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December 2003

Hesse nominated triply.

The federal department for economy and employment has nominated three works of Hesse Design for the »Design prize of the Federal Republic of Germany 2004«. These works are the annual report for the German Savings Bank and Giro Association, the corporate design for »Nowakteufelknyrim« and the poster »circuit 2002« for the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach/Main. The »Design prize of the Federal Republic of Germany 2004« has been donated by the federal department for economy and employment as official design prize. The Rat für Formgebung/German Design Council is charged with the organization and awards ceremony. The prize honors extraordinary product as well as communication design.

November 2003

Socializing in Poland

Christine and Klaus Hesse have visited the Poland’s oldest Academy of Art in Krakow on 27th and 28th of October. Initial reason for this visit was to ameliorate the relationship with the Polish design scene and to check possibilities for eventual cooperation. The Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow is one of the most important Academy of Art and Design and talent scout source in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile Krakow became a popular place to study for German art and design students too. Therefore lots of German students have been present. No reason to wonder because Krakow has been elected twice Europe’s cultural capital. 55 buildings of Krakow’s city have become world heritage. One more reason for Christine Hesse has been the search of a Polish counterpart who represents the European section of DMI Design Management Institute Boston. At the faculty of visual communication Christine and Klaus Hesse have met the former dean Prof. Ryszard Otreba. The sculptor and graphic designer has a worldwide reputation and has been a former Icograda-activist. Together with his students he was following both interesting lectures of Christine Hesse about »what is essential for good design.« Furthermore there has been a very intense conversation with the Poster Designer Prof. Wladyslaw Pluta and the Editorial Designer Prof. Jacek Mrowczyk about the Polish design scene. Jacek Mrowczyk is also editor of the only design magazine (2d+3d) in Poland. At the end of their visit Klaus Hesse was holding a lecture towards all students and members of the Academy titled »In between. The best place to create a new culture.«

November 2003

People in Erkrath just see black as night

On 28 of November the seventh crime night is taking place in direct vicinity to the Neandertal. Just in time with the first freeze and permanent fog the open murder series will be continued. Hesse Design too, created for the seventh time the poster, for the second time in cooperation with the illustrator Steffen Bergemann from Offenbach. The actual crime is threatening thriller authors from Cologne.

September 2003

New perspectives

Hesse Design designed the illustrated book »Meaning of life« for Zefa Visual Media. The seven virtues and the seven mortal sins are building the thread for photography and illustration of the book that has been published last week. The Zefa Art Department in Düsseldorf generated the picture series and the illustrator Steffen Bergemann of Offenbach created the free interpretations of good and evil. Surprising new perspectives are offered. The portfolio book has a volume of 300 pages and the first edition is of 47.000 volumes with worldwide distribution. Order at Zefa Visual Media,

ISBN 3-8170-2549-1, www.zefa.de

September 2003

Red Dot Award and Berliner Type silver for Hesse Design

The circuit poster of Klaus and Tim Hesse, designed for the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach, has received the Red Dot Award. The layout documentation of the corporate design for Duesseldorf has been honored with the silver Type of the International Typo contest.

September 2003

The French National Library

is interested in typography

The »Bibliothèque nationale de France« in Paris expanded its permanent collection of typographic works by several books of Klaus Hesse. Content of this contribution is the typographic psychogram of the »Helvetica-Mann« (© 1999, Hermann Schmidt publishing house Mainz). Next to it the limited book edition for the painter Christian Haider – the native Tyrolean is now living in Thailand – was admitted. For this spezial edition Hesse Design developed the font »Virus« (© 1997). Furthermore the series of 14 books, the »Hesse-Workbooks« (©1990 to 2003), has been integrated into the Paris’ collection.

September 2003

Create the future

A series of lectures with top-class speakers under the title »create the future« has been taken place at a IBM managers symposium in Bad Reichenhall. Introducing the congress the economical and social scientist Dr. Hermann Scheer, who was also awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize, was speaking about regenerative energy. He was requesting vehemently new main focuses within the energy politics. The trend researcher Prof. peter Wippermann from Hamburg was asking the audience, if future is calculable. Prof. Klaus Hesse represented its theory, that a social reorganization without the corporate intellectual potential is impossible and visualized a communication concept, how Deutschland (Germany) can become »Neuland« (New Land). The former boss of IBM Germany, chairman of the »Initiative D21« and latest president of VfB Stuttgart, Erwin Staudt pointed out the way into the information society and demonstrated the social potential of the future.

(Bad Reichenhall, 28th to 29th August 2003, IBM Rational Executive Forum)

August 2003

Interstate comparison

The »Wirtschaftswoche«, issue 32/2003, availed the actual coats of arms which have recently been redesigned by Hesse Design for its cover theme »Federal States in comparison«. Hesse developed these coats of arms in 2000 within the context of the Plenar hall’s recreation. Hesse has won the call for creative tenders, unfortunately the draft was not put into practice. Nevertheless the redesigned heraldry is a great point of popularity. Next to the »Wirtschaftswoche« also the news magazine »Der Spiegel« has used the mentioned coats of arms.

July 2003

Erkrather Kriminacht

Hesse Design created the poster for the sixth’ thriller night of Erkrath in cooperation with the illustrator Steffen Bergemann from Offenbach. The thriller night was taking place on 25th of July 2003 at the Brügger Mühle, just next to the Neandertal. The night was highly attended by prominent authors.

7th May 2003,

chamber of commerce and industry Muenster

Christine Hesse is guest at »Speakers Corner«

This is a co-presentation of the labor office and the University of applied sciences of Muenster in reference to the topic »employment sectors for designer«. The lecture of Christine Hesse was titled »what makes design successful?« and she was talking to mostly 100 auditors about the essential questions upon design strategy and design management. » A brand means a certain attitude towards life. It needs to be authentic and credible, to define, to motivate and to enhance the employees’ identification with their company or products. Brands are the real shareholder value. A brand is made for overcoming of fears. It is not the rational fundament that is giving success but the right credo at the right time«.

April 2003

World championship-logo 2006

Experts and football fans agree

On 15th of March the Eleven Designer have presented their alternative logos at the University of Art in Berlin. This initiative found huge approval. The event has been highly frequented, media responded with diversified reporting and several thousand people interested in football and design have taken part at the voting of »Süddeutsche Zeitung« and »Bunte«. Also the design magazine »page« formed its professional opinion. In all of these three cases the design of achieved the largest acceptance. »It would have been too great« the »SZ-Magazin« apostrophized the dynamic symbols of Klaus Hesse and Christoph Zielke. »New, exciting and unmistakable – a graphic language for its own which would be imitated even by kids enthusiastically « »page« honoured the splotch pictograms of Hesse Design Düsseldorf. For more information about the initiative:

www.11designer.de

April 2003

RWE-Annual Report with international look

The number 3 among the international energy companies is persecuting an evident aim: integration and consolidation. After a period of external growth RWE now needs to integrate the purchased companies in an efficient and value increasing way into the corporate group. Consequently the RWE-Annual Report is following the motto: “integration – the key to success”. International teamwork, useful contacts, efficient processes. In cooperation with the RWE-corporate communication Hesse developed the photographic concept for 14 Annual Reports of the corporate group – for RWE AG (including the Annual Statement of Accounts for the holding) as well as for 12 affiliated companies. Of the key business segments electricity, gas, water and environmental services they have chosen at each case a couple of colleagues, which cooperated successfully cross-country and cross-business segments. The pictures have been taken at the worldwide aimed markets of the company. After five month work the Annual Reports of the RWE corporate group are finished since 17th of March 2003 with common layout, common photographic concept and with common purpose: to communicate the positioning of RWE worldwide with success. Together with eight European agencies Hesse Design developed an alliance of Annual Reports that are talking the same language as to structure, layout and photographic style.

April 2003

100 best posters 2002

Several poster series and single posters, which have been designed by Hesse Design, received an award at the International Poster Contest of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The reason for this great success is the new event and lecture culture at academies of art that grew up upon the initiative of Prof. Bernd Kracke. Since 1999 Klaus Hesse is holding a chair for conceptual design at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach.

The awards at the first glance:

Poster series for Fujihata Masaki (HfG Offenbach)

Poster series for Trevor Gould (HfG Offenbach)

Single poster for »Short movie’s night« (University Wuppertal)

Single poster for »circuit 2002« (HfG Offenbach)

Single poster for »New German advertisement« (HfG Offenbach)

March 2003

Showcase of 11designer in Berlin

More than 400 visitors squeezed into the great lecture theatre of the University of Art in Berlin to persecute the presentation of eleven new logos for the football world championship in 2006. Among the spectators have been well-known design colleagues, students, cultural creators, athletes, numerous journalists of the daily press and two fans of Kickers Offenbach. The atmosphere has been highly curious and enthusiastic for the whole 90 minutes. The subsequent echo in the media can be called unique without exaggerating. Never before German graphic design cached such an attention within the national-wide daily press like after this presentation. ZDF and DSF have emitted substantial contribution as well. Both initiators Fons Hickmann and Klaus Hesse have been very satisfied by the result. Each presented alternative logo outshines the official one. Most of the proposals have set moving TV-sequences into focus and are therewith persecuting an innovative approach.

March 2003

A nice weekend

On 14th and 15rh of March the jury decision of IF-Design Awards, Art Directors Club for Germany and New York Art Directors Clubs has been announced. 8 awards in total have been assigned to Hesse Design. IF-Design Award: awards for Annual Reports of Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverbandes (German Savings bank and Giro Association), for the posters »circuit 2002« and »Short movie’s night« as well as for the Corporate Design of »nowakteufelknyrim«

ADC Deutschland: awards for the Corporate Design of the utility company for energy »Mark-E« and for the poster series »Lost Media« as well as a bronze medal for the poster »circuit 2002«

ADC New York: Merit for the poster »circuit 2002«.

February 2003

Christine Hesse became new member of the Advisory Council of Design Management Institute (DMI) of Boston.

The native Austrian and Westminster-graduate (MBA) is an active member of DMI since 1992. The DMI was founded in 1975 in Boston and puts special focus on the strategic role of design. The DMI counts more than 12000 members from 37 countries and is therefore the largest independent education and research institute all over the world with its topics design, marketing and management. Every year several congresses and workshops take place in the United States, Canada and Europe where the latest case studies, research results and practice-related management tools are presented and discussed. Moreover all DMI case studies with emphasis on – among others - Corporate Identity, Branding, Industrial Design, Packaging, Web Design and Design Strategy are available by the Harvard Business School. With the membership of Christine Hesse at the advisory council DMI found a way to bridge the gap to Europe. She will concentrate on raising the presence of DMI in the German-speaking sector.

Picture: Christine Hesse and Earl Powell (President DMI) in Cape Cod (USA) during the DMI-conference in October 2002

February 2003

Type Directors Club of New York

The posters and poster series (»circuit of designers’ works 2002« and »lost media«) created by Hesse Design for the Academy of Art and Design HfG Offenbach have won both a »certificate of typographic excellence«. The poster series for the »new German advertisement«, which Klaus Hesse initialized for a series of lecture at the Academy of Art and Design HfG Offenbach, was awarded as well. Speaker and designer of this poster series: Johannes Erler, Christian Boros, Petra Knyrim, Guido Heffels and Fons Hickmann. The honored works will join the TDC-show 2003 around the world and will be shown to the public among others in New York, Singapore, Tokyo, Sydney, Los Angeles as well as in Hamburg, Berlin and Frankfurt. The TDC competition takes place since 49 years and is highly appreciated by the international typographic and graphic design culture.