This the online presence of Klaus Birk, a communication designer for interactive and printed media since 1996. In 2001 he received a Diploma in Communication Design from the Muthesius Hochschule, academy of arts and design Kiel, Germany and has been working as designer and art director for various design studios in Germany and the UK.
After completing the Master of Arts programme at the London College of Communication, he has been working and teaching at the University of Arts and Design Zurich. Currently, he is a design director for intuity media lab in Stuttgart and a PhD candidate at the University of the Arts London.

DGTF – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und-forschung e.V.
ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
IxDA – Interaction Design Association
AHRC – Arts & Humanities Research Council Alumni
UAL Alumni – University of the Arts London Alumni Association

2004 ddc award (german designers club) – bronce | 2004 red-dot award – category corporate communication | 2004 IF communication design award – silver (iF international forum design) | 2004 IF design award (iF international forum design) | 2004 100 best posters (austria, switzerland, germany) | 2003 ddc award (german designers club) – bronce | 2003 postgraduate award scholarship (ahrb) | 2003 digital sparks – nominee by the Fraunhofer Institute IMS and MARS exploratory lab | 2003 federal design award – category interactive media by the state schleswig-holstein | 2002 multimedia.de – website of the month | 2002 red-dot: best of the best – category multimedia | 2001 federal design award – category interactive media by the federal state schleswig-holstein

Designing Dialogue in Media Architecture. Workshop Paper & Presentation. DCC10 – Fourth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, 2010
Architecture as Urban Screens. Lunchtime-Lecture on Design Research. Media Design Department, DHBW Dual University Baden-Württemberg, 2010
Built Information – Design Research Methods. Talk at Master of Research course MRes Information Environments, LCC, University of the Arts London 2010
Spatial Experiences Rather Than Large Screens. Conference Paper & Lecture. Xth Planetary Collegium Conference – Consciousness Reframed, München, 2009
Participatory Design Methods for Media Architecture. Lecture/Presentation. RNUAL Summer Research Symposium, University of the Arts London 2009
Ein und Alles – One and All. Publication. ZhdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste – Department Design, Visual Communication, 2009
Interface & Interaction – From screen to physical computing. Lecture, BTK Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule, 07/2007
Is it Love? – Emotions as a design factor for interactive systems. Lecture, faculty Information and Communication, HdM Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart, 02/2007
DesignZ 2007. Yearbook Visual Communication Studies, HGKZ Zurich
Visual Language Systems. Department Design. Visual Communication Studies, HGKZ Zurich, 2006
DesignZ 2006. Yearbook Visual Communication Studies, HGKZ Zurich
Cross Media Communication. Lecture and project presentation
Media Design course, DHBW Ravensburg (2005)
IF Design Award 2004. Birkhäuser Publishers (Media-Space)
100 Beste Plakate 2003. Hermann Schmidt Verlag 2004 (Media-Space)
Netzpannung.org. Web platform for digital culture. Fraunhofer Institut IMG MARS Exploratory Lab (Design Process virtual/real)
Internationales Jahrbuch Kommunikationsdesign 2002/2003. Peter Zec; Av Edition (Design Process virtual/real)
Neugierig3. Johannes Erler; Hermann Schmidt Verlag 2002 (Design Process virtual/real)
Neugierig2. Johannes Erler; Hermann Schmidt Verlag 2001 (Ultrazinnober)
Design Process virtual/real. PAGE Design Magazine 08/2002
Unterwegs. Annual degree show catalog; Muthesius Hochschule Kiel, 2001
Media:Sense. Kieler Nachrichten 23/05/2001
Ultrazinnober 01. Design Magazine. Muthesius Hochschule Kiel, 2000
Transfer. Annual degree show catalog; Muthesius Hochschule Kiel, 2000
Zwischen den Orten. Annual degree show catalog; Muthesius Hochschule Kiel, 1999