Irmgard Sonnen

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Irmgard Sonnen (* 1954 in Düsseldorf ) is a German graphic designer , typographer , book designer and university professor.

biography

Irmgard Sonnen studied visual communication at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences . In 1979 she founded her own office for editorial design and corporate design . Since 1981 she has been teaching graphic design and typography at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. She and her students have received numerous international awards for their work (red dot award, Joseph Binder award, Warsaw Poster Biennale). In 2008 she was a substitute professor at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . Until 2010 she was a substitute professor at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. Since 2012 she has been an honorary professor in the design department at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences.

Irmgard Sonnen conceived and designed a calendar diary “On the poetry of the moment. A diary for 365 points in time ” . Philosophical and literary texts are presented in a typographic design that refuses to skim through the texts quickly. Slowness, acceleration, stopping, the moment, time flows are reflected in a vivid way.

In Anna Blume ist rot she combines quotes, essays and poems about colors from the fields of fine arts, poetry and perceptual psychology . In her book Balancing on the dash between silence and speaking , she makes analogies about the unspeakable, the gap in memory, the void and the space in between. For Queredo-Verlag , founded in 2007, she designs books at the interface of literature, poetry, art and design.

The initiative, project management and publication of the book followed in 2013: Dieter Fuder : Der Funke der Semantik. Design theory as a method of knowledge . For two semesters, a seminar in the design department of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences dealt with research and processing of the research and teaching of Dieter Fuder, who was professor, design theorist and media scientist at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences from 1979 to 2011.

In 2015/16, students at the Design Faculty of the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences conducted extensive research and redesigned ideas under the direction of Irmgard Sonnen and Kathrin Tillmanns . The book Le Grand by Heinrich Heine . The phenomena of standstill and movement, the rapid change in style and language levels, the crossing of genre boundaries, the principle of collage and pairs of opposites were examined using appropriate design elements for typography, layout and imagery. The teaching and research project was exhibited at the Heinrich Heine Institute in 2016/17 . Two further exhibition stations followed in the University of Düsseldorf and in the Doshisha University in Kyoto.

In 2019 Irmgard Sonnen published the artist's monograph on the director of the Peter-Behrens-Werkkunstschule: Hans Georg Lenzen , who was not only a draftsman, painter, author and translator, but also a passionate university professor.

Publications

  • Irmgard Sonnen, On the Poetry of the Moment. A diary for 365 points in time, Queredo-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2004, out of print
  • Irmgard Sonnen, Anna Blume is red. Color as an event. Positions, essays, poems, Queredo-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021255-0
  • Irmgard Sonnen, Balancing on the dash, Queredo-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-026961-5
  • Dieter Fuder, The Spark of Semantics. Design theory as a cognitive method , Ed. Irmgard Sonnen / Hochschule Düsseldorf, Department of Design, Bramsche 2013, ISBN 978-3-89946-199-2
  • Language as an event. An allegorical love letter, exhibition catalog on “Ideas. The book Le Grand «by Heinrich Heine, Ed. Irmgard Sonnen / Hochschule Düsseldorf, Department of Design, Düsseldorf 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-053558-1
  • Hans Georg Lenzen. With a light hand. The scenic metaphor of the graphic, Ed. Irmgard Sonnen / Hochschule Düsseldorf, Department of Design, Düsseldorf 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-062056-0

Web links

Literature (selection)

  • Of acrobatic grace: balance on the dash in: one quarter. The magazine of the Alliance of German Designers, Issue 1, 20010, p. 26
  • Hochschule Düsseldorf, Department of Design, From teaching and research, Alumni and their successes, Edition 6, 2013, pp. 74–75
  • Johannes Erler, Neugierig , Edition 1, 1998, pp. 262–263, * Edition 2, 2000, pp. 260–261, * Edition 3, 2002, pp. 64–65
  • Petra Kammann, page by page and letter by letter , in Rheinkultur, issue 3, autumn 2007, pp. 48–49
  • Petra Kammann, The Dash , in Rheinkultur, Edition 4, Winter 2009/2010, p. 5
  • Petra Kammann, Language as an Event , in the title culture magazine, published on December 11, 2016
  • Herbert Lechner, Ideas for the book Le Grand , in Novum, Issue 3, February 2017
  • Victor Malsy / Jens Müller, City of Ideas Düsseldorf , Droste-Verlag, 2014, pp. 338–339
  • Bettina Ullrich, A diary of a special kind , in Novum 12, 2004, p. 9
  • Peter Zec, Handbook for Multimedia Design , Industrial Design, Photo Design , Communication Design in NRW , Design Center NRW, 1996–1997, pp. 452–453
  • Peter Zec, Who's Who in German Design , 2001–2002, pp. 258–259, * 2003, pp. 268–269
  • Peter Zec, Internationales Jahrbuch Kommunikationdesign 2001-2002 , S. 172, S. 191, * 2002-2003, S. 66, * 2003-2004, S. 175, S. 195, S. 196, * 2009-2010, S. . 208, p. 494,

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International awards. In: website of the design office. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ On the poetry of the moment. In: website of the design office. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Anna Blume is red. In: website of the design office. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Gabriele Klempert. In: KunstbuchAnzeiger. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Dieter Fuder. The spark of semantics. University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, September 12, 2016, accessed on January 7, 2020 .
  6. ^ "Language as an Event": A special exhibition at the Heinrich Heine Institute. In: feuilletonfrankfurt.de. Retrieved January 7, 2020 .
  7. ↑ An exhibition on ideas. The book Le Grand by Heinrich Heine. In: University of Düsseldorf. October 2016, accessed January 7, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Ideas. The book Le Grand. In: University of Düsseldorf. January 16, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Ideas. The book Le Grand in Japan. Hochschule Düsseldorf, May 11, 2019, accessed on January 7, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Hans Georg Lenzen. With a light hand. Designbote, May 14, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sonnen, Irmgard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic designer, typographer, book designer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf