Alexander Jordan, France (1989)
Alex Jordan is a graphic designer, photographer and (ancient) professor. 1966: university entrance diploma. 1966–70: studies at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf (Academy of Fine Arts). This was followed by his first...
Read full biographyAlex Jordan is a graphic designer, photographer and (ancient) professor.
1966: university entrance diploma. 1966–70: studies at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf (Academy of Fine Arts). This was followed by his first steps as an artist, husband, father, teacher and photographer.
1976: arrives at the graphic studio Grapus in Paris.
Learns about graphic design, in exchange for his own creative and political talents.
1985: founded the photo collective le bar Floréal.
1989: foundation of the graphic-design-group Nous Travaillons Ensemble in the interior of (1990 self-dissolving) Grapus with Ronit Meirovitz and Anette Lenz. (www.noustravaillonsensemble.fr)
1990: National Graphic design award for Grapus (Pierre Bernard, Gérard Paris-Clavel, Jean-Paul Bachollet, Alex Jordan) after the break up of the group.
1993 - 2013: professorship in the communication- and design department of the academy Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee. (www.kh-berlin.de).
Look also on www.laforge.org
Publications
Imagerie
(2013)
- Alex Jordan
Créaphis-editions
A humorous mix of images from the productions of Grapus, l'atelier Nous Travaillons Ensemble, la Forge and le bar Floréal photographie group, where I spend my professional time (French and German)
Berlin
(2013)
- Klaus Staeck,
- Olivier Gaudin,
- Stephan Weitzel ,
- Alex Jordan
Créaphis-éditions
East- and West-Berlin in black and white, from 1978 to 2012. (French and German)
Alex Jordan
(2004)
- Alex Jordan,
- Janping He ,
- Rainer Komers ,
- Jean-Paul Bachollet
Lingnan Art Publishing House
One of the DESIGN & LIFE books on graphic designers all over the world
Rions noir (Lough black)
(2022)
- Didier Daeninckx,
- Alex Jordan
Créaphis éditions
Nearly 100 dessins, 16 short stories. It's all about actual times. In French and otherwhere.