I am an Austrian, German and American designer. I studied New Media and Interface- and Interaction Design at the University of the Arts Berlin, Transformation Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam as well as Graphic- and Communication Design at Die Graphische in Vienna.
I have worked within the fields of concept & design as well as graphic design and have been teaching and organising seminars as well as workshops at universities – alone and as part of collectives. I have an expertise in a variety of disciplines: conception, graphic design, coding, prototyping, interaction design and electronics. I have worked at graphic studios and departments of different sizes in Austria as well as the United States and been freelancing since 2016. My creative work is heavily based on as well as influenced by socio-political theories mainly concerning structural inequalities and power relationships. Hence also the masters degree in Gender Studies I am currently working on at the University of Vienna and University of Basel.
Within the last years I have published a book as well as multiple articles. On days I am not reading, prototyping, sitting in front of my computer or out in nature I like to work with wood.
→ Gathering knowledge in the gaps between our teeth (zest Kollektiv, Conference Learnings/Unlearnings: Environmental Pedagogies, Play, Policies, and Spatial Design, KTH, Konstfack & Färgfabriken, Stockholm, SE, 2024)
→ Institutional Aftertaste (zest Kollektiv, Symposium Unlearning University, University of the Arts Berlin, DE, 2024)
→ A New School, A Summer School – (Re)imagining Learning Environments (M.1, Arthur-Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, DE, 2023)
→ Picture this: Kritische Kunsthochschulen (Eine Krise bekommen, Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel, DE, 2022)
→ Eine Krise bekommen: Kunsthochschulen und Ausschlussmechanismen (Eine Krise bekommen, University of the Arts Berlin, DE, 2022)
→ Farbe und Oberfläche (teaching assignment of a semester course, HTW Dresden, DE, 2021–22)
→ Eine Krise bekommen: Design und Psychische Gesundheit (Eine Krise bekommen, University of the Arts Berlin, DE, 2021)
publications:
→ Kirstein, Lea: Access is a never-ending process, in: Lerchenfeld 68 (2023), p. 78 – 81.
→ Atasayar, Destina; Brenner, Katharina; Herbst, Lu; Knilli, Lucie Jo: „Wir müssen Ihnen leider mitteilen, …“, in: Art.School.Differences blog (2023).
→ Knilli, Lucie Jo: Die wirkliche Farbe: Farbe und Wirklichkeitstreue (2021).
→ Baumgarten, Lisa; Leijdekkers, Judith: Conversations continued ... with Katharina Brenner, Luisa Herbst, Destina Atasayar and Lucie Jo Knilli, in: Teaching Design (2021).
→ Atasayar, Destina; Brenner, Katharina; Herbst, Lu; Knilli, Lucie Jo: Eine Krise bekommen, in: Eigenart Magazin (2021).
→ Knilli, Lucie Jo: Wer bin ich wann und warum?, in: Atasayar, Destina; Brenner, Katharina; Herbst, Lu; Knilli, Lucie Jo (Ed.): Eine Krise bekommen (2021 & 2022), p. 95 – 99.
→ Free Radicals: Eine Krise bekommen, in: Astrup-Chauvaux, Jeanne; Bovelet, Sarah (Ed.): Free Radical Newspaper (2021), p. 6 – 7.
education:
since 2022: Gender Studies (MA, University of Vienna, AT & University of Basel, CH)
2017 – 2021: Interface- and Interaction Design and New Media (BA, University of the Arts Berlin, DE)
2019 – 2020: Transformation Design (Erasmus, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, NL)
2012 – 2017: Graphic- and Communication Design (Diploma, Die Graphische, Vienna, AT)
work areas: conception, design, interface- and interaction design, editorial design, corporate design, web design, web development
skills: adobe cc (illustrator, indesign, photoshop, after effects, premiere pro), programming languages / frameworks (html, css, openframeworks, arduino, processing, p5js), figma, digital 3d modelling (rhino, fusion 360, cinema 4D), crafting knowledge (woodworking, metalworking, electronics skills, pottery, bookbinding, photography, videography, 3D printing, laser cutting, plotting, screen printing, lithography, linoprint)
studios/departments:
2021: working as a tutor in the mechatronics workshop of the University of the Arts Berlin
since 2016: working as a freelance designer in the areas of conception, editorial design, corporate design, web design & development
2015 – 2016: internship followed by a part-time position as a graphic designer at Orange Moon (Vienna, AT)
2015: internship in the graphic design department of the labour union PRO-GE (Vienna, AT)
2014: internship at the Hermann Miller graphic design department (Holland Michigan and New York, USA)
2014: internship as a graphic designer at Fairly Painless (Holland Michigan, USA)
I am an Austrian, German and American designer. I studied New Media and Interface- and Interaction Design at the University of the Arts Berlin, Transformation Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam as well as Graphic- and Communication Design at Die Graphische in Vienna.
I have worked within the fields of concept & design as well as graphic design and have been teaching and organising seminars as well as workshops at universities – alone and as part of collectives. I have an expertise in a variety of disciplines: conception, graphic design, coding, prototyping, interaction design and electronics. I have worked at graphic studios and departments of different sizes in Austria as well as the United States and been freelancing since 2016. My creative work is heavily based on as well as influenced by socio-political theories mainly concerning structural inequalities and power relationships. Hence also the masters degree in Gender Studies I am currently working on at the University of Vienna and University of Basel.
Within the last years I have published a book as well as multiple articles. On days I am not reading, prototyping, sitting in front of my computer or out in nature I like to work with wood.
→ Gathering knowledge in the gaps between our teeth (zest Kollektiv, Conference Learnings/Unlearnings: Environmental Pedagogies, Play, Policies, and Spatial Design, KTH, Konstfack & Färgfabriken, Stockholm, SE, 2024)
→ Institutional Aftertaste (zest Kollektiv, Symposium Unlearning University, University of the Arts Berlin, DE, 2024)
→ A New School, A Summer School – (Re)imagining Learning Environments (M.1, Arthur-Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt, DE, 2023)
→ Picture this: Kritische Kunsthochschulen (Eine Krise bekommen, Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel, DE, 2022)
→ Eine Krise bekommen: Kunsthochschulen und Ausschlussmechanismen (Eine Krise bekommen, University of the Arts Berlin, DE, 2022)
→ Farbe und Oberfläche (teaching assignment of a semester course, HTW Dresden, DE, 2021–22)
→ Eine Krise bekommen: Design und Psychische Gesundheit (Eine Krise bekommen, University of the Arts Berlin, DE, 2021)
publications:
→ Kirstein, Lea: Access is a never-ending process, in: Lerchenfeld 68 (2023), p. 78 – 81.
→ Atasayar, Destina; Brenner, Katharina; Herbst, Lu; Knilli, Lucie Jo: „Wir müssen Ihnen leider mitteilen, …“, in: Art.School.Differences blog (2023).
→ Knilli, Lucie Jo: Die wirkliche Farbe: Farbe und Wirklichkeitstreue (2021).
→ Baumgarten, Lisa; Leijdekkers, Judith: Conversations continued ... with Katharina Brenner, Luisa Herbst, Destina Atasayar and Lucie Jo Knilli, in: Teaching Design (2021).
→ Atasayar, Destina; Brenner, Katharina; Herbst, Lu; Knilli, Lucie Jo: Eine Krise bekommen, in: Eigenart Magazin (2021).
→ Knilli, Lucie Jo: Wer bin ich wann und warum?, in: Atasayar, Destina; Brenner, Katharina; Herbst, Lu; Knilli, Lucie Jo (Ed.): Eine Krise bekommen (2021 & 2022), p. 95 – 99.
→ Free Radicals: Eine Krise bekommen, in: Astrup-Chauvaux, Jeanne; Bovelet, Sarah (Ed.): Free Radical Newspaper (2021), p. 6 – 7.
education:
since 2022: Gender Studies (MA, University of Vienna, AT & University of Basel, CH)
2017 – 2021: Interface- and Interaction Design and New Media (BA, University of the Arts Berlin, DE)
2019 – 2020: Transformation Design (Erasmus, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, NL)
2012 – 2017: Graphic- and Communication Design (Diploma, Die Graphische, Vienna, AT)
work areas: conception, design, interface- and interaction design, editorial design, corporate design, web design, web development
skills: adobe cc (illustrator, indesign, photoshop, after effects, premiere pro), programming languages / frameworks (html, css, openframeworks, arduino, processing, p5js), figma, digital 3d modelling (rhino, fusion 360, cinema 4D), crafting knowledge (woodworking, metalworking, electronics skills, pottery, bookbinding, photography, videography, 3D printing, laser cutting, plotting, screen printing, lithography, linoprint)
studios/departments:
2021: working as a tutor in the mechatronics workshop of the University of the Arts Berlin
since 2016: working as a freelance designer in the areas of conception, editorial design, corporate design, web design & development
2015 – 2016: internship followed by a part-time position as a graphic designer at Orange Moon (Vienna, AT)
2015: internship in the graphic design department of the labour union PRO-GE (Vienna, AT)
2014: internship at the Hermann Miller graphic design department (Holland Michigan and New York, USA)
2014: internship as a graphic designer at Fairly Painless (Holland Michigan, USA)