Rikke Hansen

Creative Director, MA

Born in Denmark in 1975. Graphic Designer and Educator. Works and teaches in a field in the intersection between language, culture and space. She has a passion for graphic design and typography and for working with design methods that provide students with ways to fundamentally understand society and its stakeholders’ needs and how to drive these processes to useful results. For several years she has been working with product development, branding and consulting for companies and organisations, and as Head of Department at the University Design School Kolding she played a significant role in developing new educational programmes for the future. She is an external Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. Currently she teaches a variety of design courses at different design schools and universities in Denmark and abroad. She works on and researches design development projects and has her own design studio doing print and digital design. She is a owner of a letterpress workshop. Vice Chairman at the Danish Association for Book Crafting. Member of C-IDEA, China. Appointed External Examiner at The higher artistic educational programmes by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. Juror at the 14th BICM, International Poster Biennial Mexico. Cyprus Poster Triennial. Graphis Talent Award. Ukrainian Design: The Very Best Of. International Poster Biennale Lublin. India’s Best Design Award and the BICeBé International Poster Biennial Bolivia. COFOD excelence Award winner. Graphis Silver, Gold and Platin Award winner, China Poster Biennal Silver winner. She has been exhibiting, giving lectures & workshops internationally in Chile, South Korea, Mexico, Jordan, Israel, Syria, Thailand, Gambia, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Netherlands, Portugal, Czech republic, US & China.

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