Raban Ruddigkeit

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Raban Ruddigkeit (born May 15, 1968 in Leipzig ) is a German illustrator , designer , editor and author .

Live and act

Raban Ruddigkeit is a son of the painter Frank Ruddigkeit and the Germanist Heidi Ruddigkeit (née Hupfer). After his apprenticeship as an offset printer (1984–1986) he spent his time a. a. as an intern in the painting room of the Leipzig theater. He was co-founder and first art director of the Messitsch fanzine . After the fall of the wall, he was involved in various media initiatives for which he also worked as a designer (DAZ, ​​Connewitzer Kreuzer, Kreuzer). In 1991 he was editor-in-chief of the Kreuzer , which appeared as a supplement to the DAZ and from which the city magazine Kreuzer emerged . In addition, he drew comics ( Marcel Mauer-Blüm and the talking skateboard ), illustrated books ( Men of Crime ) and developed posters and designs for culture and business under the pseudonym “The Raven” .

In 1996 he went to Berlin, where he initially worked for the advertising agency Scholz & Friends, before becoming self-employed again . In addition to working for agencies (including Jung von Matt Main, Wächter & Wächter Munich) and magazines ( Das Magazin ), he was also successful as a developer of corporate designs. After a few years in Frankfurt / Main and Munich, he returned to Berlin in 2008, where he founded his own studio. Here he combines the experience as a designer with the conceptual strengths of marketing. Raban Ruddigkeit has won more than 150 national and international awards. In 2012 Ruddigkeits Atelier was named "Rookie Agency Of The Year" by the Art Directors Club für Deutschland eV . In 2016, his weekly visual column in Der Tagesspiegel was named Illustration of the Year by the Lead Academy.

Several publications have complemented the creative work for years. The illustration yearbook Freistil (Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz) has been published irregularly since 2003. The calendars Typodarium and Poladarium are published by Raban Ruddigkeit together with Lars Harmsen . In spring 2017, the first Berlin Design Digest, which he published together with Robert Eysoldt, was published by Slanted Publishers. The first edition of HOT Histories Of Tomorrow was published in autumn 2019 , for which only content from the Internet is refined in print and for which Raban Ruddigkeit acts as editor and curator alongside Lars Harmsen. Raban Ruddigkeit has worked as a lecturer at the HfG Offenbach, the UdK Berlin, the DAB Berlin, the MAD Hamburg and the Münster School Of Design.

Works

Publications

  • Des Raben Wunderhorn , 1992, comics, under the pseudonym "Der Rabe"
  • Men of (un) tat. Short treatise on knights, robber and robber barons. , 1995, illustrations by Ruddigkeit
  • The pepper sacks, the publishers. , 1996, illustrations by Ruddigkeit
  • Report - Raban Ruddigkeit, 1988-2013. , 2013, monograph
  • Learn from successful designers: good graphic design from Germany. , 2014, (with 5 other authors)

Editing

  • Freestyle Illustration Yearbook, 6 issues since 2003
  • Typodarium and Poladarium , art calendar
  • with Robert Eysoldt: Berlin Design Digest. 100 projects, products and processes, Slanted Publishers 2017
  • HOT Histories Of Tomorrow, The Best of Social Media, Blogs & Podcasts

literature

  • Raban Ruddigkeit , In: Kürschner's Handbook of Visual Artists: Germany, Austria, Switzerland , 2005, p. 677

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katja Naumann, Christian Lotz, Thomas Klemm: A Second Public? Edition Leipziger Kreis, 2001, pp. 39–40, ISBN 978-3000076084
  2. ^ Matthias Matussek: Death in the hero city . In Der Spiegel of July 15, 1991, accessed on August 24, 2014
  3. ↑ Felix Dobbert: Street Art, this patchwork culture, that has a very significant influence for me ( memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seenby.de 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. . Interview with Ruddigkeit at seen.by, accessed on August 24, 2014
  4. ↑ Blurb of Learning from Successful Designers at Galileo Press, accessed on August 24, 2014
  5. ↑ Markus Weber: Ruddigkeit is rookie agency of the year . In: W&V of February 10, 2012, accessed October 30, 2014
  6. ^ Irit Bahle: Raban Ruddigkeit. Illustration and Art ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.art-magazin.de 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. . In: Art. The art magazine. , dated April 17, 2009, accessed August 24, 2014
  7. ↑ Reading sample for Rapport - Raban Ruddigkeit, 1988-2013. , accessed on August 24, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Ruddness, Raban
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German illustrator, designer, editor and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig