYTHING ELSE

1999

I loved making something

three-dimensional by hand,
and Im surprised to find that
I still think theyre beautiful
objects! At the time, I mounted
them around the Stevens
Building at the Royal College
of Art and they blended in
beautifully with the moulding
on the walls, which I loved.

The polystyrene relief piece

is perhaps a strange example
from my student work. It was
a small, insignificant project
(in terms of my overall
portfolio), but having thought
about it, it emphasizes to me
how important those sketchy
little pieces can be, and how
important I still find it to make
time simply to follow an
inspired creative urge to make
something out of those
seemingly meaningless little
ideas that pop into my head!

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Self-initiated project.
A series of wall-mounted
relief pieces based on a
collection of original
pieces of polystyrene
packaging.
COLLEGE

Royal College of Art,

London (United Kingdom)
TUTOR(S)

Richard Bonner-Morgan,
Margaret Calvert (see also
pp. 150153), Lol Sargent

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

I would have liked to cast

them in plaster.
OUTCOMES

Scalpel knife, ruler, foam

board and paint the
pieces were constructed
by eye

Apart from slicing my finger

with my scalpel blade working
late one night(!), I got a lot of
satisfaction out of constructing
something with my hands.
It was a seed project that led
to many other ideas.

TIME SPENT

FEEDBACK

TECHNOLOGY

1 week

I think the pieces went pretty

much unnoticed!

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

I am still very much

following my own lead.
From my experience,
my strongest work
comes from those
projects that are selfinitiated or that I have
most freedom to play
around with. I am still
fascinated by detail,
bringing attention to
the everyday, and the
juxtaposition of function
and beauty. Also, I
continue to enjoy how
things can be interpreted
by the viewer/user in
multiple ways.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Probably pasta
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

My family, my photos,
my Mac (sad but true),
my ability to see things
in a certain way

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LOS ANGELES, USA

12

Lucinda Newton-Dunn (space-to-think)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

To be self-motivated, passionate and

proactive + To be passionate, believe
in your approach but remain open to
changes communicate clearly

YEAR OF PROJECT

TIME SPENT

2010/11

A year (from conceptualizing

to production and sales, etc.)

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Design a print for a

furoshiki (Japanese
wrapping cloth) 9090cm
based on the concept of
folding and wrapping.
This project also involved
developing the identity
of the brand and
marketing it.

TYPEFACE

Handwritten
WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

It is something tangible, useful,

beautiful and sustainable.
WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

I would have produced it at

less expense and got someone
else to do the marketing!

CLIENT

Link, Tokyo
COLLABORATOR(S)

Kyoko Bowskill,
Hennie Haworth
TECHNOLOGY

Artwork produced from

a process involving
photography, drawing
by hand, and finally output
in Illustrator on the Mac.
Printed on 100% cotton
by a traditional Japanese
furoshiki printer in Tokyo
a type of screenprinting
process.

OUTCOMES

I learned a lot about working

long-distance and about many
aspects of business in the
product world.
FEEDBACK

There has been some

bewilderment over what this
product is! People are
amazingly intimidated by the
introduction of a very simple
but new concept into the
Western market. However, we
are discovering ways to make
it more accessible and there
have been many great reviews
on the blogosphere and in
particular, compliments on the
quality of the product (high
Japanese production quality).

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Japanese food of
various kinds
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

Same as then

DO YOU TEACH?

No.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

I think you can certainly

teach aspects of design.
I wish I had been taught
more of the fundamentals
in terms of layout, colour
theory, typography,
business, etc. In the
British design education
system (at least whereI
studied) it seems that
most focus is put on
concept development.
At the time I was happy
developing the conceptual
side of things but being
young and inexperienced
(I came straight through
the school and college
system), I didnt have the

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foresight personally to
pursue an adequate
amount of research in
the more technical and
business-orientated side
of design. Tutors didnt
really push that either.
So I came away from
college conceptually
strong, but lacking the
more structural,
workmanship skills of
design. Its quite hard as
a student to know what
to focus on during your
time at college and
guidance can be quite
vague. Time is limited and
it is the opportune
moment to experiment
with ideas and media, but
it is also a great time to
learn some of the nittygritty. More design theory
should be encouraged and
internships should be
made a compulsory part
of a design course.

LUCINDA NOBLE, 1999

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN, 2010/11

SPACE-TO-THINK

STUDENT YEARS

FRENCH

Maki Suzuki
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Try everything + Dont read,

watch, look at design compilation
books or blogs

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

1998

It is very difficult to remember

the whole process, but the
idea was that Nicole had
chosen red and I, blue. To
design a compromise of our
collaboration, we printed out a
very ugly drawing of the same
dog in red on one side and
blue on the other on a wooden
stick. On the day of the
presentation we turned the
stick in our hands so the dog
would somehow be purple.
I like my own uncertainty of
such a work. It somehow made
sense (why a dog at all? why
that dog?). What is perhaps
most likely is that it gave me
the hope that I could work
towards something not only
that people could find
challenging but that I also
would consider an eyesore.
At the time Nicole was also
on a similar quest, perhaps
even more so as she did
study graphics in Switzerland.

Too late. Definitely the

ugliest thing.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Express your given colour

in a way that makes us
see it as if for the first
time. Nicole Udry got
purple and I got turquoise.
COLLEGE

Royal College of Art,

London (United Kingdom)
TUTOR(S)

Margaret Calvert (see also

pp.150153)
COLLABORATOR(S)

Nicole Udry, classmate

TECHNOLOGY

Digital inkjet printout,

wood and foam board
TIME SPENT

1 week, among other

projects

OUTCOMES

Mixed feelings about

disappointing a teacher I
admired (see Feedback) and
feeling guilty that I should
have tried to please her.
This has followed me since.
A client, a commissioner or a
collaborator is not someone
to please or service.
FEEDBACK

Margaret Calvert:
I am so disappointed.
PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

In both projects we
acknowledge they are
not logical-conceptual,
a tautological idea
leading to one, often
single, solution.
The design decisions
are rather convoluted
and spiral out of our
own comfort zone.
Of course once we get
there we need to go
further as comfort
installs itself almost
immediately. They also
have in common that
they force handlers,
readers, receivers to
wonder about them as
performative objects.
Obviously a book is
always also an object,
but in this case, I
remember the slight
shame at spinning the
dog in front of the
class or seeing people
discard the book as
a piece of trash they
cannot throw away but
would never put next to
a real publication.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Being French and being a

vegetarian was a national
joke Studying at the
Royal College of Art
(London, UK), where many
cosmopolitan truths
collide, I met Glaswegian
and Swedish non-meat
eaters who proved me
wrong and I have been
pescetarian since
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

Comic books collection

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

11

Maki Suzuki (bke)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

For both: Try everything

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

2010

The text was a meta-fiction

of a person who could possibly
try to contact someone in a
democratic country. To design
it, we felt it needed to bring out
the world in which it would
have been written, namely
a fictitious totalitarian regime.
This led us to design a whole
computer manual around the
text to camouflage it from the
thought police. There is an
overall fascination for vernacular
design, but it usually is in the
safe area of the just-vintage.
For this publication, we used
the most contemporary
manuals as models, resulting
in a rather revolting result in
terms of our own tastes.

Too late. Definitely the

ugliest thing.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Design a short text by

artist Eline McGeorge
CLIENT

Hollybush Gardens
(gallery)
COLLABORATOR(S)

bke members
TECHNOLOGY

Offset printing,
staple-binding
TIME SPENT

3 weeks from idea

to production
TYPEFACE

Chicago, New York

and Arial

OUTCOMES

A client, a commissioner or
a collaborator is not someone
to please or service.
FEEDBACK

Eline McGeorge on her return

from an exhibition in Oslo,
where the booklets were
stacked as a sculpture people
could take parts from: Nobody
took one; they thought it was
a computer manual.

DO YOU TEACH?

Tutor at the Royal

College of Art,
London (UK) from
2004 to 2010.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Yes, education is part

of our practice. We
have never given the
same brief twice,
which makes it difficult
to test the validity of a
method, but we believe
in experimentation as
a principle of education,
which implies lots of
errors lived together
with students. We have
never taught at BA
level regularly, so it is
difficult to say.

Fish, still
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

A copy of Steal This Book

by Abbie Hoffman

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MAKI SUZUKI, 1998

MAKI SUZUKI, 2010

BKE

STUDENT YEARS

DUTCH

Marc van der Heijde

A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Search for your personal quality,

the strength that defines you and
develop that further + No tutor
knows the answer

YEAR OF PROJECT

COLLEGE

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1993

Academy of Art and Design

St. Joost, Breda
(The Netherlands)

I have selected one of the

sketches for Spem In Alium,
because I find it more
interesting than the final piece.
I didnt crop or manipulate it;
it shows the honest set-up,
which I like. In the end, the
design used limited elements;
text in colour foil, two light
sources and a camera. But the
way they come together
visualizes to my mind exactly
the aural essence of the piece
as I heard it.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Self-initiated project: six

images for three classical
music pieces. On the
following spread is sketch
material for one of the
six images only; a design
to fit a Renaissance piece
called Spem In Alium
by Thomas Tallis. It is a
very particular piece,
composed for 40 singers
without accompaniment.
At places, all 40 singers
simultaneouslyhave
their own part; texts are
interwoven at the cost
of audibility to form
something extremely
complex and beautiful.

TUTOR(S)

Team of tutors, among them

Henk Cornelissen, Hartmut
Kowalke and Jaap van Triest
TECHNOLOGY

Staged photography,
no use of the computer
TIME SPENT

6 months
TYPEFACE

Gill

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

Looking back, I dislike some

of the images because they
just feel too random.Although
not a necessity, I now think
it could have been interesting
to make them into more of a
collection; that the images
dealing with music from various
periods still share something,
or make a collection. Logically,
I now see many more
possibilities than back then.
OUTCOMES

Another six months at the

academy to try something else!
FEEDBACK

I cant remember any particular

reactions from that time, but I
am sure my mother liked them.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Pasta
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

A German Perzina piano

from the 1920s

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PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

It was Eric Gill who said:

I think that if you look
after goodness and
truth, beauty will take
care of itself.I like the
idea of arestraint on
elements, interesting
enough for the process
to lead to strong images
that feel right.The truth
in both projects is the
fact that you take the
essence of a piece
(interwoven texts) or an
organization (singing
texts) and stay close to
it.Although right
seems to be a subjective
connotation, the
reception of the Dutch
Chamber Choirs
identity validates the
approach. The challenge
is to get your client to
recognize himself but
in a way that surprises
him and others.

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

16

Marc van der Heijde (Studio Dumbar)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Curiosity + Curiosity (hey, I used to

be a design student too)

YEAR OF PROJECT

2006/2007
PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

A new visual identity for

the Dutch Chamber Choir
(Nederlands Kamerkoor) to
suit the world-renowned
ensemble

Starting with the textual content,

we adjusted letterforms by
breaking open their closed
shapes. This led toa unique
typeface that is the core of the
identity: any text set in that
font immediately refers to the
choir, both visually and in the
character of their product.

CLIENT

Nederlands Kamerkoor; Leo

Samama (general manager)
and Anne Douqu (business
manager)
COLLABORATOR(S)

Daniel Markides, Ties Alfrink

(graphic designers), Simon
Scheiber (motion designer),
Paul van der Laan (type
designer)
TECHNOLOGY

Graphic design and type

design, with ubiquitous use
of the computer
TIME SPENT

6 months
TYPEFACE

Franklin Gothic (as basis for

NKK Gothic) and Eureka
WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

The choir always performs textbased material. That is, lets

say, the tangible part. But music
is ephemeral; the moment the
text is sung and music made,
it is gone. We set out to do
something paradoxical: to
capture in form this fleeting
character of music.

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

We made one series of

posters. We had to work with
an overload of information
that greatly diminished their
impact. The graphic styles
relative lightnessdoes
require clear choices.
OUTCOMES

The identity won aRed Dot

Award and the corporate
animation was awarded a
European Design Merit.
Over time, it hasnt lost its
initial appeal at all; I still
respond to the freshness of
this unique and fitting design.
The animation can be seen
online: http://vimeo.com/
studiodumbar
FEEDBACK

It was a genuine pleasure

getting feedback from
the members of the choir
when they saw the end result.
These people are very
committed to the group and
their work, and so were critical
and demanding. We presented
the concept of the identity

through animation and the

response was overwhelming.
Choir members even suggested
using the techniques in every
single performance. And we
still get very good reactions
whenever the identity and
animation are shown to
students, designers and
potential clients.
ANYTHING ELSE

This project gave me a chance

to work with Paul van der Laan,
a Dutch type designer educated
at the Royal Academy in
The Hague. The orginal
typeface, Franklin Gothic, was
adapted for the purpose of
opening up letterforms, and
the resultant NKK Gothic font
was designed in three different
weights. Great care has also
been given to the typography
of the programme listings, at
the top of the right pages.
Single text lines almost always
bring together the composers
name, when he lived, the name
of the piece and when it was
written. The Eureka typeface
has some very sharp
characteristics and we spent
quite some time looking for
the right font size, spacing, etc.
to bring harmony to its
appearance.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Thai food
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

A Japanese Yamaha grand

piano from the 1990s

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DO YOU TEACH?

No.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

The most important

thing I learned at the
Academy was to
look. Drawing is a
fundamental stage;
it releases you from
what you (think you)
know, and forces you
to concentrate on
what you actually see.
The next step is
interpretation, but now
in a conscious manner.
If I were a tutor, I would
teach typography.
That requires the same
kind of looking. I like
the idea of studying
historic examples,
principles, etc. and
then letting the students
think to what extent
they want to get away
from that.

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE, 1993

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE, 2006/2007

STUDIO DUMBAR

STUDENT YEARS

BRITISH, BORN IN SOUTH AFRICA

Margaret Calvert
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Enjoy + Dont waste time

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1956

Discovering that I could draw.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

OUTCOMES

Life drawing in pen

and ink

An ability to be totally
obsessed with the project
in hand.

COLLEGE

Chelsea College of Art,

London (United Kingdom)
TUTOR(S)

Leonard Rosoman
TECHNOLOGY

Pen and ink

TIME SPENT

A morning

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Pasta
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

My work

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Appropriating the
discipline of drawing for
a particular purpose.

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

53

Margaret Calvert
A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Energy, enthusiasm and

imagination + An ability to
communicate and initiate
great ideas

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2008

Simply because it is unique

(almost a self-portrait), in that
it relates to the Man at Work
roadworks pictogram that
I designed in the 1960s.
I liked the idea of substituting
the image of a woman for the
workman, in the context of
work usually considered
appropriate only for men.
I also was attracted to the idea
of painting over a slightly rusted
old sign found lying abandoned
in the street; thus giving it an
added value once exhibited
in the Royal Academy.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Painting depicting
Woman at Work for the
Royal Academy of Art
2008 Summer Exhibition
CLIENT

Humphrey Ocean,
Curator of the Royal
Academy of Art 2008
Summer Exhibition
TECHNOLOGY

Acrylic paint on top of

a metal Roadworks sign
that I designed in the
1960s.
TIME SPENT

4 days

FEEDBACK

Someone wanted to buy

the painting.

DO YOU TEACH?

Initially invited to teach

Royal College of Art,
London (UK) Industrial
Design students
typography. Taught
part-time in the Graphic
Design Department
from 1966. Eventually
retired as a senior
tutor in 2001. Head of
Graphic Design from
1987 to 1991.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Pasta
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

My work

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Yes. Its possible to

teach an ability to draw
and communication.

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MARGARET CALVERT, 1956

MARGARET CALVERT, 2008

STUDENT YEARS

GERMAN

Marion Fink
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Keep it simple + Dont mix ideas

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1999

The simplicity of framing a

space, leadingthe viewers
eyeand adding iconic value.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Self-initiated movingimage studies

COLLEGE

Royal College of Art,

London (United Kingdom)
TUTOR(S)

Margaret Calvert
(see pp. 150153)

OUTCOMES

Learning by doing.
ANYTHING ELSE

Ideas come more easily

without a concrete brief in
your mind.

COLLABORATOR(S)

Ben Duckett
TECHNOLOGY

Sony Mini DV handycam

TIME SPENT

1 month

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Hummus, and the soups

and spicy sauces of my
Korean flatmate
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Computer + Sony camera

The conceptual and

formal approach of the
frame (as described
above) as a cultural
symbol for giving
something a meaning or
even calling it art.

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

BASEL, SWITZERLAND

13

Marion Fink (at the time of this project

in 2004: KMS Team, Munich)
A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Curiosity and persistence +

Curiosity and persistence plus using
your resources in a sustainable way

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2004

Same answer as
opposite (then).

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Indentity and opening

campaign for the Museum
of Modern Art Munich
(Pinakothek der Moderne)
CLIENT

Pinakothek der Moderne,

Munich

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

The font!
OUTCOMES

Doing and still learning.

ANYTHING ELSE

Same answer as
opposite (then).

COLLABORATOR(S)

KMS Team (Marc Ziegler,

Xuyen Dam)
TECHNOLOGY

Super 8, 35mm slides

(Nikon), 6 * 4.5 cm
(Hasselblad), the usual
Mac software: Adobe
Photoshop, Adobe
Illustrator
TIME SPENT

2 years
TYPEFACE

FF DIN
DO YOU TEACH?

Professor of typography
and information design
at Hochschule fr
Gestaltung und Kunst,
Basel (Switzerland).
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

I learned at college to
bounce ideas around,
but often I felt the
tutors/school wanted
to force a certain style
upon the students.
In teaching today,
I try to strengthen the
students strong points
and weaken their weak
points. They should
find their own voice
and attitude rather
than copying someone
elses.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Pasta and good wine

YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

My flat

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MARION FINK, 1999

MARION FINK, 2004

KMS TEAM, MUNICH

STUDENT YEARS

GERMAN

10

Martin Lorenz
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Learn to learn +
Dont be arrogant

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1997

I like the strength of the

drawing. As the animals were
constantly moving, one only
had the time to draw the most
essential things, but this
makes you think about what is
important to draw and what
isnt. You need to memorize
the shades and forms you
have seen because in the next
second the animals will have
moved to a different position.
It was fun, because I wasnt
doing anything else than
drawing in those years and my
hand was fluent. I draw much
worse these days.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Draw the animals in

the zoo
COLLEGE

Hochschule Darmstadt
(Germany)
TUTOR(S)

Prof. Osterwalder
TECHNOLOGY

Charcoal
TIME SPENT

1 afternoon

OUTCOMES

It made me grow.
FEEDBACK

Prof. Osterwalder: Man

erkennt die Schweizer Schule
(One does recognise the
Swiss school).

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

All kinds

Both projects only

use what is needed,
not more, not less.
Even though they
appear visually
playful, they are
highly minimalistic.

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION THEN

Comic collection

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

BARCELONA, SPAIN

13

Martin Lorenz (TwoPoints.Net)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

For both: Be autodidactic

YEAR OF PROJECT

CLIENT

OUTCOMES

2010

Sitra, the Finnish

Innovation Fund

It made me grow.

COLLABORATOR(S)

The work from Two Points for

our Helsinki Design Lab visual
identity captures the spirit of
our endeavour: its systematic,
nimble, and founded in really
sharp thinking about the
various mediums that the
identity needs to suit. In this
way, the visual identity of our
Helsinki Design Lab is similar
to how Sitra sees a role for
strategic design operating as
part of the solution to todays
large-scale challenges: a
reflexive capability responding
intelligently to real-world
needs. We at Sitra are very
pleased with the work from
Two Points and are constantly
receiving compliments on the
uniqueness and attention to
detail that our visual identity
embodies. (Bryan Boyer,
Design Lead at Sitra, the
Finnish Innovation Fund.)

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Develop a visual identity

for the Helsinki Design
Lab, which defines itself
as follows: We believe
that the scale and
complexity of todays
challenges are more
effectively addressed
when design is a leading
voice co-ordinating many,
rather than a service
applied to pre-defined
problems. With a
specialized ability to bring
synthesis to complex
problems, to work from
conception to implementation, and to visualize
complex relationships,
the strategic designer
plays a lead role in
addressing the issues
faced by contemporary
society. Helsinki Design
Lab (HDL), a project
initiated by Sitra the
Finnish Innovation Fund
fosters state-of-the-art
knowledge, capability and
achievement in the area
of strategic design in
order to improve global
supply of this essential
21st-century problemsolving skill.

Lupi Asensio
TECHNOLOGY

Acrylic paint and

computer
TIME SPENT

2 months
TYPEFACE

Univers & Minion

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

The driving idea of the visual

identity is drawn from the
space occupied by the
strategic framework of the
HDL, which draws together
a diverse group of actors and
entities from various fields.
These actors, each one
a specialist in his field,
contributes a unique point of
view within a group that can
offer a more holistic definition
of the problem, thereby
creating the opportunity for
a more effective range of
solutions. The Strategic
Designer acts as an enzyme,
co-ordinating the process.
The visual identity is coherent
with the idea of the institution.
It is highly flexible without
losing recognizability.

FEEDBACK

DO YOU TEACH?

I am co-director of the
Postgraduate Degree of
Applied Typography at
the private design
school ELISAVA in
Barcelona (Spain).
I teach mostly flexible
visual systems.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

No, design cannot be

taught, but a teacher
can help the student to
develop rational and
emotional design
methodology and train
his eye for visual
communication, which
involves studying design
history as well.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

All kinds
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

Book collection

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MARTIN LORENZ, 1997

MARTIN LORENZ, 2010

TWOPOINTS.NET

STUDENT YEARS

GERMAN

Matthias Grlich
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Find it out for yourself +

There are easier ways to
earn money, honestly

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

FEEDBACK

2000

What I like most about the

project is that the original
briefing was quite strict but
that we found some flexible
parts in it. So in the end we
were not designing posters
to announce a play for an
imaginative theatre, but we
took the play directly onto
the streets by the means
of posters.

Our posters got destroyed

after the presentation (dont
know whether thats a positive
or negative sign); maybe it was
pure coincidence. In general,
we received a positive reaction,
I think mainly because we
were rethinking the brief a bit
more drastically than expected
and the project was executed
in the city. I once received a
drastic (but very honest and
true) reply from one of the
Swiss superstar designers,
saying that the choice of the
form and technique was purely
a formal one. Things would
have been a lot easier to
produce in a different technique,
which would have led to a
different visual outcome.
He was right.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Design a series of posters

and a programme for an
imaginary theatre
COLLEGE

Hochschule Darmstadt
(Germany)
TUTOR(S)

Prof. Sandra Hoffmann

(see also pp. 194197)
COLLABORATOR(S)

Florian Walzel
TECHNOLOGY

Silkscreen-printing and
stamps on existing
surfaces (posters, the
street, houses, etc.) and
for the programme we
used Xerox machines
TIME SPENT

6 months
TYPEFACE

Trade Gothic

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

This project was one of the

most physically exhausting
projects I ever did; this
came out of a great lack of
experience paired with a lot
of ambition. Looking back,
this physical/psychological
borderline experience turned
out to be a key ingredient
in all the projects I really like.
Paradoxically, now, running
a design studio, I try to avoid
those moments of total
exhaustion as much as
possible.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Whatever was available

within a limited budget
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

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PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

One of the links

between both projects
might be the strategy
of rethinking the
brief. With the Cologne
project, we tried to
look at a spatial
strategy differently
(at least for me as a
graphic designer and
most certainly also
for the audience, who
were expecting an
architectural proposal
for a new building).
With the other project
we did this by not
designing posters that
announce theatre
plays but by using the
posters to start the play
on the street. The other
aspect that links both
projects is that they
both deal with our
physical environment.
The places we live in
were objects of design,
of interventions by
simple means.

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

DARMSTADT, GERMANY

12

Matthias Grlich (Studio Matthias Grlich)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Curiosity and being excitable +

Curiosity and scepticism, in
constant conflict with one another

YEAR OF PROJECT

TECHNOLOGY

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2007

A guide was produced in

offset printing (2c), which was
distributed as part of a local
magazine. Sites of interventions
were marked with little
stickers. The works by the
artists were done using very
diverse techniques.

I think re-reading the city by

the means of graphic design
and maps played an important
role in the project. And maps
and diagrams became a major
interest for me for the
following projects. I think there
is some power within the
visualization of space, and this
can be an interesting domain
for graphic design.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

To come up with a
proposal for a spatial
strategy for an art
institution that (at that
time) did not have a
physical presence.
In this case, one of the
concepts was applied
to an exhibition in the
city of Cologne.
CLIENT

TIME SPENT

3 months
TYPEFACE

Modified version of
Schulbuch Grotesk

Curator Nicolaus
Schafhausen and Vanessa
Joan Mller of European
Kunsthalle Cologne.
They commissioned a
research project titled
Spaces of Production
from architects Nikolaus
Hirsch, Philipp Misselwitz,
Markus Miessen and me.

FEEDBACK

I think in general the project

was well received, although
it was part of a bigger project
that was seriously discussed
within Colognes cultural
scene. In the end we delivered
the framework and the works
by the artists were up for
discussion.

COLLABORATOR(S)

Architects Nikolaus
Hirsch, Philipp Misselwitz
and Markus Miessen.
The design was done in
collaboration with
Miriam Rsch.

DO YOU TEACH?

I taught at Hochschule
Wiesbaden (Germany),
Hochschule Darmstadt
(Germany) and in Zurich
(Switzerland). I often
conduct workshops and
do lectures in various
cities e.g. Paris, Aachen,
Mumbai and Lucerne.
Currently I am working
as a researcher at
Universitt Stuttgart
(Germany), Institute
for Urban Planning,
concentrating on the
visual representation of
urban space and at the
Institute for Design
research, Design2context, in Zurich
(Switzerland).
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

To answer this question

one might first need to
define the word design
a bit more. If we are
talking about teaching
the invention of visual
form, then I think
certain aspects of this
can be taught (such as
cognition theory, certain
aspects of typography,
etc.). But what I think
cant be taught (or at
least has to be taught a
lot earlier) is the ability
to walk with open eyes;
to identify visual
phenomena that can
then be transformed
into new things.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Whatever is available
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

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MATTHIAS GRLICH, 2000

MATTHIAS GRLICH, 2007

STUDIO MATTHIAS GRLICH

STUDENT YEARS

GREEK

Michael Georgiou
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Do as much research as
you can + Never copy,
only get influenced

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1984

Because of the process.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

OUTCOMES

Design a poster for

a circus

Through this student project

I realized that in order to
visualize a concept by hand
a great deal of effort was
needed.

COLLEGE

Vakalo College of Art and

Design, Athens (Greece)
TUTOR(S)

George Pavlopoulos
(visual artist)
TECHNOLOGY

Paper, colour markers,

self-adhesive film
TIME SPENT

2 weeks
TYPEFACE

Trade Gothic Condensed

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Spaghetti bolognese
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

A watch

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Simplicity.

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

ATHENS, GREECE

19

Michael Georgiou (G Design Studio)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

A diverse background +
Integrity

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2008

Because of the concept.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

OUTCOMES

Design a poster for the

exhibition Mapping
(Europe), a co-production
of Apeiron Photos and
the photography agency
Corbis

A strong concept was

visualized easily due to
technology.

CLIENT

Apeiron-Corbis
COLLABORATOR(S)

Alexandros Gavrilakis
TECHNOLOGY

Laser-cut Forex and

digital print
TIME SPENT

3 days
TYPEFACE

Helvetica

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Spaghetti bolognese

DO YOU TEACH?

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION NOW

Vakalo College of Art

and Design (Greece),
Graphic Design.

My art collection

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

I have been a graphic

design tutor since 1992.
The thing I try to pass on
is the importance of
conducting research
before starting to
design.

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MICHAEL GEORGIOU, 1984

MICHAEL GEORGIOU, 2008

G DESIGN STUDIO

STUDENT YEARS

DUTCH

Nikki Gonnissen
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Set some goals and try to reach

them + No warnings

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1993

It was a private project, and

I therefore created my own
private world.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

The Knee was my final

exam project. It was a
self-initiated project
COLLEGE

to make a new advertising

campaign, and we did, but
for us it was important also
to rebrand all forms of
communication business
cards, commercials, the
newspaper itself, radio spots,
the Internet, etc.

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

Certain spreads didnt come

out so well.

Hogeschool voor de
Kunsten Utrecht
(The Netherlands)

OUTCOMES

TUTOR(S)

FEEDBACK

Wim Wal

I got my diploma.

It was very difficult to get

my own thoughts clear.

TECHNOLOGY

Silkscreen printing
TIME SPENT

6 months
TYPEFACE

Joanna

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Indonesian (my mother

comes from Indonesia)
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

If family is a possession,
my family

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

I think it starts with ambition.

Both projects are very
ambitious. In 1993 there
were no colour printers,
and I wanted to make a real
publication, not one with
sticky Letraset type. So
I made a big effort to silkscreen the book. I found
a publisher who sponsored
the project. Like all students,
I wanted to show my
complete self within this
book. I would never try this
again; it was horrible.
Now when I look back at
the project I think I already
identified with social issues.
The whole knee book is
about falling, being overthrown, being a failure.
Its about hierarchy, and
I had a deep sympathy for
the fallen person and the
lower social classes. I used
pictures and texts from
books and newspapers,
and made some myself,
of workmen on their knees,
praying men, pilgrims, a
shot-down man, wounded
people, etc.
The nrc (professional) project
was ambitious because
we approached it from a
designers and not an
advertisement agencys
perspective. The brief was

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There is a similarity in content

between the two projects
also. I have read this newspaper for years now, so I was
already personally engaged.
It publishes news in an
independent but critical way,
it is forward-looking, it
approaches people not as
consumers but as citizens
with their own opinions.
Its subjects are social and
political. We decided to use
the news in order to advertise
the newspaper itself. So, for
example, we featured a
photo of the pope and
accompanied it with the
word: truth? So nrc is
announcing and commenting
on the news of the day
through an advertisement
in its own newspaper.
So another similarity is the
engagement within the
approach.
Also important is changing
the context, and therefore
also changing the form
or altering the content.
Stylistically there are
similarities too, such as
the use of pictures and
contrasting simple signs.
In the case of the knee
book, a hinge above a
pilgrim woman kneeling.
In the case of nrc, the
guillemet alongside a
picture of the pope.

PROFESSIONAL YEARS

AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

19

Nikki Gonnissen (Thonik)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Being able to focus and collaborate,

being ambitious, interested,
communicative + Being able to
focus and collaborate, being
ambitious, interested, practical,
realistic, communicative but also
having an experimental attitude
YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2010

This is a project in the midst

of society. We developed a new
brand: nrc, along with a new
theme, ik denk nrc (I think
nrc). nrc now has different
products: nrc Handelsblad, nrc
next and nrc.nl. In the design
for the brand, the guillemet
(angle quote) has the lead.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

To create a new
advertising campaign
for Hollands most
intellectual newspaper
company
CLIENT

nrc Media

OUTCOMES
COLLABORATOR(S)

Cross media

It was very exciting to work

for a newspaper that I had
been reading myself for years.
We shared many values.

TIME SPENT

FEEDBACK

6 months

The project was very

successful; we had a lot of
positive reactions. But we
also had some negative ones
those came from the
advertising scene, mostly on
blogs. I think we came, as
graphic designers, too close
to their area of expertise.

Thonik studio staff

TECHNOLOGY

TYPEFACE

Lexicon

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Indonesian, Japanese,
French
DO YOU TEACH?
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

At the moment I teach

on the Masters course
in Graphic Design at the
Academy of Art and
Design, St. Joost, Breda
(The Netherlands).

Family, books, shields,

ceremonial outfits,
bis poles from
the Asmat

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

It is very hard for

students to focus.

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NIKKI GONNISSEN, 1993

NIKKI GONNISSEN, 2010

THONIK

STUDENT YEARS

GERMAN

Oliver Klimpel
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

More courage
who dares wins +
Think about it

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

OUTCOMES

1996

Its design was very much at

odds with what was taught at
the college and what graphics
looked like in Leipzig. It was
fun and looked nice inside
the college building on the neoclassical columns. I enjoyed
using Molli, the typeface,
because it seemed such
a weird/vernacular choice
at the time

It was nice to bring a different

idea of visual communication
to the announcement for a
college show. Ive done more
projects with that photography
class and am working, as we
speak, on a book for the
photographer who ran that unit
at the time, Timm Rautert.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Design posters for a series

of student exhibitions for
one class in the photography department of
the Leipzig art college.
Title: Fin Sans
COLLEGE

Hochschule fr Grafik und

Buchkunst Leipzig
(Germany)
TUTOR(S)

Prof. Rolf Felix Mller

(Klasse Illustration)
COLLABORATOR(S)

The photography students

involved
TECHNOLOGY

Inkjet and laser printout,

manual cropping

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

FEEDBACK

Not legible, too confusing,

not respectful enough

It is very much of its time and

doesnt look that special today.
It might have only worked in
the very specific context of the
college. I had the idea at the
time to have the diagonal line
going back and forth like a
metronome from one show to
the next to the next. There
were not enough shows to
make that clear

TYPEFACE

Molli, a display typeface

by Typoart, the former
type foundry of East
Germany, and Helvetica
Extended

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Cheap
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

I basically selected
the pieces because
they are quite different.
But they share a
leaning towards the
typographic.

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

12

Oliver Klimpel (Bro International)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Being self-motivated and

brave, cheeky, not risk-averse +
Able to foresee the consequences
and results of processes plus
generosity

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2003

I like it for its proportional pun

and deadpan fun. However,
I like to think theres a chance
of profundity in it. But I selected
this poster because of its quite
different idea of a poster to
the one done in 1996.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Design of promotional/
recruitment poster for the
newly started Masters
course at Central Saint
Martins College of Art &
Design: MA Creative
Practice for Narrative
Environments. To be sent
out to other colleges and
other institutions.
CLIENT

Tricia Austin, Course

Leader, MA Creative
Practice for Narrative
Environments at Central
Saint Martins College
of Art & Design
TECHNOLOGY

Offset litho, 2 colours

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

The weak spot of the project is

probably the distribution of the
posters and the dependence
on people of putting the
posters up on message boards
where there is stiff competition
for space. I do know from
friends, though, that posters
did hang at least in some
UK colleges.
OUTCOMES

I did more work for the course

and came in as a visiting tutor
a few times.

TYPEFACE

Times New Roman

FEEDBACK

Not catchy enough, no image,

too discreet. Nice and simple.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

DO YOU TEACH?

Japanese

I am a Professor for
System-Design at the
Hochschule fr Grafik
und Buchkunst Leipzig
(Germany).

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION NOW

Currently my new sofa,

otherwise a painting by
Peter McDonald and
a few books

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Yes: Craft. Techniques

and camaraderie.
Fairness. Thoroughness
and being critical.
Doubt, Delight and
Change (Cedric Price).

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OLIVER KLIMPEL, 1996

OLIVER KLIMPEL, 2003

BRO INTERNATIONAL

STUDENT YEARS

BRITISH

Paul Barnes
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Look at the books in the

library + Dont expect to get
your way at all times

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1992

For the enjoyment of

manufacturing something
using all the technology; from
working by hand, to handsetting, to using the Macintosh
and creating something
physical from many materials.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

A type specimen made at

the University of Reading
COLLEGE

University of Reading
(United Kingdom)

OUTCOMES
TUTOR(S)

Paul Stiff
TECHNOLOGY

Hand rendering, letterpress

type, photocopying (B&W/
colour), painting, laserprinted type from Apple
Macintosh using
Pagemaker software

It crystallized a way of thinking

and aesthetic I had been
practising when at college;
it reached its end conclusion
in this project. It was the end
of being a student.
FEEDBACK

It seemed well received.

ANYTHING ELSE

TIME SPENT

3 weeks
TYPEFACE

Akzidenz Grotesk, Bauer

Bodoni, Kuenstler Schrift,
Caslon, Caslon Black,
Futura Black, Futura,
Monotype Garamond,
Wilhelm Klingspor Schrift,
Caslon Ornaments, Kilmer,
Optima, Palace, Univers,
Van Dijck, Venus

In most of the work you do,

you almost always feel it could
be better or done differently.
With both of these projects
(student and professional
shown overleaf) they are
exactly as I envisaged them
and I am proud of them.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Pasta
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Both have their roots

in the handmade and
the past and how the
past can inform the
future.

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

19

Paul Barnes
A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Curiosity + Curiosity and patience

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1997 2010

Having an idea and taking

it to its conclusion and doing
it to the best of ones level
of craft.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Self-initiated typeface
design (Dala Floda)
CLIENT

Self-initiated

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

The length of time it took

to design.

COLLABORATOR(S)

Commercial Type
(Christian Schwartz and
Berton Hasebe)

OUTCOMES

Finally learning and understanding how to make

a typeface from an idea.

TECHNOLOGY

Apple Macintosh,
Illustrator, Fontographer
and Fontlab software

FEEDBACK

It seemed to be well
received.

TIME SPENT

13 years on and off

TYPEFACE

It is a font Dala Floda

DO YOU TEACH?

No
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

I think if we accept that

design is in part
technical or craft, then
its possible to teach
people the craft and
technics of design.
The problem is how we
teach the creative part
of design. That seems
to be more elusive.
I think also that the
history of design is also
teachable, and probably
in my opinion a vital
thing for design
education. Certainly
at the University of
Reading, I learned the
technical, craft and
historical aspects
of typography.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Sushi and homemade bread

YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

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PAUL BARNES, 1992

PAUL BARNES, 1997 2010

PAUL BARNES AND COMMERCIAL TYPE

Dala Floda

Dala Floda has its roots in the typefaces of

the Renaissance but adds the twist of being
a stencil letterform. Originally inspired by
worn gravestone lettering and lettering on
shipping crates, the elegance of the forms
belies their everyday origins.
PUBLISHED
2010
DESIGNED BY
PAUL BARNES
16 STYLES
8 WEIGHTS W/ ITALICS
FEATURES
PROPORTIONAL OLDSTYLE FIGURES
PROPORTIONAL LINING FIGURES
SMALL CAPS (ROMAN)
FRACTIONS
SWASH CAPITALS
DISCRETIONARY LIGATURES

First designed in 1997 for a logotype, Dala Floda eventually

became the headline typeface for the art magazine frieze in
2005. Since then the family has grown considerably, with the
addition of an italic and a range of heavier weights, all the
way up to a fat weight. Its stencil form makes it well suited
for headline use and especially for logotypes.

Sesquicentennials
Autobiographical
Photojournalsm
Grindavkurbr
Decompensates
Setzmaschinen
DALA FLODA ROMAN, 60 PT

DALA FLODA ROMAN NO. 2, 60 PT

DALA FLODA MEDIUM, 60 PT

DALA FLODA BOLD, 60 PT

DALA FLODA BLACK, 60 PT

DALA FLODA FAT, 60 PT

[SWASH r]

Dala Floda Roman

Dala Floda Italic
Dala Floda Roman No. 2
Dala Floda Italic No. 2
Dala Floda Medium
Dala Floda Medium Italic
Dala Floda Bold
Dala Floda Bold Italic
Dala Floda Black
Dala Floda Black Italic
Dala Floda Fat
Dala Floda Fat Italic

Officiation
KVITSY
Distinctive
Contributes
ANTIQUE
Bichromatic
DALA FLODA ROMAN, 100 PT

DALA FLODA ITALIC, 100 PT

[ALTERNATE Y, DISCRETIONARY ct LIGATURE]

[SWASH A Q]

STUDENT YEARS

AMERICAN

Prem Krishnamurthy
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Pay close attention to the things

you like and why + Dont be lazy in
your work, thinking or actions in
the world. Always seek to
overperform

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

1998

First, one major outcome of

the project was that I received
the assignment at random to
watch at least three films by
David Lynch. Having barely
seen his work before, I took
the opportunity to watch nearly
all of his films before deciding
which ones to make posters
for. His films made a great
impression on me then, in the
way that they uniformly found
pockets of deep strangeness
and uncanny activity within the
contours of everyday American
life. So the brief itself proved to
be a learning experience.
Over the course of developing
the poster concept, I came to
the solution of actually creating
three posters (in one case,
a still image on a DVD), which
I would insert into locations
that possessed the weirdness
intrinsic to Lynchs films; the
final step would be photographing them to create the
finished posters. This approach
seemed natural enough to me,
as it combined my existing
interest in photographing
interiors with a self-referential
approach to design. And it
turned out, back then, to be the
perfect method of making a set
of graphic posters for these
very particular films.

The typography and design of

the posters within the posters.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Create a series of movie

posters for screenings
of three films by a single
filmmaker (who was
assigned randomly)
COLLEGE

Yale College,
New Haven (USA)
TUTOR(S)

Michael Rock
TECHNOLOGY

Illustrator, Nikon 35mm

camera, Photoshop
TIME SPENT

23 weeks
TYPEFACE

Agenda

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Taco Bell bean burritos

OUTCOMES

This was the first time that

I had tried to combine my
interests in photography and
design in a conscious and
compact manner. I also
realized that graphic design
could become spatialized and
inhabit real contexts; this
interest in the particularities
and specificity of spaces
continued to grow over the
years.
FEEDBACK

When these posters were

shown in an undergraduate
end-of-semester art show,
a graduate design student
remarked that they were the
best pieces in the show,
which was quite flattering.

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Although I see the two

projects as quite
different in essential
approach, I find them
to have a common
interest in situating
graphic design within
real spaces and also
allowing design to
spread in unusual ways.
Both projects collapse
representation and
presentation in different
ways. Also, for me, the
earlier project presages
my later deep engagement with exhibitions
and physical spaces
that nevertheless
demonstrate a certain
self-awareness.

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION THEN

My 45 camera

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

NEW YORK, USA

12

Prem Krishnamurthy (Project Projects)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Desire + Resolve

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

OUTCOMES

2008

After Neurath: The Global Polis

was an exhibition in The Hague,
The Netherlands, in 2008.
Without delving too much into
the content of the show [more
information on the show is
here: http://bit.ly/hWVGZ6],
the exhibition served as an
interesting opportunity to test
out several ideas in exhibition
design, which again came
directly from the subject matter
itself. Given Otto Neuraths
forward-thinking ideas about
mass-produced exhibitions,
we decided to create a set of
posters for the show that
would present the wall texts
within the exhibition while also
functioning as take-aways that
could serve as a secondary,
portable mini-exhibition in
the home of the visitor or in
other contexts.

This was the first exhibition

I had designed where I had not
visited the exhibition space
previously; as such, this was
a useful learning experience
in visualizing a space through
virtual models only, and then
adjusting the installation to
match the actual space.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Design an exhibition
on the city planning and
radical thinking on
urbanism and space
of Otto Neurath
CLIENT

Stroom Den Haag

(The Netherlands)
(Curator: Nader
Vossoughian)
COLLABORATOR(S)

Adam Michaels,
Chris Wu
TECHNOLOGY

Adobe InDesign,
Illustrator, Photoshop
TIME SPENT

2 months
TYPEFACE

Neutraface 2 Display,
FF Bau, Plantin

FEEDBACK

The exhibition was very well

received in the architecture
and design press, and in
general by the public. The
take-away posters ran out
before the shows end
also a good sign.

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

The typography of the posters,

perhaps.

DO YOU TEACH?

Generally yes, though

currently no. Past
teaching includes:
University of
Connecticut (USA),
advanced design, senior
thesis. Parsons The
New School for Design
(USA), senior thesis.
Rhode Island School of
Design (USA), graduate
elective course.
University of the Arts
Bremen (Germany),
visiting designer
workshop.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Yes, otherwise I wouldnt

teach! Though in college,
I actually learned not so
much about design
apart from good typography, which is one
thing you can teach that
is essential! but,
rather, about how to
think about design.
And I happened to have
enough self-awareness
to know what things
I was very weak in,
and to work very hard
to get better at them.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Chicken shawarma
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

My notebooks from
the past years

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PREM KRISHNAMURTHY 1998

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY, 2008

PROJECT PROJECTS

STUDENT YEARS

BRAZILIAN/AMERICAN

Renata Graw
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

One can never say something

wont work until they have done it +
Dont be afraid to fail

YEAR OF PROJECT

COLLEGE

OUTCOMES

2008

University of Illinois
at Chicago (USA)

Besides the tangible product,

both Caf 4102 and Lumpen
Magazine served as platforms
to explore and experiment with
what we knew, skills and
otherwise, and what we were
interested in/studying at the
time. I think we were fortunate
in both projects to work with
great collaborators who really
allowed us and the projects to
realize their full potential (well,
as full as could happen within
one week). With Caf 4102
we gained the experience of
working together outside of
a school assignment, which,
in a way, led to us starting our
own studio practice.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Caf 4102: Our friend and

colleague Phillip Matesic
approached us during our
final thesis semester as
he had decided to change
the format of his thesis
paper from a theoretical
paper to a small book.
The book would capture
the essence and dialogue
of his caf project and
remain as a document of
an ephemeral installation.
As Phillip said, I have one
week to develop a sample
version and have no skills
with a layout program.
I have been working in
Word just to get a feel
for the image+ text
relationship and will now
work with real photos and
cut-out text. Would you
or anyone you know
in the Graphic Design
programme be willing to
help me lay out the book?
Though it was an intense
time for all of us, we gladly
accepted the project.

TUTOR(S)

Phillip Matesic
(client and friend)
COLLABORATOR(S)

Jeremiah Chiu,
Phillip Matesic
TECHNOLOGY

Hands, photography,
computers
TIME SPENT

1 week
TYPEFACE

Nimbus Condensed
Rounded and Scala Serif
WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

This project was really the first

in-school, but self-initiated,
project Jeremiah and I (now
Plural) collaborated on fully
from start to finish. We enjoyed
the opportunity to create a real,
tangible piece, we liked the
fact that it felt like a real, clientbased project, where we were
in charge of all aspects from
designing and editing to
printing and producing.

FEEDBACK

Phillip and his colleagues were

pleased with the outcome and
we like to think it served as
a successful documentation
of his project.

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Both projects were

fun; labours of love.
The opportunity to
collaborate with
artists and makers to
explore and experiment
with new ways of
experiencing the world
is why we do what
we do.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

I love all things food, but

(Cont. opposite now)
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

My camera

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

CHICAGO, USA

12

Renata Graw (Plural)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

For both: Curiosity,

experimentation, patience

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

OUTCOMES

2010

We took this project on as

a challenge, but also to create
a piece that would showcase
what we were capable of,
as we were, and still are,
interested in creating/
designing publications.
We liked the challenge of
creating something that tested
our limits, both in time and
skill, resulting in something
meaningful. What we liked
the most was working with
Ed, who really understood the
relationship between client
and designer, and valued our
insight and research, which
ultimately allowed us to push
ourselves further and try out
things we had never tried
before.

With Lumpen Magazine,

we received quite a bit of
recogni-tion from our peers
and the professional field
alike (see feedback).
With the recognition, we
have been fortunate to gain
a few new clients who are
interested in collaborating on
meaningful projects. Lumpen
continues to serve as a project
where we can explore our
current ideas and constantly
collaborate with a variety
of artists, writers, etc.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Lumpen Magazine:
Ed Marszewski, founder
and overlord of Public
Media Institute, contacted
us about redesigning
Lumpen Magazine to
begin its 18th year. As
the scheduling had been
revised, there was very
little time left before the
issue was to be released
to print. With only one
week ahead of us, we
were to rethink every
aspect of the magazine
from the logo/masthead
and format to the
typesetting and layout.
CLIENT

Ed Marszewski (Public
Media Institute)
COLLABORATOR(S)

Jeremiah Chiu,
Ed Marszewski
TECHNOLOGY

Hands, photography,
computers
TIME SPENT

1 week (a very
intense week)

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

Nothing. Design decisions are

made with the knowledge and
experience you have at the
time. Lumpen is an ongoing
project, it has been evolving
from one issue to the next.
We enjoy that. For us, it serves
as a document of the time;
one that we can go back to and
remember the decisions,
preferences, ideas, revolutions
of that moment.

TYPEFACE

FEEDBACK

Ed and his readers/community

were thrilled with the new
redesign, as it created a
new experience that was
bold, fresh and engaging.
Since then, Lumpen has
received recognition from
Communication Arts, PRINT
Magazine, Taiwan DPI and
the Type Directors Club.
ANYTHING ELSE

Because this project now and

the project then were very fast
projects, we didnt have time
to doubt our decisions. There
was time to develop only one
idea, so we had to focus on
the task at hand.

Golden Type, Bodoni,

Univers among others
a lot of drawn type too

DO YOU TEACH?

University of Illinois at
Chicago (USA), Graphic
Design and Typography.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Yes. I believe it is
possible to teach design
technique. It is important
to learn the rules so you
can break them, and to
learn the history so you
can understand your
role in it. More important
is to teach how to see
and think critically and
creatively.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

I am addicted to just
one: coffee
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

My hands

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RENATA GRAW, 2008

RENATA GRAW, 2010

PLURAL

STUDENT YEARS

BRITISH

Richard Walker
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Always finish your work +

Dont feel obliged to have
an opinion on everything.
If you dont know,
say you dont know

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1996

I liked the sense of urgency.

I liked the fact you could make
an attention-grabbing poster
with a lot of words.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

I think the college brief

was a one-day project run
by Scott King. Something
about breaking the rules
of communication.

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

I was going for a Pushpin

look, but got it a bit wrong.

COLLEGE

FEEDBACK

Camberwell College of
Arts, London (United
Kingdom)
TUTOR(S)

Scott King dismissed the

work as a bit old, but was
impressed I managed to
finish it in one day.

Scott King

ANYTHING ELSE

COLLABORATOR(S)

Stewart, the printmaking

technician at Camberwell
College of Arts
TECHNOLOGY

Silkscreen
TIME SPENT

1 day
TYPEFACE

Looks like Gill Sans

extra bold

The rule, Too many words are

counter-productive if you want
to grab public attention is from
a list of rules written by Bill
Drummond in the manual
How to Have a Number One
the Easy Way by The KLF.
It was a rule they applied to
making pop records. I was
seeing if the same rule applied
visually. I thought I was being
clever at the time, but looking
at it again I think its a bit naff.

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

They were both made

at Camberwell College
of Arts. I know someone
who knows someone
who works in the
letterpress room, and he
did me a favour.
They are both playing
with words and type.
They both state the
literal obvious and are
a bit ironic. They both
used traditional
techniques silkscreen
and letterpress. They
both took a similar
amount of time to make.
They both have similar
influences from 1960s
collectives namely
Pushpin and Fluxus.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Indian food
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

I had an original copy

of How to Have a
Number One the Easy
Way by the KLF

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

15

Richard Walker (KK Outlet/KesselsKramer)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Develop a thick skin +

Be punctual and polite

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2010

Ive always liked the fingerpointing icon; I think its quite

rude.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Poster for an exhibition at

KK Outlet. The exhibition
was called Were All Art
Directors. Erik Kessels
asked all the art directors
from KesselsKramer to
show their personal work.
I was just asked to make
something to go on a
sandwich board outside
the gallery.

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

I like it as it is.
OUTCOMES

A sense of completion.
Jobs tend to drag on in
advertising. Ive worked on
campaigns that have literally
taken two years to make
four posters.
FEEDBACK

CLIENT

KK Outlet/KesselsKramer,
London (United Kingdom)
COLLABORATOR(S)

The letterpress technician

at Camberwell College
of Arts

The finger-pointing poster

is the biggest-selling poster
in our shop at KK Outlet.
ANYTHING ELSE

I think I prefer the fingerpointing poster in relation

to the work then.

TECHNOLOGY

Letterpress
TIME SPENT

1 day
TYPEFACE

Grot something or other

(it was the biggest font
they had)

DO YOU TEACH?

No.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

My tutor used to point

me in the direction
of what books to have a
look at, what exhibitions
to go and see and let
me get on with it and
then hassle me to
finish what Id started.
There is an art to being
a teacher; just because
you work as a designer
does not mean you
have the ability to teach,
and vice versa Im
not going to pretend
I have the ability to
teach a class of 30
art students.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Cheese
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

I have an original May 68

poster. Its the one with
the riot policeman holding
a baton. I love it, but it has
a big SS symbol on the
shield. My wife wont have
it in the house. Ive tried
explaining that its actually
very anti-fascist, but
I see her point

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RICHARD WALKER, 1996

RICHARD WALKER, 2010

KK OUTLET/KESSELSKRAMER

STUDENT YEARS

CANADIAN/SWISS

10

Sandra Hoffmann
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Difficult to answer here

YEAR OF PROJECT

TUTOR(S)

OUTCOMES

1990

Moritz Zwimpfer (project

initiated in a class with Armin
Hofmann, Brissago 1986)
TECHNOLOGY

Lovely painting moments

overlooking the Rhine. It was
often sunny. Interesting
dialogue with the instructor.

Plaka, water, paper, paintbrush

FEEDBACK

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Colour class: Colour

compositions of my
coloured days 7 from
126 compositions.
Visualization exploration
searching for the
corresponding colour
combination of my mental
imagery of the words
Monday to Sunday.
COLLEGE

Schule fr Gestaltung,
Basel (Switzerland)

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Canadian
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

A toolbox with instruments

(Swann-Morton scalpel,
marble, roller, Caran dAche
pens and pencils, Racher
typometre, calculating
scale, Falzbein, Cementit,
Kern compasses, mink
paintbrushes, loupe, Juwel
stapler, Prismacolor pencil
crayons, Gedess pencil
sharpener, bulldog clips,
magnets, Omega Reissnagel drawing-pins, hole
punch, stamp pad and
letter stamps, technograph
777 pencils, gyro compass,
burnisher, green masking
tape, brown paper tape,
Post-its, Minox, coloured
stones, Klebeband from
EPA, Pelikan plaka,
sketchbooks from
Rebetez, Knetgummi,
Ilford canisters)

TIME SPENT

1 year of Friday afternoons

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

For the investigation between

the interaction of colour and
form. Colours in relationship
to other colours through
change in proportions.
Refinement and enrichment
of a personal colour vocabulary
(SfG-Basics). Making the
colour compositions was very
satisfying, as well as the joy
of seeing my day colours
come to life.

It was difficult to exactly pinpoint the colours of the days.

Although they were in
my mind, getting them on
the paper was not easy.
I didnt know then that not
everyone has specific colour
correspondences for their
days of the week.

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

I was not aware that my

coloured days are slightly
different depending on
the language. I would have
to make variations in
English and in German.

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

The similarity between

the projects lies in the
content, the topic of
synaesthesia. At the
time of the intitial
project, it was unknown
to me that not everyone
experiences this way of
seeing, or possibly is
not aware of it. I am
convinced that this way
of seeing influences
not only everyday life,
but also the way of
designing and decisionmaking.

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

BERNE, SWITZERLAND

26

Sandra Hoffmann Robbiani

(Visual Studies)
A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Sight and insight, self-initiative +

As above plus the ability
to focus, persistence, vigorousness,
a thick skin, boldness

YEAR OF PROJECT

CLIENT

OUTCOMES

2011

Hessische Hochschulen
research grant

This small piece accompanies

a larger theoretical
investigation. A productive
balance between making and
thinking and writing.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Designerly research:
Compendium of
Typographic Synaesthesia.
Inventory of Aspects.
A booklet accompanying
a workshop to increase
the awareness of
synaesthesia. The aim
of this study is to initiate
visual evidence of the
synaesthetic phenomenon
that has recently been
made verifiable through
neuroscientific research.
The investigation develops
a design-specific methodology for synaesthetic
research, which will
provide insight into
synaesthesia from a
designers point of view.

TECHNOLOGY

Computer-generated
TIME SPENT

3 months
TYPEFACE

Times New Roman,

Letter Gothic
WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

FEEDBACK

This research project

investigates the phenomenon,
but the reaction of disbelief
or astonishment still
accompanies the work.

Through the interaction

between design and science,
new knowledge can be gained
about the phenomenon of
synaesthesia.
WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

The terminology is diffuse.

I am trying to define and
develop a precise vocabulary
to accompany the topic.
The rendering skills could
be better.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Italian, Ticinese
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

The diamond necklace

from my husband

DO YOU TEACH?

Professor at the
Hochschule Darmstadt,
Faculty of Design,
Darmstadt (Germany).
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

I try.

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SANDRA HOFFMANN, 1990

SANDRA HOFFMANN ROBBIANI, 2011

VISUAL STUDIES

STUDENT YEARS

GERMAN

Sascha Lobe
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Be fast, but dont trip over your

own feet + Never stop!

YEAR OF PROJECT

TIME SPENT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1990 97

I always spent the time that

I felt was necessary for each
particular job and that it
took until I was satisfied
despite tight deadlines.

Both projects (then and now)

are pieces of work in which
a visual image evolved over
a period of several years and
that had to (and was allowed
to) do without any set rules
thats great fun and lets us
experiment and try things out.
Of course, you learn most from
this kind of work. Unfortunately,
these are small projects,
both in terms of budget and
print run, etc.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Development of an open
flexible corporate image
that continues to work
over a longer period
and that always offers
new solutions for posters
and flyers
COLLEGE

Hochschule Pforzheim
(Germany)
TUTOR(S)

Self-initiated project for

Kupferdchle Pforzheim,
a youth club. The project
began before I was a
student, and I worked
on it until after I had
graduated.

TYPEFACE

Over the course of time, I have

experimented with various
fonts, starting with Kabel.
Interestingly, it was created
by Rudolf Koch, who worked
at HfG Offenbach from 1921,
the school where I teach
typography which is a nice
coincidence. Later I used
Metro (William Addison
Dwiggins) and various fronts
by Emigre (e.g. Base).

FEEDBACK

The works for Kupferdchle

mostly met with positive
reactions. As a student, of
course, it was great that the
works were also published
by various specialist
magazines.

TECHNOLOGY

Apple Macintosh,
Photoshop, QuarkXPress,
offset printing, silkscreen
printing

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Italian cuisine
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

Books
PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Both projects work

with typographical
modifications and with
layering; those are
probably the stylistic
devices that suit
me best.

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

STUTTGART, GERMANY

20

Sascha Lobe (L2M3)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

An open mind towards the world.

Self-confidence; recognizing ones own
skills and weaknesses. Good communication.
The ability to distinguish between and
to integrate concept and styling +
Professionals need to be a bit better at figures
perhaps, but, besides that, all as above
YEAR OF PROJECT

TIME SPENT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2006 ongoing

We usually work between

three and five days on a poster
for the Wrttembergischer
Kunstverein. Often, this is very
difficult due to lack of time.
Nevertheless, the yardstick
is generally not time but the
quality achieved and
satisfaction with it.

See answer opposite (then).

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Development of an open
flexible corporate image
that continues to work
over a longer period and
that always offers new
solutions for posters
and flyers
CLIENT

Wrttembergischer
Kunstverein, Stuttgart
(Germany)
COLLABORATOR(S)

Ina Bauer, a staff member

at L2M3

TYPEFACE

I have stuck to sans serif

fonts, and I still switch fonts,
too at least in this project.
From poster to poster,
Monotype Grotesque is
accompanied by a font that
suits the particular topic.

FEEDBACK

We generally get very positive

feedback from graphic artists
and designers (and from
Iris Dressler and Hans Christ
at Wrttembergischer
Kunstverein, the client, too,
thank goodness). With artists,
it varies a lot; some accept the
fact that the designer is an
author himself; others would
rather do their own posters.

TECHNOLOGY

Apple Macintosh,
Photoshop, InDesign,
offset printing

DO YOU TEACH?

I have been Professor

of Typography at the
Hochschule fr
Gestaltung Offenbach
(Germany) since 2010
and taught at various
colleges before that.
FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Japanese cuisine

Thats a very difficult

question. I think you
can create a certain
atmosphere in which
students work and you
can ask the right or
wrong questions. And
you can offer them a
sphere that deals with
technical aspects and
reflection on the media.
The rest is hope

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION NOW

Books

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SASCHA LOBE, 199097

SASCHA LOBE, 2006 ONGOING

L2M3

STUDENT YEARS

AUSTRIAN

Stefan Sagmeister
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Work your ass off +

Dont be an asshole

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1984

It was a fun process to be able

to come up with 20 different
posters for the same theatre,
and, as a student, it was such
a thrill that the project was
real, i.e., that parts of it
got produced and were hung
all over Vienna.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

To save a historic
theatre from destruction
by bringing it back to
the attention of the
Viennese public
COLLEGE

Universitt fr angewandte
Kunst Wien (Austria)

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

I would take the form more

seriously.

TUTOR(S)

Prof. Kurt Schwarz

COLLABORATOR(S)

Thomas Sandri
(manufacturer)

OUTCOMES

That was one of only two real

projects in my portfolio that
I was happy with at the time.
FEEDBACK

TECHNOLOGY

Various media
TIME SPENT

It worked; the theatre was

saved, and is now one of the
leading theatres in Vienna.

6 months
TYPEFACE

Custom font

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Zrich veal with cream

sauce and mushrooms
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

Silkscreen equipment

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Variatons on a theme.

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

NEW YORK, USA

23

Stefan Sagmeister (Sagmeister Inc.)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Tenacity + Curiosity

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2008

TYPEFACE

Its a good example of a

changing identity really
working for the clients
interest. Our goal was to show
the many different kinds of
music performed in one house.
Depending on the music it is
filled with, the house changes
its character and works dicelike by displaying different
views and facets of music.
A Casa da Musica logo
generator was developed
a custom piece of software
connected to a scanner that
turns any image into an
animated and still image
Casa da Musica logo within
a fraction of a second.

Custom font

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

To create a visual identity

for a music centre in
Portugal
CLIENT

Guta Muera Guedes,

Casa da Musica
COLLABORATOR(S)

Matthias Ernstberger,
Quentin Walesh,
Ralph Ammer
TECHNOLOGY

Various media
TIME SPENT

10 months

I would stay involved longer

than two years.
OUTCOMES

We receive many client calls

about identities, saying that
they saw Casa da Musica.
FEEDBACK

The identity received a lot of

press in design circles and is
still properly used even after
the marketing director
changed.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Tiny bow Shanghainese

soup dumplings

DO YOU TEACH?

Graduate Design,
School of Visual
Arts, New York (USA).
Course name: Is it
possible to touch
someones heart
with design?

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION NOW

My dads watch

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

I learned the most

from my classmates.

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STEFAN SAGMEISTER, 1984

STEFAN SAGMEISTER, 2008

SAGMEISTER INC.

STUDENT YEARS

GERMAN

Sven Voelker
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

The years of studying are nice but

afterwards it gets even better its
worth it to finish + If its at all possible,
dont work so much in bars or driving
taxis; use the time for studying
its better brief but intense

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

FEEDBACK

1998

It was a mad idea in the

first place. That was long
before design conferences
were a common thing at art
schools. Back then, designers
went to professional
conferences like the Typo
Berlin. We wanted to offer an
alternative, a Woodstock sort
of thing. It was a wonderful
thing to see how we, a small
group of students, were able
to accomplish a huge
conference with 1,300 visitors.

The Profile Intermedia

developed into a wonderful
conference series over the
years. Many other students
have worked in the organizing
teams together with Peter Rea
over the years. There was
much positive feedback,
but I have to say that the
credits go to a very big group
of individuals. Though I must
say, nobody after us probably
ever had the chance to walk
with Peter Greenaway and
Laurie Makela through heavy
snow at midnight.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Self-initiated project
programme for a Profile
Intermedia conference at
the Hochschule fr
Knste Bremen
COLLEGE

Hochschule fr Knste
Bremen (Germany)
COLLABORATOR(S)

Peter Rea (tutor),

Thomas Weiling and
Dorthe Meinhardt
(fellow students)
TIME SPENT

18 months
TYPEFACE

Helvetica

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

I wouldnt change anything.

OUTCOMES

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

This project was very important

to me. I met many people
during this project who I am
still friends with today: John
Warwicker (Tomato, UK), Laurie
Makela (Los Angeles, USA),
Michael Schirner (Germany)
but also a lot of journalists and
other people within our small
world of graphic design.

I think the two projects

are very similiar. In
terms of concept, they
are nearly identical.
I like to set up a surface
on which many people
can place something.
You can call it a platform
or a project, but it is
always something that
involves others. This
was my way of studying
and it is the way I teach.
Besides this conceptual
similarity, both are also
very similar in their look.
I like Grotesk typefaces
and I find it difficult to
decide whether I prefer
Helvetica, Arial or,
now, Francois Rappos
Theinhardt. I am not
good at making rich
layouts; I prefer it if
everything is simple and
honest. Sometimes that
looks boring, but then
you have to make
the story even more
exciting.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Ksesptzle (thimble
dumplings made with
cheese)
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

My most expensive asset

at the time was a Paul
Smith suit. Actually, not
right it was the first G3
PowerBook for approx.
4,000

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

BERLIN, GERMANY

11

Sven Voelker (Sven Voelker Studio)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

A student should learn to develop his own

projects seminars are OK, self-initiated
projects are better + A designer should
learn to develop his own projects clients
are OK, self-initiated projects are better

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

OUTCOMES

2010

The students put together

a great new magazine in an
amazingly short period of
time. While doing that, maybe
without intention, they created
an exceptional platform for all
our activities. The magazine
is not the final product; it is the
beginning of new things. We
are able to involve companies
like smart or ABSOLUT,
artists like Lawrence Weiner,
Apparatjik and Luc Tuymans
or journalists like Hendrik
Lakeberg and Max Dax in
our work at the art school.

It is the motor of all my

activities at the art school.
But it is only a motor; what is
really interesting is where it
can take us. Again it has made
clear that graphic design is
nice, but a good story is much
more. I want designers to
work like artists and authors.
I dont want them to talk about
type sizes, but about words
and sentences. A designer
who talks about typefaces all
the time is like a photographer
who talks and talks about
his Nikon or a drummer who
keeps throwing his mind
and money at the latest gear.
A good camera has never
made a good photographer,
a good drum kit never made a
good drummer, and using
a good typeface will not make
you a good designer.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Self-initiated project
the concept, research and
design of a magazine
made by students at the
Burg Giebichenstein
Kunsthochschule Halle
(Germany)
CLIENT

Burg Giebichenstein
Kunsthochschule Halle
COLLABORATOR(S)

A group of students
(Juliane Hohlbaum,
Rafaela Lorenz,
Ulrike Schuckmann)
TIME SPENT

1 semester
TYPEFACE

Various

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

It is a lot of work. Making

a magazine looks easy in the
first place, but if you are not
a professional journalist,
everything is very hard work
(except the graphic design
at the end).

FEEDBACK

It is a good project and it has

received good feedback.
But because being successful
is not the most important thing
at art schools, we have to
make it more risky. The theme
of our next issue will be error.
Hopefully we will be able to
make mistakes.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Ksesptzle (thimble
dumplings made with
cheese)
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

My most beautiful material

thing is a 40-year-old
Porsche

Project Now
207

DO YOU TEACH?

Professor at the
Hochschule fr
Gestaltung Karlsruhe
(Germany) from 2004
to 2010 and since 2010
Professor at the Burg
Giebichenstein
Kunsthochschule
Halle (Germany).
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Its definitely possible

to teach design. In my
experience, this is only
possible if the studies
are based on a series of
projects. A college is a
relatively free space
for students to develop
their own projects, with
enough people around
who help, advise,
criticize and eventually
compliment them on
their work. If you do
this throughout the five
years of studies, they
learn enough to maintain this outside college
too. I disagree with a
more school-based
approach, as I dont
think that works. I think
I have done a good job
as a professor if my
students recognize and
set their own targets
and reach them. I am
looking to educate
strong personalities
who understand
themselves as design
entrepreneurs.

SVEN VOELKER, 1998

SVEN VOELKER, 2010

KUNSTHOSCHSCHULE BURG GIEBICHENSTEIN HALLE

STUDENT YEARS

BRITISH

Tim Balaam
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Personally experience as
much art, design and
architecture as possible +
Having considered this
question for some time,
I dont have any

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1998

The simplicity of the project

process.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Self-initiated project for

graduation show
COLLEGE

OUTCOMES

It was the first time I outsourced

the production of a project.

Camberwell College of
Arts, London (United
Kingdom)

FEEDBACK

TUTOR(S)

ANYTHING ELSE

Darren Lago

It was enjoyable to work on

at the time.

COLLABORATOR(S)

It had a positive impact on

my final grade.

Photographic processing
lab
TECHNOLOGY

SLR camera
TIME SPENT

4 weeks

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Bread
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

Sepak takraw ball

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Both projects simply

tell a story.

Project Then
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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM

11

Tim Balaam (Hyperkit)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

Open-mindedness +
Have an understanding of
how things are made

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2010

The opportunity to consider

something in its entirety.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Identity and interior for

contemporary mens
barbershop.

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

Four other studio

members, client, furnituremaker, lighting contractor,
lithographic printer,
website developer,
signmaker, enameller

I think that there are always

things that you would like
to change about a project once
the dust has settled. In this
particular instance, we would
change the front of the shop
so that it could be opened/
rolled up like a garage door,
so that in the summer months
it would become more
connected to its urban
surroundings.

TECHNOLOGY

OUTCOMES

CLIENT

Joe and Co.

COLLABORATOR(S)

Apple iMac
TIME SPENT

Pleasure in seeing designs

realized on a larger scale.

1 year

FEEDBACK

TYPEFACE

Custom typeface and

Akkurat

To date, there have been

no negative reactions, only
really positive feedback, which
I hope will only grow with
time as the shop and services
establish themselves.
ANYTHING ELSE

It was enjoyable to work

on at the time.
DO YOU TEACH?

Bread

I taught Graphic Design

2001 04 at the Kent
Institute of Art and
Design (UK) and the
University of
Portsmouth (UK).

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION NOW

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

Sepak takraw ball

Yes, I believe the

technical skills required
of a designer can be
taught to anyone, but
whether those skills are
applied successfully or
not depends upon the
individuals creative
instinct, something that
cannot be taught.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

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211

TIM BALAAM, 1998

TIM BALAAM, 2010

HYPERKIT

STUDENT YEARS

SWISS

Urs Lehni
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Design is a lot of work (Cornel Windlin) +

Dont be late (again)

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

1999

See answer opposite (now).

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

OUTCOMES

Self-initiated diploma
project Transport

Rafael Koch, Markus

Wohlhter, Peter Krner

As Transport was conceived

in the context of college
diploma work, the project
reached a much smaller
public than Corner College
(project opposite) does now.
Conceptually though, the
outcome is the same in both
cases: a public space.

TECHNOLOGY

FEEDBACK

COLLEGE

Hochschule Luzern
(Switzerland)
COLLABORATOR(S)

Running a public space

TIME SPENT

Approx. 5 months
TYPEFACE

Various

Feedback mostly came from

fellow students and some
teachers. It was entirely
positive, but maybe more
based on the fact that we had
done something different than
for the actual outcome.
PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

Both projects are

basically the same;
Transport (1999) could
be considered as something like a preliminary
version of Corner
College. Both projects
involve the conception,
management and
production of a public
space that is somewhat
focusing on the topic of
design in the broadest
sense. Transport did this
in a rather naive way as,
back then, we knew
little about both the
form and the content
of such a venture.
Corner College now
tries to take on the
same idea in a more
serious way. Also, its
somewhat more professionally led; it receives
funding and provides
a more ordered
programme.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION THEN

Self-restored Vespa
Tourist 150 (1960)

Then
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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

ZRICH, SWITZERLAND

13

Urs Lehni (Lehni-Trb, Rollo Press, Corner College)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

For both: Curiosity

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2008 ongoing

I didnt think much more about

Transport (1999) until I started
to show Corner College in some
of my talks. Then I realized that
Transport was a kind of beta
version or study for Corner
College. All the essential
components were already there.
It just took me some years to
realize that this is something
that I really enjoy doing.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Self-initiated project
Corner College
CLIENT

Self-initiated
COLLABORATOR(S)

http://www.corner-college.
com/Kollaborateure
TECHNOLOGY

Running a public space

TIME SPENT

2 years so far
TYPEFACE

Various

OUTCOMES

Same as then (see opposite).

FEEDBACK

In Zrich theres a big crowd

of art-and-design-savvy
people, so the feedback is
delivered on a more objective
level. One thing we hear a lot
in Zrich is that people really
appreciate the intimacy and
the simplicity of both our
space and the events.
DO YOU TEACH?

I teach in the
Communications
Design department at
the Staatliche
Hochschule fr
Gestaltung Karlsruhe
(Germany).
IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

I think its possible

as a teacher to trigger
some kind of thinking
that is related to design
in the broadest sense.
During my education,
this impulse came
mainly through
frustration with the
lack of any curriculum
whatsoever, which
resulted in us taking
the initiative and
coming up with our
own projects.

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION NOW

Wedding ring

Now
215

URS LEHNI, 1999

URS LEHNI, 2008 ONGOING

CORNER COLLEGE

STUDENT YEARS

AMERICAN

Yasmin Khan
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Follow your ideas beyond

what you know how to assess +
Dont rush to get out into the real
world youre already in it

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2004

I entered graduate school with

an interest and background in
typography and publication
design. I didnt have much skill
or experience as an imagemaker. This is because I have
questionable taste, and at the
time, I had no clue how to
turn that into an asset.

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

MFA thesis project

a study in speculative
design: artefacts of
national identity were
designed for three
imaginary nation-states
(stamps, currency, flag
and travel poster). The
character of each nationstate was based on
current social, economic
and scientific trends.
COLLEGE

California Institute of the

Arts, CalArts (USA)
TUTOR(S)

Lorraine Wild, Michael

Worthington, Ed Fella,
Jeff Keedy
TECHNOLOGY

Adobe CS3 + various

imagemaking techniques
including hand-drawing,
photography, digital
collage

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

I would make things stranger,

less familiar, less polite.
OUTCOMES

A space to explore my interest

in speculative design: what
it looks like, what its role is,
how it might live in a
professional practice.
FEEDBACK

I was too exhausted to

remember much about thesis
presentation Although I do
remember someone said the
work was beautiful

TYPEFACE

OCR
PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

There was a similar

interest in representing
imaginary worlds.
The thesis project did
it literally, and the
Bulletin metaphorically
through student
portraits that depicted
the students internal
world. Theres also a
similar interest in
experimenting with
materials and collage,
and a consistent
interest in and heavy
use of bright colour.

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Anything that wasnt

dehydrated
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

Not sure

Project Then
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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LOS ANGELES, USA

12

Yasmin Khan (Counterspace)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

For both: Scepticism

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2009

I think the Bulletin represents

the fullness and intensity and
exuberance of the programme
at CalArts, as well as the
bohemian spirit that still
pervades the Institute. I think
it is beautiful and fussy and
loud, and most importantly,
it feels committed.

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

CalArts Bulletin 2009

2011 design a catalogue
for CalArts that visually
distinguishes it from peer
institutions. The Bulletin
must be comprised of
one overview booklet
and a set of individual
booklets to be used by
each of the schools within
the Institute. A limited
edition of all books
stitched together was
also produced.
CLIENT

California Institute of the

Arts, CalArts (USA)
COLLABORATOR(S)

Michael Worthington
(Counterspace), Erin
Hauber, Randy Nakamura,
Cassandra Chae.
Photography: Scott
Groller, Steven Gunther
TECHNOLOGY

Adobe CS5 and various

imagemaking techniques,
including photography
and digital collage

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

I would make things subtly

stranger, less familiar,
less polite.
OUTCOMES

A space to make a print object

that was full and dense and
detailed, and to play out my
interests in imaginary worlds,
trompe loeil and other forms
of fake 3D. Also provided a
way to explore print special
effects use of speciality
bindings, inks, materials and
formats that distinguish print
from screen experience.

DO YOU TEACH?

Yes. Senior Lecturer,

Otis College of Art and
Design, Los Angeles
(USA). BFA programme:
curriculum co-ordinator
for graphic design +
instructor for typography,
senior project studio,
visual language. MFA
programme: course in
Social Responsibility.

FEEDBACK

Feedback was mixed.

Designers responded
positively. Evidently some
people found it confusing.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

It better be. Thats my

day job. What I learned
at college and what
I teach now: I learned
to trust the process, to
be curious and sceptical,
and how to view my
deficiencies (bad taste)
as an asset (a particular
sensibility). I learned
that the difference
between nerdy and
badass is level of
commitment. I learned
to like working from
a place that is uncomfortable and unfamiliar.
I also developed a very
thick skin. I teach the
same thing.

TYPEFACE

Rolleta

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

Peaches in pie, in cobbler,

in anything or just by
themselves
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW

Not sure

Now
219

YASMIN KHAN, 2004

YASMIN KHAN, 2009

COUNTERSPACE

STUDENT YEARS

SWISS/SPANISH

Yves Fidalgo
A PIECE OF SOUND ADVICE + A SINGLE WARNING TO A DESIGN STUDENT

Work hard + Dont work too much

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2000

The process (going to Spain

with my father, following him
on a hunting day).

STUDENT PROJECT BRIEF

Design the annual poster

presenting our school
(competition)

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT IT?

The vector drawings.

COLLEGE

OUTCOMES

Ecole cantonale dart

de Lausanne (ECAL)
(Switzerland)

No money.

TUTOR(S)

FEEDBACK

Vector drawings on the

pictures werent necessary.

On my own for this project

TECHNOLOGY

Photography (Ekta),
computer vector design,
offset printing
TIME SPENT

1 week
TYPEFACE

Akzidenz Grotesk

FAVOURITE FOOD THEN

Pasta
YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION THEN

My comics collection

PROJECT SIMILARITIES
THEN AND NOW

The process.

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PROFESSIONAL YEARS

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND

Yves Fidalgo (Fulguro)

A VALUABLE QUALITY FOR A DESIGN STUDENT + A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL

For both: be hard-working

YEAR OF PROJECT

WHY DO YOU LIKE THIS PROJECT?

2010

The process (going to 20

artists studios to take their
picture, meeting them,
getting to know them).

PROFESSIONAL PROJECT BRIEF

Design the communication

for a charitable exhibition
about breast cancer
CLIENT

Ligue Vaudoise contre

le Cancer

OUTCOMES

Money.
FEEDBACK

Good feedback in general.

COLLABORATOR(S)

Cdric Decroux, my
colleague at Fulguro
TECHNOLOGY

Photography (digital),
paper, pens, computer,
offset printing
TIME SPENT

6 months
TYPEFACE

Futura

FAVOURITE FOOD NOW

DO YOU TEACH?

Pasta

Workshops in France
(Lyon) for graphic and
product design
students.

YOUR MOST VALUED

POSSESSION NOW

My bike

IS IT POSSIBLE TO
TEACH DESIGN?

If such things as design

schools exist, it must be
that design is taught in
them. But if I remember
correctly, you dont learn
to be a designer at
school.

Project Now
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YVES FIDALGO, 2000

YVES FIDALGO, 2010

FULGURO

APPENDIX 1
ANDREAS GNASS
(U9 VISUELLE ALLIANZ)
EDUCATION: Darmstadt (D), Hochschule

Darmstadt, Diplom (Dipl.-Des. FH),

Kommunikations-Design ARE YOU
EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Selfemployed PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:
None ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/ NOW: Mies

van der Rohe / Hanns Malte Meyer

Sea Design, Thomas.Matthews

MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED
YOU THEN/NOW: Can (Tago Mago) /
Robert Waytt, Bill Drummond (45) ANY
OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: Idle

afternoons with my friends Owen and

Dan, Tutors: Frank Philipin (see also
p. 256), Daniel Eatock (see also
pp. 5861), David Crowley, Andrzej
Klimowski / Going to the park DID YOU
OWN ANY SORT OF COLLECTION
THEN/NOW?: Records / Books

MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED

YOU THEN/NOW: Uncountable ANY
OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/NOW:
Travelling DID YOU OWN ANY SORT OF
COLLECTION THEN/NOW?: Vinyl / Vinyl

BERND HILPERT
(UNIT-DESIGN)

and some pieces of art

EDUCATION: Darmstadt (D), Hochschule

ANDREW STEVENS
(GRAPHIC THOUGHT FACILITY)
EDUCATION: Sheffield (UK), Sheffield

College, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech),

Graphic Design / Leeds (UK), Leeds
Polytechnic, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.),
Graphic Design / London (UK), Royal
College of Art, Master of Arts (M. A.),
Graphic Design ARE YOU EMPLOYED
OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Self-employed in
own company PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:
Always GTF DID YOU OWN ANY SORT
OF COLLECTION THEN/NOW?: No
ANNELYS DE VET
EDUCATION: Utrecht (NL), HKU Hoge-

school voor de Kunsten, Bachelor of

Arts (B. A.), Graphic Design / Amsterdam
(NL), Sandberg Instituut, Master of Arts
(M.A.), Design and Fine Arts / Melbourne
(AU), RMIT, Sculpture department, artist
in residence ARE YOU EMPLOYED OR
SELF-EMPLOYED?: Self-employed
ANTNIO SILVEIRA GOMES
(BARBARA SAYSPROJECTO PRPRIO)
EDUCATION: Lisbon (PT), Faculdade

de Belas Artes da Universidade de

Lisboa (FBAUL), Communication
Design / Lisbon (PT), Faculdade de
Arquitectura Universidade Tcnica de
Lisboa, Post-graduate in Design,
Communication Design ARE YOU
EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Selfemployed ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS
THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:

Superstudio (Continuous Monument),

Archizoom (mostly sci-fi architecture) /
R. Buckminster Fuller (Dymaxion House
and Bucky Balls), Didier Fiuza Faustino
(One Square Meter House and Stairway
to Heaven) MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: John
Zorn, Sprung aus den Wolken, His Name
is Alive / John Cage, Gyorgy Ligeti,
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Memorize The
Sky, Les Troubadours du roi Baudouin
Missa Luba, The Books The Lemon
of Pink ANY OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/
NOW: Robin Fior (Graphic designer,
teacher and critic of Portuguese graphic
design), Rigo 23 (Portuguese-born
American artist), Paulo Ramalho (graphic
designer and colleague teacher) DID
YOU OWN ANY SORT OF COLLECTION
THEN/NOW?: No / Rare books, ency-

clopedias and dictionaries of all sorts

BEN BRANAGAN
EDUCATION: Kingston (UK), Kingston

University, Foundation Studies, Art &

Design / Brighton (UK), University of
Brighton, Bachelor of Arts (B. A. Hons)
Graphic Design / London (UK), Royal
College of Art, Master of Arts (M. A.),
Communication Art & Design ARE YOU
EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Selfemployed PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:

Darmstadt, Diplom (Dipl.-Des. FH) /

Paris (F), ENSCI Les Ateliers, year
studying abroad ARE YOU EMPLOYED
OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Managing
director/partner in my own limited
company PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:
One employment and different engagements as freelancer ARCHITECTS/
BUILDINGS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Architecture always inspired

me most. Archigram, Jean Nouvel,

Frei Otto, Dominique Perrault, Bernard
Tschumi, Herzog & de Meuron,
Ingenhoven, OMA (Rem Koolhaas),
MVRDV, Sanaa, Wandel Hoefer Lorch,
Meixner Schlter Wendt and many
others. MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:
Electronic music, still ANY OTHER
INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: I admire

the perfection and clearness I find in

natures work DID YOU OWN ANY
SORT OF COLLECTION THEN/NOW?:
A collection of different design pieces /
Collections on several issues my
source for research and inspiration
PIECES OF DESIGN THAT INFLUENCE
YOU NOW: Every day I see designs that

have an effect on my projects. Now, Im

influenced by everyday objects, like
an old wooden camping table from
Romania (which can be packed very
small!), a ceramic vase found in a
brocante in France, a Japanese lacquer
painting, my old Caran dAche fixpencil,
French tourist maps of the early 1930s
(printed as lithography), a stone with a
wonderful decor of lichens, )
BRIAN WEBB
(WEBB & WEBB DESIGN)
EDUCATION: Liverpool (UK) , Liverpool

College of Art, Intermediate Technical

Illustration, Pre Diploma / Canterbury
(UK), Canterbury College of Art, Dip. AD
ARE YOU EMPLOYED OR SELFEMPLOYED?: Self-employed PREVIOUS
EMPLOYMENT: Trickett and Webb

1971 2003, Derek Forsyth Partnership

196971, Michael Tucker4 and
Associates 196769 ARCHITECTS/
BUILDINGS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Frank Lloyd Wright, I. K.
Brunel MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: 1930s
Blues singers, Bob Dylan ANY OTHER
INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: Edward

Hughes at Canterbury, who introduced

design as a problem-solving process /
Lynn Trickett, we worked and argued
together for 30 years DID YOU OWN
ANY SORT OF COLLECTION THEN/
NOW?: Ephemera, printed stuff, books /

More expensive versions of the same

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER
(EQUIPO)
EDUCATION: Basel (CH), Hochschule

fr Gestaltung und Kunst Basel, Visual

Communication, Visueller Gestalter FH

(Visual Designer FH) ARE YOU

EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Self-

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

(RICANDMARIE)

employed in my own design studio with

my partners Roman Schnyder and Dirk
Koy PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT : Bro fr
Kommunikationsdesign, Basel

EDUCATION: Lyon (F) (both), Martinire-

ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Mies
van der Rohe / Ted Mosby MUSICIANS/
ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Massive Attack (Unfinished

Sympathy) / Idris Muhammad (Could

Heaven Ever Be Like This) ANY OTHER
INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: Gregory
Vines, one of the best teachers I ever
had / Other designers around me, in
my own studio or from different small
studios in Basel DID YOU OWN ANY
SORT OF COLLECTION THEN/NOW?:

Records (vinyl) / Many more records

WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE ABOUT
WORKING AS A DESIGNER?: That my

own ego still gets in the way when

dealing with clients it is difficult not to
consider the project as ones own
artistic expression, instead having to
put the clients considerations first
the problem of sometimes being more
of an artist than a provider of services

Terreaux, BTS (Brevet de Technicien

Suprieur), Visual Communication /
Paris (F) (Marie only), ESAG (Ecole
suprieure de design, dart graphique et
darchitecture intrieure), Foundation /
Paris (F) (Eric only), Olivier de Serres,
DSAA (Diplme Suprieur en Arts
Appliqus) / London (UK) (both),
Central Saint Martins College of Art &
Design, Bachelor of Arts (B. A.), Graphic
Design / London (UK) (both), Royal
College of Art, Master of Arts (M. A.),
Communication Art & Design ARE YOU
EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Selfemployed PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:
None ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Herzog
& de Meuron / Alvaro Siza MUSICIANS/
ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: The American minimalists

of the 1970s (Philip Glass, Meredith

Monk, John Cage) / Late 19th-century
French composers (Debussy, Ravel,
Satie) ANY OTHER INFLUENCES
THEN: Geoff Fowle, Al Rees
FONS HICKMANN
(FONS HICKMANN M23)

DANIEL EATOCK
EDUCATION: Ravensbourne (UK),

Ravensbourne College of Design and

Communication, Bachelor of Arts (B. A.)
Graphic Design / London (UK), Royal
College of Art, Master of Arts (M. A.),
Graphic Design ARE YOU EMPLOYED
OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Self-employed
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis (USA) ARCHITECTS/
BUILDINGS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Bedsit flat / Lacaton &
Vassal MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Nirvana,
Camper Van Beethoven ANY OTHER
INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: Rupert
Bassett / Richard Torchia DID YOU
OWN ANY SORT OF COLLECTION
THEN/NOW?: Books / Books

EDUCATION: Dsseldorf (D), Fachhoch-

schule Dsseldorf, Photography and

Communication Design / Wuppertal (D),
Heinrich Heine Universitt, Aesthetics
and Media Theory ARE YOU EMPLOYED
OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Self-employed
and employed (Professor at Universitt
der Knste Berlin, (D)) ARCHITECTS/
BUILDINGS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Football pitches / Parking
lots MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Beatles
(White Album) / Archives DID YOU OWN
ANY SORT OF COLLECTION THEN/
NOW?: Slips / Eggcups
HANS DIETER REICHERT
(HDR VISUAL COMMUNICATION)
EDUCATION: Iserlohn Letmathe (D),

DANIJELA DJOKIC
(PROJEKTTRIANGLE)
EDUCATION: Schwbisch Gmnd (D),

Hochschule fr Gestaltung, DiplomDesigner (Dipl.-Des), Communication

Design ARE YOU EMPLOYED OR SELFEMPLOYED?: Self-employed and
employed (Professor at Fachhochschule
Potsdam (D)) ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS
THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:

Tadao Ando / Erhardt+Bottega, Peter

Zumthor MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:
Grandmaster Flash, Prince, George
Clinton, etc. / The same now ANY
OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: Prof.
Peter Vogt, Prof. Frank Zebner / Prof.
Boris Mller, Prof. Frank Heidmann DID
YOU OWN ANY SORT OF COLLECTION
THEN/NOW?: No / Colors magazine
EMMI SALONEN
(STUDIO EMMI)

apprenticeship as a compositor /
Dortmund (D), Fachhochschule fr
Gestaltung / Essen (D), UniversittGesamthochschule Essen and
Wuppertal, Communication Design,
Vor-Diplom / Basel (CH), Allgemeine
Gewerbeschule Basel, Grafik Design /
London (UK), University of the Arts,
London College of Communication,
Media and Production Design, Bachelor
of Arts (B.A.) / London (UK), University
for the Creative Arts (UCA), Visual
Communication, Master of Arts (M.A.
Honorary Degree) ARE YOU EMPLOYED
OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Self-employed
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: Total Design
bv. (Amsterdam), BRS maatschap van
vormgevers bv (Amsterdam), Banks
and Miles (London, Hamburg, Brussels),
Consultant to UCA (University for the
Creative Arts) ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS
THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:

EDUCATION: Brighton (UK), University

of Brighton, Bachelor of Arts (B. A.),

Graphic Design ARE YOU EMPLOYED
OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Self-employed
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: None
ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Tadao
Ando MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Le
Tigre, Gossip & The Locust / Gladiators,
Gyptian & others DID YOU OWN ANY
SORT OF COLLECTION THEN/NOW?:

Notebooks

226

Walter Gropius, Mart Stam, Max Bill,

Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Mies
van der Rohe, Le Corbusier / Norman
Foster, Renzo Piano, Shigeru Ban,
Tony Fretton, Michael Hopkins, Peter
Zumthor, Bernard Tschumi, Will Alsop,
Herzog & de Meuron MUSICIANS/
ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Hannes Wader, Konstantin

Wecker, Marius Mller-Westernhagen,

Santana, Randy Crawford, Eric Clapton,
Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Bob Dylan,
Bob Marley, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath,
Kraftwerk, UFO / Coldplay, Lonnie

APPENDIX 1

Donegan, Keith Jarrett, Lee Morgan,

Ry Cooder, Gorillaz, Jackson Browne,
James Taylor, Company Segundo,
Sarod Maestro Amjad Ali Khan, Al di
Meola, George Benson, Weather Report,
Joni Mitchell, Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz,
Ali Farka Tour, B. B. King, Thelonious
Monk, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker,
Louis Armstrong, Youssou NDour,
Tinariwen, Errol Garner, Lou Reed,
Capercaillie (Scottish Gaelic folk
music), Dubliners ANY OTHER
INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: Music,
nature, Dutch and English design,
Willy Fleckhaus, fellow students, Brian
Grimbley, Anthony Froshaug, Gnter
Gerhard Lange, Adrain Frutiger, 8vo /
Nature, music, film, environment,
Internet, Michael Twyman, Alan Fletcher
DID YOU OWN ANY SORT OF
COLLECTION THEN/NOW?: Magazines,

music tapes and records / Music CDs,

books, printed ephemera, posters,
prints, tools DESIGNERS THAT
INFLUENCE YOU NOW: Jan Tschichold,
Dieter Rams, Anthony Froshaug, Otl
Aicher, Helmut Schmid, Derek Birdsall,
Irma Boom, North, Harry Beck, Paul
Lohse, Wolfgang Schmidt, Paul Rand,
Jost Hochuli
HOLGER JACOBS
(MIND DESIGN)
EDUCATION: Cologne (D), Universitt

Kln, Linguistics and Philosophy /

Essen (D), University of Essen, PreDiploma, Communication Design /
London (UK), Central Saint Martins
College of Art & Design, Bachelor of
Arts (B. A. Hons), Graphic Design /
London (UK), Royal College of Art,
Master of Arts (M. A.), Graphic Design
ARE YOU EMPLOYED OR SELFEMPLOYED?: Self-employed and

employed (Visiting Professor of Typography at the Fachhochschule

Dsseldorf (D)) PREVIOUS EMPLOY MENT: Art director at a publishing
company in Tokyo (JP) ARCHITECTS/
BUILDINGS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Modernist buildings /
Art Deco buildings MUSICIANS/
ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Sex Pistols ANY OTHER
INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: I was

reading a lot about linguistics and poststructuralism. Japan, the culture and the
writing system became a big influence
even though I did not visit the country
until after graduation / Our client Tom
Dixon inspired me to explore different
materials and to consider the production
process as an essential part of the
design DID YOU OWN ANY SORT
OF COLLECTION THEN/NOW?: Fonts
(I printed a specs sheet for every font
I had on my computer), cassette tapes
from the 1980s / Still fonts (but I lost
the overview), ridiculously cute Japanese
stationery, rare bicycle parts HOW DO/
DID YOU DEVELOP/RESEARCH AN
IDEA THEN/NOW?: I spent a lot of time

in the library while in college. Projects

were long and complex and research
was everything. I even got my first (and
only) job when I met the publisher of
one of the books I used a lot in my
research / I still do research but more
sporadically and there is no systematic
approach or strategy behind it. I learned
to trust sudden inspiration that can
come from anywhere. Usually I walk
around with the brief in my head for a
while and see what happens. I do not
believe that there is only one best
solution to a brief that evolves as
a logical conclusion from research.

A more personal and random approach

may scare the client, but often
produces more original results
HOON KIM
(WHY NOT SMILE)
EDUCATION: Providence (USA), Rhode

Island School of Design, Master of Fine

Arts (M.F.A), Graphic Design / Seoul
(KR), Seoul National University, Bachelor
of Fine Arts (B. F. A.), Visual Communication Design / Providence (USA), Brown
University, Teaching Certificate ARE YOU
EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Selfemployed PREVIOUS EMPLOY MENT:
Museum of Modern Art MoMA (New
York, USA), Practise (London, UK) (see
also pp. 98101), Crosspoint (Seoul,
KR), Imagedrome (Seoul, KR), Samsung
Design Membership (Seoul, KR)
ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Maya

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI
(SEVEN25)
EDUCATION: Ottawa (CA), La Cit

Collgiale, Foundation, Graphic Design /

Vancouver (CA), Emily Carr Institute of
Art + Design, Bachelor of Arts (B. A.),
Communication Design / London (UK),
Royal College of Art, Master of Arts
(M. A.),Communication Design ARE
YOU EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?:

Employed by my own studio (with two

other employees) ARCHITECTS/
BUILDINGS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Not so much /Rem
Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid MUSICIANS/
ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/
NOW: ABBA to Yazz, Madonna to Danny

Tenaglia with a dash of jazz / Armin

Van Buuren to Beethoven, 2Pac to The
Script to Gaga ANY OTHER INFLUENCES
THEN/NOW: My somewhat culturally
mixed childhood (Canada and France) /
Teaching design & studying film DID

Lin / Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and

Momoyo Kaijima (Atelier Bow-Wow),
Brooklyn Bridge DID YOU OWN ANY

YOU OWN ANY SORT OF COLLECTION

THEN/NOW?: Music CDs / Cameras

SORT OF COLLECTION THEN/NOW?:

(analogue)

I collected flight sick bags and still do /

I like to pick up random small pieces of
paper making patterns on the street HOW

JAMES GOGGIN
(PRACTISE)

DID/DO YOU DEVELOP/RESEARCH AN

IDEA THEN/NOW?: I used to research

related fields to gain a good understanding between those and graphic

design. In addition, both the positive
and negative feedback of colleagues
and teachers was always helpful to
keep on the right track. How to screen
a lot of information is up to the students
ability I have learned that through
various projects / Basically, clients and
co-workers develop an idea together.
I still study related disciplines by
reading books and Googling to avoid
assumptions that might lead to
nonsense outcomes
HYOUN YOUL JOE
(HEY JOE)
EDUCATION: Seoul (KR), Dankook

University, B. F. A., Visual Communication

Design / New Haven (USA), Yale
University, M. F. A., Graphic Design ARE
YOU EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?:
Self-employed PREVIOUS EMPLOY MENT: None DID YOU OWN ANY SORT
OF COLLECTION THEN/NOW?: Graphic

designers works / Flyers, cards, product

packages, and lots of graphic design
stuff that I found on the street. WOULD
YOU STILL HAVE BECOME A DESIGNER
IF YOU KNEW WHAT YOU KNOW NOW?:

Yes, I am enjoying what I am doing now.

Actually, I wanted to be an artist and
still have a desire to be an artist since
artists have their own voice, while most
of a graphic designers job focuses on
form and creating the container for
contents than on creating their own
voice. Nonetheless, I feel that I enjoy
making form, no matter what the form
is for DESIGNERS THAT INFLUENCED
YOU THEN/NOW: Anh Graphics, Doosup
Kim, Helmut Schmid, Hong Design,
Image & Imagination, Kohei Sugiura,
Matsuda Yukimasa, Sangsoo Ahn,
S/O Project, Strike-Communication,
Sulki & Min, Vi-nyl, Wolfgang Weingart,
Workroom / Antoni Muntadas, Daniel
Eatock (see pp. 5861), Daniel Harding &
Tomas Celizna, Daniel van der Velden,
Experimental Jetset, Hans Gremmen,
Helmut Smits, Lehni-Trb (see pp.
214217), Mevis en Van Deursen, Na
Kim, Min Oh, Julia Born, Karel Martens,
Paul Elliman, Sara De Bondt, Sheila
Levrant de Bretteville, Sulki & Min,
Roel Wouters, Workroom

EDUCATION: Pontypridd (UK), Mid

Glamorgan Centre for Art & Design,

Diploma in Foundation Studies, Art &
Design) / London (UK), Ravensbourne
College of Design & Communication,
Bachelor of Arts (B. A. Hons), Visual
Communication / London (UK), Royal
College of Art, Master of Arts (M. A.),
Graphic Design ARE YOU EMPLOYED
OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Self-employed
(19992010), employed (20092012).
Currently Design Director at Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago (USA)
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: Werkplaats
Typografie (Arnhem, NL), ECAL Ecole
cantonale dart de Lausanne (CH)
ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Rem

Koolhaas (OMA), Foreign Office

Architects, Caruso St. John, Archigram /
Louis Kahn, Alison & Peter Smithson,
Denys Lasdun, James Stirling,David
Kohn,Cedric Price,6a Architects,
SANAA, Walter Netsch, Tony Fretton,
Sergison Bates MUSICIANS/ALBUMS
THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:

Kraftwerk, Yo La Tengo, Pavement,

St. Etienne, Wu-Tang Clan, Pan Sonic,
Carsten Nicolai, Ryoji Ikeda, The Pastels,
among others / The above, plus labels
more than specific musicians: Stones
Throw, Hpna, Kranky, Rune Grammofon,
Geographic, Hyperdub, R&S, Wax Trax,
among others ANY OTHER INFLUENCES
THEN/NOW: Cultural studies,
anthropology, Japan, colour theory,
cartography / Politics, critical theory,
environmentalism DID YOU OWN ANY

Tauba Auerbach, Simon Starling,

Martin Boyce, Goshka Macuga,
John Baldessari, Wallace Berman,
Michelangelo Pistoletto
JAN WILKER
(KARLSSONWILKER)
EDUCATION: Stuttgart (D), Staatliche

Akademie der Bildenen Knste, Diplom,

Graphic-Design ARE YOU EMPLOYED
OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Self-employed
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: Two internships during design school (Jung von
Matt, Sagmeister Inc. (see also pp. 202
205), no other previous employment
MUSICIANS/ ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED
YOU THEN/NOW: Putte & Edgar, Queens

of the Stone Age / Caribou, DJ Koze

ANY OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/NOW:

The people who are close to me

JULIE GAYARD
(JUTOJO)
EDUCATION: London (UK), Chelsea

College Of Art, Foundation Studies, Art

& Design / London (UK), Camberwell
College Of Arts, Bachelor of Arts (B. A.),
Visual Communication / London (UK),
Royal College Of Art, Master of Arts
(M. A.), Grapic Design, not completed
ARE YOU EMPLOYED OR SELFEMPLOYED?: Self-employed PREVIOUS
EMPLOYMENT: None ARCHITECTS/
BUILDINGS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Archigram / Treehouses
MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED
YOU THEN/NOW: Massive Attack,

Portishead, Mo Wax Records, Beastie

Boys, Sonic Youth, Stereolab (all for the
music AND the artwork) and many
more / Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Honest
Johns Records (for the music AND the
artwork), Moondog and many more ANY
OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/ NOW:

Friends who were studying with me

(Ed Gill, Vassilis Marmatakis, Christina
Christoforou, Clare Shilland, Dana Levy,
Will Bankhead) and some of their
influences (skateboarding and graffiti),
my father Patrice Gayard (art director in
the 1970s in Paris), tutor Scott King /
Still the same as then and some
contemporaries and studios in Berlin,
London, Holland DID YOU OWN ANY
SORT OF COLLECTION THEN/NOW?:
Records HOW DO YOU RESEARCH/
DEVELOP AN IDEA NOW?: Talking to the

client about the product and its context.

Writing, drawing in a sketchbook,
researching on the Internet. Trying out
typefaces. Talking to the printer about
unusual ways of making things within
the restrictions of the budget
KAI VON RABENAU
(MONO.GRAPHIE)

SORT OF COLLECTION THEN/NOW?:

EDUCATION: London (UK), Camberwell

Stencils, snowglobes / Stencils, books,

art WHAT WOULD YOU DO TODAY IF
YOU STOPPED DESIGNING?: I would
just read all day. I dont think Ill stop
designing, but I often think about
finding a different system in which to
operate as a designer, outside of the
studio/client/designer model. My move
to a museum is one step in this quest.

College of Arts, Foundation / London

(UK), Central Saint Martins, Bachelor of
Arts (B. A.), Graphic Design / London
(UK), Royal College of Art, Master of
Arts (M. A.), Communication, Art &
Design ARE YOU EMPLOYED OR SELFEMPLOYED?: Self-employed PREVIOUS
EMPLOYMENT: Always self-employed

DESIGNERS WHO INFLUENCED YOU

THEN: Charles & Ray Eames, Michael

Marriott, Karel Martens, Graphic Thought

Facility (see also pp. 3033), Ettore
Sottsass, Mevis & Van Deursen, Ikko
Tanaka, Scott King ARTISTS/WORKS
OF ART THAT INFLUENCE YOU NOW:

See then (p. 242), plus a seemingly

infinite list that could include Nathan
Coley, Dora Garca, Leonor Antunes,

227

ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:

Herzog & de Meuron, Peter Zumthor

MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED
YOU THEN/NOW: Autechre, Nine Inch

Nails, Radiohead / Carsten Nicolai, Talk

Talk, Nine Inch Nails ANY OTHER
INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: Travel DID
YOU OWN ANY SORT OF COLLECTION
THEN/NOW?: No / Magazines and
photography books

APPENDIX 1
KEN GARLAND
EDUCATION: London (UK), John Cass

College, National Diploma Art & Design

(NDAD) / London (UK), Central School
of Arts & Crafts, National Diploma Art &
Design (NDAD), Central Dipl. ARE YOU
EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Selfemployed PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:
Too many to list ARCHITECTS/
BUILDINGS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Royal Festival Hall
MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED
YOU THEN/NOW: Rolling Stones ANY
OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: Jesse

Collins and Anthony Froshaug

KIRSTY CARTER
(A PRACTICE FOR EVERYDAY LIFE)
EDUCATION: Cambridge (UK),

Cambridge Regional College,

Foundation Diploma, Art & Design /
Brighton (UK), College: University of
Brighton, Bachelor of Arts (B. A. Hons),
Graphic Design / Nagoya (JP), Nagoya
University of Arts (NUA), 6-month
scholarship during University of
Brighton, Graphic Design / London
(UK), Royal College of Art, Master of
Arts (M. A.), Communication Art & Design
ARE YOU EMPLOYED OR SELFEMPLOYED?: Self-employed PREVIOUS
EMPLOYMENT: Only ever worked for

myself, started A Practice for Everyday

Life straight after college GENERAL
COMMENT ON ALL THE QUESTIONS
ABOUT INFLUENCES: Writing down

influences is very difficult, as there

are so many influences over time and
things/people that I read/saw/or
listened to many years ago that still
influence me now. I tried to choose just
one person/thing per question to keep
my answers short, but endless books,
writers, buildings, artists and musicians
influence me ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS
THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:

Eames House (Case Study House No. 8)

by Charles & Ray Eames / The Hepworth
Wakefield by David Chipperfield. Its
difficult to think of any other building
that has influenced our studio so much
(we even drew a typeface for it!); he
was a client and is also a fantastic
architect MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Blur
(The Universal) and Pulp (Common
People). I was a teenager growing up in
England in the 1990s; these are the two
most influential bands of my generation.
These two songs would make it into
my eight Desert Island Discs (Desert
Island Discs is a long-running BBC
Radio 4 programme, first broadcast on
29 January 1942. Each week, a guest,
or castaway, is asked to choose eight
pieces of music, a book and a luxury
item for their imaginary stay on the
island, while discussing their lives and
the reasons for their choices. In the
studio, the six members of A Practice
for Everyday Life prepared their own
Desert Island Discs). I spend a lot of
time in Gothenburg in Sweden, and
Fever Rays (aka Karin Drejer Andersoon)
music is part of this city. I went to see
her at a concert in Brixton last year.
That might have been the best concert
I have ever been to incredible stage
set, lights and odd lyrics. ANY OTHER
INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: Emma
Thomas (fellow student) at the Royal
College / Emma Thomas (my partner in
A Practice for Everyday Life) she is
and will always be my biggest influence
DID YOU OWN ANY SORT OF COLLECTION
THEN/NOW?: I think every designer is a

collector; I have lots of collections of

sorts tucked away in boxes or on my

shelves. Though I must say, I am not a
hoarder the people in my studio get a
little annoyed with me, as I am always
trying to chuck things out. I dont like
mess or chaos and things can eventually weigh you down. I dont own many
possessions; what I do own is carefully
considered. This has always been the
same YOUR FAVOURED MODE OF
TRANSPORT THEN: In Brighton, I lived a
stones throw away from the university
where I studied, and I walked every
morning along the seafront. I couldnt
think of a nicer place to study; it was
such a perfect place to study and a lot
of fun. During my studies at the Royal
College, I lived in East London and
cycled 6 miles every day across central
London, day in, day out, in all weathers;
I cant say I enjoyed it. I love cycling
and it is always my first chosen form of
transport, but that journey was hard
WOULD YOU STILL HAVE BECOME A
DESIGNER IF YOU KNEW WHAT YOU
KNOW NOW?: Yes! I love being a

designer; anyway, I am not very good

at anything else, other subjects at
school were quite a struggle; art and
design were subjects I was very good
at at school. My parents are not in
creative industries, but their interest
grew when they realized they had a
little aspiring artist as their daughter
and took me to museums and galleries
from an early age HOURS SPENT
DESIGNING PER DAY THEN/NOW: I think
about design and our projects all the
time, its an enormous part of my life,
which I am sure is the case for most
designers. In terms of physical brainstorming, making, meetings and
managing the studio, I would say I
work 65 hours a week. The way I work
hasnt changed since I was a student
I was very dedicated and hard-working,
I worked similar hours HOW DID/DO
YOU DEVELOP/RESEARCH AN IDEA
THEN/NOW?: Research is key to a

successful project or idea; we spend

a great deal of time doing it, whether
its a trip to the British Library or a
visit to the Barbara Hepworth Garden in
St. Ives, time and research is absolutely
essential. This hasnt changed since
I was a student; I feel my design process
has been exactly the same for 13 years
(since starting my degree); the only
thing that has changed is that there is
a client now
KRISTINE MATTHEWS
(STUDIO MATTHEWS)
EDUCATION: Seattle (USA), University

of Washington, Bachelor of Fine Arts

(B.F. A), Graphic Design / London (UK),
Royal College of Art, Master of Arts
(M. A.), Communication Design ARE
YOU EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?:

Self-employed and employed (Assistant

Professor in Visual Communication
Design, University of Washington, Seattle
(USA)) PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:
thomas.matthews (London, UK)
founder and joint-director, Royal
College of Art (London, UK), The Traver
Company (Seattle, USA), Edquist
Design (Seattle USA) ARCHITECTS/
BUILDINGS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Charles & Ray Eames,

Herzog & de Meuron / Tom Kundig,

Alan Kitching (Olson Kundig Architects),
Rem Koolhaas, Weiss/Manfredi (landscape architects of Seattles Olympic
Sculpture Park), Oskar Shindler, Neutra
MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED
YOU THEN/NOW: Liz Phair, Pixies, Cake /

Matthew Herbert, The Dodos, and I still

listen to Yo La Tengo, Pavement and
Bell Helicopter ANY OTHER INFLUENCES
THEN/NOW: Living in London, on a
course with 25 students from 18
different countries / Teaching design
at a university with faculties from all
different backgrounds
LARS HARMSEN
(MAGMA BRAND DESIGN)
EDUCATION: Saarbrcken (D), Werbe-

agentur M&D, Vocational Training in

Prepress Repro / Basel (CH), Kunstgewerbeschule Basel, I left the college
before the end of the first year /
Pforzheim (D), Hochschule Pforzheim,
Diplom-Designer (Dipl.-Des.), Graphic
Design ARE YOU EMPLOYED OR SELFEMPLOYED?: Self-employed and
employed (Professor at Fachhochschule Dortmund (D)) ARCHITECTS/
BUILDINGS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Frank Gehry / Peter
Zumthor MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: David

Bowie, Pavement, Primal Scream,

Style Council, Janes Addiction, Prince,
some heavy metal / Coldplay, Moby,
electronic stuff, and all the music
I loved to hear when I was a student
ANY OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/NOW:
Travelling DID YOU OWN ANY SORT OF
COLLECTION THEN/NOW?: Old keys /
Passports and identities WHAT DO YOU
LIKE ABOUT WORKING AS A DESIGNER?:

Working with the people in my studio;

I am very happy to have such great
partners Uli Wei and Florian Gaertner.
Making things happen, having ideas
and trying to make them work, thats
what we do all day WOULD YOU STILL
HAVE BECOME A DESIGNER IF YOU
KNEW WHAT YOU KNOW NOW?: No,

I dont think so. My dream was to be a

bush pilot. Seriously. But at that time
you had to go into the army to be a pilot.
I did my civilian service I was and am
still a militant anti-militarist. Now I am
a designer, I love to travel, looking for
the unexpected. I hate to make plans
when I travel
LAURENT LACOUR
(HAUSER LACOUR)
EDUCATION: Offenbach am Main (D),

Hochschule fr Gestaltung (HFG),

Diploma (Dipl.-Designer), Visual
Communication ARE YOU EMPLOYED
OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Self-employed
by my own studio and employed
(Professor at Fachhochschule
Dsseldorf (D)) PREVIOUS EMPLOY MENT: Freelance for Intgral Ruedi Baur
(CH/D/F), Heine/Lenz/Zizka (D),
Surface (D) ARCHITECTS/ BUILDINGS
THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:

Herzog & de Meuron / Alvar Aalto

MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED
YOU THEN/NOW: J. S. Bach / Chilly
Gonzales ANY OTHER INFLUENCES
THEN/NOW: Brazilian culture / Modern

artists like Tobias Rehberger, Thomas

Zipp DID YOU OWN ANY SORT OF
COLLECTION THEN/NOW?: Stickers, sea
shells, gemstones (all then, as a child)
LIZA ENEBEIS
(STUDIO DUMBAR)
EDUCATION: Paris (F), Parsons School

of Design, Bachelor of Arts (B. A.),

Communication Design / London (UK),
Royal College of Art, Master of Arts
(M. A.), Graphic Design ARE YOU
EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Both
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: Pentagram

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(London, UK) ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS

THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:
Luis Barragan, Le Corbusier, Zaha Hadid,
Rem Koolhaas, Peter Zumthor ANY
OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/NOW:
Everything and everyone DID YOU OWN
ANY SORT OF COLLECTION THEN/
NOW?: Yes I collect books on all
sorts of topics: bibles, Snoopy, flowerarranging, street maps, atlases, primitive
art, design, photography, etiquette.
And I still keep my old discontinued
collections from my childhood such
as sugar bags, rocks, match boxes,
stamps, coins, stationery, napkins,
erasers, pencils, stuffed animals
LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN
(SPACE-TO-THINK)
EDUCATION: London (UK), London

Guildhall University, Sir John Cass

Faculty of Arts, BTEC Diploma
Foundation Studies, Art & Design /
London (UK), Camberwell College of
Arts, Bachelor of Arts Joint Honours
Degree (B. A. Hons), Graphics/Fine Art
/ London (UK), Royal College of Art,
Master of Arts (M. A.), Graphic Design
ARE YOU EMPLOYED OR SELFEMPLOYED?: Self-employed PREVIOUS
EMPLOYMENT: I have worked freelance

pretty much ever since college, starting

at Ralph Appelbaum Associates (London,
UK), then continuing to work in graphic
design, photography, moving image
and printed textiles, for various clients
in England, Tokyo and the USA
ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Tadao

Ando / Japanese traditional architecture,

modernist and mid-century modern
architecture MUSICIANS/ALBUMS
THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:

Interested in some more experimental

ideas from artists such as John Cage.
Various classical music and Ninja
Tunes, Bjork, The Cardigans / I dont
make much time for music these days.
I mostly listen to radio programmes on
KCRW/public radio, and still enjoy a bit
of classical and the choice selection of
music I hear my husband play ANY
OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: My
family, friends, some tutors, environments, museums / Being a parent, my
husband, childrens play and toys such
as Naef and Galt (1970s) etc., Japanese
culture, fashion, design blogs, environments, interiors, mid-century modern
furniture DID YOU OWN ANY SORT OF
COLLECTION THEN/NOW?: Collections
of found objects usually off the street,
collections of my photos and small
sketchbooks / Collections of paper offcuts, small plastic objects, fabrics,
tenugui (printed Japanese cotton towels),
a catalogue of endless photos I shoot
from day to day. No art or design
collection yet, apart from many art and
design books and magazines and a few
interesting posters WHAT DO YOU LIKE
ABOUT WORKING AS A DESIGNER?:

I truly love what I do and it comes from

the core, so the fact that I have the
opportunity to express myself and make
beautiful things is amazing. I love the
explorative process and I love that I can
take things I notice in everyday life and
filter them into my work. I enjoy balancing
working within design boundaries and
the challenge of answering a brief, with
work that retains a certain amount of
creative freedom. This is where I sit on
the fence between being an artist and
being a designer WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE
ABOUT WORKING AS A DESIGNER?:

I dislike that I cannot easily separate

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my work from my day-to-day life, which

can be an emotional strain. Design is
often undervalued and generally badly
paid. Also working on the more arty
side of design doesnt pay off businesswise! HOW DID/DO YOU DEVELOP/
RESEARCH AN IDEA?: Pretty much the
same process creatively then and now
it varies from project to project, but
basically I strip a brief down to the
basics, look up literal meanings, try to
view something from a different angle.
Write notes and diagrams, go off on
tangents and come back again. Try to
move away from the computer and get
hands-on with things (recently with
drawing and using collage), even when
it takes me back to a digital output.
I take lots of photos and go through my
catalogue of photographs for inspiration,
colour and composition references.
Now I am more aware of working with
the client and their needs and making
compromises, so a lot of development
comes from dicussion. More research
is required now into production how,
where and cost, etc. DESIGNERS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN: No particular
influences. Ive always been inspired
by a general mixture of styles and
approaches. Names that come to mind:
Josef Mller-Brockmann, John Maeda,
Graphic Thought Facility (see also pp.
3033)

ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Frank

(M. A.), Graphic Design ARE YOU

EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?:

Lloyd Wright, The Jewish Museum in

Berlin by Daniel Libeskind MUSICIANS/

Employed (Professor at Basel School of

Design, CH) with temporary additional
freelance projects PREVIOUS EMPLOY MENT: Pentagram (London, UK),
Meta Design (Berlin, D), KMS Team
(Munich, D) MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Philip
Glass, Depeche Mode, Nightmares on
Wax, Archive, Urbs, Nouvelle Vague,
Coco Rosie, Ryuichi Sakamoto

MAKI SUZUKI
(BKE)

work (see p. 148) I have selected the

typographical posters of Ton Homburg
(Opera)for the Apollohuis Eindhoven.
Two examples of his work are part of
the collection of the Museum of Modern
Art, New York. Not his best pieces
I think, but it is difficult to find better
images from that period. Thats a
shame, because he made beautiful
stuff that captured experimental music
in typography

EDUCATION: Paris (F), cole suprieure

darts graphiques et darchitecture

intrieure (ESAG), Foundation course /
Paris (F), cole nationale suprieure
des Arts Dcoratifs (EnsAD), Bachelor
of Arts (B. A.) / London (UK), Royal
College of Art, Master of Arts (M. A.),
Communication Art & Design ARE YOU
EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Selfemployed as part of a partnership of
4 people ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS
THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:

ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/

NOW: Richard Strauss (Vier letzte

Lieder), Jessye Norman, Nick Drake

(Five Leaves Left) ANY OTHER
INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: Close friends
and colleagues have always been the
biggest influence on me logically, as
these are the people you spend most of
your time with. But also because the
things we discuss really matter, they go
deep DID YOU OWN ANY SORT OF
COLLECTION THEN/NOW?: During my
studies, I started a classical music
collection that has become quite
extensive over the years. It now covers
a range of nine centuries of music.
I also love books about typography and
lettering HOW DID/DO YOU DEVELOP/
RESEARCH AN IDEA?: There is no one
way. You might want to approach an
idea from a visual angle, or very much
from a textual one (to deliberately avoid
starting with images). In the end, the
way you start is not even the most
important issue. Keeping an open mind
throughout is much more the key to
good development or research. Mindmapping can provide some structure,
without the danger of restrictions
PIECES OF DESIGN THAT INFLUENCED
YOU: Within the context of the student

MARGARET CALVERT
EDUCATION: London (UK), Chelsea

Archigram, Tadao Ando / R&sie

College of Art, National Design Diploma

MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED

YOU THEN/NOW: Pretty Hate Machine,
Trent Reznor / Kurt Cobain, still ANY
OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/NOW:

(NDD), Illustration ARE YOU EMPLOYED

OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Self-employed
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: Joined Jock

I cant remember / Andy Kaufman,

Thor Heyerdahl, Emile Ajar, David
Attenborough, Subcomandante
Marcos DID YOU OWN ANY SORT OF
COLLECTION THEN/NOW?: Records,
comics, art ephemera / Tautological
objects or things that are errors or
aberrations YOUR FAVOURITE FOOD
THEN: Being French and being a
vegetarian was a national joke
Studying at the Royal College of Art
(London, UK) where many cosmopolitan
truths collide, I met Glaswegian and
Swedish non-meat eaters who proved
me wrong and I have been pescetarian
since ARTISTS/ WORKS OF ART THAT
INFLUENCE YOU: Today the people
we work with influence us: Aurlien
Froment, Ryan Gander, Benoit Maire,
Johanna Billing. Someone we have
not worked with but shared a residency
with and understood the brilliance of:
Jean-Luc Moulne
MARC VAN DER HEIJDE
(STUDIO DUMBAR)
EDUCATION: Breda (NL), Academy of

Kinneir (London, UK) immediately after

completing my NDD course at Chelsea
School of Art, in the late 1950s. Worked
on the signing system for Britains
new motorways, soon to be followed by
the entire network. The partnership
continued through the 1960s, focusing
on more signing systems and corporate
identities. Kinneir Calvert Tuhill was
formed in 1971. Since Jock Kinneirs
retirement, I have worked independently
ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Pirelli

Building, Milan, I (Gio Ponti) / St Pancras

London, UK (Gilbert Scott) DID YOU
OWN ANY SORT OF COLLECTION
THEN/NOW?: Only memories and
objects relating to them HOW DO YOU
DEVELOP/RESEARCH AN IDEA?: I start
with the idea, then follow through with
research, if applicable; usually within
my own head, depending on the project.
Eventually however, I check something
out; it could be the meaning of a word,
an image in a book, or information
on the Internet
MARION FINK

Art and Design St. Joost, Bachelor of

EDUCATION: Wrzburg (D) Fachhoch-

Arts (B. A.), Graphic Design ARE YOU

EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?:
Employed PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:

schule Wrzburg, Architecture (1 year) /

Schwbisch Gmnd (D), Hochschule
fr Gestaltung, Visual Communication,
Diploma (Dipl.-Designer) / London (UK),
Royal College of Art, Master of Arts

Barlock (The Hague, NL), Total Design

(Brussels, BE), NS Design (Utrecht, NL)

MARTIN LORENZ
(TWOPOINTS.NET)
EDUCATION: Darmstadt (D), Hoch-

schule Darmstadt, Diplom-Designer

(Dipl.-Des. FH), Visual Communication) /
The Hague (NL), Royal Academy of Arts,
Bachelor of Arts (B. A.), Graphic- and
Typographic Design / Barcelona (ES),
Universitat de Barcelona, Master of Arts
(M. A.), Design ARE YOU EMPLOYED
OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Self-employed
CURRENT AND/OR PREVIOUS
EMPLOY MENT: Partner at Constructing

Communication (Barcelona, ES), lecturer

at Elisava Design School (Barcelona,
ES), editor at The One Weekend Book
Series (Barcelona, ES), guest lecturer
at Hochschule fr Knste Bremen (D),
guest lecturer at Willem de Kooning
Academie (Rotterdam, NL), lecturer at
IED Barcelona (ES), lecturer at IDEP
Institut Superior de Disseny (Barcelona,
ES), creative director at Hort (Berlin, D)
GENERAL COMMENT ON ALL THE
QUESTIONS WITHIN THE BOOK ABOUT
INFLUENCES: I never really thought

any designer was THE influence for me,

but it would be dumb to say that there
arent any influences. Growing as a
designer means a daily struggle with
rules and ideas the rules established
by others and yourself. During studying,
the strongest influences are teachers
and colleagues, who are influenced
by others too. In the pre-Internet era,
during which I studied, local design
tradition still played an important role.
So I guess I am pretty much influenced
by the post-Ulm, post-Basel and
contemporary Dutch design, instead of
being influenced by any particular
designer, piece of design, book, artist,
architect, film, TV, director, musician or
album. ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS
THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:

Mies van der Rohe / Hannes Meyer

MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED
YOU THEN/NOW: Camp Lo / Gonja Sufi
ANY OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/NOW:

Sandra Hoffmann (see pp. 194197),

Christian Pfestorf, Petr van Blokland,
Peter Verheul, Michel Hoogervoorst,
I am sure I am forgetting many DID
YOU OWN ANY SORT OF COLLECTION
THEN/NOW?: Comic and vinyl collection/
Comic, book and vinyl collection WHAT
DO YOU LIKE ABOUT WORKING AS
A DESIGNER?: There is no clear

definition of what a designer does, so

everyone can find their own approach,
which means one can create his/her
own profession within the boundaries
of the needs of the market of visual
communication WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE
ABOUT WORKING AS A DESIGNER?:

There is no clear definition of what a

designer does, so nearly everyone can
work as a designer. Designers selling
themselves under what they are worth
and offering visual make-up instead of
communication mislead about what
society generally expects of design and
a designer. I often wish designers and
society would be more demanding

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MATTHIAS GRLICH
(STUDIO MATTHIAS GRLICH)
EDUCATION: Darmstadt (D), Hochschule

Darmstadt, Diplom Kommunikations

designer (Dipl.-Des. FH), Visual
Communication / Zurich (CH), Zrcher
Hochschule der Knste (ZHdK),
Institute for Design Research
(Design2context), Master of Advanced
Studies (M. A.), Design Research ARE
YOU EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?:

Self-employed and employed as a

researcher (Design2 context, Zurich
(CH)) PREVIOUS EMPLOY MENT:
Kram/Weisshaar (Stockholm, SE) and
as a freelancer for unit-design
(Offenbach, D), Ade Hauser Lacour
(Frankfurt am Main, D), Eclat (Zurich,
CH) among others. But basically I
started my own practice while studying
design ARCHITECTS/ BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Most of
my friends at that time were architecture
students and I was influenced by
discussions about the contemporary
Swiss and Dutch architecture scene.
I was especially intrigued by Rem
Koolhaas work with OMA as it pushed
the boundaries of architecture and also
integrated design / I am very interested
in all the DIY building concepts from
the 1970s. But also contemporary
work by people like Jesko Fezer, Arno
Brandlhuber et al. MUSICIANS/ALBUMS
THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:

I cant really tell if music has any impact

or influence on my work. I like listening
to music, but very rarely while working.
Maybe music is too much of a personal
thing for me to escape to, instead of
having it around me while working
ANY OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/NOW:

For me there is no then/now here.

People like Prof. Dr. Uli Bohnen, former
Professor of Design History at the
Hochschule Darmstad, certainly
influenced me a lot because he was
never talking about design history but
always painting a bigger picture where
design plays a role in society and
where it has responsibilities. Travelling
now is a big influence; meeting people
with a different cultural background and
experience often opens my eyes to new
things DID YOU OWN ANY SORT OF
COLLECTION THEN/NOW?: Visual stuff
I came across when travelling / The
collection continued and was enhanced
by a collection of historic design books
WHAT WOULD YOU DO TODAY IF YOU
STOPPED DESIGNING?: I would most

probably do something like selling

books (although my problem is that
I would rather keep them than sell
them). But after working with Urban
Planners for the last few years, I became
really interested in their understanding
of design, so maybe I would work in a
different field of design instead of
stopping designing HOW DID/DO YOU
DEVELOP/RESEARCH AN IDEA?: Then
and now is pretty much the same
process. I like to rethink the process,
for example by starting with something
purely visual and developing the idea
around that, or by doing it the other
way around, or I might only work on a
project in the evening, or on the road.
The tempo of the process is a lot
faster now, though DESIGNERS THAT
INFLUENCE YOU NOW: There are some
designers who I respect for their
approach e.g. Urs Lehni for rethinking
the idea of a cultural institution or David
Reinfurt for extending the field of
design and Enzo Maris approach to
do-it-yourself design, etc.

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AUTHORS/BOOKS THAT INFLUENCE
YOU: Certainly Toms Maldonado

Art and Design ARE YOU EMPLOYED

OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Self-employed

(Umwelt und Revolte) and some other

more theoretical books that deal with
a broader understanding of design.
Strangely, today the books that I really
like to flip through are mostly
photography books, e.g. Peter Menzel
(Material World, The Family of Man)
awfully designed, but the content is
extremely interesting

and employed (Professor at Hochschule

fr Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (D))
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: None

MICHAEL GEORGIOU
(G DESIGN STUDIO)
EDUCATION: Athens (GR), Vakalo

College of Art & Design, Graphic Design /

London (UK), London College of
Printing, Higher National Diploma
(HND), Typographic studies ARE YOU
EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?:

Both self-employed and employed

(lecturer at Vakalo College of Art &
Design, Athens) ANY OTHER
INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: Folk art, Art
Deco, Bauhaus / Folk art, MNP, Sara
Fanelli, Adrian Shaughnessy DID YOU
OWN ANY SORT OF COLLECTION
THEN/NOW?: Rubbers / Ducks
NIKKI GONNISSEN
(THONIK)
EDUCATION: Utrecht (NL), Hogeschool

voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Bachelor of

Art (B.A.), Graphic Design ARE YOU
EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Selfemployed PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:
None ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Le
Corbusier: (Ronchamps) / MVRDV:
Wozokos (we commissioned MVRDV to
build our studio in 2000), John
Kormeling (eccentric and radical)
MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED
YOU THEN/NOW: I dont know where to
start / Different genres ANY OTHER
INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: Asmat,

Papua New Guinea. I went there for

three months in 1996 / Still as then
WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT WORKING
AS A DESIGNER?: The fact that I can

go deeply into a specific subject for

a relatively short period of time. The
whole proces from listening, analyzing,
concepualizing, design, implementation
and getting it into the world. To engage
with certain projects. It is about sharing
values. Content and context are
important to me ARTISTS/WORKS
OF ART THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Claes Oldenburg (his

giant objects and soft sculptures like

hamburgers, but also knees as
statues); Wim T. Schippers (Going To
The Dogs a play with only dogs in it;
people were watching dogs barking
and peeing for two hours); Jan Hoet
(Chambres dAmis the first exhibition
of art in peoples homes in Gent (BE));
John Baldessari for his use of photos
and signs, playing with context;
Yayoi Kusama (1960s, happenings,
orgies, performances, comments on
society), Sol LeWitt for his conceptional
form follows function; Piplotti Rist;
Emily Kngwarreye
OLIVER KLIMPEL
(BUERO INTERNATIONAL LONDON)
EDUCATION: Leipzig (D), Hochschule

fr Grafik und Buchkunst, Diploma (Dipl.Designer), Graphic & Book-Design /

London (UK), Central Saint Martins
College of Art & Design, Post-graduate
Diploma (PgDip), Graphic Design /
London (UK), Royal College of Art,
Master of Arts (M. A.), Communication

ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Coop

Himmelblau, John Hejduk, Le Corbusier /

Lina Bo Bardi, Cedric Price MUSICIANS/
ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Tortoise, Stereolab, German

electronica = music for graphic

designers + Flaming Lips, etc. / Music
for more mature graphic designer +
Brian Ferry + Japan + Animal Collective,
etc. ANY OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/
NOW: Four teachers Im very happy to
have met. Gabriele Kreutzmann, my
German teacher at A-levels (Gymnasium)
who brought real thinking and debate
to the subject of language, literature
and ideas an eye-opener. Hildegard
Korger, tutor for Lettering at Hochschule
fr Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig: an
amazingly meticulous and inspirational
craftswoman! Gnter Bose, tutor for
Typography at Hochschule fr Grafik
und Buchkunst Leipzig, who introduced
me to the idea of discourse within
typography and graphic design. Al Rees,
researcher/tutor in Film at the Royal
College of Art, London (UK) not so
much of a direct influence as a teacher
or confidante but someone who
brought a previously unknown world
(structural filmmaking) to my attention
DID YOU OWN ANY SORT OF
COLLECTION THEN/ NOW?: This is

touching a nerve: 1) Besides a traditional

idea of collecting meaningful finds and
inspirational material it has become
more common in recent years also for
graphic designers to work with a model
of the archive as a system for storing
their own and foreign material and
using it methodically 2) But: all the
work I had done throughout my college
education and had kept, and many
books and magazines, were lost in the
severe flooding of 2002 in Dresden (D),
since I had stored it in the basement of
my parents house. I tend not to be
sentimental, but it is moments like this
when asked about college stuff and
collections that I wish that at least a
few things had survived Therefore
I didnt have too many works I had done
as a student to choose from HOW DO
YOU DEVELOP/RESEARCH AN IDEA
NOW?: Ive recently tried to do more

speculative work and read more, pursue

less result-driven things. Thats what my
teaching post seems to suggest and
allows me to do now. At least I think so.
Before it was just project after project.
We become victims of our moderate
success quickly: you get more work and
have more projects to juggle and less
time for looking and playing around
PAUL BARNES
EDUCATION: Reading (UK), University

of Reading, Bachelor of Arts (B.A. Hons),

Typography & Graphic Communication
ARE YOU EMPLOYED OR SELFEMPLOYED?: Self-employed PREVIOUS
EMPLOYMENT: Roger Black Inc. (New

York, USA), Spin magazine (New York,

USA) ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Rietveld
Schrder House, Utrecht (NL) by Gerrit
Rietveld / Georgian architecture and
industrial architecture MUSICIANS/

SORT OF COLLECTION THEN/NOW?:

Books / Still books, particularly Insel

Verlag (now Suhrkamp Verlag)
DESIGNERS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN: Jan Tschichold, Charles Collett,

Robert and George Stephenson,

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Paul Rand,
Max Bill, Hermann Eidenbenz, Peter
Saville and my tutor, Paul Stiff. Too
many to mention, really
PREM KRISHNAMURTHY
(PROJECT PROJECTS)
EDUCATION: New Haven (USA),

Yale College, Bachelor of Arts (B. A.),

Fine Arts concentration on Graphic
Design and photography / Berlin (D),
Freie Universitt, semester abroad,
Comparative Literature and Philosophy /
Dresden (D), Hochschule fr Technik
und Wirtschaft Dresden and Technische
Universitt Dresden, Performance
Studies and Industrial Design History,
Fulbright Fellowship ARE YOU
EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?:
Self-employed PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:

Leonardi.Wollein, Berlin (D), New York

Times Magazine, New York (USA),
O-R-G, Inc., New York (USA)
ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:

Paul Rudolph, Daniel Libeskind, Rem

Koolhaas / Peter Zumthor, Herzog & de
Meuron, WORKac MUSICIANS/ALBUMS
THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:

Radiohead, John Coltrane, Tricky, Bjrk,

Bill Evans / Vampire Weekend, Dirty
Projectors, Van Morrison, Cookies,
Sleigh Bells ANY OTHER INFLUENCES
THEN/NOW: Paul Elliman, John Gambell,
Matthew Carter, Rita Jules, Randall Hoyt,
Tamara Sussman / My business partners
(Adam Michaels & Rob Giampietro)
and our employees (Chris Wu, Chris
McCaddon, Marina Kitchen) DID YOU
OWN ANY SORT OF COLLECTION
THEN/NOW?: Stamped US pennies

from tourist locations / Only my books

RENATA GRAW
(PLURAL)
EDUCATION: Chicago, University of

Illinois at Chicago, Master of Fine Arts

(M. F. A.), Graphic Design / Rio de
Janeiro, Pontificia Universidade Catlica
(PUC-RIO), Bachelor of Fine Arts (B. F.A),
Industrial Design ARE YOU EMPLOYED
OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Self-employed
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: Freelance,
Brand Image (Chicago, USA) / McMillan
Associates (USA) / Ana Couto Design
(BR) ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Oscar
Niemeyer, Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano,
Herzog & de Meuron, OMA, Mies van
der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Buckminster
Fuller MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Brazilian
music: Jao Gilberto, Caetano Veloso,
Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes, mixed in
with: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Miles
Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Sonny Rollins
and others. Although we pretty much
listen to all kinds of music in the studio
now, from African beats to classical
ANY OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/NOW:

My uncle Ricardo Bacha; he was a

psychiatrist and amateur photographer
in Brazil. He used to show me art books
and we discussed art and philosophy
during family gatherings DID YOU OWN
ANY SORT OF COLLECTION THEN/NOW?:

I have never had a collection, although I

ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/

NOW: The Sound of Young Scotland,

have a lot of books DESIGNERS THAT

INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Tibor

Kraftwerk, David Bowie, Joy Division

and many others DID YOU OWN ANY

Kalman, Wolfgang Weingart, Piet Zwart,

Stefan Sagmeister, Karel Martens, Wim

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Crouwel, Emil Ruder, Pierre Mendell,

Max Bill, Paul Rand, Saul Bass, Paula
Scher, Cassandre, Karl Gerstner,
Michael C. Place & The Designers
Republic / Ludovic Balland, Daniel
Eatock (see also p. 5861), James
Goggin (see also p. 98101), Armand
Mevis, Maureen Mooren, Leonardo
Sonnoli, Willi Kunz, Geoff McFetridge,
Non-Format, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy,
Dexter Sinister, Sonnenzimmer, Cybu
Richli + Fabienne Burri, the list goes
on PIECES OF DESIGN THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN: I remember
the moment I decided to go back and
study graphic design for my Masters.
I was in Switzerland taking a workshop
with Weingart for the summer of 2005
and he showed us a book by one of his
students Philip Burton. That one book
changed my whole perspective on what
design could be. At that moment in my
life I learned graphic design is really a
platform to express the world visually.
We, as designers, have the opportunity
to create new images, and new forms
of presenting and interpreting the world
RICHARD WALKER
(KK OUTLET/KESSELSKRAMER)
EDUCATION: Cambridge (UK), Regional

College, Foundation / London (UK),

Camberwell College of Arts, Bachelor of
Arts (B. A. Hons), Graphic Design ARE
YOU EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?:
Employed PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:

Red Square editing (London, UK),

I.D magazine (London, UK), Simple
Productions (London, UK), Mother
(London, UK), KesselsKramer
(Amsterdam, NL), Fallon (London, UK),
Weiden and Kennedy (London, UK),
Weiden and Kennedy (Amsterdam, NL)
ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Not

sure how a building can influence you.

The job centre in Peckham was
influential in getting me a place on a
QuarkXpress evening course / I like
The Gherkin (London, UK) by Norman
Foster MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Having
an opinion about music at college was
very important. Finding bands that
were new and good really mattered.
The actual music was a bit secondary.
I used to like a band called The Makeup
at college. I also sided with Blur during
the Oasis vs. Blur question / These
days I listen to whatever gets played at
work. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic
Zeros are worth a listen ANY OTHER
INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: Scott King
was my tutor at Camberwell College.
I still see him and still rate him as one
of the more relevant artists of our
generation / The people who influence
me now are the people I work with DID
YOU OWN ANY SORT OF COLLECTION
THEN/NOW?: I have a massive record
collection YOUR MOST VALUED
POSSESSION NOW: I have an original

May 68 poster. Its the one with the riot

policeman holding a baton. I love it but
it has a big SS symbol on the shield.
My wife wont have it in the house. Ive
tried explaining that its actually very
anti-fascist, but I see her point HOW
OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU FIRST
THOUGHT OF BECOMING A DESIGNER?:

I was 24 I bumped into an old college

friend of mine who was wearing a suit
and carrying a portfolio. It looked like
he was doing very well. He was in fact
coming back from an interview at an ad
agency. He didnt get the job but we
got talking and he explained that it was

APPENDIX 1

easier to get the sort of job he was

after if he was in a creative team.
He suggested we started working
together and we started arguing over
who would be the copywriter and who
would be the art director. I won the
argument and thats when I got the
official label. before that I wanted to
be a film director. Before that I was a
trainee butcher with Dewhursts in
Royston DESIGNERS THAT INFLUENCED
YOU THEN/NOW: I think the biggest
influences were the people I used to
hang out with or share a flat with.
Record covers have always been a
great influence too. As I got a bit more
interested in design I started buying
record sleeves for the designers and
not really the music. Ive never been a
fan of New Order but I am a fan of
Peter Saville and began looking at the
other work he made. That got me into
other music, which got me into other
designers, and so on. When I was at
college I was a fan of Fluxus. I liked the
fact that there was a concept in the
design and it was always quite funny.
They demystified art and I liked the fact
that it was a collective. I also thought
that Tomato were really cool. They felt
culturally relevant, as they had just
done the title sequence for the film
Trainspotting. My knowledge of graphic
design up until then was quite traditional
and clean. Tomato looked like they got
their hands dirty / These days my
influences havent really changed
I think you form an opinion about art
and music and stuff very early on.
Those are the things that help shape
your taste, which in turn forms your
visual personality and design outlook
on life. You then take what you like
from the world that fits into those taste
parameters. The parameters just get
bigger ARTISTS/WORKS OF ART THAT
INFLUENCED YOU: The South London
Gallery was next to college so I got to
see a lot of Young British Artists. I think
I was fascinated by how much some of
this work was being sold for. Before
I went to college my sense of modern
art came from books like The Shock of
the New all very much out of reach.
At Camberwell College, at that time, you
could go to the pub and see artists that
were making waves in the art world
propping up the bar. It became within
your reach, which for an art student
was very inspiring
SANDRA HOFFMANN ROBBIANI
(VISUAL STUDIES)
EDUCATION: Vancouver (CAN), Capilano

College, Diploma, Graphic Arts /

Basel (CH), Schule fr Gestaltung,
post-graduate, Graphic Design /
Zurich (CH), Hochschule der Knste,
Executive Masters, Cultural Studies in
Art, Design and Media / Zrich (CH),
Hochschule der Knste/Plymouth
University (UK), PhD (Candidate),
Z-Node Planetary Collegium, Institute
of Cultural Studies in the Arts (in
progress) ARE YOU EMPLOYED OR
SELF-EMPLOYED?: Self-employed and
employed (Professor of Typography
at Hochschule Darmstadt (D)

blackbirds (Amsel) ANY OTHER

INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: Flight YOUR
MOST VALUED POSSESSION THEN:

Mies van der Rohe, Gi Ponti, Carlo

Scarpa / David Chipperfield, SANAA,
Valerio Olgiati, Herzog & de Meuron

A toolbox with instruments (SwannMorton scalpel, marble, roller, Caran

dAche pens and pencils, Racher
typometre, calculating scale, Falzbein,
Cementit, Kern compasses, mink
paintbrushes, loupe, Juwel stapler,
Prismacolor pencil crayons, Gedess
pencil sharpener, bulldog clips,
magnets, Omega Reissnagel drawingpins, hole punch, stamp pad and letter
stamps, technograph 777 pencils, gyro
compass, burnisher, green masking
tape, brown paper tape, Post-its, Minox,
coloured stones, Klebeband from EPA,
Pelikan plaka, sketchbooks from
Rebetez, Knetgummi, Ilford canisters)

MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Mozart,

HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOU FIRST

THOUGHT OF BECOMING A DESIGNER?:

7 it was then when I locked myself in

the bathroom until my mother promised
to drive me across the scary intersection
to an afternoon drawing class
DESIGNERS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN: Hans Arp, H.C. Berann, Donald

Wills Douglas, W. A. Dwiggins, Karl

Gerstner, April Greiman, Kurt Hauert,
John Heartfield, Ernst Heinkel, Josef
Hoffmann, Armin Hofmann, Howard
Hughes, Eduard Imhof, Edward
Johnston, Otto Lilienthal, Hans-Rudolf
Lutz, Herbert Matter, Willy Messerschmitt,
Reginald Joseph Mitchell, Stanley
Morison, Bruno Munari, Paul Rand,
Paul Renner, Niklaus Stoecklin, Ladislav
Sutnar, Jan Tschichold, Wolfgang
Weingart, Piet Zwart, et al. AUTHORS/
BOOKS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Hugo Ball, Simone de

Beauvoir, John Berger, Friedrich

Duerrenmatt, Eugen Gomringer, James
Joyce, Birgit Kempker, R.D. Laing, Louis
LAmour, Edgar Allan Poe, Antoine de
Saint-Exupry, Susan Sontag, Gertrude
Stein / John Langshaw Austin, Simon
Baron-Cohen, Lewis Carroll, Emily Carr,
Angela Carter, Michel Foucault, Martin
Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty,
Dieter Mersch, Laurie Petrou, V.S.
Ramachandran, Eva Schuermann, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Ludwig Wittgenstein
FILMS/DIRECTORS THAT INFLUENCE
YOU NOW: Das gefrorene Herz (Xavier

Koller), Hoehenfeuer (Fredi M. Murer),

Women without Men (Shirin Neshat),
Beresina oder Die letzten Tage der
Schweiz (Daniel Schmid), My Life
Without Me (Isabel Coixet), My Winnipeg
(Guy Maddin), films by Michael Haneke
SASCHA LOBE
(L2M3)
EDUCATION: Hochschule Pforzheim

(Germany), Diplom-Designer (Dipl.-Des.),

Graphic Design ARE YOU EMPLOYED
OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Self-employed
and employed (Professor at Hochschule
fr Gestaltung Offenbach (D)) PREVIOUS
EMPLOYMENT: None GENERAL COMMENT
ON ALL THE ANSWERS GIVEN ON THE
SUBJECT OF INFLUENCES THEN/NOW
WITHIN THIS BOOK: Everything I like

MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED

YOU THEN/NOW: Barbara, my Baroque-

influences me. Everything I dont like

doesnt influence me. But its difficult to
distinguish between things that motivate
you and influence your thoughts, and
things that are formal, stylistic influences.
So in that respect I cant really distinguish
between things that have fundamentally
changed my work and things that merely
reflect my interests. All of the names
that I give here were/are points of
reference for me and cut to the core of
my interests ARCHITECTS/ BUILDINGS

oboe-playing roommate / Ousel

THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:

ARCHITECTS/ BUILDINGS THAT

INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Tadao

Ando, Atelier 5, B.C. Binning, A. Erickson,

Buckminster Fuller, Frank Gehry, Zaha
Hadid, Herzog & de Meuron, Karl Moser,
Luigi Snozzi, Livio Vacchini / Various

Miles Davis, Pixies, Tom Waits, Portishead, Beastie Boys, Beck / Bach,
Andreas Scholl, Franoise Hardy, Helge
Schneider, The White Stripes, Adele,
The Avett Brothers, Ezra Furman
music is too fast, ask me tomorrow and
Ill write down different ones ANY
OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: My
girlfriend / My wife DID YOU OWN ANY
SORT OF COLLECTION THEN/NOW?:

Music, books / Books, music

STEFAN SAGMEISTER
(SAGMEISTER INC.)
EDUCATION: Vienna (AT), Universitt

fr angewandte Kunst Wien, Bachelor

of Art (B. A.) / New York (USA), Pratt
Institute, Master of Arts (M. A.) ARE YOU
EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?:
Self-employed ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS
THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:

Guenther Domenig / Herzog & de

Meuron MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: King
Crimson / Sigur Rs
SVEN VOELKER
(SVEN VOELKER STUDIO)
EDUCATION: Bremen (D), Hochschule

THAT INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW:

Beastie Boys / Squarepusher ANY
OTHER INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: Any-

thing and everything / Kate, my wife

and Hyperkit co-founder DID YOU OWN
ANY SORT OF COLLECTION THEN/NOW?:
Examples of information graphics /
Digital photographs of construction site
furniture HOW DO YOU DEVELOP/
RESEARCH AN IDEA NOW?: Research and
development is an ongoing process and
everything we have seen, read and
experienced dictates how we want to
design as a studio. This is combined with
straightforward research into subjects
that are relevant to particular projects
URS LEHNI
(LEHNI-TRB, ROLLO PRESS,
CORNER COLLEGE)
EDUCATION: Lucerne (CH), Hochschule

Luzern, Bachelor of Art (B. A.) /

Maastricht (NL), Jan van Eyck Academie,
Post-graduate studies ARE YOU
EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?: Selfemployed and employed (Professor,
Staatliche Hochschule fr Gestaltung
Karlsruhe (D)) HOW DO YOU DEVELOP/
RESEARCH AN IDEA NOW?: The
conception of a situation within which
design can happen is very close to the
modes with which I also like to work
in more recent projects: scores,
restrictions, processes, etc.

fr Knste, Diplom-Designer (Dipl.Designer) / London (UK), Middlesex

University, Master of Arts (M.A.) ARE

YASMIN KHAN
(COUNTERSPACE)

YOU EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?:

EDUCATION: Los Angleles, CA (USA),

Self-employed and employed (Professor

at Kunsthochschule Halle (D)) PREVIOUS
EMPLOYMENT: Imagination (London,
UK), Plex (Berlin (D)), Professor at
Hochschule fr Gestaltung Karlsruhe
(D) ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Tadao
Ando, Rem Koolhaas / SANAA

University of California, UCLA, Bachelor

of Arts (B. A.), Fine Art / Pasadena, CA
(USA), Art Center College of Design,
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B. F. A.), Graphic
Design / Valencia, CA (USA), California
Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Master of
Fine Arts (M. F. A.), Graphic Design, ARE

MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED

YOU THEN/NOW: Metalheadz, Under-

world, Bjrk / Manu Katche, Maximo

Park, Underworld DID YOU OWN ANY
SORT OF COLLECTION THEN/NOW?:

A matchbox car collection / I have a

beautiful collection of posters by the
New York artist Lawrence Weiner. Apart
from that I own a strange but large
collection of pictures and objects from
various and very different epochs for
which I havent found a curatorial
thread yet WHAT DO YOU DISLIKE
ABOUT WORKING AS A DESIGNER?:

Its very difficult to enter the hermetically

sealed area of art. I dont mean to design
the catalogues or posters for museums
or galleries, thats boring, but for a
designer who is the author of his own
work to publish, exhibit or sell art. Art
for me is as interesting as big corporate
companies for whom I worked. To combine these two areas of practice without using a pseudonym isnt easy at all
TIM BALAAM
(HYPERKIT)

YOU EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?:

Both employed (senior lecturer at Otis

College of Art and Design) and selfemployed MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Dungen,
MIA / Sixto Rodriguez, MIA ANY OTHER
INFLUENCES THEN/NOW: Mentor, then:
Denise Gonzales Crisp DID YOU OWN
ANY SORT OF COLLECTION THEN/
NOW?: Books
YVES FIDALGO
(FULGURO)
EDUCATION: Lausanne (CH), ECAL

Ecole cantonale dart de Lausanne,

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Industrial
Design ARE YOU EMPLOYED OR SELFEMPLOYED?: Self-employed PREVIOUS
EMPLOYMENT: None ARCHITECTS/
BUILDINGS THAT INFLUENCED YOU
THEN/NOW: Herzog & de Meuron (Tate

Modern, Prada Shop Tokyo, Basel

Station Building), Diller and Scofidio
(Cloud in Yverdon for Expo02 and other
works), Jean Nouvel (Congress Building
in Luzern, Monolith in Morat, Expo 2002)
MUSICIANS/ALBUMS THAT INFLUENCED
YOU THEN/NOW: Johnny Cash, Emily

EDUCATION: Ipswich (UK), Suffolk

Jane White, Sigur Rs, The Clash,

Damien Jurado, Jose Gonzales, Moriarty,
Kraftwerk, Arcade Fire, God Machine,
Elliott Smith DID YOU OWN ANY SORT
OF COLLECTION THEN/ NOW?: Comics

College, B-Tech, General Art and

Design / London (UK), Camberwell
College of Arts, Bachelor of Arts (B. A.
Hons), Graphic Design / London (UK),
Royal College of Art, Master of Arts
(M. A.), Graphic Design ARE YOU

DESIGNERS THAT INFLUENCED YOU

THEN: Ronan Bouroullec, Olivier Sidet,

EMPLOYED OR SELF-EMPLOYED?:
Director of own company CURRENT
AND/OR PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:
None ARCHITECTS/BUILDINGS THAT
INFLUENCED YOU THEN/NOW: Rem
Koolhaas / MVRDV MUSICIANS/ALBUMS

Florence Dolac (all our teachers

at college). Also Jean Prouv. And
Castiglioni. And Charles and Ray
Eames. And all the Droog stuff.
Marti Guix. Richard Hutten,
Fernando and Humberto Campana

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QUESTION & ANSWER: COMPARISONS PART 2

Plan B
Age of first design career thought
Hours spent designing
Idea development and research
Influential designers
Influential design pieces
Influential authors and books
Influential artists
Influential directors and films
Likes about working as a designer (only now)
Then

QUESTION & ANSWER: COMPARISONS PART 2

Plan B (hypothetical)
Would one do a design career all over again
Hours spent designing
Idea development and research
Influential designers
Influential design pieces
Influential authors and books
Influential artists
Influential directors and films
Dislikes about working as a designer
Now

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

I was always really

into drawing and
making things and
knew I wanted to
do something
related to this

Architecture

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

No plan B,
sorry

No plan B

Study
maths

I remember
planning to do an
intensive casino
croupier course
while I was trying to
think of plan B

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

Didnt know
it then but a
design
historian

No plan B

Racing-car
driver

Researcher Photoat the MIT graphy

No plan B

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

Porn actor

There never was a

plan B but looking
back I might have
enjoyed being a
carpenter

If I had been
something like
colour-blind, I
would have become
a dentist

Pilot, doctor,
mathematician

Amazingly
to me now,
a criminal
lawyer

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

A writer I also love

making books, so if
I were not designing
them anymore then
I could have authored
them
MAKI SUZUKI

Artist,
architect or
hip-hop
producer

Architect,
scuba-diving
teacher

There was
no plan B

Acting

My teachers thought
I would have a career
in English literature
or history I loved
writing, and I still write
a lot in my work

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

Astronomy
(distant
second)

My dream Architecture
was to be a
bush pilot

There was
no plan B

To be honest Being a designer

I didnt really was my second
have a plan B choice

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Plan B was
to go into
marketing
thank god this
didnt happen

Interior
designer

I studied
marketing

There was no
plan B I am
still working
my butt off for
plan A

Psychology
or
languages

There was no
second choice,
since I was 16
before I could
have imagined
being a cook

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

There was no plan

B I always felt
that there had to be
a balance between
design, art and
society

I had applied to
study journalism
too. Im glad I got
into the course in
art school, so much
better this way!

Historian

Artist, then
curator

Graphic
design is
my plan B

My cousin got me a job

as a runner in a small
editing company
if I had stuck with it
I would have been
an editor

SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

First choice:
fighter pilot

I wanted to study
electrical engineering
and become an
engineer that would
have been the
alternative to design
and architecture

Had none

Professional
athlete

I didnt really have

one and my parents
also didnt force
me to come up
with one

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Writing

Engineer

1 NONE
2 ARCHITECT
3 PILOT, WRITER

What was your second choice

of career, your plan B?

Then
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ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

Start to be
bored

I realize Im not going

to become a professional footballer if I
didnt have to earn any
money, Id still do
design, just without
the dull bits

I couldnt even if
I were to do different
things I would still
approach them as a
designer; my mtier is
that of graphic design

Probably start teaching

full-time with the risk
of becoming removed
from reality and tired
of hearing my own
voice if I was braver
Id take up farming

Swimming
in the sea

Something
simple

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Write more
books

Be unemployed
on second thoughts
I would wish I could
earn a living by
becoming a
musician

Play, walk,
run, make,
cook

Become a
writer

Set up a
shop

Anything
we can do

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

Make films

Playing
with the
children

Teaching
design,
talking about
design

Go on a
very long
cycling trip

Run a gallery
and curate
exhibitions

Well, maybe I can

do something
related to design:
book store, caf,
pub, editor,
publisher, etc

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Reading
and writing

I would just read

all day. I dont
think Ill stop
designing

More
music and
teaching

Photography,
play music

I would
become a
father

What I am doing
now: be a photographer but a
photographer in a
design context

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

Work in some kind of

research/documentary
-making, or do some
kind of work towards
environmental issues

Cook, start a record

label, museum,
magazine, write a
TV series, become
a director, etc.

(Full answer, p. 227)

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

Get
depressed

Travel, sail, see

friends all over
the world and
work outside

Never
thought
about it

There is
no plan B

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Curating

Pursue a career in
my other passion:
promoting classical
music through
every means
conceivable

Paint

Open a caf
or write a
book

I would
paint

I would most
probably do
something like
selling books
although my

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

I lie awake
at night
pondering
this question

(Full answer, p. 229)

I dont know
changing
the world in
some way

I would try to
write more, go
to another
country and try
to grow a beard

Travel and Curate or run

bake bread a museum or

I would probably
have to become an
artist or just a world
traveller (cant hurt
to dream!)

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Go hiking
in the Alps

Cant stop.
If I did stop,
Id probably
just be lazy

Make
documentary
movies

Sculptor

I have the romantic

idea of working with
wood, being a cabinetmaker or something
similar but I never
really gave it a try

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Write, teach Open a

and cook
restaurant
or bar

open a bar

1 OPEN BAR / CAF / SHOP, TEACH,

TRAVEL, WRITE
2 MAKE ART, COOK
3 CURATE, READ

What would you do today if

you stopped designing?

Now
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ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

18

16

15

19

As a
teenager

19, but
without a
clear idea of
what it was

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

14/15

Around 15

Young

18

19

14/17

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

17

Probably around 5
or 6 when I started
to draw, although
I didnt know what a
designer was then

15

20

16

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Around 12

I think I was
around 22, right
after I started
studying
architecture

12

13

17

13 I was designing
all my homework in
ClarisWorks and Photoshop on my Macintosh
Performa; suddenly I
was a graphic designer

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

MAKI SUZUKI

17

Around
22/23

16

I must have
been very young
because I cant
remember

1820. Having had

a very creative
upbringing, Id known
I wanted to do
something artistic ever
since I was tiny, though

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Around 22
after some
internships

20

Consciously,
that would
have been
around 16

20

16

12 I loved to draw, but

did not have the balls
to choose the life of an
artist it took 10 years
to love the profession
of being a designer

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

Around 20

Around 18 I went to
evening classes at the
Art Academy Dresden;
apart from life drawing
we had an introduction
to typography an
exciting moment

14

17,
perhaps

24. I had studied

industrial design
before I ever thought
of becoming a
graphic designer

I was 24
I bumped

SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

7 it was
then when
I locked

16

14

Around 18

18

15

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

AVERAGE/ YOUNGEST/OLDEST

25

18

A 16
Y 7
O 25

(Full answer, p. 231)

How old were you when you first thought

of becoming a designer?

Then
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ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

Probably

Yes, but there

are times
when I have
doubts

Yes

Yeah, I
think so

Yes

Yes there is
so much I still
dont know

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Yes

I guess so

No

Maybe

Yes

Yes

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

No

Yes

Yes

Yes I would Yes, I am

enjoying
what

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Yes

Maybe I would
have concentrated
on photography
instead or a
musical instrument

Ah, thats a
difficult
question
I dont know

Absolutely
without
question

Yes! I love
being a
designer,
(Full answer, p. 228)

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

No

Yes,
without a
doubt

Yes, although I
remain somewhere
between being
a designer and
an artist

Yes

Yes

(Full answer, p. 227)

Maybe not

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

Absolutely

LARS HARMSEN

No, I dont
think so
(Full answer, p. 228)

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Yes but I still

wish I had
known then
what I know
now!

Yes

Yes

Yes,
definitely

Yes

Certainly

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

Yes

Not sure
Yes, its a
pretty good
choice

Probably

I would probably
have become a
designer sooner

Actually,
Im an art
director

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Why not?

Absolutely

Yes

I would
probably
do it again

Yes

I guess so,
although maybe
combined with
another
profession

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

YES/NO/PERHAPS

Yes

Yep

Y 39
N 3
P 8

Would you still have become a designer

if you knew what you know now?

Now
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ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

Not
enough

14

24

When the
deadlines were
tight I worked
all night

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

12, really
maybe
more

10

0.3

616

45

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

12

10

About 10

12

Over 12

610

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Waking
hours

3 (but much
more talking
about it)

4 (the rest
I was in the
canteen, caf
or bar)

10

412

I think about design

and our projects all the
time, its an emormous
part of my life, which
I am sure is the case
for most designers

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

MAKI SUZUKI

Too many
5
(around 11)

612

I didnt/dont
have a set
schedule or
time limit,

710

10 except
weekends

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

4 (on
average)

About 5

810

14 (of
unfocused
sketching)

Certainly
more than
today

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

A lot

46

Too many

As long as
it takes

SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Ooofff!

24

16

Probably always
more than 8
hours, often
until deep into
the night

Not sure, design

only made up
a small part of
what I did at
college

Approx. 8

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

AVERAGE/ MOST/ FEWEST

12+

Lets say 9 but

do I count in the
hours spent
drinking beer trying
to be inspired?

A 9+
M 24
F 3

(Full answer, p. 228)

(Cont. opposite now)

How many hours did you spend

designing each day?

Then
238

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

Not
enough

10

24

A lot fewer
than I would
like to

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

6, really
rather
fewer

12

0.2

810

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

1214

About 12
(if admin and
paperwork
count as
designing)

It depends on
projects
approx. 6 to 8

0 to 12

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Waking
hours

5 (plus another 5
of non-design and
office stuff, like
reading, talking,
eating, writing,
meeting, etc.)

4 (the rest I am
writing mails,
making calls,
calculating prices
or sitting in a caf)

10

See
opposite
(then)

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

08, it varies
juggling being a
mother and
working from
home

It depends on the
definition going to
a talk, exhibition or
trip informs the
work or becomes
the work, so 24/7

Does teaching design

count and running a
design business? If so:
7 before kids bedtime,
2 after (if only actually
designing, about half
an hour)

23 of design Designing: 0.3;

thinking,
of 810 of
concepts: 4;
work

managing: rest

I only know that I

like to start at 09:30
and keep going till
19:00, 21:00, 24:00,
02:00

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

RICHARD WALKER

8 (designing
or having to
do with the
process of it)

Between 5
and 10

None
talking
about it: 8

2 (of focused
design
execution)

Marginal work has

become more admin
and meetings; sometimes I try to take
a day off to only do
design work

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

A lot but different

now its more
thinking of solutions,
strategies,
approach, etc.

412

812

Not enough As long as

it takes

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Ooofff!

24

6.5 (but more

on the days I
teach)

Less than 2

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

AVERAGE/ MOST/ FEWEST

Varies,
anywhere
from 012+

Around 9
less beer,
more design

A 7M 24
F 0

How many hours do you spend

designing each day?

Now
239

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ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

With a piece
of paper and a
pen or taking
a shower

Discussions
with peers

By living

Ideas usually came

during the process
of making or
working with a
certain medium

Listening, talking,
drawing, making,
reading, writing,
going to places it
depended on the
nature of the project

Thinking, reading,
discussing, writing,
sketching, again
and again

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Collect
information,
analyze,
synthesize

I simply started
with an idea and
developed it
from there

Intuition

Back to zero. Start

from zero with
every new project.
Find the basic
problem and try

At college I would look

at other peoples work
much more, and try to
learn about their way of
thinking, how to get to
the solution

We spent a lot of time

in libraries collecting
images we stuck
them in sketchbooks
and eventually we
found ideas from them

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

Library and
discussions
with fellow
students

I spent a lot of time in

the library while in
college projects were
complex and research
was everything
(Full answer, p. 227)

I used to research
into related fields to
have a good
understanding
between those

Mostly through
words, bouncing
ideas off fellow
students, feedback
from tutors, library

(Full answer, p. 227)

From the
environment
around me and
based on my
experience

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Wholeheartedly,
and excitedly

I consciously tried
as many avenues as
possible I looked
at everything as
if it were a brain
exercise

Writing, drawing
in a sketchbook,
researching
within books

I spent hours in the

library, researching a
topic then I would
start drawing sketches
and outlines, focusing
in on a solution

I tended to hoard
images and sooner
or later they formed
a coherent group

Research is key to
a successful project
or idea; I/we spend
a great deal of

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

MAKI SUZUKI

Brainstorm,
then chase
up interesting
leads

Books and
magazines,
public and
university
libraries

Visual research,
thinking,
discussing,
searching
(teamwork)

I always
start writing;
I describe all the
images that
I will create

Pretty much the

same process
creatively then and
now it varies of
course from
(Cont. opposite now)

Usually, there are

ideas around and
they are constantly
developed as
a reaction to a
situation

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

There is no one
way. You might
want to approach
an idea from a
visual angle

e.g. Walked around

supermarkets looking
at packaging, having
been given a
packaging brief for
spices

Just observing,
playing around,
talking to
people

Intuitively

Then and now is

pretty much the
same process. I
like to rethink

Books

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

I think life is one long

research project. All
the time you are being
inspired by the world

Read books,
isolate myself
as much as
possible, write

I learned that you

can never predict
that something will
not work unless you
actually begin doing

I used to go and
have a look at
what the others
were doing

I took a
shower

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

(Cont. opposite now)

NIKKI GONNISSEN

Engage, listen,
research,
analyze, focus

(Cont. opposite now)

(Cont. opposite now)

(Cont. opposite now)

(Cont. opposite now)

(Cont. opposite now)

SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Horizontally laid-out
piles of sketches
and notes,
snapshots

TDS:
Thinking,
doing

(Cont. opposite now)

(Cont. opposite now)

Talk to
client
extensively

I did a lot of research

to get to know the
subject and the
problem at the time,
without real Internet
and without Google,
this was real work

Independent and
project-specific
research such as
attending a talk,
visiting a museum/
exhibition or reading
in the library

I guess back in school

we already had
established similar
working methods to
the ones were using
now just in a very
naive way

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

Lots of visual research,

identifying specific
formal and/or
conceptual inspiration,
lots of making,
assessing, reworking

Taking a
shower

How did you develop/research

an idea?

Then
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ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

With a piece
of paper and a
pen or taking
a shower

Discussion with
colleagues and also
the web not for
ideas, but things
that make the ideas
manifest

By living

Now the idea is

mostly a cognitive
reaction to research,
be it open research
on the net or
bibliographic

Listening, talking,
drawing, making,
reading, writing,
going to places
it depends on the
nature of the project

Thinking, reading,
discussing, writing,
sketching, again
and again

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Collect
information,
analyze,
synthesize

We team-discuss first
ideas, develop them,
talk again and
reconsider the various
sketches then we
decide upon a strategy
to follow

Intuition

to get to the
bottom of it. Focus
on the essential
and simple things.
Challenge the
established

I tend to find out as

much as I can
about the client and
let the inspiration
come from their
stories

It is a bit more
difficult to do it like
then deadlines
are very tight and
we lack time

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

I take a
bath

Internet, library,
experience,
conversations in
family and
among staff

I still do research
but more
sporadically and
there is no
systematic

Basically, clients
and co-workers
develop an idea
together. I still
study related

(Full answer, p. 227)

(Full answer, p. 227)

From the
environment
around me and
based on my
experience

Lots of ugly sketches +

words, travelling,
walking around,
bouncing ideas off
collaborators and
colleagues, Internet +
library + life

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Wholeheartedly,
and excitedly

Its all very

organic in our
studio, theres
no one set
process

Talking to the client

about the product
and its context.
Writing, drawing in a
sketchbook,

Same as then plus

for client work I rely
on them showing
me as much as
possible of their
material

time doing it
whether its a trip
to the British
Library or a visit
to Barbara

(Full answer, p. 227)

No time for all this (see

opposite) now when
I get a job deadlines are
very tight, so I need to
start on the final piece
without being able to
research/develop much

(Full answer, p. 228)

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

Brainstorm with
employees, then
have them chase
up interesting
leads repeat

Web, books,
magazines,
interviews

Visual research,
thinking,
discussing,
searching
(teamwork)

I always start
writing; I
describe all the
images that
I will create

project to project
but basically I strip
a brief down to the
basics, look up
literal meanings

Same as then
plus we also go
to a residency
once per year

(Full answer, pp. 228229)

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

or very much
from a textual one
(to deliberately
avoid starting

Same as then
with more time
pressure and
less playful

Intuitively

(Full answer, p. 229)

I start with the idea,

then follow through
with research, if
applicable. Usually
within my own

the process,
for example by
starting with
something
(Full answer, p. 229)

Brainstorm,
looking
around,
books

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

Engage, listen, analyze,

focus, use different
strategies, make use
of experience, use of
different strengths by
collaborating

Ive recently tried to

do more speculative
work and read
more less resultdriven things

around you jot

it down on a piece
of paper or file it in
your mind and then
let it grow

Read books,
isolate myself
as much as
possible, write

it, and its in

the moment of
creation that you
then discover
new understanding,
new meaning

I still do
(see then)

(Full answer, p. 229)

(Full answer, p. 230)

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Post-its,
but nothing
recurring or
systematically
organized

seeing,
thinking,
doing,
seeing

Talk to
client
extensively

These days I do a
lot of research
independently from
projects. I know which
subjects interest me
and I develop projects
based on that

Research and
development is an
ongoing process
and everything we
have seen, read

The conception of a
situation within which
design can happen
is very close to the
modes with which
I also like to work in

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

Tapping into ongoing

visual research and
long-standing interests;
lots of making, assessing and reworking;
also collaboration,
discussion with peers

See then,
hasnt
changed
much

(Full answer, p. 231)

How do you develop/research

an idea?

Now
241

(Full answer, p. 231)

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

The straight lines of

Dieter Rams, the clear
thoughts of Wolfgang
Weingart, the
conceptual thoughts
of Bauhaus, the

Peter Saville, Neville

Brody, Saul Bass,
Margaret Calvert (pp.
150153), Derek
Birdsall, Herb Lubalin

Ed Fella, Vaughan
Oliver, Neville
Brody, David
Carson, Sebastio
Rodrigues

Amongst others:
Bruce Mau,
Ken Garland
(pp. 114117)

My teachers (mainly
Heinz Habermann,
Horst Brning and
Marc Bertier)

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

John Gorham,
Push Pin Studios,
US advertising,
Dada,
H. N. Werkman

Wolfgang
Weingart, Mary
Vieira, Georg
Staehelin

Adrian
Newey

Otl Aicher, Herbert

W. Kapitzki, Richard
Saul Wurman,
Edward Tufte,
Marcello Zuffo, etc.

I really couldnt list

designers who have
influenced me. Except
Mike Mills, whom I
have much respect

Alan
Fletcher

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

Uwe
Loesch

Willy Fleckhaus, Emil

Ruder, Wim Crouwel,
Wolfgang Weingart,
Alexey Brodovitch, Hans
Nienheysen, Josef
Mller-Brockmann

I was more
influenced by visual
poets such as Franz
Mon and Eugen
Gomringer

Karel Martens,
David Reinfurt,
James Goggin
(pp. 98101),
Paul Elliman

Anh Graphics, Doosup

Kim, Helmut Schmid,
Hong Design, Image
and Imagination,
Kohei Sugiura,
Matsuda Yukimasa,

April Greiman,
Neville Brody

(Full answer, p. 227)

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Charles and Ray

Eames, Graphic
Thought Facility
(pp. 3033),
Ettore Sottsass

Otl Aicher,Max Bill,

Wim Crouwel, Tibor
Kalman, Stefan
Sagmeister (pp.
202205)

Josef MllerBrockmann, Max

Bill, Mike Mills,
Julian House

Vaughan
Oliver

Hans
Schleger

Josef
MllerBrockmann

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

MAKI SUZUKI

No particular influences.
Ive always been
inspired by a general
mixture of styles and
approaches. Names
that come to

M/M Paris,
Bless, Daft
Punk, Maison
Martin Margiela

(Cont. opposite now)

(Cont. opposite now)

(Full answer p. 227)

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

Tibor Kalman, Sophie

Thomas, Holger Jacobs
(pp. 8285), Graphic
Thought Facility (pp.
3033), Alan Kitching,
Saul Bass, Josef MllerBrockmann

Neville Brody,
David Carson,
Vaughan
Oliver

Lars Mller,
Ruedi Baur,
Wolfgang
Weingart

Tibor Kalman I admire

him for his sense of
humour and unconventional observations
his approach to design
still lives on

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Amongst
many: Piet
Zwart, Neville
Brody

Hans Schleger and

Jock Kinneir two
designers who gave
me an insight into
graphic design, while
I was on the Illustration
course at Chelsea

Otl Aicher,
Wolfgang
Weingart

Friedrich
Forssman

We had our heroes

(all the Swiss and
Dutch), but I cant
name anyone in
particular

Neville Brody,
Paul Rand,
Alan Fletcher,
Milton Glaser

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

Piet Zwart, Willem

Sandberg, Neville
Brody, Malcolm Garrett,
Tibor Kalman, Tomato,
8vo, Gert Dumbar,
Wim Crouwel, Pierre
Bernard

Otl Aicher,
Wolfgang Weingart,
Peter Saville, Hard
Werken, Mevis and
van Deursen

Jan Tschichold,
Charles Collett,
Robert and George
Stephenson
(Full answer, p. 230)

Robin Kinross
(Design/Writing/
Research),
Tibor Kalman,
Jan Tschichold

Tibor Kalman, Wolfgang

Weingart, Piet Zwart,
Stefan Sagmeister (pp.
202205), Wim Crouwel,
Karel Martens

I think the biggest

influences were the
people I used to
hang out with/
share a flat with

SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

Hans Arp, H.C.

Berann, Donald
Wills Douglas,
W.A. Dwiggins,
Karl Gerstner

Bauhaus, Ott+Stein,
Vaughan Oliver,
Neville Brody, Max Bill,
Bruno Munari, Charles
and Ray Eames,
Rei Kawakubo

Storm
Tibor
Thorgerson Kalman

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Metahaven,
Superstudio,
Genevieve
Gauckler, Antoine +
Manuel, Droog

Ronan Bouroullec,
Olivier Sidet, Florence
Dolac (all our tutors at
college). Also Jean
Prouv. And Achille
Castiglioni. And

1 NEVILLE BRODY, WOLFGANG WEINGART

2 TIBOR KALMAN
3 JOSEF MLLER-BROCKMANN, MAX BILL

(Full answer, p. 231)

(Full answer, p. 229)

(Full answer, p. 230)

(Full answer, pp. 230231)

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Nobody in
particular

Cornel
Windlin

(Full answer, p. 231)

Which designers
influenced you?

Then
242

ANDREAS GNASS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

Karl Gerstner,
Victor Palla,
Paulo Cantos,
Lust, Vincent
Perrottet

Bruno
Munari

My project partners
(Peter Eckart, Michel
de Boer, Ahn Sang
Soo, Roland Lambrette,
Vincent van Baar, Zou
Zhengfang, Elodie
Boyer and many others)

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Everybody,
Dada, H. N.
Werkman

Jan Tschichold,
Richard Paul
Lohse, Ruedi
Baur

Enzo Mari

John
Maeda

for. Then and now.

Im more influenced by
people making things
in general than just
certain designers

Alan
Fletcher

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

David
Lynch

Jan Tschichold,
Dieter Rams, Anthony
Froshaug, Otl Aicher,
Helmut Schmid, Derek
Birdsall, Irma Boom,
North, Harry Beck

Rei
Kawakubo,
Kenya Hara

Antoni Muntadas, Daniel

Harding and Tomas
Celizna, Daniel Eatock
(pp. 5861), Lehni-Trb
(pp. 214217)

Swiss
Modernists

(Full answer, p. 227)

I try to avoid specific

influences but respect
Alan Fletcher, Karel
Martens, Tibor Kalman,
Lance Wyman, Graphic
Thought Facility (pp.
3033) a lot

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

See then, plus

Bruno Munari, Sori
Yanagi, Enzo Mari,
W. A. Dwiggins and
countless others

David Oreilly,
Elliott Earls, Norm,
Experimental
Jetset

Max Bill, Josef MllerBrockmann, Mike Mills,

Julian House and
Dutch designers:
Metahaven,
Experimental Jetset

Mike Meir Piero della

Francesca

Derek
Birdsall

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

See then + names that

come to mind now:
Eley Kishimoto, Lena
Corwin, Marimekko,
Bauhaus, Anni Albers,
Charles and Ray Eames

The people who

influence us today are
people we work with:
Alex Rich, Yuri Suzuki,
Martino Gamper,
Fabien Cappello

insistence of Sandra
Hoffmann (pp. 194
197) and the playfulness of Achille
Castiglioni. Today
this is all in my head
like in a big stew

ANDREW STEVENS

(Full answer, p. 227)

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

See then + Rosa Loves,

We Are What We Do,
Droog, Sennep, Hyperkit
(pp. 210213), NonFormat, Cassie Klingler,
Brighten the Corners
(p. 256)

A lot

Recent extremely
talented graduates
from The Hague and
Rotterdam Academy
I am hoping they will
be the next ones to
influence all of us

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Amongst
many:
Lex Reitsma,
Piet Gerards

Adrian Frutiger for

his passion and
commitment, and
Thomas Heatherwick
for his originality and
sense of fun

Maison
Martin
Margiela

Kurt
Schwitters

There are designers

whom I respect
for their approach e.g.
Urs Lehni (pp. 214217)
for rethinking
(Full answer, p. 229)

Alan Fletcher, Paul Rand,

Fons Hickmann (pp. 74
77), KesselsKramer
(pp. 190193), Graphic
Thought Facility (pp.
3033)

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

Wim Crouwel,
Jurgen Bey, De
Designpolitie, Pierre
di Sciullo, Catherine
Zask, Paul Cox,
Metahaven, etc.

Memphis style,
Barney Bubbles,
Rei Kawakubo,
Bart de Baets,
Stewart Bailey

Probably the
same as then,
but even
more

Anthony Froshaug,
Norman Potter,
Klaus Wittkugel,
Will Burtin

Ludovic Balland, Daniel

Eatock (pp. 5861),
James Goggin (pp.
98101), Armand Mevis,
Maureen Mooren

These days my
influences havent
really changed
I think you form
an opinion

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Wolf Hirth and

Martin Schempp,
Bertrand Piccard

Inspired rather than

influenced: 24, Spin,
Fanette Mellier,
Pam&Jenny, Phillipe
Apeloig, Droog, Ronan
and Erwan Bouroullec

Tibor
Kalman

Allen Ruppersberg, Otl

Aicher, John Warwicker,
Bruno Munari, Anton
Stankowski, Helmut
Smits, Daniel Eatock
and so many more

Charles
and Ray
Eames

Bruno
Munari

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Paperrad, Beige,
Metahaven,
Hella Jongerius,
Keiichi Tanaami

As you go along, your

influences are not so
definite there are so
many that I really find it
wrong to name one
over another

1 BRUNO MUNARI, DANIEL VAN DER VELDEN (METAHAVEN)

2 ALAN FLETCHER, CHARLES AND RAY EAMES, DANIEL EATOCK, EXPERIMENTAL
JETSET, GRAPHIC THOUGHT FACILITY, JAN TSCHICHOLD, PAUL RAND
3 ANTHONY FROSHAUG, ENZO MARI, KAREL MARTENS, MAX BILL,
RICHARD PAUL LOHSE, TIBOR KALMAN, URS LEHNI (LEHNI-TRB)

(Full answer, p. 230)

Which designers
influence you?

Now
243

(Full answer, pp. 230231)

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

Everyday
products

Gastrotypographicalassemblage
by Lou Dorfsman
and Herb Lubalin
(1966)

Mo Wax CD
The record
packaging,
cover to TNT
Vladimir
by Tortoise
Mayakovsky (For
the Voice, 1923)

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

Every day I saw design

that had an effect on
my projects. Then,
more objects were
classified as design

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

The Valentine
typewriter for
Olivetti by Ettore
Sottsass (1969)

Found lettering, xtre-em poster

by Georg
graphics and
type specimens Staehelin (1997)

Post-it note Victor

Vasarely
drawings

The book
Graphic
Agitation (Liz
McQuiston)

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

Dildos

Twen (magazine) and

book covers (Surkamp
Verlag) by Willy Fleckhaus and books Typography (Emil Ruder),
ypography Today
(Helmut Schmid)

The poem silence

or silencio (Eugen
Gomringer) and
kitschy Japanese
magazines

A British poster,
Keep Calm and
Carry On,
various Dutch
design

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

Olivetti Valentine Whatever the

designers that
typewriter,
Ettore Sottsass are mentioned
on the spread
before did

Film by Hans
Richter:
Rhythm 23

4AD record covers

Common Worship
for the Church of
England designed
by Derek Birdsall

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

MAKI SUZUKI

Anything by Tibor
Kalman (esp. office
map for studio tours),
anything by Charles
and Ray Eames (esp.
House of Cards and
Power of Ten)

The early
campaigns for
Benetton by
Oliviero Toscani

Transfer
(book by Lars
Mller
Publishers)

I was in love
with Florent by
Tibor Kalman
for a long time

I cant
remember any
pieces that
inspired me in
particular

the PIL
record,
Album

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Work for the Olympic

Games 1972 by Otl
Aicher and Swiss
poster design from the
1960s/1970s by Armin
Hofmann

TC 100 by
Hans (Nick)
Roericht

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

The posters
designed by
Wolfgang
Weingart

Too many
to name

I remember
the moment I
decided to go
back and

Ive always liked

functional design
e. g. audience
survey maps

SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

Avro (Aero, Anson,

Lancaster), Schiff
nach Europa,
Solar Impulse

Nefertiti
bust
(Thutmose)

King Crimson
album cover for
In the Court of
the Crimson
King

Apple
Lego
PowerBook

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

Sealand
identity

The design
spirit of
Droog

Within the context

of my student work
(p. 148): the typographical posters
of Ton Homburg
(Opera)for the
(Full answer, p. 229)

(Full answer, p. 230)

Which pieces of design

influenced you?

Then
244

URS LEHNI

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

Every day I see

design that has an
effect on my
projects. Now, more
the things of daily

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Everyday
products

None

XTCs GO TO
album cover,
Whole Earth
Catalogue

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

Found lettering,
graphics and
type specimens
plus everything
I cant do

La cinmathque
franaise: Projected
guidance system in
the museum of
cinematography in
Bercy, Paris (F)

Post-it note Generative

Design
and
Pritt Stick

I tend to look
at notebooks
and stationery
in general

Five Tyres
Remoulded
by Richard
Hamilton (1972)

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

UFOs

Tractatus LogicoPhilosophicus (Ludwig

Wittgenstein), Bible,
Die Neue Typography
(Jan Tschichold),
Typography (Otl Aicher)

68 Olympics
identity
(Lance
Wymans)

Fashion design,
architecture,
novels are more
inspiring than
graphic design

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Formosa perpetual calendar,

Enzo Mari for
Danese

Whatever the
designers that
are mentioned
on the spread
before did

Best wishes
postcards from
Josef and Anni
Albers

032c and
Brand Eins
magazines

Monty Python
Catalogues
designed by
Derek Birdsall

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

The beautiful,
simple graphics
printed on
Japanese
vegetable boxes

The KonTiki raft

(Full answer, p. 226)

The Reverse
Ark by Future
Farmers and
Lego

Established &
Sons (product
and graphic
design)

Although I still love

Tibor Kalmans work,
I am not only drawn to
one piece of work
by one person, it can
be anything I see
around me

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Within the context of

my professional work
(p. 149): I love the
animation Phillippe
Apeloig made for the
Mois du graphisme
dEchirolles

Frbelgaben
(Friedrich
Frbel)

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

68 Olympics identity
(Lance Wymans)
a mix between
psychedelic design
of that time and old
Mexican designs
(local/global mix)

Ringier Annual
Report designed by
Fischli & Weiss and
The Prisoner (film
series) by Patrick
McGoohan

Too many
to name

I like Boris
bikes

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Hardoy
Butterfly
Chair, Gordon
Smith House

Premier
case (AG
Franzoni)

Seed
Magazine

iPhone

Algues by
Ronan and
Erwan
Bouroullec

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

OZ magazine,
Salvador Dals
Les Diners de
Gala cookbook

Maybe Jean
Prouvs
pieces

Which pieces of design

influence you?

Now
245

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

e.g.
Marshall
McLuhan

Jon Savage
(Englands
Dreaming)

Isabelle Allende,
Connie Palmen,
J.D. Salinger,
Sigmund Freud,
Paulo Coelho,
Don DeLillo

Marshall McLuhan
(Understanding
Media), Gillo Dorfles
(As Oscilaes do
Gosto), William Gibson
(Neuromancer),
Douglas Coupland

Italo Calvino
(If on a Winters
Night a
Traveller), Arthur
C. Clarke (2001)

I never
read very
much

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Harper Lee (To Kill

a Mockingbird),
Herbert Spencer
(Pioneers of Modern
Typography)

Ulf
Poschardt
(DJ Culture)

Lucy R. Lippard
(Six Years: the
dematerialization
of the art object)

Marshall
McLuhan

Sociology
books

Christopher
Alexander
(A Pattern
Language)

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

Mikhail
Bulgakov

Herman Hesse, Max

Frisch, Max Bense,
Umberto Eco,
Walter Benjamin,
James Joyce,
Norman Potter

Junichiro
Tanizaki (In
Praise of
Shadows)

Georges Perec,
Haruki
Murakami,
Norman Potter

Seigo Matsuoka (The

Editorial Engineering of
Knowledge), Matsuda
Yukimasa (Code, Zero,
Designscape), John
Berger, Philip B. Meggs

Jeanette
Winterson,
Baudelaire,
Balzac, Voltaire

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Georges Perec, Lucy

Lippard, Marc Aug,
Zygmunt Bauman,
Paul Auster, Haruki
Murakami, David
Mitchell, J.D. Salinger

Franz Kafka
(Kurzgeschichten),
Arthur Schnitzler
(Der Weg ins Freie,
Traumnovelle)

Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh

Salman Rushdie, (Decline and
Max Frisch
Fall)

Georges
Perec

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

MAKI SUZUKI

J.D. Salinger (Raise

High the Roof Beam,
Carpenters and Nine
Stories), Paul Auster,
Chuck Palahniuk (Fight
Club), Donna Tartt
(The Secret History)

Neville Brody (The

Graphic Language),
Emigre, Face,
Tempo, Wiener
(all magazines)

Lars Mller,
Ruedi Baur,
Wolfgang
Weingart

Marshall McLuhan
(Understanding Media),
John Berger (Ways of
Seeing), Harold Evans
(Pictures on a Page)

John Pawson
(Minimum), Edward
Tufte, Haruki
Murakami, Paul
Auster

Irvine
Welsh
(Filth)

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Oscar Wilde
(The Picture
of Dorian
Gray)

Jean Baudrillard,
Marshall McLuhan,
Charles and Ray
Eames (The Powers
of Ten)

Douglas Adams
(Hitchhikers
Guide to the
Galaxy)

Probably all the coffeetable books from Die

Gestalten Verlag
(Berlin) but also some
of the older Swiss
design books for the
visuals

George Orwell
(1984), George
Seferis, Oscar
Wilde

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

Claes Oldenburg
(Notes in Hand), Jan
Brand (Words and
the images), Ovid
(Metamorphoses)

Jean Baudrillard,
Jos Antonio
Muoz & Carlos
Sampayo, Paul
Scherbarth

Jan Tschichold
(Typographische
Gestaltung), Karl
Gerstner (Designing
Programmes)

Robin Kinross, Italo

Calvino, Georges
Perec, John Berger,
Martin Heidegger

Robert Venturi
(Learning from
Las Vegas)

I havent /
dont read
much

SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

Hugo Ball,
Simone de
Beauvoir, John
Berger

Robert M. Pirsig,
Roland Barthes,
Paul Virilio,
Wolfgang Welsch,
Marcel Proust

Tom Wolfe

Salman Rushdie Le Corbusier

(Haroun and the (Towards
Sea of Stories)
a New

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Miranda
July, MFK
Fisher

Dont
remember

1 MARSHALL MCLUHAN
2 GEORGES PEREC, JOHN BERGER
3 HARUKI MURAKAMI, PAUL AUSTER, J. D. SALINGER

(Cont. opposite now)

TIM BALAAM

Architecture)

(Full answer, p. 231)

Which authors/books
influenced you?

Then
246

URS LEHNI

Friedrich
Glauser

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

None

Rdiger Safranski,
Alain Badiou, Peter
Sloterdijk, Octavio Paz,
Mahmoud Darwish,
Bas Heijne, Anna
Tilroe, Roland Barthes,
Paul Virilio

Friedrich Kittler
(Gramophone, Film,
Typewriter), Neal
Stephenson (Snow
Crash), Hakim Bey
(Temporary
Autonomous Zones)

Italo Calvino
(Mr Palomar),
Salman Rushdie
(Midnights
Children)

I never
read very
much

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Harper Lee (To Kill

a Mockingbird),
Herbert Spencer
(Pioneers of Modern
Typography)

John Irving
(Hotel New
Hampshire)

All books

John
Maeda

Sociology
books

Fernando
Pessoa (The
Book of
Disquiet)

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

Matthias
Feldbacken

Marshall McLuhan,
Vilm Flusser,
William of Ockham,
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Graham Harding
and Paul Walton
(The Bluffers Guide
to Marketing)
for very practical
reasons

Georges Perec,
Haruki
Murakami,
Norman Potter

George Kubler (The

Shape of Time), Jan van
Toorn (Design beyond
Design), C. Danto (After
the End of Art), Suksan
Tak (Korean Nationalism, Korean Identity)

Muriel Barbery,
Michael
Cunningham,
Daniel Pennac

JAMES GOGGIN

KIRSTY CARTER

e.g. Wolf
Lotter

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

Brian Holmes,
Owen Hatherley,
Hari Kunzru, Tom
McCarthy, Boris
Groys, Hito Steyerl,
Vladimir Nabokov

David
Foster
Wallace

David Foster
Wallace, John le
Carr, Leo Tolstoy,
McSweeneys
(Journal)

Eric Gill
Cormac
(Essay on
McCarthy
(The Road) Typography)

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

Richard Scarry
(What Do People Do
All Day?), Truman
Capote (In Cold
Blood)

All the hundreds of

magazines and
books we receive
monthly because of
our blog and
magazine, Slanted

A lot

Recently I read
Andy Warhol (From
A to B and Back
Again). I am not
sure if it influenced
me but I enjoyed it

Illustrated
childrens books
(1940s80s) and
photography books
such as those of
Rinko Kawauchi

Romain Gary
(The Roots of
Heaven)

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Herman
Hesse
(Siddharta)

Herbert Spencer
(Pioneers of
Modern
Typography)

Karl Gerstner,
Horst
Bredekamp,
Gottfried Bhm

Karl Gerstner
(Programme
Gestalten)

Certainly Tomas
Maldonado (Umwelt
und Revolte) and
some other more
theoretical books

Steven
Heller

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

At the moment
I read Elias Canetti
(Crowds and
Power) and I love
to read novels

David Simon,
F. Scott
Fitzgerald,
Stephen Bayley

Jan Tschichold
(Typographische
Gestaltung), Robin
Kinross (Modern
Typography)

Vikram Chandra,
Orhan Pamuk,
W.G. Sebald, Bruno
Latour, Boris Groys,
Michael Pollan

Paul Rand
(Conversations with
Students), Michael
Beirut (Seventynine Short Essays
on Design)

but I have a
great bookshelf,
which is full of
books I bought
by the metre

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

John Langshaw
Austin, Simon
Baron-Cohen,
Lewis Carroll

Dick Francis,
Christian Kracht,
Ian McEwan,
Haruki Murakami,
Jason Starr

Jonathan
Franzen

Derek
Jarman
(Chroma)

Kenya Hara Italo

(Designing Calvino
Design)

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Jennifer
Egan

Jorn Riel

1 BORIS GROYS, DAVID FOSTER WALLACE,

HERBERT SPENCER, HARUKI MURAKAMI,
ITALO CALVINO, KARL GERSTNER
2 ALL OTHERS MENTIONED ONCE

(Full answer, p. 230)

(Full answer, p. 231)

Which authors/books
influence you?

Now
247

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

Lienhard von
Monkiewitsch,
Kasimir
Malewitsch,

Photographers
Paul Reas,
Paul Graham,
Martin Parr

Gilbert and George,

Fluxus, Daan van
Golden, H.N. Werkman,
Barbara Kruger, Fischli
and Weiss, Willem
Sandberg, Tracey
Emin, Pippilotti Rist

Gary Hill (Tall Ships),

John Baldessari (The
Back of all the Trucks),
Chuck Close (Portraits),
Gerhard Richter
(Abstract Paintings),
Tony Oursler (Eyes)

Bernd and Hilla

Becher, Raymond
Pettibon, Michael
Landy (Breakdown)

Many as a
part of daily
awareness
but no specific
influences

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Pop artists,
Peter Blake,
Ron Kitaj

Nam June
Paik

Ed Ruscha

Herbert W.
Kapitzki

Street art

Richard
Hamilton

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

Max Bill, Paul Lohse,

Karl Gerstner, Josef
Albers, Hannah
Hch, Piet Mondrian,
Kurt Schwitters,
John Heartfield

Bruce
Nauman

Sol LeWitt,
Richard Serra,
Bruno Munari,
Max Neuhaus,
Ryoji Ikeda,
Casten Nicolai

Picasso,
Degas, Rodin,
Annie
Leibovitz

JAMES GOGGIN

(Cont. opposite now)

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Francis Als,
On Kawara,
Gabriel Orozco,
Alighiero e Boetti,
Olafur Eliasson

David
Hockney

Marcel Broodthaers
(Atlas), Sol LeWitt
(Variations of
an Incomplete
Open Cube),
John Baldessari

Douglas
Brothers,
Paolo Roversi,
Andreas Gursky

William
Turner

Marcel
Duchamp

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

MAKI SUZUKI

David Shrigley,
Justin Knowles,
Fluxus artists,
Andy Warhol

Damien Hirst, Nick

Night, Jean-Michel
Basquiat, Jean
Tinguely, Robert
Rauschenberg,
Marcel Duchamp

Roman
Signer

The
Chapman
brothers

James Turrell, Mark

Dion, Ben Nicholson,
Andy Goldsworthy,
Ellsworth Kelly, Piero
Manzoni, Cornelia
Parker, Thinking Aloud
(Richard Wentworth)

Yves Klein, Piero

Manzoni, Joseph
Kosuth, Gordon MattaClark, Jeff Koons,
Marcel Duchamp but
mostly douard Manet

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

Jan Dibbets

Fred Brill,
Leonard
Rosamund and
Brian Robb

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

Claes Oldenburg
(giant objects and
soft sculptures like
hamburgers, etc.

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Pablo
Anish
Picasso
Kapoor,
Tacita Dean

Concrete Art, Karl

Gerstner, Richard
Paul Lohse, Charlotte
Posenenske, Mark
Lombardi, George
Maciunas

Andy Warhol,
Paul Klee,
David
Hockney

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

There are so
many: Donald
Judd, Dan Flavin,
Sol LeWitt, Marina
Abramovitz

The South London

Gallery was next to
college so I got to
see a lot of young
British artists

Fischli and
Weiss, Lyonel
Feininger,
Mike Kelley

Too many
to mention

Chauncey Hare,
Eugene Atget,
Gregory
Crewdson,
Eleanor Antin

(Cont. opposite now)

(Full answer, p. 231)

SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Monika Dillier,
General Idea,
Monique Jacot,
Frans Masereel
plus in part see
answer p. 242

Blinky Palermo,
Lawrence Weiner,
Bernd and Hilla
Becher, Jenny Holzer,
Donald Judd, Felix
Gonzalez-Torres

Vienna
Actionists

Peter
Dan
Greenaway Graham

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Matt Barney,
Kara Walker

Things between then

and now have got
mixed up; I cant
really separate them:
Damien Hirst, Wolfgang
Tillmans

1 FLUXUS (GEORGE MACIUNAS) , MARCEL DUCHAMP, SOL LEWITT

2 ANDREAS GURSKY, ANDY WARHOL, ANISH KAPOOR, BERND & HILLA BECHER,
DAMIEN HIRST, DONALD JUDD, DAVID HOCKNEY, FISCHLI & WEISS,
JOHN BALDESSARI, KURT SCHWITTERS, KARL GERSTNER, MARTIN PARR,
OLAFUR ELIASSON, PIERO MANZONI, PABLO PICASSO
3 ALL THE OTHER ARTISTS LISTED

(Full answer, p. 230)

(Cont. opposite now)

Which artists/works of art

influenced you?

Then
248

Martin
Kippenberger

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

Kurt
Schwitters,
Eadweard
Muybridge

Lawrence Weiner, John

Cage, Barbara Kruger,
Hans Haacke, Jenny
Holzer, Atlas Group,
Khaled Hourani, Peter
Friedle, Ai Weiwei,
Francis Als

Pavel Pepperstein, John

Stezaker (Collages),
Karl Gerstner (Color
Sound), Janet Cardiff
(Forty-Part Motet),
Allan Ruppersberg
(The Singing Posters)

Many as a
part of daily
awareness
but no specific
influences

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Paul Nash

JeanMichel
Basquiat

Anders
Jakobsen

Sol LeWitt

Elsa
Salonen

Marcel
Duchamp

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

Joseph Beuys,
Gerhard Richter,
Henry Moore,
Antony Gormley,
Barbara Hepworth,
Ben Nicholson

Victor
Vasarely

Alexander
McQueen,
Yoshitomo
Nara

Wolfgang Tillmans,
Rachel Whiteread,
Louise Bourgeois,
Roni Horn,
Jenny Holzer

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Same as then plus the

work of Josef + Anni
Albers. And Line
Describing a Cone by
Anthony McCall

Mark Borthwick,
James Turrell,
Ryan McGinley

Piero de la
Francesca,
Anish Kapoor

Marcel
Duchamp
I find endless
joy and discovery
in his work

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

See then, plus Clare

Patey (curator/artist),
Future Farmers, Tom
Heatherwick, Antony
Gormley, Rachel
Whiteread, Banksy

Andreas
Gursky,
Santiago
Sierra

Olafur
Eliasson

The Chapman
brothers and
recently I am in
awe of Miros
engravings

Donald Judd,
Ellsworth Kelly,
Bernd and
Hilla Becher

Today the people

we work with
influence us:
Aurlien Froment
(Full answer, p. 229)

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

I see many different

things and I get
influenced by a
piece of art or a
detail in it

See then, plus a

seemingly infinite
list that could
include Nathan
Coley, Dora Garca
(Full answer, p. 227)

Anish
Kapoor

Henri Matisse,
Piet Mondrian
and Andy
Warhol

Thomas
Demand,
Olafur
Eliasson

Pablo
Picasso

Situationist movement
and how it has
developed since its
death, Haroun Farocki,
Raqs Media Collective

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

(Full answer, p. 230)

John Baldessari, Too many to

Helmut Smits,
mention
Joseph Grigely, (even more)
Lucy McKenzie

Amie Siegel,
Christian Marclay,
Joachim Koester,
Matthew
Buckingham

Carl Andre, Ilya

Kabakov, Wassily
Kandinsky, Marcel
Duchamp, Robert
Smithson and so on

I like Stanley
Spencer and
Francis Bacon
now both dead

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Della Robbia, Kirsten

Johannsen, Ferdinand
Hodler, Alex Hanimann,
Shirin Neshat, Ursula
Stalder, Eduard
Spelterini, Kara Walker,
Rmy Zaugg

Joseph Beuys, Roni

Horn, Ed Ruscha,
John Baldessari,
Marina Abramovic,
Dieter Roth

Jenny
Holzer

Max Bill, Derek

Jarman, Lawrence
Weiner, Wolfgang
Tillmans

Donald
Judd

Triin Tamm

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Olafur
Eliasson,
Sophie Calle

Andreas Gursky,
Anish Kapoor,
Olaf Breuning, Olafur
Eliasson, Thomas
Demand, William
Eggleston, Martin Parr,
Pierrick Sorin

1 JOHN BALDESSARI, OLAFUR ELIASSON

2 ANISH KAPOOR, JENNY HOLZER, MARCEL DUCHAMP, WOLFGANG TILLMANS
3 ANTONY GORMLEY, ANDREAS GURSKY, ANDY WARHOL, DONALD JUDD,
FRANCIS ALS, JOSEPH BEUYS, LAWRENCE WEINER, RACHEL WHITEREAD,
RONI HORN, SOL LEWITT, THOMAS DEMAND

John Baldessari for

his use of photos
and signs, playing
with context

Which artists/works of art

influence you?

Now
249

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

Coen
Brothers,
David Lynch

Blade Runner
(Ridley Scott),
2001 A Space
Odyssey (Stanley
Kubrick), Brazil
(Terry Gilliam)

The Falls, A Walk

Through H (Peter
Greenaway), O Anjo
Exterminador, The
Discreet Charm of
the Bourgeoisie
(Luis Buuel)

La Haine
(Mathieu
Kassovitz)

David
Lynch

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Some Like
it Hot (Billy
Wilder)

Bjrks music
Stan
video All is Full Brakhage,
of Love (Chris
Andy Warhol
Cunningham)

Seven
(David
Fincher)

Twin Peaks
(David
Lynch)

Stan Brakhage,
Ernie Gehr,
Peter Kubelka,
Jonas Mekas

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

Jean-Luc
Godard

Jacques Tati
(films by and
with), Mephisto
with Gustaf
Grndgens

Stalker (Andrei
Tarkovsky)

NYPD Blue,
ER, Louis
Malle, Pedro
Almodvar

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Jim Jarmusch,
Aki Kaurismki,
Wong Kar-Wai,
Patrick Keiller,
among others

The Matrix
(Wachowski
Brothers),
South Park

Jean-Luc
Godard, John
Cassavetes

Wim Wenders, Citizen Kane

Brothers
(Orson
Quay, Peter
Welles)
Greenaway

Jacques
Tati

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

MAKI SUZUKI

Twin Peaks
(David
Lynch)

Blade Runner (Ridley

Scott), Koyaanisqatsi
(Godfrey Reggio),
Strictly Ballroom
(Baz Luhrmann),
Breakfast at Tiffanys
(Blake Edwards)

Werner Herzog,
Wim Wenders,
Francis Ford
Coppola

In the Mood for

Roman
Signer, Fischli Love (Wong KarWai), The Pillow
and Weiss
Book (Peter
Greenaway)

Many of the films Al

Rees (lecturer at Royal
College of Art, London,
UK) used to show in
his film seminars
experimental clips,
short films, etc.

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Films by
Tim Burton
(still now)

Koyaanisqatsi Being John

(Godfrey
Malkovich
Reggio)
(Spike Jonze)

Fantasia and Mary

Poppins (Walt Disney),
Ingmar Bergman,
Luchino Visconti,
Pedro Almodvar,
B&W Greek movies

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

David Lynch, Luis Buuel,

Wong Kar-Wai Jacques Tati,
Orson Welles

Star Wars
(George Lucas),
old Laurel and
Hardy films
URS LEHNI

The Dear Hunter Lars von Trier,

(Michael Cimino), Eric Rohmer,
Federico Fellini Werner

Herzog
SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

The Adjuster (Atom

Egoyan), The Hockey
Sweater (Sheldon
Cohen), Naked Lunch
(David Cronenberg),
Jacques Tati

All of Stanley
Kubricks
films

The African
Queen (John
Huston)

Peter
Star Wars
Greenaway (George
Lucas)

TIM BALAAM

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

David Lynch, Quentin

Tarantino, Franois
Truffaut, Marco Ferreri,
Jacques Tati, Nick Park,
Paul Thomas Anderson

1 DAVID LYNCH (TWIN PEAKS)

2 JACQUES TATI
3 PETER GREENAWAY

Which films/directors
influenced you?

Then
250

Twin Peaks
(David
Lynch)

ANDREAS GNASS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

The Flicker
(Tony Conrad),
Encyclopedia
Britannica
(John Latham)

Curb Your
Enthusiasm
(Larry David)

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Some Like
it Hot (Billy
Wilder)

Lost in
Translation
(Sofia
Coppola)

Shane
Meadows

Avatar
(James
Cameron)

Deadwood
(David
Milch)

Joo Csar
Monteiro,
Andrei
Tarkovski

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

Lars von
Trier

2001 (Stanley Kubrick),

Little Fockers (Paul
Weitz), Taxi Driver
(Martin Scorsese), The
Mission (Roland Joff),
The Deer Hunter
(Michael Cimino)

My Neighbour
Totoro
(Japanese
animation by
Studio Ghibli)

John Cassavetes,
Terence Malick,
Krzysztof Kieslowski,
The West Wing (Aaron
Sorkin) and anything
else written by him

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

Patrick Keiller,
Adam Curtis, David
Simon, Michael
Haneke, Lynne
Ramsay, among
others

Valhalla Rising
(Nicolas
Winding Refn),
Breaking Bad
(Vince Gilligan)

Gus Van
Sant, Agns
Varda

Christoph
Hochhusler,
David Simon,
Miranda July

No Country
for Old Men
(Coen
Brothers)

John Smith
very funny and
brilliant
filmmaker

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

The Royal
Tenenbaums (Wes
Anderson), Matt
Harding, The Wire
(David Simon),
Everynone

Coen
Brothers

Spike Jonze,
David Lynch

Zabriskie
Documentary
Point
and short
(Michelangelo films
Antonioni)

The Wire
(David
Simon)

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Films by Mike Leigh

because of their
honesty and films
by the Coen
Brothers because
of their weirdness

The Life Aquatic

Match Point
(Woody Allen) with Steve

Mike Leigh

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

Dogville
(Lars von
Trier)

John Smith,
Helmuth
Costard,
Patrick Keiller

Jean-Luc
Michel
Godard, Amie Gondry,
Siegel
Godfrey
Reggio

I thought the
Kite Runner
(Marc Forster)
was quite good

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Das gefrorene Herz

(Xavier Koller),
Hoehenfeuer (Fredi
M. Murer), Women
without Men

All of Stanley
Kubricks
films

Adaptation
(Spike
Jonze)

Alfred
Hitchcock

Playtime
(Jacques
Tati)

The Wire
(David
Simon)

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

RANKING LIST

Federico Fellini, JeanPierre Jeunet, Wes

Anderson, John Ford,
Alfred Hitchcock,
Sidney Lumet, Stanley
Kubrick, Coen Brothers

1 DAVID SIMON (THE WIRE)

2 COEN BROTHERS
3 STANLEY KUBRICK

Its rather the beauty or

energy of some scenes
(e.g. Paris, Texas;
Bullitt; Fargo; 2001)
than specific
directors/films

ANDREW STEVENS

Zissou (Wes
Anderson)

(Full answer, p. 231)

Which films/directors
influence you?

Now
251

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

Dealing with
different themes
and interacting with
different characters
on every project

Challenging problems,
nice clients and subject
matter. A chance to
find out about other
artists and designers.
Hard job to complain
about really

Being able to
act within the
power fields that
shift our social
structures

Making things
work. The jack-ofall-trades quality
and I like inventing
tools (ideas)

Making things,
researching
subjects,
working for
myself

You have the

chance to follow
your interests and
you can bring in
your personal ideas

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

No two days/
jobs are the
same and
solving the
problem

With every new

project you have to
find new ways to
tackle the different
problems that arise

The idea

The variety of
interesting
subjects and the
permanent
learning process

How I keep
learning

Independence

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

Almost
everything

Creating and
helping to
communicate,
helping to explain
contents visually,
serving society

The variety I am not

interested in a specific
subject, so I enjoy
working on different
challenges for clients
to getting my head
around them

Being
creative and
visionary

Making typefaces,
dealing with type,
systemizing & editing
contents, working with
artists, photographers,
curators & editors

Every project is
an opportunity
to learn on so
many different
levels

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

How it
involves so
much that
isnt design

The openness to be
able to steadily invent
your own area of work,
to create in seemingly
unlimited situations &
environments

To communicate something visually and the

craft side of it like
going to the printers &
discussing ways of
making things

Being flexible, being

my own boss, working
creatively & visually,
meeting a lot of people
+ the variety of work
I get to do

Everything

The very
talented people
I work with

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NOBLE

MAKI SUZUKI

It is what I would do
in my spare time
anyway, but I get to
make a living at it

Working with the people

in my studio; I am very
happy to have such
great partners
Uli Wei and Florian
Gaertner

Freedom
(sometimes),
creative
approach

I can research so
many different
fields that are not
directly linked to
design

I truly love what

I do and it
comes from
the core

The constant need

to help destroy the
service-related role
of the designer

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

There is no clear
definition of what a
designer does, so
everyone can find their
own approach

I like to produce
something useful
where there was
nothing existing
before

The diversity
of the
projects

(Full answer, p. 228)

(Full answer, p. 228)

The fact that every job

puts you in a different
situation, poses new
questions and makes
you think again

The
process

Work is life
and life is
work

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

RICHARD WALKER

The fact that I can

go deep into a
specific subject for
a relatively short
period of time

Many possibilities and

the flexibility the links
to many other fields
and that you dont need
a big set-up in order to
run a design studio

The freedom
and the
restrictions

The combination of
multiple tasks,
bodies of
knowledge,
contexts, people

I love the making

part of being a
designer it is
both scary and
exhilarating

Coming to work in an
inspiring place, working
with other people,
solving problems &
striving to make my
clients famous

SANDRA HOFFMANN

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

The variability of
projects, contents,
challenges,
outcomes, forms,
colours

Putting my own ideas

into practice & still
being able to integrate
overarching processes.
Being able to play to
all of the senses
including the brain

That it is an
incredibly wide
field, with lots of
opportunity for
change

One can deal with

a lot of different
things, be
independent and
get very, very rich

The process of
convincing the
client to go with
our proposed
solution

The definition of what

youre supposed to do
as a designer is very
blurry, so you can
come up with your own
definition

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

Practice can
change as
interests
change

Up to now we have
never been bored
by any project
thats something
very valuable

(Full answer, p. 229)

(Full answer, p. 230)

What do you like about

working as a designer?

Now
252

ANDREAS GNASS

ANDREW STEVENS

ANNELYS DE VET

ANTNIO S. GOMES

BEN BRANAGAN

BERND HILPERT

The relationship
between money
and time

Emailing,
organizing
and planning

Too many
hours spent
behind the
computer

Proofreading
then again it
can be fun
sometimes

Projects that
dont happen,
managing other
peoples
expectations

Sometimes
personal
involvement can
be too great

BRIAN WEBB

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER

DANIEL EATOCK

DANIJELA DJOKIC

EMMI SALONEN

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

Dealing
with money

That my own ego

still stands in the
way when dealing
with clients

The brief

Permanently
starting from zero,
the exhausting
mental brainwork
and sitting in front
of a computer

The time
spent
sitting still

Resistance of
materials, and
more sadly
clients

(Full answer, p. 226)

FONS HICKMANN

HANS DIETER REICHERT

HOLGER JACOBS

HOON KIM

HYOUN YOUL JOE

ISABELLE SWIDERSKI

The name
of the
profession

Deadlines,
misunderstanding
the work of a
designer

When clients (or their

marketing departments)
are trying to control
every small step of a
project and ask for
constant PDF updates

Being
sensitive and
meticulous

Obsession

Having to deal with

people who either dont
like their job or dont
respect others. Having
to constantly explain
the value of design

JAMES GOGGIN

JAN WILKER

JULIE GAYARD

KAI VON RABENAU

KEN GARLAND

KIRSTY CARTER

The lack of
trust

Its preference of
experiences
over knowledge

Sitting in front of the

computer all day, being
only an operator to a
client, having to
persuade clients and
having to find new jobs

I hate long working

hours, financial
insecurity, many of the
jobs I have to do plus
having to network and
promote myself

Nothing

KRISTINE MATTHEWS

LARS HARMSEN

LAURENT LACOUR

LIZA ENEBEIS

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN

MAKI SUZUKI

Worrying that
my work could
be better if
I could push
myself harder

Email sucks, I am
not made for long
meetings, I hate to
spoil so much lifetime on a computer

Poorly paying,
idiotic clients

That I cannot easily

separate my work
from my day-to-day
life, which can be

Nothing

MARC VAN DER HEIJDE

MARGARET CALVERT

MARION FINK

MARTIN LORENZ

MATTHIAS GRLICH

MICHAEL GEORGIOU

Some of the
working habits
that I have
adopted

Training
clients
RICHARD WALKER

(Full answer, p. 228)

Nothing is
ever good
enough

Meetings and
administration

Work is life
and life is
work

There is no clear
definition of what a
designer does, so
nearly everyone can
work as a designer

NIKKI GONNISSEN

OLIVER KLIMPEL

PAUL BARNES

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY

RENATA GRAW

Projects were it is too

difficult to come to the
essence because of
difficult hierarchical
structures within
organization

The self-centredness,
the idea that constant
networking might be
necessary, finding new
clients plus sometimes:
the hard work

Too much
time spent in
front of
computers

The narrow
focus of much
of the
profession and
many clients

I personally
Nothing
dislike having really
to sell design meetings can
drag on a bit

S. HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

SASCHA LOBE

STEFAN SAGMEISTER

SVEN VOELKER

TIM BALAAM

URS LEHNI

Objectification,
waste production,
consumption
endorsement

The pay

Badly
organized
clients

Its very difficult

to enter the
hermetically sealed
area of art. I dont
mean to design

The process of
convincing the
client to go with
our proposed
solution

That designers
often complain
about being
designers

YASMIN KHAN

YVES FIDALGO

Being
underpaid

The commercial
part of it

(Full answer, p. 229)

(Full answer, p. 231)

What do you dislike about

working as a designer?

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APPENDIX 2
ANDREAS GNASS
U9 VISUELLE ALLIANZ

CHRISTIAN HEUSSER
EQUIPO

HOLGER JACOBS
MIND DESIGN

JULIE GAYARD
JUTOJO

u9@u9.net
www.u9.net
Fichtestr. 15a
63071 Offenbach am Main
Germany
T +49 (0)69 8 01 01 50

info@equipo.ch
www.equipo.ch
Amerbachstrae 53
4057 Basel
T +41 (0)61 681 4568
Switzerland

info@jutojo.de
www.jutojo.de
Brunnenstrasse 191
10119 Berlin
Germany
T +49 (0)30 2809 3946

ANDREW STEVENS
GRAPHIC THOUGHT FACILITY

DANIEL EATOCK

info@minddesign.co.uk
www.minddesign.co.uk
Unit 33A, Regents Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
United Kingdom
T +44 (0)207 254 2114

info@graphicthoughtfacility.com
www.graphicthoughtfacility.com
2324 Easton Street
London WC1X 0DS
United Kingdom
T +44 (0)20 7837 2525

daniel@eatock.com
www.eatock.com
7 Minerva Street
London E2 9EH
United Kingdom
DANIJELA DJOKIC
PROJEKTTRIANGLE

there@annelysdevet.nl
www.annelysdevet.nl
Wielemans Ceuppenslaan 33
1190 Brussels
Belgium

ddjokic@projekttriangle.com
www.projekttriangle.com
Humboldtstrae 4
70178 Stuttgart
Germany
T +49 (0)711 6 20 09 30

ANTNIO SILVEIRA GOMES

(BARBARA SAYSPROJECTO PRPRIO)

EMMI SALONEN
STUDIO EMMI

projectoproprio@gmail.com
www.barbarasays.com
R. Marqus Ponte do Lima 23 4
1100-337 Lisboa
Portugal
T +35 (0)121 3472 707

hello@emmi.co.uk
www.emmi.co.uk
Unit 110, Cremer Business
Centre
37 Cremer Street
London E2 8HD
United Kingdom
T +44 (0)77 5200 1311

ANNELYS DE VET

BEN BRANAGAN

ben@benbranagan.co.uk
www.benbranagan.co.uk
BERND HILPERT
UNIT-DESIGN

info@unit-design.de
www.unit-design.de
Holbeinstrae 25
60596 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
T +49 (0)69 6 6057 880
BRIAN WEBB
WEBB & WEBB DESIGN

design@webbandwebb.co.uk
www.webbandwebb.co.uk
16H Perseverance Works
38 Kingsland Road
London E2 8DD
United Kingdom
T +44 (0)207 739 7895

HOON KIM
WHY NOT SMILE

mail@whynotsmile.com
www.whynotsmile.com
10 Jay Street, Ste 801A
Brooklyn, NY 11201
USA
T +1 347 234 5312
HYOUN YOUL JOE
HEY JOE

youljoe@gmail.com
www.hyjoe.net
394-74 Seokyo-Dong 3F
Mapo-Gu, Seoul,
South Korea
T +82 10 8857 9374
ISABELLE SWIDERSKI
SEVEN25

studio@seven25.com
www.seven25.com
309E-896 Cambie Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 2P6
Canada
T +1 604 685 0097

RIC & MARIE GASPAR

RICANDMARIE

JAMES GOGGIN
PRACTISE

info@ericandmarie.com
www.ericandmarie.com
45 avenue Montaigne
75008 Paris
France
T +33 (0)14 723 5127

jgoggin@mcachicago.org
studio@practise.co.uk
www.mcachicago.org
www.practise.co.uk
Director of Design, Publishing
and New Media
Museum of Contemporary
Art Chicago
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago IL 60611
USA
T +1 312 397 4071

FONS HICKMANN
FONS HICKMANN M23

m23@fonshickmann.com
www.fonshickmann.com
Mariannenplatz 23
10997 Berlin
T +49 (0)30 6951 8501
HANS DIETER REICHERT
HDR VISUAL COMMUNICATION

hans@baselinemagazine.com
www.baselinemagazine.com
Bradbourne House
East Malling
Kent ME19 6DZ
United Kingdom
T +44 (0)173 287 5200

KAI VON RABENAU

MONO.GRAPHIE

www.mono-graphie.com
www.mono-blog.com
www.mono-kultur.com
www.mono-gramm.com
Berlin/London
Germany/United Kingdom
KEN GARLAND

ken.garland@talk21.com
www.kengarland.co.uk
London
United Kingdom
KIRSTY CARTER
A PRACTICE FOR EVERYDAY LIFE

m@apracticeforeverydaylife.com
apracticeforeverydaylife.com
Unit 16, 5 Durham Yard
London E2 6QF
United Kingdom
T +44 (0)20 7739 9975
KRISTINE MATTHEWS
STUDIO MATTHEWS

info@studiomatthews.com
www.studiomatthews.com
1517 12th Avenue, Unit 202
Seattle, WA 98122
USA
T +1 206 499 9978
LARS HARMSEN
MAGMA BRAND DESIGN

info@magmabranddesign.de
www.magmabranddesign.de
www.slanted.de
Wendstrae 4
76185 Karlsruhe
Germany
T +49 (0)721 824 8580
LAURENT LACOUR
HAUSER LACOUR

JAN WILKER
KARLSSONWILKER

tellmewhy@karlssonwilker.com
www.karlssonwilker.com
536 6th avenue
New York City, NY 10011
USA
T +1 212 929 8064

Adresses and contact

information
Now
254

info@hauserlacour.de
www.hauserlacour.de
Westendstrae 84
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
T +49 (0)69 8090 9990

APPENDIX 2
LIZA ENEBEIS
STUDIO DUMBAR/TYPERADIO

MARTIN LORENZ
TWOPOINTS.NET

PREM KRISHNAMURTHY
PROJECT PROJECTS

TIM BALAAM
HYPERKIT

info@studiodumbar.com
www.studiodumbar.com
dj@typeradio.org
www.typeradio.org
Studio Dumbar
Lloydstraat 21
3024 EA Rotterdam
The Netherlands
T +31 (0)10 448 22 22
Typeradio
Groenewegje 137
2515 LR Den Haag
The Netherlands
T +31 (0)70 427 8115

info@twopoints.net
www.twopoints.net
Via Laietana 37
4 Planta / Despacho 32
08003 Barcelona
Spain
T +34 (0)93 318 5372

project@projectprojects.com
www.projectprojects.com
161 Bowery, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10002
USA
T +1 212 509 0636

info@hyperkit.co.uk
www.hyperkit.co.uk
822 Parkhall
40 Marcell Road
London SE21 8EN
United Kingdom
T +44 (0)20 7407 8982

LUCINDA NEWTON-DUNN
SPACE-TO-THINK

lucinda@space-to-think.com
www.space-to-think.com
MAKI SUZUKI
BKE

abakesemail@gmail.com
www.abake.fr
Unit 73b, Regents Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
United Kingdom
MARC VAN DER HEIJDE
STUDIO DUMBAR

info@studiodumbar.com
www.studiodumbar.com
Lloydstraat 21
3024 EA Rotterdam
The Netherlands
T +31 (0)10 448 22 22
MARGARET CALVERT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Margaret_Calvert
MARION FINK

marion.fink@fhnw.ch
www.fhnw.ch
Fachhochschule
Nordwestschweiz, Hochschule
fr Gestaltung und Kunst,
Institut Visuelle
Kommunikation
Vogelsangstrae 15
4058 Basel
Switzerland
T +41 (0)61 695 6751

MATTHIAS GRLICH
STUDIO MATTHIAS GRLICH

RENATA GRAW
PLURAL

studio@mgoerlich.com
www.mgoerlich.com
Soderstrae 16a
64283 Darmstadt
Germany
T +49 (0)6151 785 9780

hello@weareplural.com
www.weareplural.com
1310 N Clybourn Ave
Second Floor
Chicago, IL 60610
USA
T +1 312 804 4020

MICHAEL GEORGIOU
G DESIGN STUDIO

RICHARD WALKER
KK OUTLET/KESSELSKRAMER

g@georgiougavrilakis.com
www.georgiougavrilakis.com
Miaouli 6, Monastiraki
105 54, Athens
Greece
T +30 (0)210 322 3636

info@kkoutlet.com
www.kkoutlet.com
42 Hoxton Square
London N1 6PB
United Kingdom
T +44 (0)20 7033 7680

NIKKI GONNISSEN
THONIK

SANDRA HOFFMANN ROBBIANI

VISUAL STUDIES

studio@thonik.nl
www.thonik.nl
Vijzelstraat 72, 4.52
1017 HL Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T +31 (0)20 468 3525

s.e.hoffmann@bluewin.ch
www.otherwords.ch
Wasserwerkgasse 7
3011 Berne
Switzerland
T +41 (0)76 316 25 45

OLIVER KLIMPEL
BRO INTERNATIONAL

SASCHA LOBE
L2M3

info@burointernational.co.uk
www.burointernational.co.uk
34 Brougham Road
London E8 4PD
United Kingdom
T +44 (0)20 7241 6323

info@L2M3.com
www.L2M3.com
Hoelderlinstrasse 57
70193 Stuttgart
Germany
T + 49 (0)711 99 33 91 60

PAUL BARNES

STEFAN SAGMEISTER
SAGMEISTER INC.

paul@moderntypography.com
info@commercialtype.com
www.moderntypography.com
www.commercialtype.com
45 Benbow Road
London, W6 0AU
United Kingdom
T +44 (0)20 8563 1228

info@sagmeister.com
www.sagmeister.com
206 West 23rd Street, 4th floor
New York, NY 10011
USA
T +1 212 647 1789
SVEN VOELKER
SVEN VOELKER STUDIO

studio@svenvoelker.com
www.svenvoelker.com
Steinstrae 37
10119 Berlin
Germany
T +49 (0)30 23 45 57 86

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URS LEHNI
LEHNI-TRB / ROLLO PRESS /
CORNER COLLEGE

office@lehni-trueb.ch
www.lehni-trueb.ch
www.rollo-press.com
www.corner-college.com
Gasometerstrae 32
8005 Zrich
Switzerland
T +41 44 272 95 42
YASMIN KHAN
COUNTERSPACE

yasmin@counterspace.net
counterspace.net
99 N. Hill St.
Los Angeles, CA 90019
USA
YVES FIDALGO
FULGURO

www.fulguro.ch
info@fulguro.ch
Rue du Maupas 28
1004Lausanne
Switzerland
T +41 (0)21 646 7558

FRANK PHILIPPIN

BILLY KIOSOGLOU

BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS

HOCHSCHULE DARMSTADT

Frank was born in Stuttgart,

Germany, in 1967. He first
thought of becoming a graphic
designer during a 20-monthlong civil service stint at a local
magazine, where he tried to
mimic the style of Neville Brody
and David Carson. In 1994, after
repeated rejections from the
German education system,
Frank travelled to London and
took a Bachelor of Arts (Hons)
course in Graphic Design at
Camberwell College of Arts,
London (UK). There, he
discovered (German) modernism
and the work of Jan Tschichold.
He also discovered a less
Germanic, quirkier approach
to design.
During his studies he made
an installation about silence,
carried out a photographic
experiment in Trafalgar Square
and involved his peers mothers
in his degree show. Each day,
Frank woke up at 09:30, walked
to college, spent about six hours
a day designing and for dinner
often cooked lasagne, which
he ate with a tomato and
mozzarella salad. He weighed
74 kilos and did no exercise.
His most valued possessions
were his (cheap) fold-down
table and a collection of tapes,
which were sent to him regularly
by his friend Rainer.
In 1997 Frank began a Master
of Arts course in Graphic Design
at the Royal College of Art in
London, where he worked on a
film about the colour green and
an installation about the colour
white. He also designed his
graduating years (manifesto)
poster, was shortlisted for the
Millennium Stamp and won the
Colonel Varley Memorial Award.
After graduating, Frank
completed a one-year research
project on small print at the
Helen Hamlyn Centre in London.

Billy was born in Athens,

Greece, in 1973. He first
thought of becoming a
designer while making covers
for compilation tapes on his
bedroom floor. In 1992 Billy
moved to the UK for a
Foundation Course at
Kingston University, where
he discovered the books
of Franz Masereel and linocut printing. In 1993 he
enrolled on a Bachelor of
Arts (Hons) course in Graphic
Design at Bath College of
Higher Education (UK), where
he started illustrating and
binding his own books. After
a year in Bath, Billy moved to
Camberwell College of Arts
in London (UK) in 1995.
During his course he
used a scalpel, an A3 typewriter and his flatmate
Frank to teach himself the
fundamentals of design.
Each day, Billy got up at
11:00, walked to college, spent
about two hours designing,
and usually cooked Pastitsio
with a tomato and feta
salad. He weighed 69 kilos
and did no exercise. His most
valued possession was his
double cassette player.
In 1997 Billy went to
Greece to complete his
military service and, after
two years of staring at the
walls of an underground
army bunker on a Greek
island, he returned to
London for a Master of Arts
course in Communication
Art and Design at the
Royal College of Art (UK) in
1999. There he produced
a giant sheet of writing
paper, designed his yeargroups catalogue and was
selected to design a
publication for the colleges
own imprint, Salvo. At his
degree show he was awarded
the Oberon Book Award.

During their studies Frank

and Billy worked together on
several projects, including an
installation in their own house
and three handmade, (very)
limited-edition books by
Franz Kafka, Albert Camus
and Marguerite Duras.
In 1998 they proudly gave
their copy of The New York
Trilogy to Paul Auster and
Fahrenheit 451 to Ray
Bradbury, who complimented
them on a beautiful book,
which opens like a butterfly.
He also politely reminded them
that it is he who holds the
copyright for his text
In 1999 Frank and Billy
brought their faith in their
acquired design skills to their
current practice, Brighten the
Corners. Over the years, they
have worked on several
projects, large and small,
switching between the public
sector, the corporate sector
and cultural environments.
Clients include Anish Kapoor,
the British Council, GoetheInstitut, Italian Cultural
Institute, German Post Office,
Fraunhofer-Institut, Laurence
King Publishing, Skira Editore,
Frieze, and Bolles + Wilson
architects. For more
information please visit
www.brightenthecorners.com.
Today, Frank is based in
the Odenwald region near
Darmstadt with his wife Sybille
and two children Emil and Juno.
He frequently visits London to
meet Billy, and Stuttgart for
some Maultaschen and music
from Rainers second-hand
record shop. If Frank ever
stopped designing, hed take
up gardening.
Billy is based in London,
frequently visiting Germany for
work, and Greece for some
sun and deep-fried calamari.
If Billy ever stopped designing,
hed write stories.

Frank has been teaching since

1998, when he started as a
visiting lecturer at North East
Worcestershire College in
Redditch, where he met Adrian
Spaak (see also acknowledgements, page 4). Further work as
visiting lecturer followed, in
most cases for a period of up to
two years, at Maidstone College,
Kingston University and the
University of Brighton (all in
the UK) and the Merz Akademie
in Stuttgart (Germany). Since
2006 Frank has been a
professor of Communication
Design at the Faculy of
Design at the Hochschule
Darmstadt (Germany).
In his courses, Frank
stresses the importance of
concept-driven design to his
students, but is also interested
in getting them to develop
genuine responses to subject
matter rather than formulaic
ones. His students are therefore
encouraged to follow their
personal observations and
thoughts, ask questions, use
their sense of humour, and not
dismiss more poetic or abstract
paths to a graphic solution.
As he likes to say, Design
isnt just a discipline, it is
something done for people by
people and, as such, is (or
should be) deeply humane.

Authors Then

Authors Now
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BRIGHTEN THE CORNERS

london@brightenthecorners.com
darmstadt@brightenthecorners.com
www.brightenthecorners.com
HOCHSCHULE DARMSTADT
FACULTY OF DESIGN

frank.philippin@h-da.de
www.fbg.h-da.de