Zack Chen, Jingdezhen/China

Workshop and lecture with Zack Chen, Merja Herzog-Hellstén and artists of the Hutian Ceramic Community from Jingdezhen/China, 25 June 2019.

Zack Chen is a porcelain artist and head of the "Jingdezhen Hutian Ceramic Community". This is an association of young Chinese ceramic artists and designers. This private initiative has set itself the task of reviving the ceramic culture in China and promoting international exchange. The community cooperates with 31 universities at home and abroad and offers extensive further education and basic programmes for the contemporary design and illustration of porcelain and ceramics. In addition, the community preserves and expands its own extensive collection of individual pieces relevant to cultural history and thus operates its own museum in Jingdezhen/China.

Svetlana Jakel, Frankfurt

»Licence to paint« von Svetlana Jakel 

7. Februar 2018, HfG Offenbach 

Svetlana Jakel hat Modedesign studiert und ein eigenes Modelabel gegründet. Danach wurde sie Artbuyerin bei Saatchi & Saatchi und Publicis in Frankfurt. 2002 gründete sie die Fotografen- und Illustratoren-Repräsentanz »kombinatrotweiss« in Frankfurt. Seit 2015 hat sie die Vertretung auf Illustratorinnen und Illustratoren fokussiert. 

Naomi Kasumi, Seattle, USA

»Socially Engaged Art Practice« by Naomi Kasumi 

4th of December 2017, HfG Offenbach, Isenburger Schloss, left Chapel 

Naomi Kasumi, Japanese Installation Artist, settled in USA. Professor of Digital Design as well as Professor of the Asian Studies Program and Director of the Siena Program in Italy all related to the Seattle University. All her art projects have a strong social relevance. Naomi Kasumi has exhibited in Vancouver, Brisbane, New Delhi, Budapest, Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagano and Fukushima. Naomi’s research and creative work have been focused on a series of memorial rituals, and Tohoku Tsunami disaster relief projects, in a large-scale installation art form. She also works on variety of media such as: book art, video, printmaking, and graphic design. Naomi has held numerous international solo and group exhibitions at galleries, as well as public and educational institutions.  

Uwe Loesch, Düsseldorf, Germany

»Polis – Posters by Uwe Loesch« 

January 12th, 2016, HfG Offenbach, Isenburg Castle, left chapel 

Uwe Loesch presented more than 100 posters with political content during his 2 hours speech. A very impressive presentation! Uwe Loesch lives and works in Düsseldorf. He studied graphic design at Peter-Behrens-Werkkunstschule (nowadays called Peter Behrens School of Art). After his exams he started out as free lancing designer in his own studio in Düsseldorf. Today, he is the most acclaimed creator of posters both nationally and internationally. Amongst his regular clients he can count Kom(m)ödchen in Düsseldorf and the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach. Since 1984 many of his works have become part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York. In 1985 he became Professor for Design at Fachhochschule Düsseldorf; since 1990 he has served as Professor for communication design at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, succeeding Willy Fleckhaus. His work focusses on posters and Corporate Design. He has received countless international rewards and is a member of AGI, Alliance Graphique Internationale. In 2009 he was awarded the Gutenberg prize of the city of Leipzig, In 2013 he received the prestigious Design Prize of the German republic for his life's work.  

More at: www.uweloesch.de 

Xiang Fan, Beijing, China

»Visual Hacking Into State Broadcasting«, 24th of April, 2015 

In the last 33 years, the CCTV new year gala is an absolute predominant TV programme in the national audience ratings of China. Xiang Fan chooses this program as her experiment of visualization, revealing it's colour composition on chromatography on various timeline as an observation into state broadcasting and clarifying how red the China mass media is. She will discuss how the forms of timeline shape our perspective with millions discrete frames of CCTV Gala, left the audience inspired to think about the visual recipes that we are watching. Furthermore, she will display her visualized pieces of thirty three years’s gala program as a critical look at the evolution of national TV language on the move.  

Chen Lei, Beijing/China

»Occultism - commonly regarded as one of ancient cultures which are irrelevant to Chinese modern life« 24th of April, 2015 

Prof. Chen encourages his group to explore the invisible existence of occultism through visual design, offering audiences an appealing angle for understanding and experiencing Chinese Occultism with their works. In this presentation, Chen Lei will introduce their progresses from three perspectives: theme, motivation and visual representation. He believes that Chinese Occultism is an immense treasury of traditional culture and values Occultism as a fundamental approach for discovering the relationships between people, nature and universe. 

Wu Yong, Beijing/Shantou, China

Wu Yong about »Conceptual Book design and binding«  

at 16th of October, 2014 

Wu Yong is a well-known book and graphic designer from Beijing/Shantou in China. He is owner of a design studio in Beijing and Professor of Cheung Kong School of Art and Design, Shantou University. Besides he is AGI member (Alliance Graphigue Intemationale) and has won a lot of national and international awards for book design.