Matthias Görlich
Communication Design

Established in 2000, the studio of Matthias Görlich works internationally
in the fields of research, design and strategy. The studios' approach is led by a holistic thinking about organization, hierarchies and dependencies
for making complex structures accessible and controlable. Main focus is the the creation and implementation of identity concepts, the development of communication strategies and the visualization of complex information.

Colognes’ European Kunsthalle completes their initiation phase with their publication “European Kunsthalle 2005 2006 2007” offering an indepth
look at the thoughts, concepts and research during their first two years. Book-design by Studio Matthias Görlich with Miriam Rösch.

We developed the overall graphic concept for the Urban Research Studio
in Zurich including a poster-series, website and collateral.

Matthias Görlich was invited to participate in the Lyon Biennale for Contemporary Arts. Task was to visualize the personal understanding
of the image of Europe. “Dear Henry” is based on the famous remark
by Henry Kissinger (“Who do I call if I want to call Europe?”).

Matthias Görlich has been asked to consult on a United Nations research project on the urban development of Palestinian Refugee Camps. Main focus will be the development of tools for communicating research results and possible measures internally and externally. Project coordinated by
Philipp Misselwitz (Urban Planner, Istanbul) together with SIAAL, Stuttgart.

Matthias Görlich has been invited by the Faculty for Architecture
at RWTH, Aachen for a lecture and workshop on graphic-design
and bookmaking for 2nd year students.

From March, 1st to April, 28th 2007 the exhibition titled “Models for Tomorrow: Cologne” will take place on various sites in Cologne City.
The show’s concept was developed by the curational team of the
European Kunsthalle in cooperation with “Spaces of Production”
(N. Hirsch, M. Miessen, P. Misselwitz and M. Görlich).

Overall visual design for European Kunsthalles first exhibtion
“Models for tomorrow: Cologne” by Matthias Görlich.

From October 2006, Matthias Görlich will be lecturing at University Darmstadt and University Wiesbaden. The field of work will include typography-basics, book design and the use of type in three-dimensional space for first and second year students.

“Have fun today. (Applause.)” is featured in the current issue of dutch magazine “Volume” on Architecture and Power. This visualization-project
by Matthias Görlich and Charalampos Lazos deals with George W. Bushs’ defintion of rogue states and the axis of evil. His argumentation is con-fronted with statistical information reacting to his definitions.

Supported by the German Chapter of the Usability Professionals Association, the 14th of November 2006 will be enirely dedicated to user-interaction, physical and digital interfaces and the latest trends in user-centred-design. Matthias Görlich joined the curatorial team and took over the development of a visual concept for the Darmstadt event. For more information, please check this webpage: www.worldusabilityday.org

Presentation and discussion of the research project Spaces of Production together with Shumon Basar (author and curator, London), Ole Bouman (culture- and architecural critic, Amsterdam) and Nikolaus Hirsch, Phil Misselwitz, Markus Miessen and Matthias Görlich (all Spaces of Production, European Kunsthalle) on March, 23rd in the Museum für angewandte Kunst, Cologne. For more information, click here.

As an initial part of the research project “Spaces of Production” we will
be holding a Workshop at the Faculty for Architecture at RWTH Aachen
to generate an overall view of the current situation in cultural production throughout Europe.

Exhibtion Graphic concept for the extensive James Ensor exhibtion
at Schirn-Kunsthalle in Frankfurt. Open from December 17th, 2005
to March 19th, 2006. Image by Norbert Miguletz.

“Spaces of Production“ is a study that conceptualizes, tests, and practically applies the spatial strategy for the European Kunsthalle in Cologne. The investigation does not result from purely theoretical, conceptual considerations but is rather the result of the activities incorporated into the European Kunsthalle founding phase’s two-year work practice from 2005 to 2007. The spatial strategy for the European Kunsthalle is therefore the direct result of “applied research” – an iterative investigation informed by resonances between theory and practice.
Spaces of Production are Nikolaus Hirsch, Philipp Misselwitz, Markus Miessen and Matthias Görlich. For more information, click here.

Matthias Görlich will be teaching at the Faculty for Design, University for Applied Sciences in Darmstadt. Focus will be Typography for first and second year students.

There was only a cemetary for french military left on the site of the Concentration-Camp memorial in Hinzert/Hunsrück. Since Dezember 2005 a permanent exhibtion in the Documentation-Centre shows the whole
story of this place. Inside the builing by Wandel Hoefer Lorch and Hirsch
is a total of 350 sqm exhibtion inscribed into the triangular inner space.
Not contrasting or even competing with the story of this place or with the architectural statement. Clear graphical elements reacting at and acting with the triangular grid of the interior shaping the builings interior.

Accompanying the exhibition, the Jewish-Museum, Frankfurt published this
XXX page catalogue. Awarded IF Communication Award and ADC Silver Medal. Realized while working for Ade Hauser Lacour, Frankfurt.

This exhibtion is the first to cover the Deportation of Jews from Frankfurt between 1941 and 1945. With the help of information on chosen victims,
the main exhibtion-space exemplarily presents the course of 8 depor-
tations from Frankfurt to concentration camps recunstructing the dramatic fate of the victims in these camps and ghettos. The exhibtion spaces enclosing the main exhibtion space present the beginning of the discrim-ination and violence before 1937 and the reconstruction of the jewish community in Frankfurt after the end of WW2. The exhibition design had to deal with two major challenges: the mass of information and the diverse media-sources. Not only papers, photographs and biographical information