Since winter semester 2019/20 the workshop Talent Campus_Video has been held every week at HMKW Berlin. Here, interested students from all faculties have the opportunity to gain practical experience in film, editing and moderation. Now the first show has successfully been broadcasted.
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures: For the first time in our university’s history the enrolment ceremony took place online via Zoom. During the video conference the university management welcomed all new students and provided an outlook for the upcoming semester which initially takes place online.
After an intensive analysis of the traditional colorful masks of Beijing Opera Jiawei Xu (M.A. Communication Design) has created own mask designs that form the basis for a new advertising campaign for the brand Nongfu Spring. New at HMKW: For the first time the master colloquium took place online via Skype.
Following the theoretical part of his bachelor thesis "City + Coat of Arms / Tradition & Modernism", Daniel Schreck (B.A. Graphic Design and Visual Communication) created a redesign concept for the city of Leipzig that helps refreshing the existing corporate image.
How can dance movements be translated into a visual language? In her bachelor thesis Elansa Czech has been investigating potentials for a radically new dance notation. How can a visual abstraction of dance add to the creation of a playing field and to the analysis of movements? Her research is based on the analysis of older dance notations from Rudolf von Laban and Pierre Beauchamp amongst others.
Valentina Almarza, student of M.A. Communication Design, picked a highly charged society topic for her master thesis: the climate change. With her speculative design approach, her investigation depicts future scenarios of a world that surpassed all climate tipping points.
History is tedious? No way! In this semester students of M.A. Communication Design evolved new concepts for Märkisches Museum in Berlin-Mitte. On Thursday they presented their ideas to the museum team which was very keen on the students’ fresh perspective and their ability to think outside the box.
Bye bye, HMKW! On 25 January more than 70 graduates celebrated their successful completion of their studies. During the official graduation ceremony, they received their certificates. What a wonderful start of a new stage of life.
As a part of the cooperation with Märkisches Museum Berlin students of the master program Communication Design develop creative concepts in order to improve communication and mediation of educational contents in the age of digitalization.
In their new project "Die Welt vor meiner Tür" students of the program B.A. Graphic Design and Visual Communication focus their attention on the Brunnenviertel, the immediate neighborhood of HMKW Berlin. The exhibition was opened last Friday.