Sven Ingmar Thies

Ingmar Thies is a graphic designer specializing in corporate design and interface design.

After completing his studies in graphic design at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig, he worked for, among others, the corporate identity consultants Henrion, Ludlow & Schmidt in London, the Kitayama Institute in Tokyo, and the branding agency Enterprise IG in Hamburg. Since 1998, he has been living and working as a freelancer in Hamburg and Vienna for clients such as Akakiko, Atomic, HEWI, hma Architekten, Joop, Kneissl, Niessing, Orlando di Castello, ÖBB, OMV, Sika, twib, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, and ZIV.

In his independent work, he develops photography projects and installations such as “Japanese Rooms” in Berlin, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, and Vienna, and “Welle” for USM in Hamburg and Berlin.

In June 2023, he published his book*Teaching Graphic Design*, which was released in April 2025 as a second edition in English and a first edition in German. For the book, Ingmar Thies drew on his own teaching experiences and interviewed 24 instructors. Among those featured are instructors in graphic design, design theory, game development, industrial design, and behavioral science from China, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, Austria, and the United States. Among them are LeeAnn Renninger, Rathna Ramanathan, Kashiwa Sato, and Erik Spiekermann—How do I teach design? Why is listening so important? What can we learn from other disciplines and cultural contexts, and from one another? What impact does this have on future professional practice?

www.thiesdesign.com
www.teachinggraphicdesign.com
www.kaitenart.com