Helmut Ness & Chris Bleuel - Smart dialogues between Designer and Coder
Channel: Typographische Gesellschaft München – tgm
Date: 08/11/2014

Chris Bleuel's main area of expertise lies in user experience design of digital systems in an increasingly complex world. He studied Communication Design under Prof. Erich Schöls and Prof. Carl Frech, both at the University of Applied Sciences Wuerzburg and the University of Arts Berlin, focusing on interface and interaction design.
He held workshops and gave guest lectures on design theory in the study of Strategic Communication and Planning at the University of Arts Berlin.  In cooperation with Sebastian Glaeser, Jan Peter Gillich, Matthias Wagler und Prof. Erich Schöls, he founded the Steinbeis Research Institute of Design and Systems in 2006.
After having worked as a concept developer and interface designer for the Intuity Media Lab in Stuttgart, he joined Simone Heissel and became head of interactive design at Fuenfwerken Design AG in Berlin for three years.
Since 2011, he is working as an independent Interaction Designer and, together with his co-founder Magdalena Cuber, established the digital expert network »functionalaesthetics«.

Helmut Ness is Co-Founder, Managing Partner and CDO of Fuenfwerken based in Berlin and Wiesbaden, which is one of the leading owner-managed CD/CI Agencies in Germany. As a type designer, he developed the traffic information typeface Vialog (Linotype/Monotype), which is in use for the Munich Subway, the spanish railway RENFE and the highway road signs in Japan. As a Fuenfwerker, he is delighted with the interaction of strategy, creativity, technology, management and understanding. As a designer, he is looking forward to smart ways to integrate UI development with smart (icon) font development. Since 2010, he has been Member of the IIID (International Institute of Information design) Expert Forum Committee and the Board of IDZ (International Design Center, Berlin).