Guido Kühn

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Guido Kühn (born September 22, 1966 in Sindelfingen ) is a German professor of media design as well as communication designer and media artist .

Life

Kühn began to draw his first picture stories and comics at the age of 13. a. at the Caricatura in Kassel. After completing school in Germany, France and England, she briefly studied business administration, specializing in data processing, at VWA Stuttgart. He broke off this and completed a degree in visual communication at the University of Kassel with a focus on illustration, film and photography with the graphic designer Gunter Rambow , the media artist Rolf Lobeck and the filmmaker Manfred Vosz , which he graduated with honors. At the same time he studied fine art with a focus on free graphics and artistic installations with Harry Kramer , Martin Kippenberger and Norbert Radermacher .

During his studies, Kühn began to exhibit graphics and artistic (media) works at home and abroad, worked in a wide variety of positions on many film projects and set up in the field of AV media design. In this context he worked in the field of broadcast and event graphics a. a. for public broadcasters like Hessischer Rundfunk , ARD , ZDF and arte . In 1996 he became a lecturer in 3D animation at the Kassel Art College , and from 1999 to 2001 he was a research assistant at the Georg-August University in Göttingen with the film scholar Helmut Korte at the Center for Interdisciplinary Media Studies ZiM.

From 2001 he was a professor, from 2004 vice dean of the media design department for AV communication design at the Schwäbisch Hall University of Applied Sciences until it closed in 2013. There he devoted himself to many projects in the field of museum design, regionality and city marketing, as well as AV communication design. Teaching projects are repeatedly awarded, including a. In 2007 first place for the cinema spot "Voll Fit" and in 2011 second place for the prevention award of the state of Baden-Württemberg for "Besser Ankommen", a bachelor thesis awarded and supervised by Linda Neumitz. From 2008 to 2015 he was a lecturer in communication design at Heilbronn University , where he also works on the expert committee for university development at the rectorate. Since November 15, 2015, Kühn has been appointed to the professorship for Cross Media Design at the SRH Hochschule Heidelberg .

Guido Kühn publishes his illustrations, comics, cartoons and creative works on a small scale, mostly self-published or online. His creative and design research projects aim at (exemplary) implementation including documentation in the form of gray literature .

In 2003 Kühn founded the international film festival Formula Mundi , which he has directed ever since. Kühn has long been committed to the further development of the design u. a. as a member of the German Society for Design Theory and Research eV DGTF . In 2007, together with Philip Zerweck, he founded the design didactics group of the DGTF and in 2011 the platform designdidaktik.de, which is devoted to developing design didactics . In addition to his teaching activities, he is also a volunteer, for example as a founding member of the Schwäbisch Hall Citizens' Forum. Guido Kühn is known in the scene of the owner of classic Land Rover , u. a. as a moderator at blacklandy and as the operator of a popular weblog on this topic.

Projects (selection)

  • (2011/2012) QR codes as an instrument of city marketing, university teaching project with Heike Raap
  • (2010/11) Redesign of the museum concept for the Hall Fire Brigade Museum as a university teaching project
  • (2009) Clip festival on the topic of regionality at Formula Mundi in cooperation with BUND, Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, u. a.
  • (2005/2006) Multimedia learning, best practice research through design on behalf of the Kocher und Jagst innovation region in cooperation with the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Culture

Media art (selection)

  • 2002: Visual Soundscape together with Fried Dähn
  • 2006: Concert for drill, Schwäbisch Hall
  • 2007: 12 stations, media installation with Christian Fischer, Schwäbisch Hall
  • 2008: Lukustatud, Tallinn, Estonia
  • 2012: River Society – Society River, Kocherstetten . Retrieved January 7, 2014

Illustrations, cartoons etc. (selection)

  • 1990: Elvis, cartoon band published by Bildergeschichten, Kassel
  • 1992: The great Habaneth, self-published
  • 1993: The contemporary art student, self-published
  • 1997: Kassel - if everything doesn't matter, published in Bildergeschichten, Kassel

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Media art at the Künzelsau Culture Night 2012 . Retrieved January 7, 2014
  2. ^ Kühn at International Movie Database IMDB . Retrieved January 7, 2014
  3. ^ List of professors at the FH Schwäbisch Hall . Retrieved December 31, 2013
  4. Redesign of the Museum Alte Kelter Mühlacker . Retrieved January 7, 2014
  5. Kühn at the CIMA Expert Forum City Marketing 2012 (PDF; 852 kB). Retrieved January 7, 2014
  6. ^ Foreword to the award, Minister for Culture, Youth and Sport Baden-Württemberg 2007 ( Memento of the original from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 45 kB). Retrieved January 7, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schule-bw.de
  7. ↑ A better arrival poster series at the police station ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 7, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / presse.polizei-bwl.de
  8. Better Arriving Award Ceremony by Interior Minister BW Gall in Pforzheimer Nachrichten on October 4th, 2012 ( Memento of the original of February 2nd, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 8, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pz-news.de
  9. Contact page Kühn at Heilbronn University ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved January 7, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hs-heilbronn.de
  10. Contact page Kühn at the SRH Hochschule Heidelberg ( memento of the original from December 27, 2016 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. . Retrieved December 27, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hochschule-heidelberg.de
  11. ↑ Topic groups of the German Society for Design Theory and Research DGTF . Retrieved January 7, 2014
  12. ^ Editing of the platform design didactics . Retrieved January 7, 2014
  13. ^ Citizens' forum Schwäbisch Hall
  14. ^ Land Rover Forum Blacklandy . Retrieved January 8, 2014
  15. http://www.raap-design.de/pdf/raap_qrc.pdf QR codes as an instrument of city marketing
  16. http://designdidaktik.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/HFM-Manual-Print.pdf Redesign of the museum concept for the fire department museum in Hall
  17. http://www.deine-konsumlandschaft.de/?page_id=6 Formula Mundi 2009 homepage of the clip festival
  18. http://www.regionalbewegung.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/archiv/2009/Filmwettbewerb__KonsumLandschaft_/Clip_Wettbewerb_01.pdf Announcement for the clip competition 2009
  19. http://www.regionalbewegung.de/index.php?id=archiv_2009 Formula Mundi at Regionalbewegung.de
  20. http://designdidaktik.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Multimediales-Lernen.pdf Multimedia learning, best practice research through design