Typography and Layout
Curriculum Vitae
Iris Utikal studied communication design at the FH Düsseldorf, finishing with her diploma in design in 1991. Since 1985, she has increased her visual and communicative horizon in well-known design and advertising agencies in London, New York, Paris, Zurich, Madrid, and Tokyo. Until 1994, she was involved in the »Arbeitsgemeinschaft Loesch«. In 1994, she established QWER Design Kommunikation Beratung, together with Michael Gais. QWER specialises in the development and implementation of communication concepts for companies, cities, regions, cultural institutions, and events. To ensure a consistent implementation of its design concepts, QWER follows cross-media, interdisciplinary paths, focusing on corporate design and information design.
References: Corporate design of the EXPO 2000 Hannover and the Kommunalverband Ruhrgebiet (regional association of local authorities in the Ruhr area), Leipzig 2012 (layout), ZANDERS Feinpapiere AG (2002 calendar, support of various paper sections), Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, various cultural foundations. The work of QWER has won numerous awards in various competitions and is frequently exhibited.
Teaching work in 2000 and 2001 in the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, invitations to congresses, lectures, and workshops in various design schools in Germany and China. Since 1998, appointment as judge in communication design competitions (such as 100 Best Posters Berlin, Red Dot Award Essen, »Power X, Competition of Chinese Colleges of Visual Design«).
Since 2002, professor of typography and layout, conception and design at the Cologne International School of Design.
Contact
Köln International School of Design
Ubierring 40
50678 Cologne
Room 222
iris.utikal@th-koeln.de
+49(0)221 | 8275-3318
