Topic:

My Own City Guide

Brief description:

In this workshop we go beyond the borders of graphic design and even concepting. You are going to do creative direction as well as photography, journalism, graphic design, and you are also the editorial board.

It is an editorial design project: We will do a city guide for the city of Hangzhou, the city where you live and work.

We want you to go out to search for the unexpected but also share your personal, intriguing, own highlights of Hangzhou.

Biography:

Sebastian Bissinger studied from 1993 to 2000 graphic design at the University of the Arts Bremen with Prof. Eckhard Jung. He won his first Certificate of Typographic Excellence from the TDC NY already in 1998 with the 500-pages UNESCO-book Culture of Peace. Besides graphic design and typography, he is active in initiating and curating collaborative creative projects and exhibitions, e.g. The Art of Conversation London—Berlin in 2010 with a total of 20 involved design studios from both cities.

BANK™ is a German/French graphic design studio run by Sebastian Bissinger & Laure Boer. Since 2004 BANK™ creates design concepts and manages the entire physical and digital production – from visual identities to books and websites. Clients are large and small institutions as well as commercial players with a focus on art, culture, architecture, and social politics. BANK™ designs have been seen in more than 60 printed publications and over 30 biennials and exhibitions around the globe. BANK™ won a couple of prestigious awards, recently the Certificate of Typographic Excellence by TDC NY 2022, the Gold Award of the Hong Kong Poster Triennial 2021 and 100 Best Posters 2020 and 2022. BANK™ works amongst others for Magnum Photos, Paris; TIME Magazine, New York; ETH Zurich, Architecture Department; Bode Museum (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz); MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst Duisburg; Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin Zurich; Schirmer/Mosel Publishers; Hartmann Publishers; Die Andere Bibliothek Publishers; DCV Publishers; University Bochum, Architecture Department; UNESCO; UNICEF; UNFPA; UNEP; Goethe-Institute; Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation.