Doris Casse-Schlueter

Doris Casse-Schlüter (born Theodora Johanna Casse , * 1942 in Gelsenkirchen-Horst ) is a German graphic designer and professor emeritus at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences .

Live and act

Born in Gelsenkirchen-Horst and raised in Essen-Altenessen , Casse-Schlüter initially completed an apprenticeship in graphics from 1958 to 1960 and at the same time attended evening school at the Folkwang School for Design in Essen-Werden . She then studied visual communication at the Folkwang School , which she completed in 1967 as a qualified designer. There she was awarded the Folkwang Performance Prize in 1964 and was a master student in design from 1966 to 1967 .

She decided early on to become self-employed and in 1966, with her future husband, initially founded the Doris Casse & Harald Schlüter design studio in Essen, which became the Schlüter & Schlüter Design Studio a year later . From 1973 to 1980, both ran the advertising agency IDEEalismus GmbH Schlüter / Schlüter / Mehl in Essen and Düsseldorf together with Wolfgang Mehl . Doris Casse-Schlüter then set up her own design studio in Mülheim an der Ruhr , which she managed until 1983, and then opened two more studios in Essen and Aachen .

In 1985, Casse-Schlüter accepted a call from the Ministry of Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, where she took on a professorship for visual communication, graphic design, conception and design. In 1988 she gave up her design studio in Essen, but kept her studio in Aachen. From 1992 to 2004 she held the honorary position of senator at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences and was also elected dean of the design department from 1994 to 1998.

In 2008, Casse-Schlüter retired and since then she has continued to work as a freelance graphic designer, draftsman, photographer, juror and design consultant in her studio Doris Casse-Schlüter Design, Communication Art & Design in Aachen.

For her work, Casse-Schlüter has received the Red Dot Design Award and the Gold Award from the German Poster Museum, as well as the Gold Awards from the Art Directors Club and the Type Directors Club in New York City .

Memberships

Casse-Schlüter was and is a member of numerous committees and institutions, including since 1967 a member of the Deutscher Werkbund , since 1972 of the Association of German Graphic Designers and since 1978 of the Alliance of German Designers and from 1996 to 2008 of the International Institute for Information Design (IIID ).

In Aachen, she was a member of the faculty council and the appointment committee of the design faculty from 1985 to 2007, and from 1994 to 2004 of the committee for research, development and technology transfer at the university. In the meantime, from 1993 to 1998, she was appointed by the Ministry of Science and Economy of the State of Saxony-Anhalt to the founding committee of the design department at the University of Applied Sciences Saxony-Anhalt in Dessau-Roßlau . Finally, in 2013, she was appointed to the University Council of the FH Aachen by the Minister for Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , Svenja Schulze .

Works (selection)

Since the beginning of her self-employment, she has appeared with a significant number of layouts and logos for numerous companies and authorities and has been awarded several prizes in relevant design competitions. It all began in 1971 with the winning of the poster competition for a logo for the federal capital Bonn , which achieved a high level of familiarity as "Kussmund" and became the city's trademark for many years. With her agency IDEEalismus, she won several tenders for advertising strategies and the design of products and companies, including for Licher Privatbrauerei , Inter Nationes , Zanders paper factory as well as for the steel calendar from Klöckner & Co and the brand name Widia from Friedrich Krupp AG and many others.

With her own atelier, Casse-Schlüter has won design competitions for advertising design, including those of the German Women's Council , the 1984 Universal Postal Congress , the Kiel Week 1985, the Folkwang Festival 1985 and 1987 and the 1992 World House Economy Congress.

In addition, she developed advertising formats and designed numerous signets such as for the German Housewives Association , for the Catholic Women's Community in Germany , for the Bonn Science Center , for missio, as well as for the city of Aachen and the Aachen district .

As part of research assignments and student projects, she dealt with the topics "L'esprit d'Europe - Young designers for Europe 1996-2006", "Next Generation - Online daily magazine for young adults 2002", "You're on the line" - Campaign against joke calls by the telephone counseling in Germany 2003 and the "E-paper introductory campaign of the Aachener Zeitung / Aachener Nachrichten 2004/2005". With nationwide appearances in the cities of Berlin, Frankfurt, Essen, Bonn, Düsseldorf and Aachen as well as in neighboring countries such as Luxembourg City, Hasselt, Liège, Eupen and Maastricht, she presented her current graphic design works.

In recent years, she has mainly appeared with cross-technical works and, among other things, developed a series of design portraits of well-known personalities in 2013. She first photographed a face from the screen, created a carbon or graphite drawing of it on tracing paper, which was then scanned one-to-one, digitally processed and finally printed out again on tracing paper. In 2014, to mark the 800th anniversary of Charlemagne's death, she created a nine-part coin collection with large-format graphite drawings entitled “Charlemagne and the women”.

Web links

• Curriculum Vitae on the FH Aachen website
• personal homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Naima Wolfsperger: Doris Casse-Schlüter: The great lady of designs . In: Aachener Zeitung from September 16, 2017.
2. ↑ Lars Heyltjes: Kussmund motif reissued: The federal city of Bonn is back . In: Bonner Rundschau from January 13, 2016.
3. ↑ Carolin Kruff: Design portraits: Doris Casse-Schlüter shows unusual drawings . In: Aachener Zeitung from November 18, 2013.
4. ↑ Robert Esser: Professor Doris Casse-Schlueter is just converting Kaiser Karls L (i) . In: Aachener Zeitung from April 8, 2014.