I spent a month in Vienna, Austria, with the UMBAU School for architecture and design. This school abroad gave me access into the European art and design world. I met with countless graphic designers, craftsmen, architects, artists and other types of designers. Along with my eleven other classmates, I was given the opportunity to pick the minds of these designers and listen to their stories, ideas and knowledge on the world as it exists today and as it is forming for tomorrow.
This experience was one that has truly shaped me as a creator and thinker and those vibrations are felt throughout everything I do.
We met:
a painter. (Eduard Angeli) | a carpenter. (Philip) | a flower shop. (Blumenkraft) | an architect. (Gregor Echinger) | a goldsmith. (Max AKA RingKing) | a product design team. (Breaded Escalope) | an exhibition artist. (Wendelin Pressl) | a glassware company. (Lobmeyr) | a shoemaker. (Símon @ Rosa Mosa) | an architecture firm. (Coop Himmelblau) | a monk and sculptor. (Father Raphael) | a furniture design shop. (Margreta @ Das Möbel) | an architect. (Christof) | an installation artist. (Mischer Traxler) | a pair of book designers. (Graficum) | a sculptor. (Peter Párkányi) | a violin maker. (Cai) | a hat maker. (Clause @ Mühlbaur) | a graphic designer. (Nik Theonen) | a typography designer. (TypeJockeys) | a singer. (Eva @ Lylit Music) | a design team. (Herold @ Eoos) | a bike designer. (Vello) | a vinter. A winemaker. (Regner)
Below are the artists and designers we met, spoke with, and learned from along the way.
Photo credit: Casey Williams