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I’m Alexander Roidl – designer, artist, and media researcher based in Mainz / Frankfurt am Main. I work on creative websites / unusual media / software art and visual design. Currently, working as a Tandem-Professor at Mainz University of Applied Sciences and NODE. My research investigates the diverse implications of human-computer interaction with a focus on the creative use of software. My practice explores the intersection of programming, design, and software culture. I am regularly teaching workshops on creative coding, web technology and interaction design. I hold an MFA in Experimental Publishing from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam and a BA in Media Design from Hof University of Applied Sciences in Germany. From 2019 to 2022 I worked as a lecturer and researcher at the design department of The Hague University of Applied Sciences.

Vita

since 2022 Tandem-professorship Mainz University of Applied Sciences and NODE

2019 – 2022 Lecturer and Researcher at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Communication & Multimedia Design

2017 – 2019 Master, Experimental Publishing, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam

2013 – 2017 Bachelor, Mediadesign, University of Applied Sciences, Hof

2015 – 2016 Internship at Verlag Hermann Schmidt

2013 – 2020 Freelance, Graphic & Interaction Design

Contact

mail@alexroidl.de

+49 151 51946451

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Exhibitions / Workshops / Recidencies

2020 Pre-PhD Haagse Hogeschool

2020 Runway Flash Residency

2019 Upsetting Settings Exhibition, Rotterdam

2018 Best Bachelor-student Mediadesign

2018 Publishing as Practice, Workshop

2017 Soundcheck, Dublin

2017 JuniorLab

2016 Richard Wagner Museum, Bayreuth

2014 – 2017 Designblick, Münchberg

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Dogtime graduation portal at the-wrong-degree-show

A bed, a chair and a table book in best dutch books, students selection

IdN v25n5: Publication Design

New tools for new design: PAGE 03 2017

Speichern Unter: Design made in Germany

IN/FORM: PAGE 10 2015

Digitale Welten Workshops

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New tools for new design

How do tools influence design and the way we create? And how can we build new tools in order to create new design, in the mean of process as well as result? This are the questions I try to answer with my bachelor thesis. In an experimental approach I created new tools and designed with them and analysed the influence the tool had on the way I created and on the result. I built 16 tools and with them I created posters, grids, websites, typography, graphics… Some tools are programmed,some are remixes (like a synthsizer I used to create graphics) and some are missused (snapchat for posters). All that is collected in a book – »New tools for new design«.

Thesis in form of:
Book, 145 × 210mm
250 pages
February, 2017

as well as, a collection of digital design tools, that can be found here: New Tools