Event

Jan Wilker

Jan Wilker, of creative studio karlssonwilker inc., will present a Virtual Designer Talk, “This is How We Do It,” Tuesday, Feb. 16, at 1 pm.

karlssonwilker, based in Queens, New York, specializes in branding, signage, wayfinding, and environmental design, as well as packaging, interactive, fashion, strategy, and ideation. Their projects have been varied, from projects rebranding MTV and The Museum of the Moving Image, to video and soundtrack for Parsons School of Design, shoe designs for Puma, and an immersive digital experience for Sotheby’s.

This online event is free and open to the public. If interested in attending, please email jkopf@pcad.edu for a link. 

Wilker, a native of Germany, studied architecture at Stuttgart University and graduated from the State Academy of Art & Design Stuttgart in Communication Design. He moved to New York in late 2000 to start karlssonwilker, a design studio, together with Icelander Hjalti Karlsson. They continue to work with an eclectic list of clients on a wide variety of projects. Wilker has taught at Cooper Union, SVA, and Parsons, frequently lectures, and holds sought-after design workshops around the world.