Thomas Rempen

Thomas Rempen (* 1945 ) is a German communication designer .

Education

After graduating from high school in Stuttgart, Thomas Rempen studied at the Stuttgart Art Academy , then at the then Werkkunstschule Wuppertal, where he studied the basics of advertising concepts in addition to typography, photography and texts. He completed his studies in 1969 with a diploma.

Entrepreneurial activity

After graduating, he started as a junior art director at an advertising agency. There he got to know the partners with whom he founded the advertising agency "Hildmann, Simon, Rempen & Schmitz" in 1972 in Düsseldorf. After Anton Hildmann left the company, he took over management of the company in 1985. In the following years, the agency continued to develop successfully, for which it received several awards from the advertising industry. After the unsuccessful search for better office space for his agency, Rempen and the city of Düsseldorf developed the concept of an architecture park for the old Düsseldorf harbor in 1989 . There he built the New Zollhof with Frank Gehry from 1994 to 1998 .

In 1993 Rempen left "Hildmann, Simon, Rempen & Schmitz" and on January 1st, 1994 founded "Rempen & Partner". The agency subsidiary wysiwyg software design designed “ Spiegel Online ”, the first electronic magazine on the Internet.

Rempens agency worked with the French agency group Havas to sell its products worldwide. In 2003 Rempen withdrew from his agency group for health reasons and transferred all of his shares to his partners. Today he lives in Münsterland, where he works as a project developer on his own organic farm . In 2011 he was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Scientific activity

In 2000, Thomas Rempen was offered the chair of "Integrated Communication Design" at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen . He taught there as a full professor until his 65th birthday in 2010.

Memberships

Thomas Rempen is a member of the Art Directors Club of Germany (ADC), the German Designers Club (DDC), he is a member of the German Design Council and a founding member of the Federal Building Culture Foundation .

Fonts

Frank O. Gehry: The Neue Zollhof Düsseldorf . Ed .: Thomas Rempen. Verlag Peter Pomp , Bottrop / Essen 1999, ISBN 978-3-89355-206-1 .
Uwe Stoklossa: Eye Tricks - Instructions for visual seduction . Ed .: Thomas Rempen. Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz 2005, ISBN 978-3-87439-681-3 .
Thomas Rempen, Peter Wippermann, Anette Scholz (eds.): The year of advertising 2013 . Econ Verlag , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-430-20148-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Frank Patalong: Fetched from the archive: surfing like 1996. In: Spiegel Online . August 25, 2004, accessed February 7, 2017 .
↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 64, No. 9, January 17, 2012.

personal data
SURNAME	Rempen, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German communication designer
DATE OF BIRTH	1945

[SPON-313978-1] Frank Patalong: Fetched from the archive: surfing like 1996. In: Spiegel Online . August 25, 2004, accessed February 7, 2017 .

[2] Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 64, No. 9, January 17, 2012.