Michael Kimmerle

Michael Kimmerle (born December 2, 1956 in Reutlingen ) is a German graphic designer .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1976 at the Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium in Reutlingen, Kimmerle completed various internships in advertising agencies and screen printing companies, and a few months later began studying graphic design at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig . He continued his studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and graduated in 1982 as a graphic designer with the thesis "Lifelines - Photography in Social Space".

Two years earlier he had founded the “Rotlicht” photo studio in his hometown of Reutlingen and in 1981, through his participation in the “Typolaub” exhibition and the accompanying publication “Phantasie”, recognized the direction he wanted to take as a graphic designer. Michael Kimmerle works as a freelance graphic artist, painter and photographer in Reutlingen until 1983 when the opportunity arose to work as an art director in the advertising agency "Packenius, Kienpointner, Vandenberg" in Düsseldorf . Two years later he decided to set up his own business as a freelance art director in Stuttgart.

From 1986 to 1989 he worked as a university assistant for graphic design and as assistant to the rector at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart with Manfred Kröplien in press and public relations. During this activity at the academy, he designed various catalogs, including for the »Weingarten Symposion« by the Brodwolf sculpture class, »Sculpture and Drawing« by the artist Andrea Zaumseil , »Film« by Bernhard Suhr (1988) and »Landscapes« by the artist Erwin Holl (1989) and before especially »A Self-Presentation« of the Academy, a 276-page compendium on the history, the teachers, their classes and the workshops, was published by Edition Cantz.

In 1989 Michael Kimmerle's atelier "Art Direction + Design" was founded within the architect-animation-designer-office community "Ostend 106" in the southwest German state capital. Ten years later he moved his office to Stuttgart South. His current studio is in Botnang at Eltinger Straße 78, 70195 Stuttgart.

Awards

• 2014: Nomination for Museum of the Year 2014 Award for StadtMuseum Fellbach
• 2005: The most beautiful German books
• 2004: 2 x IF Communication Design Awards
• 2003: Red Dot Award: Communication Design
• 2002: Red Dot Award: Communication Design
• 2000: The 100 best posters of the year
• 2000: The European Design Annual
• 2000: Bronze Calendar Show Stuttgart
• 1997: European Regional Design Annual
• 1994: The 100 best posters of the year
• 1993: Eurographic Press Award
• 1993: The most beautiful German books
• 1989: The most beautiful books in the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Graphic Design Inspirations, daab, Cologne, London, New York, 2008/2010
• Who's who in German Design 2001/2002, ed. by Peter Zec, Red Dot Edition, Essen 2001
• The European Design Annual 5, "Certificate of Excellence", Print Magazine of America, Rotovision SA, East Sussex, UK 2000
• The Best of Annual Report Design, ed. by Cheryl Dangel Cullen, Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, Massachusetts 1999
• Graphis Poster 97, The International Yearbook of Poster Art, ed. by B. Martin Pedersen, Graphis Inc., New York 1997
• Wolfgang Kermer (Ed.): Between book art and book design. Book designer at the academy and former arts and crafts school in Stuttgart. Work examples and texts. Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 1996 ISBN 3-89322-893-4
• Graphis Poster 96, The International Yearbook of Poster Art, ed. by B. Martin Pedersen, Zurich 1996
• Graphic Design Index I, Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Page One Publishing, Cologne 1995
• Graphis Book Design 1, ed. by B. Martin Pedersen, Zurich 1995
• Novum Nutzgraphik, issue 11/1993, article by Philipp Luidl about Michael Kimmerle
• Discussion of Lifelines - Photography in Social Space by Michael Kimmerle, ed. from the Institute for Book Design at the Stuttgart Art Academy in Manfred Rothe's book and library, volume 3, 35th year, Reutlingen 1983

Web links

• official homepage
• Homepage