QVED 2015

QVED 2015 promises another three-day overview of contemporary editorial design, examining the interplay of text and image that allows the designer to transform individual elements into meaningful content. Big magazines, small magazines, corporate magazines, independent magazines. Print, digital and the many combinations of media. Whether designing for niche markets, special interest or large mainstream readerships, QVED features the best practitioners of editorial design today, mapping the continuing reinvention of editorial design. QVED 2015 takes place in Munich from 26-28 February. See a full list of speakers. Buy your tickets here.

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Speaker: Klaus Neuburg & Sebastian Pranz of FROH!

Klaus Neuburg (*1976) and Sebastian Pranz (*1979), designers and publishers, co‑founded together with two additional publishers, the independent magazine FROH! featuring work by internationally renowned photographers, illustrators and journalists alongside works by up-and-coming artists. These newcomers – Klaus Neuburg read architecture at the university of Aachen, Sebastian Pranz holds a PhD in sociology – understand their work as part of an overall design mission for society at large.

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Speaker: Raban Ruddigkeit

Raban Ruddigkeit (*1968) became the founder of the one and only fanzine of the GDR in the 1980s. After ten years of working as a designer for magazines (including »Das Magazin«) and ten years of being an art director in advertising (he worked for agencies such as Scholz & Friends and Jung von Matt) he combined these two worlds in 2009 with the founding of his Berlin-based agency Agentur + Ruddigkeit.

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Speaker: Kati Krause of A Mag For All Seasons

Kati Krause makes magazines, both in print and digital media. Last year, she was commissioned by “Medium”, “Freunde von Freunden” and “Gestalten”, while also working on her own project “A Mag For All Seasons”.

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Speaker: Rich Stapleton of Cereal magazine

Born in England and educated in Bath, Rich Stapleton has a background in engineering and product design, with previous placements at adidas and Aston Martin. Graduating with a masters in engineering in 2009, Rich moved to Bristol to pursue design and photography.

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Speaker: Sylwana Zybura

Sylwana Zybura aka Madame Peripetie is a Polish-German linguist and image maker based in London / UK. The main focus of her work lies within the creation of character design infused with surreal and abstract elements, the contemporary hybridised body, its sublime beauty and its study in connection to fashion and design.

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Speaker: Prof. Lars Harmsen of MAGMA brand design

Lars Harmsen (*1964) is executive director of MAGMA Brand Design (with Ulrich Weiss and Florian Gaertner), founded in Karlsruhe 1996. The focal point of his work is typography, corporate and editorial design. He is also partner and creative director for the Munich agency Melville Brand Design.

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Speaker: Mike Koedinger of Maison Moderne

Mike Koedinger is an independent publisher and media entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Maison Moderne, Luxembourg’s leading independent and award winning media company.

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Speaker: Heiner Mueller-Elsner

Heiner Müller-Elsner (*1958) has been working as a photographer for numerous national and international magazines including Geo, Geo Special, Geo Epoche, Geo kompakt, Spiegel, Stern, Grand Reportages, National Geographic and Newsweek since 1987.

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Speaker: Cynthia Kittler

Cynthia Kittler (*1986) studied illustration and design at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany. As part of her BA thesis, she created an illustrated art book about the construction of reality, which won a silver nail at the ADC. Ever since, her list of clients has grown to include the New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, Focus …

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Speaker: Aisha Zeijpveld

Aisha Zeijpveld (*1983) obtained her degree at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. Living in Amsterdam she works as freelancer for a variety of commercial magazines, while continuously pursuing her personal work.

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Speaker: Rolf Müller

Rolf Müller (*1940) spent his childhood and youth up to his high school graduation in provincial Westphalia before leaving for the city of Ulm and its hfg, an exceptional school for design even at that time. He began his career as a freelancer before working for Otl Aicher between 1967 and 1972, where his responsibility as second in command included the design of the xx.

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Speaker: Jeremy Leslie of magCulture studio

Jeremy Leslie (*1961) has been designing magazines since the mid eighties, when he was art director at Blitz magazine. Since then he has worked on newspapers, weeklies, newsstand and customer titles. During the noughties he helped develop John Brown Publishing as a leader in content marketing, and as creative director worked on award-winning publications for Virgin Atlantic, M-real and Waitrose.

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Speaker: Sven Ehmann of Gestalten

Sven Ehmann is a freelance creative director based in Berlin. He edited over 70 books on contemporary visual culture with publisher gestalten, helped redesign Domus magazine once with design studio onlab …

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Speaker: Alex Breuer 

Creative director of The Guardian

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Speaker: Rich Stapleton of Cereal magazine

Born in England and educated in Bath, Rich Stapleton has a background in engineering and product design, with previous placements at adidas and Aston Martin. Graduating with a masters in engineering in 2009, Rich moved to Bristol to pursue design and photography.

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Speaker: Rich Stapleton of Cereal magazine

Born in England and educated in Bath, Rich Stapleton has a background in engineering and product design, with previous placements at adidas and Aston Martin. Graduating with a masters in engineering in 2009, Rich moved to Bristol to pursue design and photography.

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Speaker: Haika Hinze and Jelka Lerche of DIE ZEIT

Haika Hinze is the leading art director at the German weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and has been with the newspaper since 1997. DIE ZEIT is Germany’s most successful weekly newspaper, famous for its independent and sophisticated journalism...

Jelka Lerche (*1987) graduated in 2012 her studies of Editorial Design at the Institute of Design in Hamburg. From an internship while studying an inspiring collaboration with ZEIT, where she is permanently employed since 2012 as one of four info graphic artists...

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