Besenkamp, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Daniel Meier is an international poster artist, social designer and design educator. His socially critical works have been shown and awarded prizes in more than 90 exhibitions in over 30 countries worldwide. He also gives international workshops on social poster design and has been a guest lecturer in China, the U.S., Pakistan, Egypt, Canada, Türkiye, Poland and Singapore. He is currently building a virtual learning environment for the Designschule Schwerin in Germany as its online campus director. At the same time, he plans and organizes critical poster competitions on topics such as environmental protection, peace, anti-discrimination, and social justice.
Building an Online Campus for the Designschule Schwerin
→ providing students with poster art and design basics.
The extracurricular programmes, which were previously carried out as ‘pitch projects’, now deliberately give students a different perspective on design. Away from the purely economic/service provider aspect, towards a definition of design that really helps. People, animals and the environment. We make students aware of the power and responsibility they have. Because everything that is designed has an effect and influences people in their thoughts and actions. Each semester there will be two projects that students can choose freely. Always with the participatory approach that all those involved and affected go through the design process together and support each other. The ‘Copyleft’ approach is intended to show students that they don't need an elbow-to-elbow dynamic to reach their goal. But rather a solidarity-based community.
→ tutor in the subject ‘Typography’ (winter semester 2024/2025) → accompanying students for a joint project with the Iowa State University. Poster design on the topic of ‘AI’ (winter semester 2024/2025) → leading a project group of students for the vegan fashion label ‘Anti Eat Meat Club’: graphic design for a new product (winter semester 2024/2025) → supporting a group of students to design an artistic campaign for the social organization "Viva Con Aqua" (summer semester 2024) → guiding students to design a sustainable campaign in the module "Corporate Communications" for the "Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V." (summer semester 2024 and wintersemester 2024/2025) → accompanying students to design a typographic poster that shows their roots. International competition of the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology (winter semester 2023/2024) → instructing a team of students to design a consistent visual identity for the communal network for education for sustainable development (Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung, BNE) of the city of stuttgart.(winter semester 2023/2024) → lecturing students to design a poster on the topic of "Human and Machine". Cooperation project with the Shanxi University in China. (summer semester 2023) → teaching a class on designing a poster campaign for the brand "Brot für die Welt". (winter semester 2022/2023)
→ Graphic design and art direction for cultural events and institutions → Global workshops on the subject of poster design → Social design for the awareness of responsible graphic design