• NK-PR-01: left: Nadine Kessler at Boisbuchet, France right: Bowl made of horse manure, sugar cubes forming korean word for horse © image by Nadine Kessler
Arts Tasmania / Vitra Design Museum Fellowship Winner 2012 – Nadine
Kessler has just come back to Tasmania after spending four weeks in
Europe to further her studies in typography.
Nadine Kessler was awarded the Arts Tasmania / Vitra Design Museum
Fellowship 2012. She attended a week-long design workshop held by
internationally renowned designer duo Mischer’Traxler at the Domaine de
Boisbuchet in France. This was part of the annual international summer
seminar program by CIRECA in co-operation with Vitra Design Museum and the
Centre Georges Pompidou. The workshop was a great opportunity to focus on
design process to further Nadine’s typography expertise, build international
networks and take valuable experience back to Tasmania.
In the design workshop ‘(trans)formed nature’ Nadine investigated the
possibilities of how nature can be used as a co-designer. Her experimentations
included using horse manure. Through language and words she created a
series of artworks which questions our values in the twenty first century.
She was also given an exclusive tour of the Vitra Design Museum collection
in Weil am Rhein, Germany by curator Mathias Schwartz-Clauss.
“The visit felt like entering a history book of design. Beginning with ‘Thonet’
chairs from the late nineteen hundreds through to contemporary furniture
designs by Hella Jongerius. Even Australian designer Marc Newson was
represented” – Nadine Kessler
Now back in Tasmania and inspired by this once-in-a-lifetime experience,
Nadine is bursting to bring her expertise to projects in Tasmania and
interstate.
Nadine Kessler is a swiss trained typographer, artist and graphic designer who
works as a freelancer at award-winning Nadine Kessler Design. She has also
been teaching Advanced Typography at UTAS School of Art since 2009. Her
studio is based at Negara 42, a space shared with other leading designers and
artists.
Nadine Kessler
