Johannes Breyer, Graphic & Type Design

Johannes Breyer
Graphic & Type Design, Consultancy
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Johannes Breyer is a German / Chilean graphic designer based in Berlin. Se habla Español. He studied in Zurich and worked for design studio NORM before graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Together with Fabian Harb, he is running the Swiss type design practice Dinamo. Winner of the Swiss Design Awards 2017, Member of AGI Alliance Graphique Internationale as of 2018.

Next to offering retail typefaces (such as Favorit, Grow, Pareto, Prophet, Galapagos, Prophet, Monument Grotesk, Ginto & Laica), they have been commissioned to design exclusive alphabets in use for Kunsthalle Zurich, Warp Records, Rimowa, Tumblr, Acqua di Parma, Yale Architecture, Manifesta 11, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Universal Music, Gagosian Gallery, Planet Mu/Knives, The Olympic Games, Discord, GOAT, On Running, Jupiter, MIT Boston or the German, Estonian and Cyprus Pavillions at the Venice Biennial among others.

www.abcdinamo.com

** GOOD NEWS **

Dinamo has been awarded the Swiss Design Award 2017 by the Federal Office of Culture. More here and here.

Eva Hesse, Diaries was selected one of the »Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2017«

Eva Hesse, Diaries was further on awarded the BRONZE medal as »Best Book Designs from all over the World« 2017

Eva Hesse – Diaries
Edited by Barry Rosen + Tamara Bloomberg, 204 × 136mm, 904 pages, published by Hauser&Wirth and Yale Publishing, designed with and for Norm, Zurich. More information over at Hauser & Wirth Publications.

Lectures

*upcoming* 2023 tbd, November, Cyprus
*upcoming* 2023 September, Forward Festival, Berlin
2022 The International, Glasgow
2022 Index.Space, New York
2020 Forward Festival, Vienna
2020 Elisava, Barcelona
2019 Swiss Design Week, Jerusalem
2019 Grafill, Bergen
2019 WRM Gallery, Seoul
2019 PaTI, Seoul
2019 The Book Society, Seoul
2019 Typozimmer/Print Gallery, Seoul
2019 POST Festival, Copenhagen
2019 Fontstand Conference, Portugal
2019 Apple, Los Angeles
2019 Art Center, Los Angeles
2019 Cal Arts, Los Angeles
2019 Southland Institue, Los Angeles
2019 CCA, San Francisco
2018 Tetterode Symposium, Amsterdam
2018 ECAL, Workshop & Lecture, Lausanne
2017 University of the Arts Karlsruhe, GER
2017 Projektil Weimar, GER
2017 Academy of Arts Düsseldorf, Germany
2017 Ecv Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
2016 Another Lecture #4, w/ Berton Hasebe, New York
2016 Parsons, New York
2016 ECAL, Lausanne
2016 Cooper Union, New York
2016 Netlife Research, Oslo, Norway
2016 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2016 PaTi (Paju.Typography.Institute), Seoul, Korea
2016 The Book Society, Seoul, Korea
2016 ahn.graphics, Seoul, Korea
2016 University of the Arts Basel, CH
2016 University of the Arts Hamburg, GER
2016 Aabbc, Munich, DE
2016 University of the Arts Konstanz, GER
2015 FUBU, University of the Arts Zurich, CH
2015 AGI-Open Conference, Biel, CH
2015 Calm & Punk Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2015 Grafill.no, Oslo, Norway
2014 Reception of Reception, Humboldt Gallery, Berlin, GER
2014 Estonian Academy of the Arts, Tallinn, EE
2013 Ten to Six, Bielefeld, GER
2013 Call for Type, Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, GER
2012 Designforum Coburg, GER

Regular Teaching

SS 2017, University of the Arts Düsseldorf
2016 ECAL, Lausanne (as visiting critic)
SS 2016, University of the Arts Berlin (UDK)
SS 2016, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach (HfG)
2013-2015, University of the Arts Tallinn, Estonia

Workshops

2019 Instagram, San Francisco
2019 Bezalel University, Jerusalem
2019 Grafill, Bergen
2019 University of the Arts, Zurich
2018 Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam
2018 University of the Arts Antwerp
2017 Projektil Weimar, GER
2017 ECV Aix-En-Provence, FR
2015 University of Arts Brno, CZ
2015 HyperWerk, Basel, CH
2015 Basel School of Design, CH
2015 Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel, GER
2015 Fachhochschule Bielefeld, GER
2014 Fachhochschule Mainz, GER
2013 University of Arts Düsseldorf, GER
2014 Designforum Coburg, GER
2012 Fachhochschule Mainz, GER
2011 Fachhochschule Mainz, GER

Exhibitions

2019 WRM Gallery, Favorit Hangul, Seoul
2019 Typojanchi Biennial, Seoul
2016 Swiss Style Now, 41 Cooper Gallery, Cooper Union, New York
2016 Print Program #4, Specimen, La Fonderie, CH
2016 Swiss Graphic Design in Shanghai, Westbund Art Centre
2014 Swiss Graphic Design in Seoul, Samwoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea