Wayfinding in airports: the ultimate design challenge?

About our speakers

Heike Nehl studied Visual Communication at the FH Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences where she completed a thesis on contemporary British graphic design. In the early 90s she worked for MetaDesign Berlin, and MetaWest in San Francisco. At Moniteurs she has become an expert in the field of information design. Heike has taught at on courses at Bauhaus University, Weimar (Typography and Information Design) and FH Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences (Interaction Design). In 2013 she taught as a guest professor at the Chinese German Academy of the Arts (CDK), in Hangzhou. She is a regular conference speaker, and has co-authored “emotional digital— A Sourcebook of Contemporary Typographics”, “Look Book Informationsdesign” and “1:1 Orientation, Signage, Identity”.

Sibylle Schlaich studied Visual Communication at the HfG University of Design Schwäbisch Gmünd and at the Berlin University of the Arts. After working for MetaDesign (Berlin) in the early 90s, she went on to co-found Moniteurs communication design with Heike Nehl and another partner. Since 2000, Sibylle has taught Information Design and Typography at various universities including the Faculty of Architecture at Leibniz University, Hanover, and at Bauhaus University, Weimar. She too has been a guest professor at the CDK, Hangzhou. Sibylle has been a speaker at various international design conferences such as TYPO Berlin, and has also been a jury member on various awards selection panels. She has co-authored three books with Heike Nehl, as well as “Erneuerbare Energien nutzen”.

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