Topic:

Design — Destroy — Design

Brief description:

The aim of the course is to create tension in the poster medium by means of design, targeted irritation through “destruction” and renewed design. We will design posters, then paint over them in an analogue way, tear them up, fold them or destroy them in other ways in order to reassemble them, collage them and add to them to create the final poster.

The path via the radical act of destruction and then reassembly brings unexpected, sometimes unintended, exciting results to light. Chance and the unpredictable and unplannable also play an important role in this course.

Topic of the poster: Representing your home town/place with the posters.

What characterizes your hometown, what is it known for, what do you love about it and what do you dislike?

In the end, at least minimum 5 posters should be created and possibly an additional medium such as merchandise in the design style of each individual student.

Biography:

Sven Lindhorst-Emme, born 1978 in Bielefeld Germany.

Sven Lindhorst-Emme first trained as a lithographer and worked as such for 10 years. Afterwards in 2008 he studied graphic and communication design and moved to Berlin in 2011, where he founded his studio in the same year. In addition to lectures and workshops, both nationally and internationally, he also teaches book design and communication design at the Lette-Verein Berlin and as a lecturer at always different colleges and universities.

Sven Lindhorst-Emme is a member of the Type Directors Club New York and also of 100 Beste Plakate.

Since 2021 he is running studio lindhorst-emme+hinrichs together with Lea Hinrichs. The Studio is specialized in graphic design and typography, especially book and poster design but also Corporate Design and websites. Most of the works are of artistic or cultural origin, such as photo books, artist’s catalogues, vinyl packaging, posters for exhibitions and Corporate Designs for Museums and Publishers.

The studio’s work has been shown at many international exhibitions, such as in Russia, America, China, Japan, Taiwan and France to name but a few countries. They have also won international awards such as the TDC New York and Tokyo TDC Award, 100 Best Posters, Best German Book Award, ADC Bronze Nail and much more.