At TYPO Johannes Erler will introduce his company: Factor Design, in a panel discussion with Uwe Loesch and Bruno Schmidt. In a second talk he will read a true short story about Russian sensuality, Pink Floyd, and the difference between business people in Hamburg and Moscow.
Uwe Loesch
Internationally-renowned poster and corporate designer, numerous awards, Grand Prix for www.scheisse.de, ADC of Europe Gold Medal for the application of fuzzy logic in corporate design of the Kunsthochschule für Medien of Cologne, Grand Prix of the red dot award for the Hiroshima poster "Little boy", many individual exhibitions, lectures, and…
Bruno Schmidt
The first stage in Bruno Schmidt’s career was the then leading Swiss PR agency of Gisler & Gisler. He studied German and Romance languages and literature, and geography at Berlin Free University, before he became a teacher for five years. He then joined the largest German textbook publisher, Cornelsen in…
Johannes Erler
Graphic Designer, Art Director, Founder (Hamburg)
Erler, born in 1965, studied communications design in Kiel and worked for Lo Breier, Erik Spiekermann, and Neville Brody before co-founding Factor Design in 1993; he has since become one of Germany's top designers. In 2010, he left Factor Design to found EST ErlerSkibbeTönsmann with Henning Skibbe and Christian Tönsmann.…
