Please say hello!Mail: hello@madsjakobpoulsen.com Twitter: @Madsjpoulsen Interested in workshops or lectures? – same address. WordsMads Jakob Poulsen is a graphic designer from Copenhagen, Denmark. Mads' Danish heritage makes him a fluent in the language of design and his iconic and engaging work is always rooted in strong conceptual ideas. From the first year of his professional career his work has been recognized by the likes of D&AD, IF Award, Print Magazine and Creative Circle Award. Mads has spoken at events and given lectures in Denmark, US and Canada as well as judged design and advertising awards Internationally. In 2010 Art Directors Club New York placed Mads Jakob Poulsen on their top 50 young designers of the world list, making him an ADC Young Gun. Mads’s specialties within design is identity design, packaging design, typography as well as concept development. Mads is a Senior Designer at critically acclaimed Wolff Olins in New York. Here he has worked for clients such as USA Today, Aol, Asian Art Museum, Belkin, Current TV, Microsoft, NBC Universal and the Smithsonian. | Teaching, Lectures, | Curriculum VitaeSummer 2010 – present Senior Designer at Wolff Olins, New York. 2010 – present Freelance Creative Director for EcoProtein January – February 2010 Guest Art Director at Above Group-Ogilvy, Trinidad & Tobago Winter 2009 – present First international writer on Under Consideration's design blog, Brand New. Summer 2009 Guest Art Director at TODA, New York, as part of Designers Exchange. June 2009 - present Board member of Smiley:Days a non profit organisation organizing children music festivals at danish asylum camps. January 2009 – present I am attached to The School of Visual Communication, teaching freelance in concept development, identity and packaging design. 2007–2010 Senior Designer at Goodmorning Technology 2004–2007 Bachelor Degree from The School of Visual Communication, Haderslev Denmark 2002–2004 Copenhagen Technical Academy: Graphic design, poster design and photography. | AwardsADC Silver Cube 2013 Newspaper design, USA TODAY D&AD Award 2012 Logo, Current TV Brand New Award 2011 Best of category, Identity & Animation, Current TV Brand New Award 2011 Honorary Mention, Identity, Belkin Core77 Runner Up Award 2011 Core77 Design Awards, New York Young Creative CIrcle Shortlist 2011 Identity Design Young Gun(s) 2010 Art Directors Club, New York IF Communication Award 2010 Copenhagen Parts Young Creative Circle Award 2010 Design, "T-shirt Calendar" Creative CIrcle Shortlist 2010 Packaging Design, "Scanwood" Young Creative CIrcle Shortlist 2010 Design, "T-shirt Calendar" Young Creative CIrcle Shortlist 2009 Design, "Stand Out" D&AD (UK) Annual Selection 2008 packaging design, Widex Young Creative Circle Award 2008 (DK) design "In your pocket" Creative Circle Shortlist 2008 Packaging Design, Widex Young Creative Circle Shortlist 2008 Design, "More sex" Young Creative Circle Shortlist 2008 Design, "In your pocket" Print Magazine Award 2008 Packaging Design, Widex IF Award 2008 Packaging Design, Widex Menighedsrådsvalg 2008 Poster Competition, 2. prize. Innovation Lab Competition 2007 Identity for the Geoware Conference 07 at Aros, Århus, Denmark. | BooksBlack and White New Monochrome Graphics ISBN 978-9881943958 Handmade Packaging Workshop By Rachel Wiles the 2011 Brand New Awards UnderConsideration LLC ISBN 978-0-9826253-4-7 Innovative Stationary Graphics Proffessional Corporate Identity Design Monsa ISBN 978-84-15223-13-9 Designers Universe – The Wow Factor Sandu Publishing Co. ISBN 978-988-19847-4-6 1000 ideas by 100 graphic designers Matteo Cossu, Rockport ISBN 978-1-59253-574-3 / 1-59253-574-7 Packaging Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Creating Packages Rockport Publishers ISBN 1592536034 / 978-1592536030 Creative Circle 2010 Los Logos 5: Compass Gestalten ISBN 978-3-89955-320-8 Creative Circle 2009 CC ISBN 87-91272-07-6 Boxed and labelled New approaches to packaging design Gestalten, ISBN 978-3-89955-252-2 Really Good Packaging Explained Edwards, Klimchuk, Wallace, Werner. Rockport ISBN-13 978-1-59-253-545-3 Creative Circle 2008 CC ISBN 87-91272-07-6 D&AD Annual 2008 IF Annual 2008 Los Logos 4 Gestalten ISBN 978-3-89955 | Press & ExhibitionsComputer Arts The Design Career Handbook, Career Feature 01.10.12 Artcrank New York Poster exhibit by selected designers and artists 08.09.12 Adobe Video Feature Behind The Design 20.05.12 Computer Arts "Forget the Perfect Logo" Opinion Piece of this months Computer Arts 01.04.12 Fast Co Design "An Ingenious, Radical Branding Campaign, Lost In Current TV’s Woes" 02.04.12 Art Directors Club Young Guns Exhibition 2010 Art Directors Club New York October 2010 Markedsføring "Design er også offensiv kommunikation" Full spread on the work of Mads Jakob Poulsen 01.09.10 Art Director Club, New York, Gallery Space 90 Cubes on the Wall, 20.09.10 Mix Magazine (UK) Issue 18 01.03.10 Roskilde Festival Chosen to be in charge of the decoration and design of the area around the legendary Astoria stage at Roskilde Festival. Winq (NL) 01.02.09 Print Magazine (US) 01.10.08 Wallpaper Tart Card Exhibition KK Outlet, London from 22nd to 29th June + Wallpaper July 2008 In-Pak "Pris For Kreativ Emballage" #5 01.05.08 KBH magazine "Alsidig Godmorgen, Københavnsk tegnestue laver alt og vil lave endnu mere" #31 01.05.08 Markedsføring "And the winner is.." 08.04.08 Erhvervsbladet Håndværksrådet lader hammeren falde - 26.10.2007 |