Volker Pook

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Volker Pook (born January 14, 1969 in Herten ) is a German communication designer. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Editorial Design and Corporate Design at the Berlin Technical Art School .

Career

He studied with Peter Wippermann at the University of Essen . After that, Volker Pook initially worked at Büro Hamburg, later engagements at MetaDesign and the Peter Schmidt Studios followed . During this time he worked for clients such as Bertelsmann , Hugo Boss , Migros , Wella , Olympand cones. During this time he worked on corporate, editorial and packaging design projects. This was followed by a few years in New York at the agencies Enterprise IG (now The Band Union) and Wolff Olins. In Berlin he headed a design team for Playframe as creative director and was a member of the management board from 2006 to 2010. There he still works as a freelance CD. Since 2008 he has been a professor at the Berlin Technical Art College, where he teaches communication design.

Volker Pook is married to the Japanese Tomoko Pook and has two children. He lives in Berlin.

Publications

  • Lars Mextorf: Art as Negation. Concept and design: Volker Pook, Cedric Vilim. Schreiber, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-88960-122-3 .
  • The number. Edition 3, conception and design: Volker Pook et al. Berlin 2006, ISSN  1861-888X .
  • The number. Edition 4, conception and design: Volker Pook et al. Berlin 2009, ISSN  1861-888X .
  • The number. Edition 5, conception and design: Volker Pook et al. Berlin 2012, ISSN  1861-888X .
  • Selection, Germany's finest agencies. Volume 4, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-939028-18-5 .
  • Berlin design. Braun Publishing 2010, ISBN 978-3-03768-014-8 .
  • Matthias Leupold: Vietnam encounters. 2010/2011, Village of Friendship. Design Consulting: Volker Pook, ISBN 978-3-9813085-1-8 .
  • Stephan Günzel: Egoshooter, the spatial image of the computer game. Concept and design: Volker Pook, Marcel Bachran. Campus Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39755-9 .

Awards

  • "Type of Excellence" Type Director's Club New York, USA (2012)
  • Nominated for the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany (2009, 2011 and 2012)
  • "Red-dot" International Award for Communication Design, Award for high design quality (2010)
  • IF Communication Design Award (2009)
  • "Red-dot" International Award for Communication Design, Award for high design quality (2009)
  • IF Communication Design Award (2008)
  • "Red-dot" International Award for Communication Design, award for high design quality (2008)
  • Austrian State Marketing Award (2008)
  • Berliner Type, Berlin, second prize (2001)
  • Award: Phillip Morris Fanzine, Competition / Munich, second prize (1996)
  • Award: Deutsche Telekom (DTE Medien), telephone directory design competition, first prize (1995)
  • Food Art Competition, CCS Düsseldorf, first prize (1995)

Projects

For Borneo Orangutan Survival (BOS) Germany , Volker Pook and BTK students supported the Samboja Lestari and Kehje Sewen (East Borneo) projects in the 2010 summer semester. New ways and means of communication were sought, with which BOS draws attention to the project and the organization and finds supporters for the rainforest and its orangutans in Indonesia. The tasks of NGOs and their communication were the focus of the design.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Playframe Members . Playframe GmbH website. Accessed June 12, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Prof. Volker Pook . Website of the Berlin Technical Art College (btk). Accessed May 30, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Pook, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German communication designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Herten