Richard The is a graphic and interaction designer. After having studied at University of the Arts Berlin and the MIT Media Lab he has worked at Sagmeister Inc. and the Berlin based design studio The Green Eyl. He currently works at the Google Creative Lab in New York.
His work has been shown at Ars Electronica, Design Museum London and Experimenta Design Amsterdam and his work has received various international awards such as Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica, London Designs of the Year, Tokyo Type Director's Club.
EDUCATION
| 2010 | M.S. in Media Arts and Sciences at MIT Medialab Cambridge, USA |
| 2007 | Diploma of Visual Communication at Berlin University of the Arts |
EMPLOYMENT
| 2009-Now | Partner at The Green Eyl |
| 2010 | Senior Designer at Sagmeister Inc. |
| 2008-2010 | Research Assistant at MIT Medialab Cambridge, USA |
| 2007-2008 | Designer at Sagmeister Inc. New York City, USA |
| 2000-2007 | Freelance work in screen, computational and print design as well as animation for various clients: Jung und Pfeffer, Anschutz Entertainment Group, Illmatic Designz Clothing, Sagmeister Inc., Töchter und Söhne and others. |
| 2003-2006 | Workshop assistant for nonlinear film and interactive narration with
Mediamatic |
| 2006 | Freelance art director at kreative konzeption* 001 GmbH |
| 2002-2005 | Tutor in the audio and video Workshop, Institute for Time-based Media,
UdK Berlin |
| 2005 | Internship at Sagmeister Inc. New York City, USA |
| 2004 | Visiting tutor at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy |
| 2000-2001 | Screen designer and video and film editor at GOT Intermedia Agency, Mannheim |
AWARDS
| 2010 | The Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts - First Prize |
| 2010 | SEGD Design Awards |
| 2009 | AIGA Certificate of Excellence, "365: AIGA Annual Design Competitions 30" |
| 2009 | AIGA 50 books/50 covers competition |
| 2009 | Coupe international design and image annual-best in show 2009 |
| 2009 | Communication Arts Award of Excellence 2009: Miscallenous Series, Book |
| 2009 | SXSW Web Award 09, Art Category: ThingsIhavelearnedinmylife.com created with Sagmeister Inc. |
| 2009 | The Art Director‘s Club Annual Awards 2009 Bronze (x2) |
| 2009 | Applied Arts Design and Advertising Awards 2009 |
| 2008 | Steven R. Holtzman Fellowship for Digital Expression, MIT Media Lab |
| 2008 | Appeel: Prix Ars Electronica - Honorary Mention |
| 2008 | TDC 55, Type Director's Club for typographic excellence |
| 2008 | AIGA Certificate of Excellence, "365: AIGA Annual Design Competitions 29" |
| 2006 | Anni Kuan Mailer: TDC 52 Type Directors Club |
| 2006 | Anni Kuan Mailer: TDC Tokio Type Directors Club, Non Members' Prize |
| 2006 | Sonderzug: Gold winner of :output |
| 2006 | Parasite: Honorary mention at Ars Electronica Next Idea Award |
| 2005 | Omnivisu: Bronze winner of :output |
| 2004 | Omnivisu: RES magazine Class Acts 2005 |
| 2002 | Learntec Multimedia Transfer Hot Trends Award
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| 05/2010 | Schnitzer Prize in Visual Arts, MIT |
| 12/2009 | Beijing Typography at Icograda 2009, Beijing, China |
| 12/2008 | X-topia and Y-topia - MIT Visual Arts Program, Cambridge, USA |
| 11/2008 | lab.30, Augsburg, Germany |
| 10/2008 | Electrofringe Festival, Newcastle, Australia |
| 09/2008 | Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition, Linz |
| 09/2008 | Droog Event 2: Urban Play at Experimenta Design, Amsterdam |
| 08/2008 | TDC 55 Type Director's Club Exhibition |
| 02/2008 | Urban Portraits, Rome |
| 06/2008 | 23rd International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2008, Brno, Czech Republic |
| 08/2007 | Planet Prozess by Urban Grassroots, Berlin |
| 04/2007 | Urban Interface Berlin |
| 06/2007 | Reviewing the Medium, Interactivity. Exhibition at *artlabs, Sibiu, Romania |
| 03/2007 | Pixelache 2007, Helsinki. |
| 03/2007 |
UAMO Festival Munich, Germany. |
| 12/2006 | Public-Electronic! at Electrohype, Museum of Sketches, Lund, Sweden. |
| 02/2006 | Here/there dorkbot.bln partner event Transmediale06 |
| 01/2006 | Parasite at Rythm On The Line film festival, Berlin |
| 11/2005 | Re/act media art festival, Heidelberg |
| 2004 | Design Berührt Herz at ZumTobel Berlin |
| 12/2009 | Étapes-design et culture visuelle, France |
| 05/2009 | Type Player, Page one Publishing Private, ISBN-10: 9812458328 |
| 10/2008 | Droog Event 2: Urban Play, Droog Design, ISBN-10: 9079810010 |
| 09/2008 | Het Parool, Amsterdam, „670 kilo centen op straat“ |
| 09/2008 | De Volkskrant, Amsterdam, „Politie amsterdam veegt kunst op“ |
| 09/2008 | De Volkskrant, Amsterdam, „Design als een sociaal bindmiddel“ |
| 05/2008 | Le Fond et la Forme |
| 12/2007 | Two Design Projects in AIGA 365 Collection: Azuero Earth Project Identity (Design), Deitch Projects Banana Wall (Design, Typography) |
| 08/2007 | Gürteltiere auf Bestellung in taz (tageszeitung) Germany |
| 07/2007 | Citysampling in Citywalk Berlin, European Photography, Issue 81 |
| 02/2006 | Typography 27: The Annual of the Type Directors Club |
| 02/2006 | Page (Germany) |
| 12/2005 | "Graffiti Hackers" by Sonia Zjawinski in: Wired (USA) |
| 11/2005 | "Alternatives Trainbombing - Projekt Parasite" by Sandra Sydow in: De:Bug (Germany) blaðið (Iceland) LE Magazine (Russia) |
| 10/2005 | RES Magazine DVD (USA) |
| 03/2005 | RES Magazine |
TALKS & WORKSHOPS
| 04/2010 | AIGA Coast2Coast: "Design For a Better Planet", with David Small and Jeff Warren
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| 03/2010 | MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning: „Art in Action: How Artistic Projects Inspire New Perspectives in Planning“
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| 11/2009 | "Socially manipulated Pixels" at Icograda World Design Congress 2009. Together with David Small
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| 10/2009 | Talk about my work at Interrogative Design Workshop, Cambridge, USA
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| 08/2009 | Talk at Tokyo University Meta perception Lab 2009
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| 08/2009 | "Design for Social Interaction" at Pecha Kucha Tokyo Volume #64
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| 01/2009 | SCU+MIT two week public art workshop in Taipei, Taiwan
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| 10/2008 | Talk at MIT Graduate Arts Forum
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| 06/2007 | Talk about my work at Reviewing the Medium, Interactivity. At *artlabs, Sibiu, Romania
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| 04/2007 | Talk with Jussi Ängeslevä at Urban Interface Berlin
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| 12/2006 | "Outside the Frame - The Green Eyl" at Profile Intermedia 09 Conference, Bremen, Germany
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