Honorable Member C-IDEA Association

2026-01-05T11:26:50Z

During 2025 C-IDEA Conference, Professor Hyungjoo A. Kim, Council Member of the C-IDEA Association from Purdue University, USA, announced that a new cohort of international members had officially joined the association following recommendations from existing members and rigorous review by the Council. Professor Hyungjoo A. Kim sincerely congratulated them on becoming members of the C-IDEA Association and looked forward to their future contributions and innovations to our shared cause.

www.cideaassociation.com/new-member-2025

Cidea Conference 2025

2026-01-05T11:23:00Z

The first international PhD festival of the C-IDEA Association took place in the last week of October 2025. It stopped in Hamburg, Berlin, and Kaohsiung (China) and focused on topics such as the future development of design education.

Guests from Australia, China, Germany, Georgia, Israel, Japan, Macedonia, Mexico, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Hungary, and the USA presented their ideas, approaches, and solutions.

I gave a lecture on teaching in times of industrial creativity and would like to express my sincere thanks to the organizers.

www.cideaassociation.com

DNA of Democracy

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

It is an honor and an even greater pleasure for me to be one of 150 participants in the Hashtag#dnaofdemocracy project who are allowed to express their wishes for a contemporary constitution. Being published in a campaign and a book together with Margot Friedländer, Maja Göpel and my personal hero, the producer Tyron Ricketts, is more than just a reassurance that we can only develop our country together. It is also a reminder that you can only be part of something if you are willing to share something yourself.

75 years ago, Konrad Adenauer signed the Basic Law - the DNA of our democracy. Based on the inviolability of human dignity and universal human rights, it safeguards our free coexistence and our most binding values. More than 75 years later, it is time to think and argue anew about our common constitution. Our society has evolved and we are facing new questions to which we can only find answers together. The campaign and the book can of course only be an impetus for this.

I would like to thank the initiators Daniel Koller, Tomaso Baldessarini, Wigan Salazar and Melanie Probandt and the more than 50 people and organizations, such as Deutsche Telekom, Graf von Faber-Castell, Correctiv, Cupra, MSL Group Germany, ProSiebenSat.1, WallDecaux etc., who have supported the project so far.

Find out more under www.startnext.com/demokratiemuss

ILLUSTRADE 2023

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

In October, I gave a lecture as part of the ILLUSTRADE illustration festival in Rostock. The topic was AI and creativity and the subsequent discussion lasted much longer than the lecture itself. The possibilities of the technology were discussed in an honest and stimulating manner, without being able to definitively answer the many open questions. Perhaps the following applies for the moment: only active debate will "really" take us further. Just a few days later, the exhibition "Goodnews" opened in the FRIEDA 23 gallery in the Rostock art school, which deals with the changing media and their influence on our behavior. I took part in the group exhibition with some of my WORTSTOERUNGEN, which have been published weekly in the Berliner Zeitung for the past year. Thanks to Mettie and the whole team behind the scenes!

yesweprompt

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

"Artificial intelligence needs intelligent artists" That's the motto of Claudia Bußjaeger, who founded Germany's first agency for AI designers. yeswepromt launched in May & already has more than a dozen top creatives to show for it. I'm very proud to be a small part of this new adventure next to all the renowned designers!

TDC New York, 2023

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

An award for typographic excellence has been won by our type calendar Typodarium at the Type Directors Club New York in spring 2023. Thanks to designer Jonas Rose, who more than deserves it for his farewell to this project!

The Dialectic of Creativity, By Hermann Vaske, 2022

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

"Creativity is the most natural way for me to live, work, and connect with people. Growing up in an artistic household, ideas and their realization were everyday life. Every attempt to earn my money with anything else failed." That's my answer to Hermann Vaske's now legendary question: Why are you creative?

In his just-published book, he has gathered 150 creatives from around the world in a crisp compendium. Among them are Marina Abramovic, David Bowie & Yoko Ono. Thank you for allowing me to be a small part of it too. Here is my contribution in words & picture and a typo-graphic on the topic 1 + 1 = 3.

The Dialectic of Creativity, Publisher: Hatje Cantz, Editor: Hermann Vaske, Chapter Artworks: Jonathan Meese, Illustration: Valérie Pirson, Cover Art: Esra Gülmen, Art Direction & Graphic Design: Hannes Fuchs, Teresa Spöckner, Laura Hermes, Jonas Rose & Raban Ruddigkeit, ISBN 978-3-7757-5292-3

New Visual Column at Berliner Zeitung

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

»Anyone who knows Raban Ruddigkeit knows that the graphic is his language. It is the language in which he thinks, is creative and in which he opens up his surprising worlds to us - and at the same time combines them with clever words and thoughts. The editorial team of the Berliner Zeitung has decided to enter into a special relationship with Raban Ruddigkeit. The artist, who lives in Berlin, has agreed to design half a page every week in the Berliner Zeitung at the weekend and on the online pages of our portal www.berlinerzeitung.de, and to design his special graphic tiles, consisting ofword and image, on current events and publish them with us.«

Thank you for your trust in me to Editor-in-chief Tomasz Kurianowicz: and Art director Uros Pajovic and here's to a good cooperation! Discover the Berliner Zeitung and my »Graphic Content«. Read the Introduction!

What Design Can Do, Amsterdam, 2022

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

»WDCD X POSTERS CAN HELP« worked together on an exhibition for the 10th “What Design Can Do Live” in Amsterdam. The exhibition was on display in the main lobby area where participants got their coffee and tea during the breaks. The team of “WDCD” picked some of the posters that have been submitted so far to Posters Can Help to exhibit great works and raise awareness for this project. Hope, resilience, and people power take center stage at “What Design Can Do’s” tenth edition in Amsterdam. “What Design Can Do Live” marks a major milestone with a sold-out festival at the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam.

Anti-Novel Coronavirus 100 Posters Exhibition in Beijing/China

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

At the invitation of my friend Li Xu i took part in the competition ANTI - NOVEL CORONAVIRUS 100 POSTERS in Beijing, China. The exhibition can be seen in the Wenzhou Library until 15 August and will travel to Poland in 2021. Find more information here!

slanted coexist, 2020

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

In summer 2020 the German design magazine slanted initiated a global call for submissions questioning topics such as climate change, political power, human rights, freedom of speech, wars, and many other global issues. More than 450 designers, illustrators, photographers, writers and artists from all over the world contributed to this extra thick issue.

Thanks for having me and my artwork too in ⁠slanted #36 Coexist, 352 pages⁠, 16 × 24 × 2 cm⁠, English⁠, ISSN 1867-6510 ⁠

From the Trenches – Graphic Designers Association of Catalonia

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

Since this pandemic began at the end of last year, the world of design, in all its specialities, has not been unaware of the possibility and the need to intervene in a clear and more or less direct way.

Each place and each circumstance has allowed a type of action or a form of collaboration. The "industrial capacities" of some have allowed collaborative actions to be generated that have facilitated the production of necessary artifacts. The communicative abilities of others have also allowed collaborative actions to be generated in which visual objects have been created that move, explain, protect, appeal to behaviour, seduce and inform, and manage to generate awareness and encourage a disoriented and distressed society.

The "poster" has never disappeared from our environment but during this pandemic it has been reborn with strength and there are many actions of this kind that have been developed, but none has reached the level of relevance and internationalization that we have promoted from the Official College of Graphic Design of Catalonia, with the project "From the Trenches. One day less, one more design".

slanted # 34 Europe

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

Slanted Magazine #34 Europe is a plea for a multi-faceted and vibrant Europe, against the backdrop of an Europe of nations, right-wing populism, and selfish politics. It is an inventory of Europe, showing a comment, a perspective, a feeling of illustrators, photographers, writers and graphic designers from all around Europe. Now available at www.slanted.de

H-O-T Release, Berlin, 15. November 2019

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

H-O-T Histories Of Tomorrow – Release

For some time now we have been working on a magazine consisting exclusively of pictures and texts from the Internet. Now the first issue of "H-O-T Histories Of Tomorrow" has been released & we invite you all for a little aperitif. Authors, photographers & illustrators of the first issue will be present & we are looking forward to inspiring conversations, constructive criticism & of course everyone who buys an issue.-) We celebrate in the newly opened Pirol Studios Berlin, where designers, artists, historians, consultants, architects & sociologists work together.

Freitag, 15. November 2019 von 19:00 bis 22:00, Pirol Studios, Bülowstraße 56, 10783 Berlin

HAKKA Impressions, China

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

“When the past meets the future, it is today. When East meets West, the middle arises. And where people meet, new life develops.” In 2018 Raban Ruddigkeit was invited as one of 100 international designers to design a poster for the exhibition HAKKA Impression. The show was successfully opened.-)

Konkursbuch # 54, February 2019

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

In the current Konkursbuch, publisher Sigurd Casper has chosen the subject of lies. And an illustration that goes with it from the series of Graphic Comments. Dear Sigurd, thank you for the publication!

Design & Politics, 13. June 2019

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

In the Germany-wide podium series Bauhaus 4.0: Future is made of design of the German Design Day, top creatives from various fields will discuss how digitization, automation & robotics can actively shape the structural transformation of all areas of life with the ideas of the Bauhaus;

Design & Politics in Times of Fake News - What is the New Role of Editorial Design & Visual Storytelling in Democracy? Among others with the Cologne editorial designer & professor in Münster Rüdiger Quass von Deyen, the illustrator & designer Raban Ruddigkeit, draughtsman of the political commentary in the Berlin newspaper DER TAGESSPIEGEL, one of the founders & editors of the award-winning design magazine Slanted, Professor Lars Harmsen, as well as Professor Andine Müller, who is intensively involved with narratives. The evening will be hosted by the Illustrator Organisation, and the welcome will be given by the chairwoman Franziska Walther.

Thursday, 13.6.2019, 18:30, Dortmund, In the paper warehouse of Freytag & Petersen, Overhoffstraße 50, 44149 Dortmund

What Unites Us? Online Exhibition

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

»As Giresun University Görele Faculty of Fine Arts, Graphic Design Department, Turkey, we would like to inform you with regret that we will not be able to realize the opening ceremony of our design exhibition on the theme "What Unites Us?”, as a part of “April 27, World Design Day”, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Accordingly, in these bad days, our need for hope and human values, such as, love, respect, peace, equality, health are increasing. Our motive as a team is that emphasizing these human values through design in these productive days that we spend at home will help to increase hope. For this reason, we have decided to display our exhibition as Online Exhibition.

TIME—Exhibition at Gallery Garten114, Berlin, 16—22 May 2019

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»Time is the school in which we learn—Time is the fire in which we burn« Delmore Schwartz

Raban Ruddigkeit »Time«, 24 New Design Objects, Exhibition from 16th—22th of May 2019 at Gallery Garten 114, Gartenstraße 114, 10115 Berlin, Germany. Daily 12—7pm

Opening 16th of May 6pm—12pm!

Wir sind das Volk, Germany

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

Creatives against racism. During the last couple of years – especially during the last one – Germany faces an increase in rightwing “angry citizens” (Wutbürger), who are officially known as “worried citizens” ever since the refugee crisis started. Under the disguise of protecting their own families, traditions & own existence, they pursue a fierce chevy against homosexuals, immigrants & liberalism thus making ground for rightwing cells & organisations, heavily creeping in the middle of our society. We say: History should not repeat itself! Find out more!

art magazine, 2013

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... One person who firmly believes in the relevance of illustration is the Berlin designer Raban Ruddigkeit; “An illustration offers an individual view and thus shows the wealth of the world,” says Ruddigkeit. “Why are people still interested in something new despite all the picture sequences? Because they want to understand and recognize the world. Illustration can be more insightful than, for example, photography”.

At the end of the nineties Ruddigkeit prepared the relaunch of the Berlin magazine Das Magazin, one of the oldest German general-interest magazines, and looked for new ideas. “Illustration was simply dead. There were still the old eighties bunnies from the F.A.Z. Magazine, nobody could see that anymore." Since then, the Berliner himself has contributed a little to a better overview – with the publication of several Freistil books.

Ruddigkeit does not see any threat to the genre due to a change in the media. One should not always put everything on the bad media. Markets are constantly changing. “Those who implement good ideas well are also able to design icons that attract attention on the Internet.“

Kito Nedo for art – the art magazine

Capital Berlin, Germany

2026-01-05T11:21:12Z

This interpretation of the letter Ä by Bernd Möllenstädt was created for an exhibition in the Mota Italic Gallery. With immense effort & the greatest pleasure we have eroticized it a little.

Berlin Square, China, 2010

2022-09-09T16:58:33Z

Berlin was the third German federal state to present itself as part of the German Pavilion “balancity” at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai. On a stage of about 200 m² within the 6,000 m² “Europe Square,” visitors had the opportunity to experience Berlin’s creativity to its full extent. Freistil presents the illustrators Tina Berning, Lesja Chernish, Kathrin Funcke, Tim Dinter & Jakob Hinrichs on a moving square.

Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem, 2009

2022-09-09T16:58:43Z

At the invitation of the I.O. Illustratoren Organisation, the illustrators Judith Drews, Felix Scheinberger & Freistil-Editor Raban Ruddigkeit visited Israel for a week in 2009. In a lecture at the academy they introduced the students to German illustration. Thanks to Meran Salomon, Adi Stern & all the others to whom we owe such an impressive experience. Judith Drews create the beautiful poster.