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Die TYPO-Portraitfotografie von Marc Eckardt

Seit 12 Jahren baut der Hamburger Fotograf <em><a href=”http://www.marc-eckardt.de/images.htm”>Marc Eckardt</a></em> hinter der Bühne des großen Vortragsaals im Haus der Kulturen der Welt sein Portraitstudio auf. Hier (emp)fängt er die Rednerinnen und Redner der TYPOhall wenige Minuten nach ihrem Auftritt (ab), um sie zu portraitieren.

Ein geschickter Moment, denn die Stars der Design- und Medienszene zeigen sich – berauscht vom Schlussapplaus – in bester Laune. Über die Jahre entstand so eine Sammlung von über 250 atemberaubenden Portraits. Die 12 schönsten der TYPO 2009 habe ich eben ins Flickr-Fotoalbum geladen … unter anderem mit Esther Dyson, Chip Kidd, Ebon Heath, Gesche Joost und Mario Lombardo.

Abbildung: Der Webdesigner, Programmierer, Flash-Guru, Skater und Familienvater Joshua Davis (Foto: Marc Eckardt)

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nora|June 7, 2009

großartige Portraits!
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Chip Kidd

Writer / Graphic Designer (New York, New York)

The history of book design can be split into two eras: before graphic designer Chip Kidd and after. Time Out New York, Nov. 2005 Chip Kidd is a writer and graphic designer in New York City. His book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf (where he has worked since 1986) have helped spawn a revolution in the art of American book packaging. In 1997 he received the International Center of Photography's award for Use of Photography in Graphic Design, and he is a regular contributor of visual commentary to the Op-ed page of the New York Times. In the fall of 2006, Kidd's work will be included in the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's third National Design Triennial. Mr Kidd has also written about graphic design and popular culture for McSeeney's, The New York Times, The New York Observer, Entertainment Weekly, Details, The New York Post, ID and Print. His first book as author and designer, Batman Collected (Bulfinch, 1996), was given the Design Distinction award from ID magazine, and his second, Batman Animated (HarperCollins, Fall 1998) garnered two of the Comics Industry's Eisner Awards, as did his 2002 book Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz. As an editor of books of comics for Pantheon (a subsidiary of Knopf) Kidd has worked extensively with some of the most brilliant talents practicing today, including: Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes, Kim Deitch, Charles Burns, Mark Beyer, Ben Katchor and Alex Ross. A comprehensive monograph of Kidd's work, CHIP KIDD: BOOK ONE was published in October of 2005. The introduction is by John Updike and the 400 page book features over 800 works, spanning two decades, from 1986 through 2006. It's first edition sold out a week before publication and it has since gone into two consecutive re-printings. The Cheese Monkeys, Kidd's first novel, was published by Scribner in Fall of 2001 and was a national bestseller, as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He is currently at work on his second novel, tentatively titled The Learners. Both books use the design process as a means to construct a compelling narrative.

Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson has just returned from a five-month stint training as a cosmonaut in Russia’s Star City. This is just the latest chapter in her lifelong education, which she started to take seriously shortly after graduating from Harvard (in 1972, five years after she started) with a BA in economics. Among other things, she has been a fact-checker at Forbes magazine, a Wall Street Securities analyst, the author of a book (»Release 1.0: A design for living in the digital age«, Broadway Books 1997), and the author of a commercially successful refrigerator magnet (»Always make new mistakes« which is now also the inscription on her cosmonaut patch). But she has devoted much of her life to fostering start-up companies, initially as host of the annual PC Forum and editor of the computer industry newsletter Release 1.0. Since selling her company to CNET Networks in 2004, she has become a full-time and active investor, doing business (still) as EDventure Holdings. Her commercial interests include software, the Internet and health care and, of course, private space travel. She is known for her insight and the ability to temper enthusiasm with skepticism…or was that skepticism with enthusiasm? Her current board seats include 23andMe (personal genomics), Airship Ventures, Boxbe, CVO Group, Eventful.com, Evernote, Meetup, Voxiva, WPP Group and Yandex (Russia). Her advisory board seats include Ameritocracy, AnchorFree, Choicestream, IBS Group, Keas, Live Journal, PGP Corp., ReframeIt and Viewpoint. Companies she has invested in include Del.icio.us and Flickr (both sold to Yahoo!), Medstory and Powerset (sold to Microsoft), Brightmail (sold to Symantec), as well as ChallengePost, Dopplr, Icon Aircraft, PatientsLikeMe, ReliefInsite, Xcor Aerospace. She is also a trustee of the Eurasia Foundation, the Long Now Foundation, the National Endowment for Democracy, Personal Genomes.org (for which she has posted her genome and soon all her medical records online), the Santa Fe Institute, Stop Badware and the Sunlight Foundation.

Ebon Heath

Ebon Heath lives and works in Brooklyn New York and received his BFA, in Graphic Design, from Rhode Island School of Design. In 1993 he founded (((stereotype))) , a design studio focused on music packaging, magazine layout, and fashion advertising. Clients varied from the urban fashion pioneer Tripe 5 Soul, Puffy’s Bad Boy Records, to independent magazine Stress, as well as cultural institutions like the African Burial Ground, Take Your Daughter to Work Day, and promotions for the Nike NYC Swoosh Campaign. He subsequently co-founded Cell Out in 2003, a consultancy that develops issue-based media strategies for non-profits, NGO's and brands. He is currently a adjunct professor in Graphic Design at Lehman College in the Bronx, New York. Ebon does not own a cell phone or television, and tries to remember his dreams every day.

Gesche Joost

Gesche Joost is Professor for Design Research at the University of the Arts Berlin. Since 2005 she has headed the Design Research Lab at the University of the Arts Berlin. With international partners, she developed research and teaching projects in the areas of human-computerinteraction, gender and diversity aspects in technological development, as well as social sustainability and participation. Until 2010, she was junior professor for Interaction Design & Media at the Technical University of Berlin. As a visiting professor, she taught Gender and Design at the HAWK Hildesheim. In 2009, she received the Science Award of the Governing Mayor of Berlin for Young Researchers. She is the founding board member of DGTF e.V. (German Society for Design Theory and Research) and board member of the Technology Foundation Berlin.

Joshua Davis

“One of the lessons taken from Davis’ lecture at TYPO San Francisco was that collaboration is necessary in growth as an artist and always leads to good things. As Davis so wonderfully put it, “Collaboration is a good way to step away from ego.” In an industry that can so easily become narcissistic, we must take a step back and realize that every new collaboration can not only allow us to show off what we can do, but allow us to take away and store in our brains much more knowledge than we had before. ” (Holly Wickland, TYPO San Francisco Blog) Joshua Davis is an American artist, designer, and technologist producing public and private works for companies, collectors, and institutions. Davis is renowned for pioneering an original method of computational, generative-art known as Dynamic Abstraction. Davis explores the technical and aesthetic limits of Flash and Illustrator to generate unique visual compositions according to rules-based, randomized processes.