Sven Voelker

Sven Voelker (* 1974 in Coesfeld ) is a German graphic designer . He was professor for communication design at the Burg Giebichenstein University for Art and Design Halle .

Life

Voelker studied graphic design at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen and Middlesex University in London . In 1998 he was co-initiator of the international Profile Intermedia media and design festival in Bremen. In 2000 he published Beyond the Borders with Dorthe Meinhardt , a book project with contributions from John Warwicker / Tomato, Tibor Kalman, Laurie Makela, Ed Fella and Michael Saup . Völker initially worked as art director at the Berlin design office Plexgroup and founded his own studio in Berlin in 2003.

Between 2004 and 2010 he taught as a professor at the State University of Design in Karlsruhe , where he was head of the communication design department and the organizer of the Design Blast design conferences.

In 2010 he went to the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle as a professor . His teaching and personal work dealt with the area between design and art.

The Some Book about graphic design between design and art was published by Lars Müller Verlag in autumn 2013 . A series of illustrations for Sting's linguistically rich song King of Pain was originally created for his sick little son . With the consent of the New York musician, this resulted in the picture book Da ist ein Small Black Spot on the Sun, published in 2015 by NordSüd Verlag . The book title is the first line of verse in the song. The minimalist design language used by the designer is deliberately limited to triangles of different sizes and eight colors.

His Berlin studio designed the global corporate design for the Suzuki Motor Corporation . The fact that a very small design office works successfully for a Japanese global company caused a sensation in the professional world. At the beginning of 2010 he simultaneously published the first book on the graphic design of racing cars in Gestalten Verlag and another book together with the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk on design using the example of the work of his students at the Hochschule für Gestaltung with the title "Helping the world across the street" .

In addition to his work as a university lecturer, editor and designer, more and more free, artistic works were created from 2010 onwards. The work Captured with his brother Nils Völker was exhibited at MADE Berlin in 2011. Graphic works and light installations under the title Haven't Seen Myself in Ages were on view in 2012 in Basel, Bern, Flø, Prague and Johannesburg. The photographic work Auto Reverse together with Kay Michalak was exhibited in the Car Culture exhibition at the ZKM in 2011 .

Sven Voelker lives in Berlin.

Web links

• Website from Sven Voelker
• Lecture on corporate design at the 33pt conference in Dortmund (April 2009)
• Documentary about the Suzuki corporate design

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Sven Völker. on the website alumni of Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle.
2. ↑ Designer personality: Sven Voelker leaves Karlsruhe. ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Press release from the Karlsruhe University of Design. February 3, 2010.
3. ↑ Website of the Design Blast Conferences
4. ↑ Sven Voelker. ( Memento from June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Curriculum vitae on the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle website
5. ↑ Tobias Wenzel: Children's book: Pictures against pain. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur. August 25, 2015.
6. ↑ An unequal couple ( memento from January 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Brand Eins company portrait of the Sven Voelker studio and the Suzuki project (08/2006)
7. ↑ The Suzuki designer. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. October 30, 2006.
8. ^ Go Faster - The Graphic Design of Racing Cars. Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89955-279-9 .
9. ↑ Peter Sloterdijk, Sven Voelker: Helping the world across the street. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-4985-6 . (Abstract)
10. ↑ designboom.com