Klaus Hesse

From 1993 through 1999, he taught as a professor for communication design at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and the Folkwang University of the Arts. Klaus Hesse has been head of the Communications Design Department at the University of Art and Design Offenbach am Main since 2000. In 2006, his faculty topped the ranking of creative universities as chosen by German news magazine Focus. He has now been dean of the Visual Communications Faculty since 2011. Klaus Hesse was co-initiator of the 11 Designers for Germany on occasion of the 2006 World Cup and of the 1st Graphic Design Biennale Germany China in 2010, and editor-in-chef of the “sushi” yearbook from 1998 through 2013. He has also conducted a series of tours giving lectures and holding workshops, which took him to Cracow/Poland, Puebla/Mexico, Basel/Switzerland, the Chinese metropolises of Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Xi'an and Chongqing, Sydney/Australia and Cape Town/South Africa. Hesse is also a member of the Type Directors’ Club, New York.

Klaus Hesse studied photography and typography at the University of Wupperthal. In 1988, together with Christine Hesse he founded the agency Hesse Design in Düsseldorf; the duo also ran an office in Berlin between 2001 and 2004. The agency is behind corporate designs for Audi, Bewag, Dekra, State Capital Düsseldorf, the Robert Bosch Foundation, Stuttgart Trade Fair, Swarovski and the Upper Middle Rhine World Heritage Site, to name a few. They have been nominated for the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany on several occasions and have won over 200 national and international awards. In 2006, Klaus Hesse won the long-established competition for the visual identity for the Kiel Regatta Week that year.

Klaus Hesse (born 1954 in Elberfeld) is a German graphic designer.