July Gudehus

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Juli Gudehus (born January 15, 1968 in Hamburg ) is a German designer , collector and author .

Life

Gudehus was born in Hamburg as the daughter of the manager and logistics specialist Timm Gudehus . After training as a publishing bookseller at the Cologne art book publisher Wienand, Juli Gudehus studied visual communication in Düsseldorf. She became known to a wider public in 1993 through her translation of Genesis into a pictorial font she had developed. She has been working as a freelancer since 1996. She worked u. a. for the Federal Ministry of Finance , the German Federal Council , Zeit-Verlag , the Stuttgart Art Museum and various departments of the German Bundestag . From 1997 to 2010 she designed the means of communication for the art collection of the German Bundestag based on the corporate design she developed . Since 1997 she has been giving workshops and seminars and teaching at various universities. a. as a visiting professor at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau. Her work has received several awards, for example from the Art Directors Club Germany (Gold), Art Directors Club of Europe (Gold), Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany (nomination), Design Prize Rhineland-Palatinate (award), Calendar Show Stuttgart (Gold), Prize of the Foundation Book Art , Type Directors Club New York (Award for Typographic Excellence).

Gudehus is married to the computer scientist Jörg Gudehus and lives in Berlin .

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Juli Gudehus' free work is based on collecting , sorting and collaging . Juli Gudehus makes connections between phenomena, people and things. Language and everyday culture are sources of inspiration for her work.

"Juli Gudehus is probably the purest conceptual designer I know."

- Stefan Sagmeister : 100 graphic designers, 10 curators, 10 classics.

Pictograms, symbols and logos on screens, signs, devices and products are the middlemen between writing and images at Juli Gudehus. Following the example of the Egyptians, she developed a pictorial language in 1992 in order to be able to convey longer messages. With these hieroglyphs of our time she translated the biblical story of creation . Juli Gudehus' Genesis appears for the first time in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , then as a poster edition and later in book form by various publishers. It is still printed and exhibited today.

“In her work, she elegantly combines irony and playfulness with classic sobriety in design.”

- Peter Laudenbach : brandeins issue 03/2011

In 1998, the tear-off calendar was published at least until , in which all 365 sheets show the expiry dates of foods, such as milk, cookies, vinegar or flour. The calendar is welded into a styrofoam shell, which is usually used for the sale of meat and fruit. Matthias Kamann wrote in the magazine of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : "One of the most witty and wisest articles about the transition into the year 2000."

“An idea of ​​classic simplicity. You just had to come up with it. "

- Reinhard Krause : taz of January 2, 1999

In 2006 Gudehus attracted attention with her criticism of the design award of the Federal Republic of Germany . She herself was nominated for this and criticized that she, as a nominee, had to pay a fee for participation. In 2012 she created the honorary award for design in response . It is based on the Federal Cross of Merit , is open to all design disciplines and does not charge either the nominees or the nominees fees.

In 2010 the "Lesikon der visuelle Kommunikation", a 3000-page text collage, was published. Gudehus started her 9-year work on this work in the same year as Wikipedia , 2001. The book covers numerous areas of visual communication and collects entries from 3513 people from over 3000 years on 9704 technical terms and names in connection with photography, illustration, advertising , Typography, materials, effects or originality. The terms are not arranged alphabetically, but according to topics such as gardening, sex, mountaineering, death. Gudehus himself, as well as 627 invited by her, wrote contributions, among them Judith Schalansky , Gero von Randow or Andreas Wiemers . About 70 percent of the texts are quotations and identified with sources. There are usually several entries per term. The Lesicon does not contain a single illustration.

“The strangest and most bizarre things that came out in book form this year. An absolute work of art. "

- Denis Scheck : Hot off the press / ARD

In 2011, Gudehus organized a large author reading at the Museum der Dinge in Berlin. 112 of their co-authors read their texts for the Lesikon for 12 hours without interruption.

On the occasion of the increased awareness of toilet paper in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic , in July 2020 Gudehus started a series of lectures on YouTube on design for the ass , in which she gives, one after the other , an insight into her over 800 sheets of toilet paper collection and various creative and manufacturing issues and sociological aspects speaks.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • Image-writing codes (permanent exhibition), Deutsches Museum , Munich
  • 2019, Picture Bibles , Gutenberg Museum , Mainz
  • 2016, Futura - Tribute to a Typeface , Gutenberg Museum , Mainz
  • 2015, The Origin of the World - Egypt's Last Creation Myth , Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim
  • 2011, schaden.com presents: Gudehus & Gudehus , Passagen / Interior Design Week, Cologne
  • 2011, The most beautiful German books , Stiftung Buchkunst , Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin a. a.
  • 2008, Lovely Language - Words Divide Images Unite , Centraal Museum Utrecht
  • 2008, German is spoken , House of History , Bonn
  • 2007, The Art of the Business Card , The Eisner American Museum of Advertising & Design, Milwaukee
  • 2006, Eye Opener - the power of visual imagery , Museum voor Communicatie , The Hague
  • 2005, Catalysts! The cultural force of communication design , Experimenta Design Biennale, Lisbon
  • 2005, Shots on Brave New World , Designmai, Berlin
  • 2004, 10 + 5 = God - The Power of Signs , Jewish Museum Berlin
  • 1999, Type Directors' Show , Type Directors Club , New York, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, a. a.
  • 1997, Libraires Tropismes , Brussels, Belgium
  • 1997, 6th IAKH (International Exhibition for Artists' Books and Hand Press Prints ), Leipzig
  • 1995, 4th IAKH (International Exhibition for Artists' Books and Hand Press Prints ), Leipzig
  • 1995, museum? Logo! , Museum of Applied Arts (Frankfurt am Main)
  • 1993, Mediale , Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg

Publications

Individual works

Contributions (selection)

literature

  • Dagmar Schmauks : New creation: Considerations for a pictogram poster by Juli Gudehus . In: Roland Posner, Stephan Debus (Hrsg.): Journal for Semiotics . tape 18 , no. 1 . Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-86057-933-9 , pp. 35-40 .
  • Phaidon Editors (Ed.): Area. 100 graphic designers, 10 curators, 10 classics. A global up-to-the-minute overview of contemporary printed graphic design . Phaidon Press, London, ISBN 978-0-7148-4515-9 (English).
  • Crack World New Graphic Design . Dalian University of Technology Press, Dalian.
  • B. Brumnjak, M. Mischler, R. Klanten (Eds.): Introducing. Design for Making a First Impression. A collection of business cards and other self-promotion tools by designers from around the world . Die Gestalten Verlag , Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-89955-087-0 (English).
  • Katja M. Becker, Stephanie Podobinski (eds.): Young German Design. Fresh Ideas in Graphic Design . Dom Publishers, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938666-28-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The A to Z of visual communication with Juli Gudehus. fh-muenster.de, accessed on June 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ by Klaus-Peter Staudinger: In conversation with: Juli Gudehus. March 15, 2011, accessed on June 29, 2020 (German).
  3. ^ Literature by and about Juli Gudehus in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ Lecture about some thoughts on the subject of redesign, beautiful legs and an attempt , held at Typo Berlin
  5. ↑ Interview by Michael Gerharz with Juli Gudehus about creativity [1]
  6. ↑ ADC GOLD. Art Directors Club, 1999, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Awards. juligudehus.net, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  8. ↑ The New Gold Standard of a Memorable Era. sueddeutsche.de, March 31, 2020, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  9. ↑ ARD / Tagesschau on the advent calendar Waiting for Christkind
  10. ↑ ISBN = 978-0-7148-4515-9 100 graphic designers, 10 curators, 10 classics.
  11. ↑ Short film In the beginning was that ... Character from the exhibition of the same name at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (German with English subtitles)
  12. ↑ brandeins Die do was , Edition 03/2011 (Link checked on June 2, 2020)
  13. ↑ arte / metropolis on the best-before calendar
  14. ↑ SAT1 on the best-before calendar
  15. ↑ taz from January 2nd, 1999 If you don't count, you have all the time in the world , taz from January 2nd, 1999 (link checked on June 3rd, 2020)
  16. ↑ ZDF / wiso on July Gudehus' criticism of the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany
  17. ^ July Gudehus' open letter to Minister of Economics Glos
  18. ↑ 40 min interview by Michael Gerharz with Juli Gudehus about the honorary award for design [2]
  19. ↑ The model of the honorary award for design is the Federal Cross of Merit
  20. ↑ site Lesikon visual design
  21. ↑ Review Lesikon of visual communication from Juergen Kaube in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
  22. ↑ Review of Ulrich Stock's Lesikon der visual Kommunikation in ZEIT
  23. ↑ Review Lesikon of visual communication by Andrea Eschbach in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung
  24. ^ Hot off the press edition for the 2010 Book Fair
  25. ↑ The world's largest author reading from the Lesikon der Visual Kommunikation in the Museum der Dinge in Berlin
  26. ↑ The world's largest author reading from the Lesikon der Visual Kommunikation in the Museum der Dinge in Berlin
  27. ^ "The new gold standard of a memorable era" Süddeutsche Zeitung, 31-3-2010, Gerhard Matzig on Juli Gudehus' toilet paper collection and YouTube videos [3]
  28. ^ Arte / Journal about toilet paper - design for the ass
  29. ↑ live after nine ARD breakfast TVs April 15, 2020 [4]
  30. ↑ SR2 Kulturradio May 19, 2020 | 12:15 pm [5]
  31. ↑ YouTube lecture series about toilet paper design for the ass
  32. ↑ Current date of "Museum für Druckkunst". museum.de, accessed on June 4, 2020 .
  33. ↑ July Gudehus. museum-gestaltung.ch, accessed on June 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Gudehus, July
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German designer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th January 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg