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Design

Analog and digital workshops

The analog and digital workshops play an important role in artistic teaching on the Communication Design course. The manual work in the printing workshops or the bookbinding workshop harnesses the creative potential of manual intelligence for design processes. Design ideas and concepts for digital media are developed and implemented in the digital workshops. The workshops are open to students of all degree courses in the Department of Design following appropriate introductory courses.

Electromechanical workshop

The workshop is primarily designed for metalworking. Tools for sheet metal working, drilling machines, lathes and milling machines as well as a welding workstation are available for this purpose. A laser cutting machine can be used for wood, plastics, paper and leather etc. Students learn to create their own circuits based on the modular principle and to address them using Arduino programming. The electromechanical workshop is open to students of the Department of Design after an introductory course. The students are supervised by workshop manager Reinhold Heming, who trained as a precision mechanic and mechanical engineer.

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Bookbinding

In the bookbinding department, introductory courses in materials science are held, processing techniques for paper and other materials are taught and the production of different types of packaging and binding are tested. Traditional production techniques are used alongside experimental trials with other materials. Projects in various subjects and bachelor theses are supervised. With its technical equipment, the workshop enables professional craftsmanship. The workshop is managed by Heike Zobel, who has trained as a bookbinder and studied to become a teacher.

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+49 (0) 201_6505-1478

Media workshop

The workshop offers 20 (computer) workstations as a work and teaching space and can be used by all students of the Department of Design. The hardware equipment includes computers, tablets, scanners, printers, cutting plotters, etc. Work is carried out in the digitally oriented teaching areas of computer-aided design, digital publishing and generative design with common graphics programs such as Adobe CC, software development environments (IDE) such as Xcode, Arduino or Fontlab for font design. As part of the open media workshop, students receive technical support and advice from Dipl.-Des. Natascha Dell. She has headed the media workshop since 2012 and teaches computer-aided design and typeface design at the Folkwang University of the Arts.

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Lithography

Various lithography techniques such as black and white printing, ink litho and color litho are taught in the workshop. Lithography combines technical and artistic skills as a versatile medium with didactic quality without being reduced to purely technical concepts. Building on the basics of drawing and design exercises, the aim is to work independently with the classic medium of stone. The lithography workshop is supervised by Dipl.-Des. Fee Brandenburg, a trained design assistant (gta) and studied communication designer. She has been developing her own artistic work for years, primarily in the context of lithography.

Screen printing

The workshop teaches the manual techniques of screen printing in order to explore the creative potential of screen printing. The digital variant of screen printing, risography, is also practised at the Folkwang University of the Arts and offers a further possibility for the realization of small editions up to a maximum format of Din A3. The screen printing workshop is open to students of all degree courses in the Department of Design, who are given introductory courses to enable them to work independently. The workshop is run by Dipl.-Des. Thomas Kühnen, who, as a trained screen printer, studied communication design and poster design, masters the techniques and communicative possibilities of the medium.

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+49 (0)201_6505-1430

Audiovisual workshop

The workshop provides an insight into working with film and video. The projects created in the context of time-based media are performative, documentary, narrative or creative-experimental and can contain animated elements as well as purely real footage. Workshop leader Stefan Michels provides an introduction to the professional use of video technology and the basics of image and sound design with post-production software.

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+49 (0)201_6505-1432

Video workshop

The medium of the moving image supplements graphic, typographic and photographic media with the dimension of movement in time. Graphic, typographic and photographic design elements are used to articulate a message on the time axis. The movement of the images is combined with the movement of language, noises, sounds, multimedia, complex overall artwork, on fast data paths, global, interactive. The video workshop, under the direction of Thilo Grimm, is a center for experimental media concepts and installations in its function as an interdisciplinary interface. In the moving image workshop, Thilo Grimm accompanies the production of video works from video editing to post-production.

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+49 (0) 201_6505-1425

Hand typesetting workshop

The purpose of this workshop is to teach traditional manual typesetting methods and to sensitize students to lead typesetting and its special aesthetic expressive possibilities. After an introduction to the techniques of hand typesetting and simple printing processes, students can work on projects and Bachelor's theses in the main course. The inclusion of other printmaking techniques, such as screen printing or lithography, is possible, as is the further processing of the prints in bookbinding. Approximately 65 font families are available in the most common font sizes and weights. Small print runs can be printed on three proof presses. The letterpress workshop is supervised by Harald Polenz, a trained typesetter.

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