

HfG Karlsruhe 2014–15 annual report, designed by Anna Cairns, Sascia Reibel, and Lino Santo, awarded by the German Art Director’s Club (© HfG Karlsruhe)


Publication projects at “Rundgang durch die Lichthöfe 2016,” the HfG Karlsruhe annual exhibition (© HfG Karlsruhe)


Works from the seminar “Drawings & Mutations” by Karl Nawrot (© HfG Karlsruhe)


Spread from “Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly! (Job 40:15ff) by Michelle Mantel, from the seminar “Elvis lives!” by Prof. Sereina Rothenberger (© Michelle Mantel, HfG Karlsruhe)
Communication Design means to give reality a form. Be it for designing books, posters, websites, films, exhibitions or campaigns, the students of this department contribute their skills and talent to all areas of social life. They also design events and “raw design materials” such as fonts, illustrations, and photographs.
This course offers an intensive access to all topics by means of practical project work. Students work, develop, research and implement their ideas either individually or in small groups. Rarely does one professor supervise more than ten students. By limiting the size of the groups, optimal instruction and supervision is guaranteed for each student.
At all time, students have access to the university’s versatile and fully equipped workshops and can create their ideas in almost any form. Here, manual work plays an important part. Another advantage to studying at HfG is the renowned designers from all over the world who visit HfG Karlsruhe to support the professors in each department. They conduct workshops and seminars, hold lectures and present state-of-the-art communication design to the student body.
The department’s goal is to educate students to become independent designers. Students should not only learn how to fulfill contracts but also develop their own work and ideas. At HfG, it is not an unusual sight to see students of the department already beginning to run major projects, do contract work, or establish small agencies and galleries during their studies. This kind of “design entrepreneurship” is specifically supported by the department.
As the world is constantly changing and becoming a more global society, the practical studies at HfG offer students the opportunity to expand design beyond the field’s traditional boundaries, allowing the field to develop further and giving students the potential to fundamentally change it.
Professors
Academic Assistants
Student & Final Projects 2017/18
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William Wilson
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White Noise – A Speculative Sketch of the New City
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KA1028
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momus – why I faked a fast fashion label and how
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You can form beautiful sentences
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Hungry Eyes
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C-E-R-N
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Questions? – Looking for answers in the middle of somewhere
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HEY DESIGNERS!
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Cloud of Unknowing
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Miss 12000 Volt – Close to the Machine
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NoFoundry
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Student & Final Projects 2016/17
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souvenir
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Diploma by Nico Butschbacher
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*Fantasie/Colaer
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Diploma by Sophia Hamann
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Layers of Belief
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Diploma by Thomas Maier
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Alasitas – Market of Wishes
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Diploma by Paola Bascon
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Greetings from Greece
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Diploma by Xenia Fastnacht
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PYGMALIA
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Diploma, Project Work by Iris Weigel und Philippe Mainz
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FACADES
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Intermediate Diploma by Nathalie Gillen
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Erde, die; -n Plural selten (Earth, the; seldom used in plural)
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Diploma by Eike Stender
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I, naked (quasi)
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Intermediate Diploma by Rebecca Zink
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a journey
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Intermediate diploma by Severin Geißler
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99> (99 or less)
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Intermediate diploma by Mio Kojima
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COLA TAXI OKAY
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Diploma by Larissa Mantel
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The End of my Childhood – Diary of Hermann Stimmler
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Intermediate diploma by Moritz Schottmüller
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Fachkundige Frauen
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Intermediate diploma by Emma-Lilo Keller
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Form of Showing
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Intermediate diploma by Cecile Kobel
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ich und die
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Intermediate diploma by Tatjana Pfeiffer
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