Daniel Gjøde: Young and Stupid
Showcasing his agency’s colorful work in graphic design, branding, and animated type, Daniel Gjøde reminds us that sometimes, the smartest thing we can do is to stay stupid.
Showcasing his agency’s colorful work in graphic design, branding, and animated type, Daniel Gjøde reminds us that sometimes, the smartest thing we can do is to stay stupid.
Design duo, Triboro, has purposely kept their team (made up of husband and wife, Stefanie Weigler and David Heasty), small. “The truth is we are control freaks,” Stefanie said before introducing their presentation, Under the Influence, focused on drawing inspiration from New York City, which she calls “a candy store for designers.”
In weltmännischer Manier begrüßte uns Thomas Manss zu seinem Talk: »Willkommen in der Welt der Thomas Manss & Company, wo Designer und Webentwickler so höflich sind wie die Briten, so präzise wie die Deutschen, so flexibel wie die Brasilianer und so präsentabel wie die Italiener.«
Sascha Lobe, Gründer und Kopf des Kreativstudios L2M3 und Dozent an der HfG Offenbach mit Studienschwerpunkt Typografie sprach heute Mittag über seine Arbeit an der neuen visuellen Identität des Bauhaus-Archives Berlin.
Boris Brumnjak ist Sammler, Dozent, Grafikdesigner und Geschäftsführer einer Druckerei, in der er seine Liebe zum Papier und zu Farben ausleben kann. Seit etwa 15 Jahren sammelt er mit größter Leidenschaft Schwarz-Weiß-Plakate. Im letzten Jahr wurden erstmals seine 100 absoluten Lieblingsmotive der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert und begeisterte in der »Kunsthalle Luzern« nicht nur die Besucher.
Manuel takes us back in history on the evolution of physiognomy. His talk is based on the thesis that character descriptions of human beings can be used in the same way to describe typefaces. To judge the character by its appearance clearly falls into the system of stereotypes. In the examples he quotes it even goes so far as judging the personality of human beings by the silhouette of a person’s head, or by the shape of the human scull formed by its brain. Measuring and categorising were the tools of these so called pseudo scientific results.
Kate Moross presents: The punk rock guide to business! What does the punk approach to work entail? Being good at bullshitting. Or to put it in a less in-your-face way – being adept at the art of improvisation.
Arriving on stage bearing gifts and giant hand-drawn posters, Eike König began with a mesmerizing and rapid-paced video featuring beautiful graphic design – drawings, album covers, editorials, covers – everything you need to be hypnotized into a better design state of mind.
Simon runs a company called ‘someone’ in London which is specialised in launches and relaunches. Within the last couple of years he has observed that the traditional understanding of branding does not work nowadays. Branding does not only need to be liked and stand out, today it also needs to be useful.
Simon‘s SomeOne has been behind the recent Royal Opera House rebrand, the re-grouping of the National Maritime Museum (the largest in the world), the Royal Observatory (The Home of Time) and the Queen’s House (The birthplace of British architectural classicism), the rebrand of the progressive high speed european train company Eurostar, and the launch of Telefónica Digital’s ‘Tu | Me’ brand.
Erik Kessels is the co-founder and Creative Director of the communications agency KesselsKramer (Do yourself a favor: click on the link and let the page reload a couple of times!). The company believes in finding new ways for brands to tell stories using whatever media is most relevant to their message.