Hands-On Design: Reinvent Your Creative Process
Influences
A course by Jan Wilker , Graphic Designer and Creative Director
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Here you will learn about the main influences that informed my career, both when I was living in Germany and when I later moved to America.”
In this video lesson Jan Wilker addresses the topic: Influences , which is part of the Domestika online course: Hands-On Design: Reinvent Your Creative Process. Reframe your design process by exploring playful experimentation that caters to your project’s specific needs.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this lesson, I will talk about my influences. As I mentioned before, being from Ulm meant that the Ulm school, of course, influenced me growing up even before I knew I wanted to do graphic design. Then, I think one very important influence to this day is Franz Kafka. Franz Kafka I read him first when I was around 15, and specifically his short stories, reading them in German, were mind-blowing. I could not believe that you could do that. I remember this clearly back then, when I read one part of a short story, thinking if he could do that in his head, you can do everything in ...”
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Course summary for: Hands-On Design: Reinvent Your Creative Process
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Creativity, Design, Design Management
Jan Wilker
A course by Jan Wilker
Jan Wilker is a graphic designer and creative director from Ulm, Germany. After completing a Master’s in Fine Arts at the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart, he moved to New York City to start his own studio, karlssonwilker. Alongside his partner Hjalti Karlsson, the studio provides full creative services from branding, signage, environmental design, strategy and ideation, and more.
karlssowilker has worked with a wide range of clients, which include Bloomberg, Capitol Records, Nintendo, Puma, Samsung, TIME Magazine, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. They’ve also been featured in a number of publications like Communication Design, Grafik, Creative Review, and more.
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