Fons Matthias Hickmann

Fons Hickmann reads from The best game of all time at the See-Conference (2016)

Fons Hickmann (* 1966 in Hamm ) is a German graphic designer , typographer, author and professor at the Berlin University of the Arts .

Life

Hickmann studied photography and communication design at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences , aesthetics and media theory in Wuppertal . The design studio Fons Hickmann m23 in Berlin focuses on the development of complex communication systems, corporate design , book , poster , magazine and web design .

In 2001 Fons Hickmann m23 won the competition for the corporate design of the Kieler Woche . His work was represented at all international design biennials . Hickmann was a full professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna until the end of 2007 , before taking over the chair for graphic design / communication design in the design faculty at the University of the Arts in Berlin from the 2007 summer semester . He previously taught at the Universities of Essen and Dortmund . He is a member of the Type Directors Club New York, the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and the Art Directors Club of Germany (ADC). The interdisciplinary design laboratory Bremerhaven appointed Hickmann to the board from 2006 to 2012. From 2012 to 2014 he was a member of the jury of the " Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany ". From 2020 juror for the Saxon State Prize for Design . He has been President of the 100 Best Posters Association since 2018 .

The campaign “ 11 Designers for Germany ”, initiated together with ten other German designers, had a lot of media coverage and brought awareness of graphic design to the public and prevented the embarrassing logo of the 2006 soccer World Cup in Germany. His football expertise accumulated in the publication of the publication "The best game of all time - a minute record of 100 years of football history."

Fons Hickmann and his studio were invited to exhibit at the opening of the world's first graphic design museum "Graphic Design Museum" in Breda. The exhibition ”European Championship of Graphic Design” was opened on June 11th, 2008 by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands .

The Berlin studio Fons Hickmann m23 received over 200 awards a. a. Golden Bee Award Moscow, iF Award in gold, ADC Award from Germany, Europe and the USA, LeadAward in gold, the Joseph Binder Award in gold, silver and bronze. In 2012 the Trnava Triennial honored Fons Hickmann for his complete work with the Master's Eye Award .

Fons Hickmann is increasingly devoting himself to the publication of specialist literature on a wide variety of fields of knowledge, from photography and media theory to football and pop cultural phenomena.

Publications

Publications by or about Fons Hickmann

• Tomorrow and before - 100 works from 10 years of class Hickmann , Pascal Kress, Fons Hickmann (ed.) Verlag Hermann Schmidt 2017, ISBN 978-3-87439-888-6
• Stop Berlin - Zeitgeist medium poster . Hickmann, Lindhorst-Emme (Ed.) Verlag Seltmann + Söhne, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944721-56-9
• The best game ever . Büsges, Gehrs, Hickmann (Eds.) Kein & Aber Verlag Zürich 2014, ISBN 978-3-0369-5700-5
• Aesthetics & communication. As if - productive fictions . Galling-Stiehler, Haebler, Schulz, Hickmann (Eds.) 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-044911-6
• Love lexicon . Hickmann, Morlok, Conrads (eds.), Verlag Hermann Schmidt , Mainz 2016, ISBN 978-3-87439-879-4
• Pocket dictionary of fear . Hickmann, Barber, Wagenbreth (eds.), Verlag Hermann Schmidt , Mainz 2012, ISBN 978-3-87439-842-8
• Beyond Graphic Design - Class Fons Hickmann . Verlag Hermann Schmidt 2007, ISBN 978-3874397414
• Fons Hickmann - Touch Me There . Die Gestalten Verlag , Berlin / London 2005, ISBN 3-89955-079-X
• Fons Hickmann & Students . Hesign China Youth Press 2004, ISBN 7-5006-5665-3
• Displace yourself_! Unrealized Material by Fons Hickmann . Vienna 2002
• Parallel worlds . Fons Hickmann (Ed.) Die Gestalten Verlag , Berlin / London 2000 ISBN 3-931126-51-X

Literature (selection)

Publications with texts and / or images by Fons Hickmann

• Learn from successful designers . Galileo Press 2014, ISBN 978-3-8362-2540-3
• Ulm Talks: Fons Hickmann - Pop Politics . IFG Ulm, Regula Stämpfli, Epubli Verlag 2012 ISBN 978-3-8442-2636-2
• New Masters of Poster Design . John Foster, Rockport Publishers 2008 ISBN 978-1592534340
• 5 × Berlin. Chaumont design festival . Pyramid Press, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-35017-035-7
• 100 best posters, NO ART - NO ART . Hermann Schmidt Verlag , Mainz 2006, with texts by Hickmann, Troxler, Werner ISBN 978-3874397032
• Black & White Graphics . Gingko Press, Corte Madera 2004, pp. 8-9 and 134-139
• Graphic Design for the 21st Century . Taschen Verlag , Cologne 2003, pp. 266-271
• AREA . Phaidon Press, New York 2003, pp. 140-143

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior: the World Cup logo ( memento of the original from September 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ The world's first museum for graphic design. In: slanted. Retrieved on March 12, 2019 (German). 
3. ^ Website of the Golden Bee Biennale Moscow Golden Bee Global Biennale of Graphic Design. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
4. ↑ TPT 2015 Jury - Fons Hickmann Website of the Triennale Trnava. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
5. ↑ TPT 2012 Master's Eye Award - Fons Hickmann Website of the Triennale Trnava. Retrieved March 12, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Fons Hickmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Fons Matthias Hickmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Fons Hickmann m23
• Graphic design class
• 11 designers for Germany
• Fons Hickmann Interview Novum
• PAGE online: Interview with the designer: Fons Hickmann
• Shutterstock: Analog Human Digital: Interview Fons Hickmann m23
• it's nice that: Fons Hickmann selects a vintage atlas and a found collection of X-rated mags
• 1look. Hallein 2017 [1]