Typography and Layout
Iris Utikal is professor for Visual Communication Design, Typography and Layout with a special focus on Gender and Social topics at Köln International School of Design/KISD. Since 1999 she teaches and researches at KISD, and was appointed as professor in 2001. After her graduation in 1991 she successfully run the design studio QWER, together with Michael Gais, where she designed the innovative flexible logo »impulse« and the Corporate Design for the World Exposition 2000 in Hannover in 1994, furthermore she worked in the field of cultural and social projects.
Since more than a decade the focus in her teaching research projects at KISD is on the content-related aspects from the field of communication for and with social and political topics. Research questions about the role and understanding of women/girls/FLINTA in our society play a particularly important role in her discourse.
Her research projects include, for example, visualizing Cologne’s female designers, supervising MA and BA theses such as women of the Kölner Werkschulen, but also current topics such as the need for gender-sensitive medicine. She has been accompanying the Empower XR project of Paulina Porten, MA, which has been funded by the Office for Equality for Women and Men of the City of Cologne. The project is researching methods and tools to give girls and young women access to XR technologies and obtained a EXIST start-up grant from the BMWE.
She also is supervising the poster project for the Deutscher Kamerapreis e.V. since 2011.
Since 1998, appointment as judge in communication design competitions (such as 100 Best Posters Berlin, Red Dot Award Essen, Deutsches Studierendenwerk, Plakatwettbewerb Arbeitsschutz).
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Köln International School of Design
Ubierring 40
50678 Cologne
Room 222
iris.utikal@th-koeln.de
+49(0)221 | 8275-3318
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