Verena Panholzer, Austria

AGI member since 2019

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Verena Panholzer is the Art Director and founder of Studio Es, a studio for visual communication. Beside her studio work she is giving lectures on several universities in Vienna and beyond. Since 2017 Verena is a active member on board of ‘100 Best Posters’ association. After finishing Graphic and Communication Design College and studying Industrial Design at the Kunstuniversität Linz, Verena worked in the design department at TBWA Berlin on clients such as Adidas, Apple and Sony. For the last 13 years she has been running the studio in Vienna, mainly working with clients from the fields of arts and culture (e.g. Diagonale; Festival of Austrian Film, Wien Museum, MdbK Leipzig, NRW-Forum, keen on magazine and — more recently — Foto Wien). The highly conceptional work of the studio organizes flexible systems in their mainly identity-based output. Through the years the studio has received numerous international awards and she has been invited to join juries, conferences and festivals.

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    Verena Panholzer, Austria (2019)

    Verena Panholzer is the Art Director and founder of Studio Es, a studio for visual communication. Beside her studio work she is giving lectures on several universities in Vienna and...

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    Verena Panholzer, Austria (2019)

    Verena Panholzer is the Art Director and founder of Studio Es, a studio for visual communication. Beside her studio work she is giving lectures on several universities in Vienna and beyond. Since 2017 Verena is a active member on board of ‘100 Best Posters’ association. After finishing Graphic and Communication Design College and studying Industrial Design at the Kunstuniversität Linz, Verena worked in the design department at TBWA Berlin on clients such as Adidas, Apple and Sony. For the last 13 years she has been running the studio in Vienna, mainly working with clients from the fields of arts and culture (e.g. Diagonale; Festival of Austrian Film, Wien Museum, MdbK Leipzig, NRW-Forum, keen on magazine and — more recently — Foto Wien). The highly conceptional work of the studio organizes flexible systems in their mainly identity-based output. Through the years the studio has received numerous international awards and she has been invited to join juries, conferences and festivals.

    Publications

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    Es bist du

    (2015)

    • Verena Panholzer

    Studio Es

    Type Faces

    (2011)

    • Sibylle Hamtil

    Metro Verlag

    Exhibitions

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    Es bist du

    2015

    Vienna Design Week, Vienna

    Who are you? We asked creatives all over the world. We often take other peoples´ or even companies' perspectives to condense their identity into visual communication. In this project we show how important it is to adress each person individually.

    Passionswege / VDW

    2016

    Vienna Design Week, Vienna

    We reproduced and translated ancient engravings into a new digital context. A showcase of animated posters and lithograph prints. Each print, a pure and unique artifact. The exhibition took place at the artistic Institute for copperplate printing from 1922. https://studio-es.at/viennadesignweek/

    28th International Graphic Design Biennale Brno

    2018

    Moravská galerie, Brno

    Lectures

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    Id, ego and super-ego. Graphic design between art and commerce.

    (2018, 2019)

    • Tÿpo St. Gallen, Balance, St. Gallen
    • Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna

    Von 0 auf 100.

    (2019)

    • HfG Karlsruhe, Germany

    das ist es

    (2017)

    • Forward Festival, Austria

    Awards

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    • 2019, 2020

    TDC New York, Award for Typographic Excellence
    • 2017, 2018, 2019

    100 beste Plakate, AUT/CH/GER
    • 2009, 2014, 2017, 2016

    European Design Award
    • 2005, 2007, 2016, 2017

    ADC*Europe, Award
    • 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

    CCA, Creativ Club Austria
    • 2014, 2015, 2016

    Graphis
    • 2010

    D&AD Award
    • 2010

    ADC New York, Award
    • 2011

    Red Dot Award
    • 2007

    Cannes Lions
    • 2006

    ADC Germany, Award

    Other Professional Activities

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    • Member on Board

      100 beste Plakate, AUT/CH/DE – 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

    • Design Jury Member, Cannes

      Cannes Lions – 2016

    • Design Jury Member

      NY Festival – 2016

    • Jury President

      100 beste Plakate – 2014

    • Multi Channel Jury Member

      Golden Drum – 2013

    • Design Jury Member

      ADC*Europe – 2011

    • Member on Board

      CCA, Austria – 2017, 2018