Education
Hickmann studied photography and communication design at the Fachhochschule Düsseldorf and Aesthetics and Media Theory in Wuppertal.
university professor graphic designer
Hickmann studied photography and communication design at the Fachhochschule Düsseldorf and Aesthetics and Media Theory in Wuppertal.
The Fons Hickmann m23 design studio in Berlin focuses on the development of complex communication systems, corporate design, book, poster, magazine and web design. Hickmann was professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna until the end of 2007, before he took over the chair of graphic design / communication design in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Arts in Berlin from the summer semester in 2007. He taught previously at the Universities of Essen and Dortmund.
The interdisciplinary design laboratory Bremerhaven recruited Hickmann to their Board from 2006-2012.
Borne of a desire to prevent the use of the embarrassing Logo of the World Cup 2006 in Germany, the collaboration with leading German designers “11 Designer für Deutschland” (11 Designers for Germany) -through its great media coverage - successfully brought awareness of graphic design into the public domain. His own football expertise culminated in the 2014 release of the publication “The Best Game Of All Time – one minute protocols from 100 years of football history”.
Fons Hickmann and his studio were invited to exhibit at the opening of the world"s first museum of graphic design, the "Graphic Design Museum" in Breda. The exhibition "European Championship of Graphic Design" was opened by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on 11 June 2008.
Fons Hickmann is increasingly involved in the publishing of literature devoted to different fields, from photography to media theory, through to football and popular-cultural phenomena.
He is a member of the Type Directors Club of New York, the Asterisk Gateway Interface Alliance Graphique Internationale and the Art Directors Club of Germany. Since 2012 he has been a member of the »Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland« jury.