An incomplete strategic design toolkit.

A series of posters summarizing strategic design tools and ideas. It presents different roles and scenarios for a designer in the midst of environmental, social and economic turbulence.

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Client: Helsinki Design Lab
Year: 2013
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NEW DW BERLIN WORKSHOP !!!

Tactile Systems
Tools for Flexible Visual Systems

Flexible visual systems do not necessarily need to lead to two dimensional Corporate Identities. The DW Workshop "Tools for Flexible Visual Systems" will use common materials such as paper, card, wood, and found objects to develop three dimensional visual systems that generate diverse "physical graphics".

This workshop encourages modes of creation away from the the computer, and towards experimentation and new creative processes with our hands. Given that the tool which is the computer, programs and programming language bring as many limitations as freedoms, it can also bring about high dependency and lead to conditioning the creative process. This step away from the machine can help break these routines in order to find new sources of inspiration and possibilities.

The workshop will take place from the 13th until the 15th of May, from 10am to 17pm. The price is 450,-€, 390,-€ for the visitors of the TYPOBerlin 2013. The results of the workshop will be presented at TYPOBerlin 2013.

DW Teachers: Lupi Asensio & Martin Lorenz
When: 13th - 15th of May, 10am − 17pm
Price: 450,-€ (390,-€ for TYPOBerlin visitors)
Where: Adalbertstrasse 32 (Mitte, but feels like Kreuzberg)
How to apply? Please send your portfolio (pdf or website) before the 31st of April to info(a)twopoints.net. Limited places available.

Fruit, Sweets, Coffee, Tea and Water are included. Materials got to be bought by the workshop participant when its clear what kind of material he or she is going to use for his system.

Lupi Asensio

Lupi Asensio graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona, specializing in Design, but she studied as well at the KABK in The Hague, specialized in Swiss/German typography at the University of Applied Arts in Darmstadt and did a postgraduate degree in Visual Communication and Cinema Studies at the HFG Offenbach. Lupi Asensio has taught typography, color and visual communication at different design schools, universities and master degrees. During 2007—2009 she became the director of the Graphic Design Master Degree at ELISAVA. In 2007 she founded TwoPoints.Net together with Martin Lorenz with whom she ran the Postgraduate Degree in Applied Typography at the Elisava Design School. She also does a PhD about design education within the framework of the design research programme at the UB’s Fine Arts Faculty.

Martin Lorenz

If he wouldn’t have done an internship at the Atelier Müller+Volkmann in 1989, Martin Lorenz probably would have become a cook, a comic artist or an architect. He began to study Communication Design in 1996 at the University of Applied Sciences of Darmstadt. After three years in Darmstadt he changed to the KABK (Royal Academy of Fine Arts) in The Hague and graduated in 2001. He moved in the same year to Frankfurt, where he worked for the next four years at the Hort. Since 2005, he lives with his wife Lupi Asensio and his two kids in Barcelona. There he directs a postgraduate degree in applied typography at the design school Elisava, is board member of the Official Association of the Catalan Graphic Designers, co-founder of Constructing Communications, creative director of the architecture magazine Quaderns, organizer of the lectures 2/4 de 8, initiator of The One Weekend Book Series, Stille Post and now the co-founder of Design Werkstatt. Martin Lorenz currently writes a doctoral thesis on flexible visual systems in graphic design and is part of a design research group at the University of Barcelona.

TwoPoints.Net and their editorial team make the architecture magazine Quaderns since 2011. An essential part of their editorial proposal has been a strong online presence. The website contains additional videos, images and texts which couldn’t be shown in the printed magazine. Through a code, which can be found in the printed magazine, one can look up the additional content on the website.

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Client: Coac
Year: 2012

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This book explores the HDL Studio Model, a unique way of bringing together the right people, a carefully framed problem, a supportive place, and an open-ended process to craft an integrated vision and sketch the pathway towards strategic improvement. It's particularly geared towards problems that have no single owner.

This exhibition "Souvenir. Martin Parr, photography and collecting" explores the work of Martin Parr.

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Photo © Gerhard Kassner

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Posters, which were designed between 2011 and 2012 for the Quaderns Sessions.

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Article in Spanish

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The theme of the issue nr. 263 is "Vacuum-preserved".

The theme of the issue nr. 262 is "Parainfrastructures".

Article in German

Article in German

Article in German

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