Daniel Koening

Current

• Graphic Designer at roninarts

Past

• Exhibition Design, Scientific Research, Guiding at The Húsavík Whalemuseum / Hvalasafnið á Húsavík
• Deskhand at The Icelandic Phallological Museum
• Scientific University Research Member at Fachhochschule Duesseldorf MKI

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Education

• Fachhochschule Düsseldorf
• Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Connections

24 connections

Industry

Design

Daniel Koening’s Summary

Visual Communications: Print- and Web Design, User Interface Design, Finishing Artist, Development, Concepts and Creative Solutions in the field of Brand Identity and Corporate Design, Exhibition Design, Editorial and Newspaper Design, Micro- & Macro-Typography, Advertisement, Documentation, Short Movies

Applications: Adobe Creative Suit (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator), Acrobat Pro/Distiller, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash, Freehand, Quark Xpress (since 3.2), Microsoft Office Suite, OpenOffice Suit, Hermes (Newspaper Tool), Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack, Administration of LAMP-Systems

Programming Languages: XHTML, HTML, CSS, Bash, Basic Understanding of Perl, PHP, Python, JS, looking into Ruby on Rails at the moment

Operating Systems: Apple Mac OS X & Classic, Linux (Debian, Redhat, Gentoo, Suse), Unix/BSD, Microsoft Windows (3.1 – XP)

European/German Driver Licence (B), Know how to forklift (no licence)

Languages: German, English (fluent), French, Spanish, Japanese (basic) Icelandic (able to order a beer)

Daniel Koening’s Experience

• Graphic Designer

  roninarts

  (Design industry)

  January 2001 — Present (9 years )

• Exhibition Design, Scientific Research, Guiding

  The Húsavík Whalemuseum / Hvalasafnið á Húsavík

  (Museums and Institutions industry)

  April 2008 — October 2008 (7 months)

  Working as Volunteer, »The Húsavík Whalemuseum”, Iceland.
  
  Doing Exhibition Design, Guiding and Helping with Scientific Research in Marine Mammals, e.g. Cetaceans/Whales.
  http://www.whalemuseum.is

• Deskhand

  The Icelandic Phallological Museum

  (Museums and Institutions industry)

  June 2008 — June 2008 (1 month)

  see also: http://www.phallus.is

• Scientific University Research Member

  Fachhochschule Duesseldorf MKI

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2003 — December 2007 (5 years )

  Scientific University Research Member (Webmaster/Server/Network
  
  Computer-Administrator, Institute for Information, Communication and Media at the University of Applied Science, Düsseldorf, Germany. Support of the Research Team and Responsible for the network/computer-infrastructure.
  
  http://www.mki.fh-duesseldorf.de

Daniel Koening’s Education

• Fachhochschule Düsseldorf

  Diploma , Visuell Communication, Department of Design , 2002 — 2008

  Diploma in Visual Communication, University of Applied Sciences, Department for Design, Düsseldorf, Germany.
  
  http://www.fh-duesseldorf.de/english/index.html
  
  Thesis about »newspaperdesigner – a newspaper{magazin} with
  interviews about the art-directors at the big German newspapers and
  their art of editorial-design«. http://www.zeitungsgestalter.de

• Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

  History and Philosophy 1997 — 1998

Additional Information

Daniel Koening’s Interests:

Hiking/Bushwalking (especially longs-distance hikes) Running (15km), Climbing, Kendo, Diving (PADI) and Backpacking (Countries, I travelled so far: China, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, USA, Canada, Finland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Hungaria, UK, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Iceland)

Daniel Koening’s Groups:

peta, wdcs, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Alpenverein, Shonen Kendo Club Düsseldorf, Chaosdorf, Chaos Computer Club, Greepeace

Daniel Koening’s Honors:

IF-Award in Gold, Kategorie Cross-Media, 2004,

http://face.fh-duesseldorf.de/

Daniel Koening’s Contact Settings

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