David Wieland

Current

Sales representative at Holland Art Gallery
Design Freelancer at David Wieland
Photography freelancer at David Wieland

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Education

Hogeschool van Beeldende Kunsten, Muziek en Dans
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

Connections

96 connections

Industry

Graphic Design

David Wieland’s Summary

I am a 3rd year entrepreneurial student of the controversial interactive/media/design discipline at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, The Netherlands. Entrepreneurial in the sense that the discipline initiated only three years ago. Controversial in the sense that the curriculum tactfully avoids any predictability simply because it's never been written down: students decide the direction of the study, rather than the coordinators and professors, who merely guide the students in their path of development.

This means that we get to decide if we prefer to have more or less control over the projects we get to choose from; whether we want any new subjects or drop others; in the meanwhile we are being taught to understand that design is merely a vehicle, either:

- to convey your message;
- or to hide behind simply because you haven't got anything to say.

It has come to my understanding that the latter more often than not is taking place: that companies are in dire need of communicating a personality which stands out from the crowd. I simply can't understand that in this day and age with so many organisations saturating their own market, why these companies usually spend very little time in developing an identity of their own? Why, in other words, do these companies attire a generic image?

David Wieland’s Specialties:

Concept development, branding and identity, graphic design, photography

David Wieland’s Experience

Sales representative

Holland Art Gallery

(Arts and Crafts industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)
Design Freelancer

David Wieland

(Graphic Design industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Photography freelancer

David Wieland

(Photography industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

David Wieland’s Education

Hogeschool van Beeldende Kunsten, Muziek en Dans

Interactive Media Design 2006 — 2010 (expected)
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

Interactive Media Design 2006 — 2010 (expected)