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KD—Lounge is a public lecture series about graphic design at Hochschule Konstanz. -
The lecture series is organized and designed by a team of four students and financed through the sale of merchandise. -
For the core concept this semester, we chose the metaphor of archiving. Meaning, we interpreted the lecture series as a possibility to collect, preserve and exhibit the work of the lecturers. -
Following this theme, we created an archive of the previous lounge posters in the form of records. We thereby picked up the music context of the party, but still stayed in the metaphor of the archive. Animation by Chris Horrer. -
The record for this season served as an advertising medium for the Lounge Supporter Club Party. -
We wrote the information on stickers that we glued to the record to give the impression of a self-made party. -
We were inspired by these records from the 80s that DJs put stickers on to hide what tracks they were mixing. What fascinates me here is that the DJs unintentionally produced design artifacts with a unique aesthetic that doesn't care about rules. Found by Larissa Kasper at the Cornell University Library. -
This season, I worked in collaboration with Maya Bendel, Janis Macke-Schurr und Mario Nägele. -
I co-designed two more seasons in this pattern of posters, shirts and party promotion. In this season, we wanted to encourage exchange between the students in response to the endless lockdown. This time we chose broadsheets as posters. -
The newspaper offered us more space to give insight into the work of the lecturers and thus enable a deeper exchange during their lecture. Here we designed an essay by Noam Youngrak Son. -
To match the newspaper, we designed these trashy advertising leaflets for the kick-off party. We placed them in the broadsheets and thus broke up the serious design of the newspapers. -
We (Lara Böhm, Maya Bendel and Janis Macke-Schurr) also created shirts in collaboration with many students to finance the lectures. -
Each student designed a logo either for the Lounge Supporter Club or our motto “eager to interchange”. -
The sale of the shirts allowed us to organize a workshop with Alexis Mark for the students of our faculty. We (mis)used Google Maps as a design tool and developed a collective clock. -
Due to Covid, the lectures and workshop took place online again, but this time more as an exchange. I gladly acted as a moderator for this -
In Spring 2021, Hannah Fischer, Lara Böhm. Mai Linh Bui, Sophia Wild and I conceptualize the lectures as a way to escape the lock-down and rather loose ourselves on a vacation. We advertised the launch party using postcards. -
Sophia Wild and I built an online shop to sell our merchandise. Creating elaborate mock-ups like this has become a little side-passion of mine. -
Both the “bella italia” shirt and the “club vancanze” cap scream vacation with a Vespa in Sicily. -
Building our poster-concept on conversation, we asked our guests funky questions. Their answers became the parameters of our design. -
The concept resulted in trilogies of deeply detailed posters with multiple layers. -
The design of a lecture series can go in any direction. But the way we always defined a clear theme at the beginning enabled us to create a clear design direction and thus depth, which is very important to me in design.