Julius Wiedemann and I met up at NOMAD Works in midtown to talk about his experiences at TASCHEN, the importance of Gutenberg, the quality concept and reading philosophy.
A Bit About Julius Wiedemann
Julius Wiedemann was born in Brazil, where he studied design and marketing, and has lived and worked in Japan, Germany, and the UK. An eclectic expert on design based visual culture, Wiedemann has produced books on a range of topics, from robots to record covers. He holds the positions of Executive Editor for Design and Pop Culture at TASCHEN. Wiedemann studied graphic design and marketing and was an art editor for newspapers and design publications before joining TASCHEN in 2001.
Wiedemann has edited over 80 books in 18 years, he is a regular contributor to magazines, and has been on the jury of several awards all over the world. His publications have sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide, and his titles are immensely popular. As an editor his work is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach to contemporary design, synthesizing a vast array of topics, including logo design, fashion design, graphic design, web design, and product design. Underpinning many of his books is a desire to understand creativity and explore the nature of reality in a world that increasingly takes place online and is populated by characters and creatures not entirely human but of our creation. The wonders of animation, manga, and computer graphics fascinate and inspire him.
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Show Notes
- Cosmopolitan Environments
- Japan
- UK
- Grew up in Brazil
- Domestika
- 100 Flights a Year
- Digital Beauties
- 3D Studio Max
- Cinema 4D
- Second Life
- Super Digital – Mega Digital – Hyper Digital
- Print Has It’s Value
- Books Are Not Bad
- Benedikt Taschen
- Understanding the World
- Greatest of All Time. A Tribute to Muhammad Ali
- New York Said Books
- Hostile Economic Environments
- The Impact of Gutenberg
- Time Top 100 People
- Niels Bohr
- The World is Not Flat
- Galileo Galilei
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Heliocentric World
- William Randolph Hearst
- Vincent van Gogh
- Malcolm X
- The Revised Truth
- Here’s the Receipts
- Slack
- Monday
- Evernote
- Things List App
- BJ Fogg
- Adobe Audition
- Putting Your Genitalia on Social Media
- Evolving in Three Modes: Biology, Socially & Technologically
- Genetically Programming People
- Global Challenges
- Working Together as a Global Village
- A Simple Theory about Conservatism
- The 30/30/40 Rule
- The Dark Side of the Moon
- The Quality Concept
- Getting to the Essence
- Illustration Now!
- Curation
- The Long Tail
- Rock Covers
- Miles Davis Loved Yellow
- Sketches of Spain
- It’s Always about Relevance
- Reading Philosophy
- Remembering Peter Mayer
- Salman Rushdie
- The Satanic Verses
- Intellectual Ambition
- Diego
- Plato
- Rebecca Goldstein
- Hurricane Sandy
- Penguin Books
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