Professor of Visual Communication @THMittelhessen
Cologne & Giessen
Joined April 2012
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Officially in the ivory tower from now on.
I’m looking forward to the freedom of devoting the next few months entirely to thinking and writing. Let’s see what I bring back down from up there.
#ResearchSemester #DesignResearch #BrandingStudies #VisualCommunication @THMittelhessen
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New in Slanted Experimental Type 4.0: my essay “Typographic Experiments as Epistemic Practice” — Part III of a trilogy on method, creative dynamics, and epistemic practice in typographic experiments. Also included: my experimental type project OCRROR (2025). @slanted_blog 😍
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With our UCD and Visual Communication courses we explored yesterday The World Through AI at the @SCHIRN Frankfurt. Inspiring conversations, critical reflections, and plenty of new perspectives on AI, art, and visual culture.
🎨🤖🍝 #art #students #proflife #ai @THMittelhessen – at Frankfurt on the Main, Germany
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🎓 Happy to have contributed as an expert to Anna Wirz’s master’s thesis on academic #personalbranding. Thanks to Anna and to my Finnish colleague @Emppuliittus for the inspiring connection. Find the excellent thesis here: theseus.fi/handle/10024/9084… #personastudies
🎉 Happy to share that our joint chapter “Virtuelle Personas. Zur relativen Authentizität medialer (Id)Entitäten” has just been published in the edited Open Access volume „Simulakra, Persona, Artefakt“ (pp. 108–147; German). l1nq.com/1c1xX
@THMittelhessen #PersonaStudies
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🟩 Excursion to the Museum for Communication Frankfurt with DMS students. We explored how news shape perception and how AI reframes reality. Great focus, curiosity, and critical discussion throughout the day. And yes: excursions matter. 😁#excursion #proflife @THMittelhessen
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Couldn’t be there in person, but proud to have co-developed the talk Prof. @dmarshallmc gave at #Pop25: Virtual Persona Economy: Exploring Synthetic Identities in Influencer Culture.
Thanks, David! More in our publication.
#VirtualPersona #SyntheticIdentity #personastudies
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🦋 Moving to Bluesky 🦋 I’m shifting my main activity to Bluesky. If you want to keep following my posts on #personastudies, #brandresearch, #visualcommunication, #design you can find me there at @nicholasqyll. Looking forward to engaging in a more constructive environment! B4N X
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Excited to share that my essay “On Creative Dynamics in Typographic Experiments” has been published in the latest issue of Slanted Magazine – Experimental Type 3.0 (pp. 278–285)! @slanted_blog
#ExperimentalTypography #DesignResearch #Creativity #CreativeProcess #Parameters
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Excursion to Museum Wiesbaden: As part of the Visual Communication course @THMittelhessen, we visited the exhibition “Poster Women. Women’s Posters” – an inspiring tour & a creative poster workshop! 💡🎭 🎨
#PosterDesign #DesignExcursion #Creativity tinyurl.com/excursionViKo
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💚Here’s a look at some of the different portraits and quotes featured in Building A20 at @THMittelhessen. Designed to inspire and spark curiosity! 👉 More information: t.ly/WnEdq
#THM #Design #CampusArt #VisualCommunication #Inspiration #CampusLife #MNI
💚 My Designs Are Now Up 💚 Large portraits and inspiring quotes from computing pioneers now welcome students at @THMittelhessen. 📸 (L-R): Me, Dean Prof. Peter Kneisel, Prof. Uwe Meyer, President Prof. Matthias Willems, and Ivonne Thämer (FM). 👉 More: t.ly/WnEdq
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🚀💚 Excited to share this article about my research on @KarlLagerfeld’s prestige in the Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung’s summer series „THM – Building the Future“. Presented at the @PowerOfPrestige conference, @UniofOxford! @THMittelhessen #PoP24 Read more: t.ly/-dkUl
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🚀 Great to see that the press reported on my presentation about @KarlLagerfeld’s image formation at the @PowerOfPrestige conference at the @UniofOxford. Thanks to the @THMittelhessen for their support! @ANZEIGER_NEWS #pop24 #Oxford
In German: giessener-anzeiger.de/stadt-…
💚Great News! 💚 My university @THMittelhessen has published a short report on my recent presentation at the @UniofOxford.
thm.de/.../from.../the-power…
#Research #KarlLagerfeld #VisualCommunication #PersonaStudies #AcademicConference #PoP24 @PowerOfPrestige @celialamyc @JackieRaphael
What a lovely academic city Oxford is with, of course, a fine university @UniofOxford @Oxfordcity #lucky #Pop24 #researchtrip
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I am very glad to have been part of the @PowerofPrestige Conference 2024 at @UniofOxford in St. Anne’s College. I was talking about @KarlLagerfeld’s visual construction of prestige. Meeting excellent researchers! Thanks to @celialamyc and @JackieRaphael #Pop24 #personastudies
📚 New Publication: Thrilled to share my chapter in “Semiotics and Visual Communication IV: Myths of Today” analyzing Madonna’s use of semiotic material from different cultures to create polymythical branding t.ly/ojYHk #MythsofToday #Semiotics #VisualCommunication
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