Questions? Looking for Answers in the Middle of Somewhere

Q: What did you do exactly? A: First, in May 2015, and then again in November 2017, we invited a selection of graphic designers to Otl Aicher's "Institut für analoge Studien" in Rotis, near Leutkirch im Allgäu. Over two days these designers were interviewed in a myriad of ways by graphic design students from the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, whose assignment it was to learn to ask, and design, questions. 0Q: Who did you invite? A: Marietta Eugster and Manuel Krebs (Norm) from Switzerland, Wayne Daly and Veronica Ditting from the UK, Elisabeth Klement & Laura Pappa and Vinca Kruk (Metahaven) from the Netherlands, Monika Maus from Germany, Boy Vereeken from Belgium, Vier 5 from France and Honza Zamojski from Poland.0Q: How did it go? A: Weeeeelllll.00David Bennewith is professor of graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. 0Sereina Rothenberger lives and works as a graphic designer in Zurich. She is professor of communication design at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design.