Kiel Mutschelknaus

Designing Tools; Designing Designs

CoAD's Fall 2021–22 lecture series kicked off with graphic design, animation, and coding. We invited Motion and Generative Designer and Educator Kiel Mutschelknaus to virtually share his expertise and experience. In the last couple of years, Kiel's studio practice has been transformed by rethinking the tools he uses in his work. By switching to a more generative approach and creating his own image-making tools, his personal and client work has expanded in scope and depth. This virtual-only lecture covered the development of that process from early exercises in scripting, to the development of coded tools, to current client projects that merge old methodologies with current generative approaches.

About the Speaker

Kiel Mutschelknaus is a designer and educator based in the Washington DC-Baltimore area. Originally from South Dakota, Kiel attended Cranbrook Academy of Art for his MFA in 2D Design. He currently works in the graphic design department at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore as a full-time faculty member and maintains an active freelance studio.

Kiel's most recent project is the development and research of SpaceTypeGenerator.com, an online motion and type generator. An open source application, STG has inspired projects across the globe including music videos, editorial illustrations, murals, flyers, brands, magazine covers, and a variety of other applications. STG has been featured in It’s Nice That, The Verge, étapes, Novum Magazine, Eye Magazine, Type01, and PAGE. Kiel's clients include New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Spotify, Columbia University, MIT Technology Review, Apple, Bloomberg, The CW, and Ray-Ban.

Designing Tools; Designing Design is part of Lawrence Technological University's CoAD Lunch + Learn lecture series.

LTU CoAD's Lunch + Learn lecture series is free and open to the public. RSVP to receive the livestream link prior to the lecture.