Johannes Bissinger
Munich
Germany
johannesbissinger.com
what do designers do?
Design.
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- Art Direction
- Art Direction is the formulation of guidelines for the development of a specific creative product. The Art Director, as leader of a team comprised of various creative experts, makes decisions to achieve a product’s greatest possible potential.
motivation for designing
To express myself.
learned to design
At home/outside – trying, acting, doing.
year since working as
professional designer1982
age of first design career thought
14
working at night per month
A couple of times per month.
how do designers spend their time
on average workday?
on average workday?
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10:00
open
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designing
1 1 1 1 1
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research
1 1 1
thinking
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writing emails
1
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handling calls
j
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managing
j
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other
0
how do designers develop ideas?
Going out.
main influences
Chaos and organization.
what does a designers’
workplace look like?
workplace look like?

Small and nice.
what is an ideal designer like?
Enthusiast, thinker, researcher, doer, reflector.
what is a dream client like?
Money cause you are pretty.
relationship with client
Black and white.
getting along with salary
It is difficult to cope.
what do you like or dislike
about the others’ behaviour?
about the others’ behaviour?
I like their understanding and open mind. I dislike: “please this part bigger, we want this photo and need the headline again on every side.”