Mirko Borsche

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mirko Borsche at the Forward Festival in Munich (2020)

Mirko Borsche (born December 19, 1971 in Tegernsee ) is a German typographer and graphic designer .

biography

Mirko Borsche was a graffiti sprayer in his youth , which he says had a great influence on his work. From 1992 to 1993 he studied at Kingston University and graduated as a "Postgraduated Graphic Designer". He then added a master's degree in London and then studied at the University of Applied Sciences for Design in Augsburg , where he trained as a "Diplom Communication Designer FH".

From 1996 to 1997 he worked as a freelance art director at the advertising agency Start Advertising, including for Levis , MTV and Mercedes-Benz . He then worked as Art Director at Springer & Jacoby . From 2000 to 2013 he designed posters for the Gomma record company . For several years he was responsible for the design of the Süddeutsche Zeitung magazine as well as for the founding and design of the Neon magazine . Since 2007 he has been the creative director for Zeit magazine. In 2000 he was teaching at the Bauhaus University Weimar and in 2002 at the Münster University of Applied Sciences. From 2001 to 2014 he was a member of the Art Directors Club Germany. In 2007 he was appointed to the jury of the German Design Prize and was also awarded the Visual Leader of the Year Award .

In 2007 he founded the graphic design studio Bureau Mirko Borsche in Munich, working in the areas of editorial design, book design, posters and websites. The studio has received numerous international awards.

In 2019, Borsche was a participant in the Venice Biennale: with an allusion to the term “fake news”, he created a deceptively real fake Biennale logo that could be seen all over the city.

Exhibitions

  • 2012: Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, “Unplugged. Bureau Mirko Borsche. Design Works! "
  • 2008: Haus der Kunst, Munich, "Made in Munich - Editions from 1968 to 2008", with Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Richard Hamilton, Carsten Höller etc.
  • 2008: POOL Gallery, Berlin, "Mondo Gomma Picture Show", solo exhibition with AMORE Magazin 4
  • 2008: Scion Space Gallery, Los Angeles, "The Art Of Music", with PAM, La Boca, Museum Studio, Ill-Studio, So ME etc.
  • 2007: Milan exhibition in collaboration with the Italian Pig magazine during Fashion Week
  • 2006: "Amore" for V Magazine, New York
  • 2006: “Heimat als Utopie”, Tokyo, exhibition curated by 032C Magazine, with Gomma, Amelie von Wulffen, Johnathan Meese, Konstantin Gricic, Andreas Hofer
  • 2005: Bread & Butter, Barcelona, ​​"MondoGomma Picture Show"
  • 2005: Rocker 33, Stuttgart, "MondoGomma Picture Show"
  • 2004: Beaneath Gallery, Stockholm, “The Midnight Division Group”, Gomma exhibition
  • 2003: C: C Room, Berlin, poster exhibition with Gomma

Awards

  • 2007: Visual Leader of the Year . Lead Academy Germany / Lead Academy Germany

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Mark Hooper: Mirko Borsche: 'I want people to see from a different angle'. In: The Guardian. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Boy from Tegernsee. In: Ex number 2. Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, 2014, accessed on March 10, 2020 .
  3. ^ Bureau Borsche: About. In: Bureau Mirko Borsche. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  4. ^ Bureau Borsche: Gomma Exhibition. In: Bureau Mirko Borsche. Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Tim Theobald: ADC Competition 2019: Mirko Borsche becomes Jury Chairman, Ilona Klück Jury Chairwoman for Junior Competition. In: horizon. November 18, 2018, accessed March 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Typo Talks Blog Archive: Mirko Borsche. In: Typo International Design Talks. Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Conrad Breyer: "Creating clarity": Mirko Borsche on his job as ADC Chairman. In: Advertise and Sell. Verlag Werben & Sell GmbH, February 15, 2019, accessed on March 9, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Record registration for the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2008. In: www.innovations-report.de. IDEA TV Gesellschaft für kommunikative Unternehmensbetreuung mbH, accessed on March 10, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Mirko Borsche receives an award for the 'Visual Leader' during the ... In: Getty Images. Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Unplugged. Bureau Mirko Borsche. Design Works! In: The New Collection. Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum (State Museum of Applied Arts), accessed on March 8, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Biennale Arte 2019 | Padiglione Venezia. In: La Biennale di Venezia. March 29, 2019, accessed on March 10, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Talk12 with Mirko Borsche ensures a full house. In: University of Applied Sciences Munich. July 3, 2019, accessed March 10, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Borsche, Mirko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German typographer and graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th December 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Tegernsee