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Full version of my graduation video 41ShadesOfBlue, a video essay about truth in data and design.
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A video I made in contribution to the exhibition A Really Fake Future at ISO Amsterdam in 2018.
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Video documentation of audiovisual website made in collaboration with Daniel Cherney.
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Website of my graduation thesis PS: Magic 001
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infoSet of cards that contain my graduation thesis PS: Magic 001, about magic, design and technology.
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Full video essay displayed at Declaring Reason show in Meermanno Museum Den Haag, in collaboration with Paul Bille
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Hi, I'm Lukas, a graphic designer based in The Hague.
I graduated from the graphic design department at the KABK in Den Haag in 2018. In my work I often look westwards, towards California, at designs made from metrics and the polished surfaces that define so much of our lives. Writing is a big part of my practice, but my work hardly ever ends up in written form. I experiment a lot with new media and see video as a central part of my practice.
Websites
personal website
www.lukasengelhardt.netart work
borderlessdesign.lukasengelhardt.netart work
ohtheplaces.net/bachelor thesis
thesis.lukasengelhardt.netSocial media
Curriculum vitae
Education
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2016 - 2018graphic design Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
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2013 - 2016graphic design Rotterdam, Willem de Kooning Academie
exhibitions
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2018Graduation Show KABK Den Haag, Netherlands KABK graduation show 2019 www.kabk.nl/agenda/graduation-festival Group
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2018Rijksakademie Open Studios Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten Amsterdam, Netherlands I produced an animation for one of the residents at the Rijksakademie www.rijksakademie.nl/ENG/rijksakademieopen/ Group
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2018Istanbul Design Biennial ARTER GALLERY Istanbul, Turkey Participant in Istanbul Design Biennial aschoolofschools.iksv.org/ Group
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2018A Really Fake Future ISO Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands Group exhibition organized by Karen Huang and Jason Page at ISO Amsterdam areallyfakefuture.com/ Group
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2017Declaring Reason Meermanno Museum Den Haag, Netherlands Project in collaboration between KABK and Museum Meermanno www.meermanno.nl/declaring-reason-eng Group
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2017Ultratatane Biennale internationale de design graphique de chaumont Chaumont, France Interactive VJ performance at the international graphic design biennale in chaumont www.centrenationaldugraphisme.fr/le-signe Group
Projects
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2018
41 Shades of Blue Den Haag, Netherlands lukasengelhardt.net/#41ShadesofBlue My graduation work, video, 18 minutes. Metric driven design, the foundation of the the surfaces we navigate online on a daily basis, yet an alien world to a graphic design student in 2018. During my graduation I tried to understand this new design paradigm and ended up with a short doumentary about A/B testing. At least online, every small design decision can be tested: Chose the blue or the red button to optimise your conversion rate. A/B testing, formerly a tool used by a handful of tech giants to sell more products, has now become a product in itself. With the help of a number of platforms, you too can make your design decisions based on metrics—and you don’t even have to understand how it works! 41 Shades of Blue is a mostly-true documentary that explores the origins, the implications and the future of this new, evidence driven design practice. Between the Uncanny Silicon Valley and the Black Rock Desert of the Real it digs through layers of branding and looks at a world in which data has made design obsolete.
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2018
PS: Magic 001 Den Haag, Netherlands lukasengelhardt.net/#PSMagic001 My bachelor thesis. The term magic is very elusive. A lot of people might first think of dragons, dwarves and elves. Others might think of crystals, reiki, and tarot cards. Real, or imaginary, magic seems to be about knowledge and control over the true workings of the world, its hidden powers, and one’s position in it. Etymologically, magic comes from Old Persian and might have described someone able, in possession of power. Magic has been invested with positive and negative connotations alike through the centuries. Under Christianity, it meant anything to do with paganism or witchcraft and suspected practitioners were burned at the stake. Occult societies, on the other hand, saw magic as the way to spiritual enlightenment. Scholars argue about whether magic and religion can even be treated as different things, and due to its ambiguity the term magic has rarely been used in academic papers since the 1990s Colloquially, however, magic is everywhere. And it's ungraspable, not just as a term. Stage magic for example relies completely on the deception of the audience. Magic is something that cannot be explained—whether it’s because one cannot explain it (lack of understanding) or because it actually cannot be explained (supernatural). Magic is something that just works. In this way, magic is quite similar to, for example, technology or the economy—the things we believe in today, instead of magic. Ultimately, magic is a belief system (or several) and these beliefs have been communicated and upheld through different media. Letters could be shaped into amulets, rituals are held in digital environments. Both images and (hyper)text have even been invested with magical qualities themselves. In these cases image making and magic coincide, and the image maker becomes a magician. Magic images can be be black boxes or white boxes, and image makers can be black-hat or white-hat magicians. I’m trying find out what makes these images magical and what this magical perspective means for the practice of graphic design. In my thesis I discuss in three parts how magic is connected to literacy, how magic is mediated through images, and, ultimately, how image makers can be magicians. I'm wondering: what is the role of the designer in a world full of magic and can he use magic to create his own world?
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2018
Borderless Design Istanbul, Netherlands borderlessdesign.lukasengelhardt.net Interactive Collage. As more and more refugees arrive on Europe’s shores, their struggle is communicated to us through a flood of beautiful images: professionally taken photographs, well composed and edited for maximum effect. As nothing about the situation changes, the same goes for these images: same props, same scenery, same image treatment—the only variable are the people on the boats. Borderless Design explores this endless sea of aesthetics by leaving out this variable and focusing on the constants. An endless, interactive collage of rocks, waves and sky—and the occasional orange vest.
Awards and grants
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2019NETWORKS Rotterdam, Netherlands Me and Paul Bille received NETWORKS funding from MAMA in Rotterdam for a project relating to the ideas of squatting, dropping out, and critically thinking about social media in December 2019.
Secondary art-related activities
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2019 - 2019teaching/workshops at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam and KABK in Den Haag On-going