PROFESSIONAL
2021 — 2023:
CREATIVE DIRECTOR AT FIELD.IO, BERLIN
Artistic direction of projects for Adidas, Envision Energy, Google, IBM, IWC, JLR, On Running & Visa. Client communications.
Training, mentoring, and specialization of employees based on their skills and interests in design, art, and technology.
2018 — 2021:
CREATIVE LEAD AT FIELD.IO, LONDON & BERLIN
Establishing and leading of a team across London & Berlin. Project initiation and global client communication. Creative direction of projects for ABB, Adidas, Apple Music, Covestro, Humanising Autonomy, IBM, Lululemon, Nike, On Running, Oppo, Space10.
2015 — 2018:
FREELANCE ART DIRECTOR & MOTION DESIGNER, LONDON
FIELD.IO, Builders Club, Margot Bowman, Prettybird
2012 — 2015:
FREELANCE MOTION DESIGNER, STUTTGART
Builders Club, FG Brand Design, FIELD.IO, Jung von Matt, Meire & Meire, Ogilvy, Publicis
Since 2012:
CO-FOUNDER UKI UKI STUDIO, STUTTGART & BERLIN
Animation studio founded with director Shoko Hara.
2011 — 2012:
MEDIA DESIGNER
Nonnenbroich and Ziegler, Ravensburg
2009 — 2011:
MEDIA DESIGNER
VON M Architecture, Stuttgart
TEACHING
Since 2019:
UNIVERSITY LECTURER, FILMAKADEMIE BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG
Guest lectures "Contemporary Motion Design"
Since 2015:
UNIVERSITY LECTURER, DHBW RAVENSBURG MEDIA DESIGN
Motion Design Workshop
4th Semester
Animation / Film / Directing, with Shoko Hara
Bachelor Supervision
6th Semester
with Prof. Dr. Klaus Birk, Shoko Hara Prof. Betty Schimmelpfennig
Media conception, colloquium, consultations, examination
Transmedia Storytelling
5th & 6th Semester
Seminar, design subject
Documentation: www.hypermedia.design
EDUCATION
2012 — 2015:
DIPL. FILM & MEDIA
Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Motion Design
at Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling
2009 — 2012:
B.A. MEDIA DESIGN
DHBW Ravensburg, Media Design
at Prof. Dr. Markus Rathgeb, Prof. Herbert Moser, Prof. Dr. Holger Lund, Prof. Dr. Klaus Birk
Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours, Media Design
The Open University, DHBW Ravensburg
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
(selection)
ADIDAS Generative Motion System with FIELD.io, D&AD Award, Graphic Design/Integrated Graphics, 2020
SIEMENS AI LAB with FG Branddesign, GERMAN DESIGN AWARD "WINNER, 2018
Chivas Ultis with FIELD.IO, GERMAN DESIGN AWARD "WINNER, 2018
Grand Prix for Abita, Development of Rising Artists Award, Okayama Japan, 2015
Karl-Steinbuch Scholarship (KSS) of the MFG Foundation, Baden-Württemberg, 2013
Best Animated Film, International Uranium Filmfestival, Rio de Janeiro, 2013
TALKS & PUBLICATIONS
(selection)
Peter Behrens School of Arts, HS Düsseldorf,
Guest lecture "Motion Design + Beyond", Oct. 2023
Hochschule Mainz — University of Applied Sciences, Time-Based Media
Guest lecture "Motion Design + Beyond", Oct. 2023
Further Reading Symposium, FH Potsdam,
Lecture and panel "Perspectives on Designing Texts", Apr. 2023
Forward Festival Berlin, Keynote Talk "FIELD.io Process & Principles", Sep. 2022
Publication: Birk, K. (2021), Design Shifts, Talks, Discourse, Typo-/Graphic Posters for Lunchtime Talks.
Prima Publications, ISBN 978-3-9821198-5-4,
OFFF Tel Aviv 2018, Keynote Talk "FIELD.io Aesthetics for the Future", Sep. 2018
US BY NIGHT, Antwerp, Keynote Talk "FIELD.io Aesthetics for the Future", Nov. 2018
Publication: Wired Magazine (2017) The wired world in 2018, System Aesthetics, Condé Nast Publications Ltd., London, ASIN: B07F7K54T6
CONTACT
Paul Brenner (he/him)
Dusekestr. 10
13187 Berlin