DesignSummer academy

DSa x KDS : 14 July, 2025 – 5 September

DS academy (DSa) x Kuwasawa Design School (KDS) in Japan.

➡️Linlin Yin + Tobias Röttger + Daniel Wiesmann + Aki Toyoshima

✨️Linlin Yin (Beijing/China)
Topic: Dialogue with Information

⬆️Brief Description: In this course, we will approach the design process through the lens of editorial design. We will dissect and interpret information—much like peeling back the layers of an organism to explore the interconnections between its components. How can we efficiently organize information within spatial constraints? ……

✨️Tobias Röttger (Berlin/Germany)
Topic: Playfully serious and seriously Playful
⬆️Brief Description: Every design begins with constraints. Whether it’s the project, time, your own skills, or the client’s expectations, these limitations shape every decision. But the key isn’t just accepting them – it’s adding your own. Choosing a format, setting rules for color, deciding on text or images. These self-imposed boundaries create structure, like the rules of a game.……

✨️Daniel Wiesmann (Berlin/Germany)
Topic: Contrasts in Limited Space – Posters on the Subject of Opposites

⬆️Brief Description: Contrasts shape the way we see the world: light and dark, big and small, static and dynamic. Opposites attract or repel, complement each other or remain incompatible. In this course, we explore how opposites interact……

✨️Aki Toyoshima (Tokyo/Japan, Kuwasawa Design School)
Topic: Typography and Form

⬆️Brief Description:The lesson consists of three typographic projects: 1. Letter Mask. 2. Name Tracing & Mincho-Style Lettering. 3.Typeface Design. …………​

💚DSa X KDS will share general courses on design philosophy and history, multidisciplinary lecture, and design production & printing techniques with DSa 25③ and ④.
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#设计课程

DSa 25 ④: 11 August, 2025 – 5 September
④D. Interactive Media
Antonin Waterkeyn＋Andrej Barčák & Andrej Čanecký

✨️ Antonin Waterkeyn (Bordeaux/France)
■Topic: Unlock Cavalry

* Brief Description: Cavalry is a 2D animation software specifically designed for graphic designers and motion designers. It stands out for its node-based approach, which simplifies automation and the creation of dynamic animations. Its intuitive interface offers flexible tools suited to both simple animations and complex systems. Cavalry is particularly appreciated for vector animation and its advanced text animation features, providing unique versatility for motion design and print.……

This workshop is open to everyone, and no prior animation experience is necessary.

✨️ Andrej Barčák & Andrej Čanecký /Andrej & Andrej Studio (Bratislava/Slovakia)

■Topic: Motion in Branding

*Brief Description: This workshop explores how animation can enhance brand identity, focusing on conceptual thinking, storytelling, and strategic motion design. Instead of a purely technical approach, we’ll dive into the creative process behind animated branding. Participants will engage in concept development, learning how movement can shape perception and brand personality. Through experimentation, we’ll explore ways to push creative boundaries and discover unexpected solutions.……

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#设计课程

DSa 25 ③: 14 July – 8 August, 2025

③D. Interactive Media
➡️Harry Butt & Connor Campbell + Ira Ivanova

✨️Harry Butt & Connor Campbell / Daisy Chain Studio (London/UK)
■Topic: Imagined Realities: Storytelling in 3D Design

*Brief Description: In this course, you’ll choose from a curated selection of 3D artefacts and build an original mythology around your chosen piece. Your goal is to create a still or animated render that conveys the story you’ve created. We will draw from references of mythology, technology, storytelling, religion, photography, painting and fashion to teach how to find inspiration beyond the medium of 3D design. We hope to teach that your ideas are improved by drawing meaning from the world around your practice and help it improve your designs.……

✨️Ira Ivanova / Studio Yukiko (Berlin/Germany)
■Topic: Capturing the Movements of Life

*Brief Description: In this workshop, participants will dive into the world of motion graphics, drawing inspiration from everyday surroundings and the broader cultural zeitgeist. By focusing on small, often overlooked moments, they will learn how the mundane can serve as a foundation for creating a unique visual toolkit for motion design. Through deconstructing daily life, participants will analyze how ordinary movements and behaviors can evolve into graphic concepts. This workshop will encourage them to develop their own approach by transforming brief observations into key elements of their creative process. By reinterpreting familiar scenes, they will discover fresh perspectives and gain a deeper understanding of how to create motion in innovative ways. Participants will be tasked with finding interesting movements in their surroundings and filming them……
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DSa 25 ④: 11 August, 2025 – 5 September

④C. Brand Identity & Information Design

Norito Shimura + Liza Enebeis & Stan Haanappel + Irene Pereyra

✨️ Norito Shimura (Tokyo/Japan)
■Topic: Brand and Information Design

*Brief Description: Participants will select a company they are interested in and conduct preliminary research on it. The workshop will begin with the development of a logo, and based on the brand concept, participants will create application designs such as letterheads and signs. Additionally, they will design promotional materials like product packaging and posters.

✨️Liza Enebeis & Stan Haanappel (Rotterdam/Netherlands)
■Topic: Dynamic Zone

*Brief Description: As design communicators, our mission is to shape the future by developing visual identities with distinct personalities that stand out amidst the daily information overload. In this workshop, we will explore the various facets of identity by creating and experimenting with visuals, motion, and sound to create distinct and memorable personalities…..

✨️Irene Pereyra (New York/USA)
■Topic: Designing Attention

*Brief Description: In a world where digital interfaces constantly compete for our focus, how can designers create experiences that are engaging yet respectful of attention? This five-day workshop invites you to investigate, track, and visualize attention in new ways—through public observation, self-tracking, and environmental documentation. You’ll explore how digital distractions shape behavior, experiment with data-driven design, and develop a final project that brings your insights to life……

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#設計事務所 #設計 #品牌設計

DSa 25 ③: 14 July – 8 August, 2025

③C. Brand Identity & Information Design

Wim Westerveld + Bernard Stein + Dan Solbach

✨️Wim Westerveld (Berlin/Germany)
■Topic: Change and Exchange: Preparing for the Future of Graphic Design

*Brief Description: From analog methods to AI tools, our field is in flux, making the future both uncertain and exciting. Whatever the circumstances, this remains the same: the importance of teamwork, exchanging ideas, methods, and experiences and a willingness to continuously adapt and change. In this one-week workshop, we explore collaborative approaches to creating a visual identity for a fictional, future-oriented socio-cultural organization that we’ll invent together on the first day. Through imagination and experimentation, we will push creative boundaries to achieve striking, unconventional results.

✨️Bernard Stein (Berlin/Germany)
■Topic: The Art of Visual Balance

*Brief Description: In the introductory exercise, the focus is on the conscious and design-driven handling of the spacing between objects, shapes, and letters. Using the letters of the phrase DAS AUSGLEICHEN VON BUCHSTABEN (THE ADJUSTMENT OF LETTERS), differences in spacing and their effects on the overall design are addressed. In the following days, further differences will be explored and discussed collectively. This will be done with both a technical focus, including letter style, classification, spacing, serifs, uppercase, lowercase, mixed case, etc., as well as a content-related focus: typography and type, logos and images, etc.……

✨️Dan Solbach (Berlin/Germany)

■Topic: Typography in the Context of Branding

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DSa 25 ④: 11 August, 2025 – 5 September

④B. Multilingual Type Design & Layout:
Verena Panholzer + Alejandro Paul

✨️Verena Panholzer (Vienna/Austria)
■Topic: BEHIND

*Brief Description:
Exploring the Depth of a Character in an era of randomness, superficiality, and digital personas, it has become increasingly difficult to truly understand a person’s inner world. BEHIND challenges participants to go beyond the surface by creating a reader—a magazine that deeply explores the whole character of a single person, whether real or fictive. Over the course of two weeks, participants will develop a rich, multi-layered narrative, diving into emotions, contradictions, and complexities such as desire, stress, fantasy, depression, fame, shame, restlessness, sleeplessness, overkill, and inner thoughts. Through storytelling, photography, visual language, and editorial design, the project will bring forth the hidden facets of a person, exposing their moods, talents, and evolving states of being.……

✨️Alejandro Paul (Buenos Aires/Argentina)
■Topic: A-Z
*Brief Description:
Discover the art of blending Latin lettering with Chinese writing in this unique workshop designed to explore the creative possibilities of cross-cultural design. Participants will learn to craft a custom Latin lettering logo, delving into the intricacies of ligatures, compensations, and legibility—ideal for those new to Latin letterforms. Once the foundation is laid, we will introduce Chinese writing into the design, creating a harmonious fusion that reflects both traditions. This hands-on experience offers an opportunity to engage with typography, explore the dynamics of multilingual design, and push the boundaries of lettering as a universal art form.……

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DSa 25 ③: 14 July – 8 August, 2025

③B. Multilingual Type Design & Layout
✨️Mathias Reynoird (Dijon/France)

■Topic: Type Specimens
*Brief Description:
｜Course theme｜
Research / analysis, design / layout, materials / printing.

Participants will be asked to design and produce a typographic specimen, in the form of a publication. Typefaces can tell stories. Typographic specimens can be books. A type specimen is a special kind of publication, somewhere between a promotional document and a true space for free graphic expression. What is a printed typographic specimen nowadays? What singular forms or shapes can it take? The course will begin with a brief history of the typographic specimen, followed by an analysis based on concrete contemporary examples, both printed and digital. Secondly, each participant will be asked to choose a Latin typeface from a pre-selected set, drawn from several independent foundries of the 21st century. The chosen typeface will form the foundation for further documentation, whether documentary, historical, narrative or poetic, in order to assemble relevant content – texts and / or images – as well as the traditional glyph set. From this raw material, participants will select the tone of their type specimen in order to start designing the layout of their publication. The following approaches will be welcomed: technical, objective and exhaustive, historical and documentary, eccentric and humorous, unusual and singular, sensitive and poetic, etc. Whatever the choice, content and form must be in harmony with the chosen typeface.

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DSa 25 ④: 11 August, 2025 – 5 September

④A. Visual Design Exploration
➡️Susanne Stahl + Yuri Uenishi + Henning Wagenbreth

✨️Susanne Stahl (Berlin/Germany)
* Topic: Vacansopapurosophobia – 20 assignments in 3 hours, 1 assignment in 4 days

*Brief Description: Vacansopapurosophobia is the latin name for the fear of blank pages. How to start is a common problem in all creative fields. Let go of perfection, allow for mistakes and trust the process. In 20 quick assignments, we will create the source material for the larger assignment of designing a record cover and poster for a fictional band.

✨️Yuri Uenishi (Tokyo/Japan)
*Topic: Brand Tactics

*Brief Description:
In this workshop, participants will create a series of items such as logos, posters, and packaging based on a defined concept. The goal is to enhance a broad range of design skills, from specialized shaping and expressive techniques to comprehensive branding and art direction abilities, ultimately improving both design proficiency and presentation skills.

✨️Henning Wagenbreth (Berlin/Germany)
*Topic: Grandparents’ Family History Is Contemporary History

*Brief Description:
Illustration and design of a story about your grandparents , their life, their work, their time. Production of a booklet of 16 pages, portrait format A5. Design of the inside pages and cover design. We will discuss which stories to choose and how they could be told. We will practice how text and image can be combined, how stories can be drawn and how we can find images.Workshop participants will be asked to collect stories about their grandparents in advance. Because a whole life cannot be depicted on 16 pages, small episodes from their lives can also be told.……
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#設計 #設計課程 #上西祐理

DSa 25 ③:14 July, 2025 – 8 August

③A. Visual Design Exploration:
Stanley Wong+Susanne Stahl

✨️Stanley Wong(HK/China)
Topic: Seeing Myself

*Brief Description: As we are visual creators, we see the world, we create from our knowledge, our experience, our senses and our tastes. And fundamentally - more importantly - do you see yourself the way you see? do you see yourself what you see? Simply put, do you see yourself?
Please join me for the five-day journey of fun:
Day 1: Painting by God (Workshop)
Day 2: How We See / What We See (Lecture)
Day 2-4: Self-Portrait (Project)
Day 5: Design : Surviving · Living · Being ( Lecture / Q&A)

✨️Susanne Stahl (Berlin/Germany)
Topic: Exquisite Co**se

*Brief Description: Exquisite Co**se or Cadáver Exquis is a method invented by the surrealists by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule or by being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed. We will use this method to experiment individually and collectively, and ultimately invent our own methods based on it.
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#設計課程 #又一山人