People

Philipp Albers is a freelance journalist and writer, focusing especially on internet culture, digital media, and cultural history. He frequently reviews books for Breitband and Radiofeuilleton on Deutschlandradio Kultur. In 2011 he co-authored (together with Holm Friebe) Was Sie schon immer über 6 wissen wollten (What You Always Wanted to Know About 6), a popular non-fiction book about number psychology, and MIMIKRY – Das Spiel des Lesens (2016), a literary-salon-game-cum-book, containing a collection of fake beginnings of famous and not-so-famous novels. He was Program Director at the American Academy in Berlin for a number of years and holds an M.A. in American studies, cultural studies, and philosophy.

As a studied graphic designer and illustrator, Martin Baaske works on infographics, live graphics and editorial illustrations. While being mostly interested in the future aspects of environment, mobility and technological change, he visualizes complex topics and ideas in an approachable way and contemporary style.

Clients in recent years include Daimler, BASF, Deutsche Bahn, ZF, Telekom, Berliner Zeitung and Tagesspiegel.

For ZIA he mainly does graphic recording and -facilitation at company workshops and creates large illustrative content-walls at events.

Holm Friebe, economist, author, and strategist, has been one of the chief editors of the award-winning blog Riesenmaschine and a teaching professor of design theory at the Hochschule der Künste in Zurich and the Kunsthochschule Kassel. His non-fiction book Wir nennen es Arbeit – die Digitale Bohème oder Intelligentes Leben jenseits der Festanstellung (co-authored with Sascha Lobo) was a bestseller. His latest work is Die Stein-Strategie - von der Kunst, nicht zu handeln. NEON magazine ranked him among "the 100 most important young Germans" in 2006.

After getting his degree in graphic design in Münster, Thomas Weyres worked as a freelancer for various publishing houses and media companies like MTV, DIE ZEIT, and SonyBMG. In 2011 he co-founded the social reading platform dotdotdot where he is developing the visual identity and user experience of the reading app. Thomas supports exciting projects as a trustee of the Awesome Foundation Berlin and gives workshops for students from time to time.