December 

Taiwan International Graphic Design Award 2009 

Hesse Design delightedly recieved three top prizes and three further prizes at the Taiwan International raphic Design Award 2009. The for Asia important competition has been supported from ICOGRADA and JAGDA. More than 1750 works from 41 countries entered. The jury: Markus Busges from Germany, martin Woodtli for Switzerland, Freeman Lau from Hong Kong, Connie Birdsall from the United States, Taku Satoh from Japan, Carlo Giannasca from Australia. Directors of Arts of Y&P Design, Wenping Hsiao, Director of Operating Committee for BBDO Taiwan Advertising Co., Teddy Ho, Art Director of Lemon Yellow Design Company, Tsung-Hung Su, and Art Director of Feng Geh Image Design, Jeff Liao.  

Hesse Design received a silver medal for the poster "Papier" ("Paper"). The poster "Faltschachteln" ("Folding Boxes") won a Judges' Special Award. Acknowledgments for the following three works: the posters "Der Tisch" ("The Table") for the sculptor Monika Brandmeier, the theme "Boom" for an exhibition of the Hesse class and the series "Characters" for the office for knowledge transfer. Additionally Hesse has won a further Judges' Special Award for the corporate design "AAP Biomaterials" and an award for the appearance of "Freie Anästhesisten" ("Free Anaesthesiologists"). 

November 

Vitamin D now available. The newest issue of »design by doing« shows how medium-sized enterprises use design to make a name for themselves. 

In the German-speaking countries work more than 1,4000 companies obtaining worldwide places one to three in their industry although their annual turnover is less than 3 billion €. Most of them are relatively unknown. Hesse Design interrogated 150 German medium-sized companies. The survey shows that many of them are not interested in classical advertisement but spend 18 percent of their marketing budgets for corporate appearance. Why? They intend to strengthen and strategically develop their brands with the help of design; they use »vitamin D«. In the human body the vitamin is good for strong teeth and bones, also for mental flexibility, good nerves and better body’s defense. For companies the “vitamin D” works similar.This issue of “design by doing” documents the results of the survey and shows in three case studies what an enterprise is able to achive with a »vitamin cure«: The steel producer Zapp obtained not only a new corporate design but also more powerful organization structures. Heinze, manufacturer of light and interior accessories, strengthened not only the merchandises but also the profile of its private brand.  

Authors: Barbara Bierach, Christof Heinze, Christine Hesse 

Publisher: Verlag Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach/Main 

ISBN: 978-3-921997-77-2 

To order: info@hesse-design.de 

Price: 24,00 € plus postage 

November 

German-Chinese cultural exchange 

Invited by the DCKD (German-Chinese cultural exchange for art and design) Klaus Hesse takes place at "Second Forum Architecture Design Art China Germany" in Wuhan, Xi'an and Beijing from 16th to 27th November 2009. Klaus Hesse is going to lecture about corporate design in front of interested expert audience and also to give work shops for Chinese professors, teachers and students. Representatives from over 20 Chinese architecture and design universities and art academies are going to join the events. The goal is it to develop the exchange between German and Chinese universities. Besides mutual cultural inspiration the meetings are supposed to give insight in the differences of teaching those fields. The event is supported by the Chinese Ministry for Education and many Chinese universities and academies. The cultural exchange is accompanied by the "1st Graphic Design Biennale Germany" in Xi'an. The work of Hesse Design will be displayed there amongst other well-known German design offices. The organizers and curators of both, lecture series and biennale, are Mr. Jian Guo, Director of DCKD and Prof. Helfried Hagenberg, Honorary President of DCKD. Active support comes from: Goethe Institute in Beijing, Ministry for Education in Hubei, National Centre for Culture in Qujjang, Academy of Art Tsinghua in Beijing, Technical University in Wuhan, Graphic Design Commitee of China Artists Association, Alliance Graphique Internationale AGI/China. 

September 

iF Gold for »ADC Creative Report« 

The ADC organizes not only Germany’s most important creative competition, it also stands for excellent training for professionals, juniors and students. With the »Creative Report”«the ADC introduces a kind of annual report presenting not only what happened in the club in 2008 but also reminds to great models. New about the report is also that all photos in it were replaced by illustrations. The international iF-jury shared this conviction and awarded the Hesse work with one of the 30 gold trophies. 

August 

Two Red dots for Hesse Design 

6,112 works from 42 countries entered the »Red Dot« competition, only 470 entries were awarded. All award winning works have been shown December 10th 2009 to January 10th, 2010 in the Red Dot Design Museum at Zeche Zollverein in Essen and are also documented at the accompanying exhibition catalogue. The prize-giving ceremony is going to take place at 9th December, 2009. Two works from Hesse Design have been awarded with »high design quality«: the »Creative Report« for the Art Directors Club fuer Deutschland and the poster »Folding Boxes«. 

July 

ADC Creative Report nominated for Gold 

Hesse Design developed concept and design for the first »Creative Report« of the Art Directors Club fuer Deutschland. The issue published by Hermann Schmidt Verlag in 2008, was nominated from an international jury of the »iF Communication Design« for the gold medal as well as for a »Berliner Type«. Furthermore the poster »folding boxes« created by Hesse Design is nominated for one of the 30 golden trophies. Works from 24 countries entered the competition, the prize-giving ceremony is going to take place in Munich end of August. 

May 

Robotics stories 

In the history of technology words like »atom« and later on »gene« have been symbolizing the 20th century while “robot” stands for the early 21st century. The GTG, Society for History of Technology Berlin, organized an interdisciplinary conference for discussing issues of robotics history and images. The event takes place 22 nd to 24 th May in Offenbach. Leonardo da Vinci charted a humanlike automat already in 1495. Hesse Design brought this nearly unknown invention of da Vinci for the event poster back to life. 

April 

Posters awarded 

Hesse Design developed a six-part poster series for a lecture series of »Route A66«, a network for business founders. The series named »contact« was awarded from the Art Directors Club Germany . The poster »Faltschachteln« (folding boxes) also received an award from ADC. 

April 

A new address for Hesse Design 

For more than 10 years the office was located just outside the gates of Duesseldorf in the countryside of Erkrath. Now Hesse Design exchanged the idyllic landscape for a historical town house in the centre of the city between Art Academy and Rhine promenade. The town house was built in 1698. The new address is: Ritterstraße 11, 40213 Düsseldorf 

April 

Hesse Design – brand design from 1989 to 2009 

For 20 years Hesse Design with its offices in Duesseldorf and Berlin has been developing brands for institutions and enterprises such as Audi, Bewag, Bosch, Dekra, Kieler Woche, City of Duesseldorf, Swarovski and World Heritage Middle Rhine. Besides multi award-winning designs for bigger and smaller brand names and integrated communication concepts, Hesse Design developed books, magazines, posters, websites and exhibitions. For the very first time Hesse presents a selection of its works to a broad public in the historical location Ritterstraße 11, a town house near the Art Academy built in 1698. From April 1st to April 9th more than 100 exhibits were shown there. 

March 

Presch Corporate Design 

The medium-sized enterprise „Presch“, located in Hamm, is spezialised in surface coating such as industrial lacquering, corrosion protection and repair of concrete structures. To update the corporate design for the company founded in the 50-ies was a decision the management made when the new generation has taken charge. Hesse Design developed the complete appearance. 

March 

New word mark for “Wiff” and “Frechem” 

Hesse Design developed the word mark »Wiff« for the joint initiative “Advanced training for skilled personnel for pre-school education” of the Federal Ministery of Education and Research and the Robert Bosch Foundation. The goal is to initiate, support and accompany innovations in the training and further training system.  

A very different content Hesse Design pictured for the cast resin plant Frechem: The new brand name stands for the location in the Rhein-Erft area and the chemical competence of the enterprise. »Frechem« is specialized in producing rigid and elastic polyurethane thick elastomers for the stoneware industry and in developing further high-quality polyurethane systems. 

January 

Sudden inspiration from the future of film history 

A poster design for the gallery exhibition „Lost media: found – sudden inspiration from the future of film history“ by Hesse Design. The poster does not look like any other of its kind but more like a real cutout of a daily street scene. The wildly glued on information have been lost, the left over fragments guide to the exhibition in the German Film Museum in Frankfurt/Main, taking place February 17th to April 5th 2009. The video artist Rotraut Pape curates the exhibition.