Over the past ten years, I have held numerous teaching assignments at various universities of applied sciences—primarily at HTW Berlin, Faculty of Visual Communication. Additionally, I have served as a second examiner for bachelor’s theses.
Publishing Perspectives
Delivering great journalistic content—facing fragmented user behavior, disrupted business models, and audiences overwhelmed with unfiltered and unstructured information across different devices—is challenging. We visited journalists, designers, and editors to ask key questions: How can journalistic stories be told? How could content be organized and delivered? And how can design best serve journalism?
Excursions and discussion rounds with:
Sven Ehmann, Creative Director, Gestalten-Verlag
Sebastian Esser, Publisher, Krautreporter
Kati Krause, Consultant for Content Strategy, Zeit Online, medium.com
Nicolas Bourquin, Managing Director, onlab GmbH
Theresia Enzensberger, Block Magazine
Mads Pankow, Die Epilog Magazine
Björn Märtin, Innovation Manager, DuMont Verlag
HTW Berlin
Main project in the 4th and 6th semester
22 students
Winter semester 2014/2015
Magazines on Mobile Devices
Many of the fundamentals of contemporary art direction for magazines—how we tell stories with typography, photography, and illustration, and how we approach the dramaturgy and rhythm of a magazine—can be traced back to the art direction of Russian designer Alexey Brodovitch for the New York fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar in the 1940s. Together with editor-in-chief Carmel Snow and countless photographers and artists such as Man Ray and Marc Chagall, Brodovitch created monthly milestones in magazine design.
Since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 and the massive growth in Facebook and Twitter users starting in 2008, the way we consume content has fundamentally changed. Brodovitch, known for his adventurous spirit and exploration of new technologies, would likely have embraced the challenges we face today in telling stories on very small screens. In this course, a group of students explored how designers must or can rethink magazine content for smartphones like the iPhone. They investigated how typography and images interact, how colors are used, how magazines could be structured at their core—in short, how we can tell stories effectively in this new format.
Course Outcomes:
Each student developed and presented a prototype of a magazine designed for smartphones or tablets.
HTW Berlin
Main project in the 4th and 6th semester
Implementation of some prototypes in cooperation with the Applied Computer Science program at HTW Berlin
20 students
Summer semester 2015
Literature 0.0
Technological innovations have always been embraced by the music and film industries—not only to produce songs and make them accessible to audiences, or to burn films onto shiny discs and deliver them to stores, but also as integral elements in the creative process. Music is sampled, remixed, and concerts have become experimental, interactive experiences. Directors are exploring scripts that tell stories across two screens—or omitting screens altogether, allowing viewers to experience stories in interactive spaces.
But what about literature? Why are texts still produced today in the same way they were 200 years ago? Can’t an author sample texts? Or remix them? Does literature even need an author anymore? And what role do we, as designers, play in this?
HTW Berlin
Main project in the 4th and 6th semester
15 students
Winter semester 2016/2017
BRUT Magazine
BRUT Magazine is a digital hyper-video magazine from the Department of Communication Design at the University of Applied Sciences, founded by Prof. Andreas Ingerl and Prof. Daniela Hensel. In the summer of 2016, 15 students developed a new editorial profile for the fifth issue of BRUT, derived a revised UX concept from the results of various user research workshops, and produced 14 video interviews with Berlin-based designers.
BRUT allows users to navigate seamlessly between individual interviews through shared questions posed during the interviews, which are answered by multiple protagonists.
HTW Berlin
Main project in the 4th and 6th semester
15 students
Summer semester 2016, 2017 & 2018
Gregor Weichbrodt
Der Tod des Autors – Reloaded
Prof. Birgit Bauer, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Wintersemester 2014
Sophie Strzeletz
„Mitlaufgelegenheit“ – Entwicklung einer App für Sicherheit im Berliner Nahverkehr
Prof. Birgit Bauer, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2015
Anne Maria Blei
Synopsis – Gestaltung und Aufbereitung journalistischer Inhalte im Kontext mobiler digitaler Medien
Prof. Birgit Bauer, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2015
Michaela Schneider
Mediennutzung und ihre Relevanz bei Kindern im digitalen Zeitalter – eine iPad-App
Prof. Klaus Baumgart, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2015
Bernadette Herkner, Linda Gömer
Mehr – Digitales Interview-Magazin
Prof. Daniela Hensel, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2016
Franziska Geißler und Sophie Sandig
Freunde werden – eine digitale Plattform für Flüchtlinge
Prof. Daniela Hensel, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2016
Anja Zinnecker
Talk about – Ein Online-Magazin mit Geschichten von Menschen aus Familien mit Alkoholproblematik
Prof. Birgit Bauer, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2016
Eva Zurek
Plattform für Berliner Bands und Musiker – Ein Musikernetzwerk
Prof. Andreas Ingerl, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2016
Dorothee Kunze
Papier – wie ein Grundnahrungsmittel des Menschen – eine Informationsgrafik
Prof. Jürgen Huber, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2016
Nicole Köhler
Die Wedding-Wandler – Homepage
Prof. Jürgen Huber, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2016
Anne Freude
Tangible Design
Prof. Jürgen Huber, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2017
Felix Kapolka, Maximilian Well
Storybot – Storytelling in Messenger-Apps
Prof. Andreas Ingerl, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2016
Alexander Venus/Vivien Schnelle
Medienmanipulation – Konzeptvorschlag zur Bereicherung der Diskurskultur
Prof. Andreas Ingerl, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2016
Christian Ernst
User Experience Design für Ride-Hailing in Autonomen Fahrzeugen
Prof. Andreas Ingerl, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2017
Lydia Busch
Von Hürden und Helden – wie sich das Leben auf dem Land neu erfinden lässt
Prof. Daniela Hensel, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2017
Fabian Burghardt, Sebastian Strobel, Vinzenz Widmoser-Aubry
Kick – Entwicklung einer Plattform zur Organisation und digitalen Erweiterung von Straßenfussball
Prof. Andreas Ingerl, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2017
Lena Wilke & Anastasia Mangelsdorf
Sprache und Identität
Prof. Daniela Hensel, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2017
Swetlana Dmitriev
Konzeption und Gestaltung einer digitalen Reiseplattform für künstlerische Dienstleistungen
Prof. Daniela Hensel, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2019
Theresa Plötz
Last days of magic
Prof. Alexander Müller-Rakow, Dipl. Des. Thomas Weyres
Sommersemester 2021
Collaboration with FH Potsdam, Prof. Lisa Bucher: In the Illustration course led by Prof. Bucher in the winter semester of 2022, 20 students worked on the opinion page of Tagesspiegel, where I was the Head of Visual at the time. Together with Art Director Manuel Kostrzynski, we discussed and selected illustrations for Tagesspiegel each week.
Various one day workshops at Hochschule der Künste, Bremen, 2007 – 2009
Talk at FH Augsburg, 2012