Gestalten

Gestalten

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Gestalten episodes

  • Gestalten.tv (HD) - The Life of Cycle

    Beyond the messenger and fixed-gear scenes, contemporary bicycle culture is more fashionable, diverse, and alive than ever before. According to Dustin Nordhus of Berlin's Cicli Berlinetta, "people who live in a big city are becoming aware that it's nicer to have a beautiful bicycle than a car." Gestalten.tv talks to Dustin as well as bike enthusiast Anna Valtonen from Pelago Bicycles, who are featured in Velo-2nd Gear. Along with presenting their stories and their outstanding and unconventional bicycles, the video shares different perspectives on why, according to Standert's Max von Senger, the bicycle is evolving into "an object of desire for everyone."
    4 min
  • Gestalten.tv (HD) - Julia Hoffmann

    "With great power, comes great responsibility." As the Creative Director of Advertising and Graphic Design at MoMA in New York, Julia Hoffmann leads a creative team that designs and implements the institution’s powerful visual communications. While Julia was hosting a workshop with us, Gestalten.tv took the opportunity to speak with Julia and bring you insights into her works with Tim Burton, her views on visitors’ hidden creativity, and her "ego-less" approach to making art shine like a star.
    6 min
  • Gestalten.tv (HD) - Jessica Hische

    In a recent two-day Gestalten workshop, participants worked closely with Jessica Hische (a letterer, illustrator, and crazy cat lady known for her silly side projects and occasional foul mouth, as she jokingly describes herself) to develop a full vector alphabet and learn about drawing type in a short amount of time. Hische has been named a Forbes Magazine "30 under 30" in art and design as well as an ADC Young Gun and one of Print Magazine's "New Visual Artists". Gestalten.tv took the chance of a very brief break during the workshop to let Jessica talk us through some of the pros and cons of the letters B/E/R/L/I/N. Her work is profiled in Hand to Type, Playful Type 2, and Precursor: The Creativity Watchlist.
    6 min
  • Gestalten.tv (HD) - The Iranian Internet

    "Design is my conviction and my religion," says Iranian designer Maral Pourkazemi. For her master thesis project "The Iranian Internet" at the University of Applied Science in Potsdam, she created a beautiful infographic which contains six content panels to explain the complexity of online censorship in Iran. Including information on the general Internet usage, Iran's national web project, namely the "Halal" Internet and its evasion, the Iranian blogosphere, the cyber police, criminal hackers, and the systems of governance, the six panels decipher the Iranian Internet between freedom and isolation. This thesis has become a much talked about design activist project. Gestalten.tv sat down with Maral Pourkazemi to talk about her infographic vision and how she has made an ugly topic accessible through visual storytelling.
    4 min
  • Gestalten.tv (HD) - The Home Project

    Albio Nascimento and Kathi Stertzig are initiators of an unusual design studio: The Home Project. Based between Berlin and Faro, Portugal, the studio is dedicated to making objects informed by vernacular cultural research and originating from the relationship of people to their places. The Home Project’s exquisitely simple glassware, basketry, and ceramics are made by local artisans and craftsmen in the southern Algarve and Alentejo regions. Shot in Portugal and in Berlin, Gestalten.tv introduces you to a perfect example of responsible design innovation.
    6 min

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High-Definition here we come! Gestalten.tv now offers all of our filmed podcasts in high-definition quality on Gestalten.tv HD so you can enjoy them and get a real cinematic experience. Firmly dedicated to exploring contemporary visual culture, Gestalten.tv offers bi-weekly interviews and documentaries on visionary designers, artists, architects and vanguards of visual culture.