Pressestimmen
"Ein Berliner in Wien, der Grenzüberschreitendes gelehrt und Schüler aus aller Welt angelockt hat. Die Dokumentation. Grafik-Design. Ein sehr praktisches und anwendungsorientiertes Fach. Angewandte Kunst. Die Ermutigung zur Entwicklung kreativer Visionen und die Ermöglichung künstlerischer Experimente bei gleichzeitigem Bekenntnis zu technischer Exzellenz und konzeptiver Brillanz sind die Grundelemente des Qualitätsanspruchs, den die Angewandte an Lehrer und Studierende gleichermaßen stellt. So definiert Gerald Bast, Rektor der Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien, das Phänomen. Dort hat der Berliner Grafik-Designer und Hochschullehrer Fons Hickmann eine Talentschmiede aufgezogen, die Kunstbeflissene aus aller Welt anlockt. Dort hat er sechs Jahre lang Ernstzunehmendes und Spielerisches gelehrt. Dort hat Hickmann das Turnier für angewandten Fußball aufgezogen, die Räumlichkeiten der Klasse für Grafik-Design zum Spielfeld des Interdisziplinären gemacht. Über sein Faible sagt er selbst: Das Fußballspiel ist eine Metapher für die Arbeit des Designers. Individuelle Stärke und Gruppenfähigkeit machen den Spieler aus. Hat er nur eine Seite ausgeprägt, wird er scheitern - jämmerlich. Hervorragende Arbeiten seiner Klasse zeigt dieses Buch, als Abschluss in Wien und Überleitung zur Professur an der Universität der Künste in Berlin, die Hickmann jetzt angetreten hat." (W&V)
Kurzbeschreibung
If a University has got such an outstanding reputation that it attracts talents and lecturers from all over the world, and if it suddenly generates work that increasingly sets standards it is due to one or several tutors or professors who take the teachings seriously but not deadly serious, who fathom the limits and extravagate them, who demand a great deal of themselves and others. So a Stefan Sagmeister hardly recognises his "Angewandte" in Vienna ever since Fons Hickmann taught there. Open, not just the windows. International, not just the lecturers. Play is allowed, and not just football. How to trace the best, how to develop talent? And which trend-setting projects arise from such an environment, in such an exciting contrast? Beyond Graphic Design is everything but a collection of dinky little examples we're all tired of. Fons Hickmann reveals his concept of teaching and puts it up for discussion, gives impulses that provoke thoughts or even stir. He carries on asking where others would be content. The projects are not only presented but also illustrated in the context of their intellectual background. Even though many a picture book makes people forget, Beyond Graphic Design thinking goes on.
Der Verlag über das Buch
Ausgezeichnet mit dem Award for Typographic Excellence des Type Directors Club of New York 2008. Auszeichnung vom Art Directors Club 2008.
Auszug aus Beyond Graphic Design, m. DVD-ROM von Fons Hickmann, Christof Nardin. Copyright © 2007. Abdruck erfolgt mit freundlicher Genehmigung der Rechteinhaber. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
If a University has got such an outstanding reputation that it attracts talents and lecturers from all over the world, and if it suddenly generates work that increasingly sets standards it is due to one or several tutors or professors who take the teachings seriously but not deadly serious, who fathom the limits and extravagate them, who demand a great deal of themselves and others. So a Stefan Sagmeister hardly recognises his "Angewandte" in Vienna ever since Fons Hickmann taught there. Open, not just the windows. International, not just the lecturers. Play is allowed, and not just football.
How to trace the best, how to develop talent? And which trend-setting projects arise from such an environment, in such an exciting contrast? Beyond Graphic Design is everything but a collection of dinky little examples we're all tired of. Fons Hickmann reveals his concept of teaching and puts it up for discussion, gives impulses that provoke thoughts or even stir. He carries on asking where others would be content. The projects are not only presented but also illustrated in the context of their intellectual background. Even though many a picture book makes people forget, Beyond Graphic Design thinking goes on.
How to trace the best, how to develop talent? And which trend-setting projects arise from such an environment, in such an exciting contrast? Beyond Graphic Design is everything but a collection of dinky little examples we're all tired of. Fons Hickmann reveals his concept of teaching and puts it up for discussion, gives impulses that provoke thoughts or even stir. He carries on asking where others would be content. The projects are not only presented but also illustrated in the context of their intellectual background. Even though many a picture book makes people forget, Beyond Graphic Design thinking goes on.