This platform represents the Graphic Design Division of the Visual Communications Department at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Named after our patron saint Herbert Bayer, we continue the creative legacy and transformative ideas of the traditional Bauhaus movement.
Prof. Markus Weisbeck
is a graphic designer and teacher based in Weimar and Frankfurt am Main. He founded the Design-Studio Surface in 2000.
Weisbeck has lectured and participated in numerous international conferences on design related subjects and has taught at various universities including the UDK Berlin, University Darmstadt the HGB Leipzig, Pati Korea and has been teaching as Professor for Grafik Design at Bauhaus in Weimar since 2011. He is frequent jury member in design competitions worldwide and part-time writer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frieze and Form in the discipline of Grafik Design. Since 2013 he is an official member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale.
He established “The Space for Visual Research” as a workshop and laboratory for experimental research into new graphic, abstract and visual worlds at the Bauhaus-University Weimar in 2013. The Space’s mission is to support the exploratory urge for new aesthetics, in particular by empowering design students to create their own individual imagery. Workshops were realized at the House of the Artists, Teheran, Iran, Taiwan Tech, Taiwan, Design Summer Hangzhou, China, Paju Typography Institute PaTI, Korea, UCB La Paz, Bolivia, Y Design Festival, Macao, China, 2019, Gwangju Biennale, Korea, 2019 and at the AGI Rotterdam.
Through collaborations, curatorial projects and publications, Weisbeck has developed a unique practice that expands collaborative form from a pragmatic structure of working together to the joint development of content.
His design projects include the art direction of the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, the Forsythe Company, Luma Arles, Fogo Island Arts, Documenta 11, the Corporate Identity for Zumtobel, the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Gwanju Folly II Korea, the Städel Architecture Class, the German Pavillion: Venice Biennale 2007 and 2009, the 7th International Architecture Biennial (BIA) São Paulo, Manifesta 7, publication series for Sternberg Press as well as many other books for (individual) artists.
Adrian Palko
is a graphic designer, lecturer, printer and the artistic assistant of the graphic design department at Bauhaus University Weimar. He also co-founded an independent silk screen workshop located in Weimar.