Prof. Dr. Sven Quadflieg

Prof. Dr. Sven Quadflieg, an expert in communication design and visual communication, studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts and the Zurich University of the Arts and received his doctorate at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts.

After working as art director at BOROS Kommunikation, he founded his own design studio in 2011 and worked for well-known institutions such as the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and the Berlin State Museums. His award-winning work has been published internationally.

Since March 2019 he has been a professor for “Fundamentals of Design” at the Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences on the Lippstadt campus. There he took up the position of Vice President for University Culture and Diversity on August 1, 2024.

In his research he focuses primarily on political design and the tension between design and society. The designer is the author and co-editor of various publications and a member of the German Society for Design Theory and Research and the International Gender Design Network.