Klaus Hesse

Klaus Hesse (born 1954 in Elberfeld ) is a German graphic designer.

Life

Klaus Hesse studied photography and typography at the University of Wuppertal. Together with Christine Hesse 1988 he founded Hesse Design in Dusseldorf and from 2001 to 2004 in Berlin. The office is also responsible for the corporate design of Audi, Bewag, DEKRA, City of Dusseldorf, Messe Stuttgart, Swarovski and World Heritage Middle Rhine. It has often been nominated for the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany and won over two hundred national and international awards. 2006 Klaus Hesse won the traditional competition for the appearance of the Kiel Week 2006.

From 1993 to 1999 he was Professor of Communication Design at the FH Dortmund and Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. Since 2000 Klaus Hesse directs the study Communication Design at the Academy of Design in Offenbach am Main. In the creative colleges 2006 Focus magazine ranking of the study he conducted focus became the first rank. Since 2011 he has been Dean of the Faculty of Visual Communication.

Klaus Hesse was one of the initiators of the 11 designers for Germany at the 2006 World Cup, the first Graphic Design Biennale Germany China 2010 and was from 1998 to 2013 chief editor of the annual magazine " sushi ". He led numerous lecture tours and workshops among other things, Krakow / Poland, Puebla / Mexico, Basel / Switzerland and in the Chinese cities Beijing (Peking), Hong Kong, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Xi'an, Chongqing and in Sydney / Australia. Hesse is a member of the Type Directors Club New York.

Publications

  • Pointed. ( Designer and writer ), Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 2010, ISBN 978-3-87439-804-6.
  • Here the front. (Editor and Author), Publisher HfG Offenbach 2006, ISBN 3-921997-60-7.
  • The Helvetica man. (Editor and Author), Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-87439-470-0.
  • Sushi - annual magazine for young creative ( chief editor ), 1998-2013, ed. The Art Directors Club Germany.

Text Publications

  • Pingpong project, Interview (Fall 08 China, spring 09 Germany, Verlag Jiangxi Publishing Group, ISBN 978-7-80749-606-9, Chinese / German )
  • Perfecting - A Plea for the design behind the design ( Beef 03 /2008)
  • Book reviews for The Most Beautiful German Books / Book Art Foundation, among others Klaus Hesse with Roger Willemsen, Max Küng, Eckhard Henscheid, Jost Hochuli and Manfred Sack, March 2007, ISBN 978-3-7657-2877-8 )
  • Characters stories. Co-author of, inter alia, Klaus Hesse ( Modo Verlag Freiburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937014-66-1 German, English ISBN 978-3-937014-67-8 )
  • Pay attention to the paws. 100 Best Posters - book ( Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-87439-703-3 )
  • The fractures am Main. A city founded new. B-side, publishing College of Design Offenbach, 2005, ISBN 3-921997 -50 X
  • In between. The academy of art and design Offenbach. ( Letterspace. TDC New York, Winter 2004)
  • What's next? A preliminary résumé of the past decade of digitalized communications. (DM Journal, Boston / USA, Summer 2003)

Exhibitions

  • 2012 Identity by doing China Academy of Art, Hangzhou / China
  • 2010 Graphic Design Biennial Germany / China, Offenbach
  • 2010 turnaround times. 20 years on, Cottbus
  • 2009 Graphic Design Biennial China / Germany, Xi'an / China
  • 2009 Brand 1989-2009 Knight Straße 11, Dusseldorf
  • 2007 dimension of the surface, worldwide traveling exhibition of the Goethe -Institut
  • 2007 Permanent Poster Collection, Museum of Design Zurich / Switzerland
  • 2006 Germany Year International Poster Exhibition Tokushima / Japan
  • 2006 Diseño Editorial, Museo Poblano de Arte Virreinal Puebla, Mexico, among other things, with Ricardo Salas, Isidor Ferrer, Leonel Sagahón, Gabriela Rodriguez
  • 2005 Ball in the head. Cult just football Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg
  • 2005 T- Goal World Cup 2006 Corporate Design ( Associazione italiana progrettazione, Bozen / Bolzano)
  • 2005 handmade poster ( Museum of Design Zurich )
  • 2003 11designer for Germany Presentation and Exhibition ( Berlin University of Arts )
  • 1997 Design innovations Berlin International Design Centre (Berlin )
  • 1996 Design and identity Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen)
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