10.10.2019

Questions
(1000 pc.)

collaborator(s) Laurine Haller / Sun Young Oh

Q: What did you do exactly?
A: First, in May 2015, and then again in November 2017, we invited a selection of graphic designers to Otl Aicher's "Institut für analoge Studien" in Rotis, near Neukirch im Allgäu. Over two days these designers were interviewed in a myriad of ways by graphic design students from the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, whose assignment it was to learn to ask, and design, questions.

Q: Who did you invite?
A: Marietta Eugster and Manuel Krebs (Norm) from Switzerland, Wayne Daly and Veronica Ditting from the UK, Elisabeth Klement & Laura Pappa and Vinca Kruk (Metahaven) from the Netherlands, Monika Maus from Germany, Boy Vereeken from Belgium, Vier 5 from France and Honza Zamojski from Poland.

Q: How did it go?
A: Weeeeelllll...

About

Collectives

inactive
2018 – 2022 Nofoundry.xyz (1/many) Co-founder
→ 2019 Saturday Type Fever Graphics & Concept
→ 2020 Saturday Type Fever II Concept

active
since 2021 Improv for Dance Enthusiasts (1/5) Community
since 2022 Nordic Noise (1/6) Curatorial research
since 2022 Bizarre Image (1/2) Special Effect Media

Selected Free Projects

2016 Refugee World Bank Super(Design)Fiction
2017 New Rage with Riefka El Habachi
2017 NoFoundry.xyz Coded old website
2018 C-E-R-N BACHELOR PROJECT
2019 From Hawaii to Eternety video essay
2019 Teenage Boy Bible a code generated book
2019 Partir, c'est mourir un peu video essay (I fell in a hole)
2020 The Cymera Family Organisation Super(Design)Fiction
2020 Relicts of Time beyond the Clock with Sonja Schwarz
2020 Super(Design)Fiction MASTER THESIS
2021 The Icelandic Foreign Legion MASTER PROJECT
2021 Stofan community space
2024 About Fighting the Fear (of the World) MASTER PROJECT (Diplom)

my POSTERS

Selected Commissions

2017 Questions? took part with Laurine Haller & Sun Young Oh
2019 Potential Spaces publication with Katrin Rüll
2022 LungA Festival Graphics with Gréta Þorkelsdóttir
2023 It's always nice to be wanted Typography and Lettering
2023 Landscape for the Chosen Ones

Selected Clients

IS
> The Nordic House Reykjavík
> Iceland University of the Arts (Listaháskóli Íslands)
> LungA Art Festival
> Hafnarborg Hafnarfjörður Center for Culture and Fine Arts

DE
> University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe (Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe)
> ZKM Karlsruhe (Center for Art and Media)

CV

Education

2024 Master in Communication Design & Media Art (Diplom)
Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design

2021 Master in Design
MA Design "Explorations & Translations"
Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavík

Internships

2017 Studio Katja Gretzinger internship
2020 Studio Garðar Eyjólfsson internship
2022 LungA Festival internship

Teaching

2022 Community Publication Making - "Inhabitants"
MA Design "Explorations & Translations", LHÍ Reykjavík

2023 Community Publication Making - "Heapology"
MA Design "Explorations & Translations", LHÍ Reykjavík

2023 Community Publication Making - "Whales"
BA Product Design, LHÍ Reykjavík

Contact

mail hi@janoschkratz.eu
insta janoschkratz.eu

I speak German and English
I code in HTML, CSS, jquery, javascript, PHP, VVVV, processing

fav books

1 An Apartment on Uranus Paul B. Preciado
2 Caliban and the Witch Silvia Federici
3 Flights Olga Tokarczuk
4 Solaris Stanisław Lem
5 Comedia Dante Alighieri
6 Die Phsysiker Friedrich Dürrenmatt
7 Der Nachbar Franz Kafka
8 The Blue Fox Sjón

fav animes

1 Akira movie
2 Neon Genesis Evangelion show
3 Night on the Galactic Railroad movie
4 Jin-Roh movie
5 Ghost in the Shell movie
6 Princess Mononoke movie
7 Nausicaä movie
8 Cowboy Bebop show
9 Mushishi show