Hi, I’m an author and a designer working in the field of Creative Direction, Creative Coding and Artificial Intelligence. I’m also the founder of the award-winning graphic design studio Automatico.

Graphic Design
in the
Post-Digital
Age

The most comprehensive survey to date on Creative Coding and Artificial Intelligence in the field of graphic design. The book analyses the current market situation, with cutting edge practitioners from all over the world who are implementing new digital methodologies and tools to innovate their services. One third of the book has been generated by ChatGTP.

A unique specialist ?

Demian Conrad works as a Creative Consultant and Strategist for Swiss and international organizations such as Art Basel, Audemars Piguet, Zarattini & Co Bank and EPFL, among others. He has exhibited in prestigious institution such as Grand Palais Paris, Museum Tinguely in Basel or Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich. Over the last several years he has developed a special focus on Branding and Visual Communication augmented by Algorithmic and Artificial Intelligence. He provides cutting edge solutions that helps his clients to better position themselves, as well as to improve quality and productivity.

Why have a talk with Demian Conrad ?

You are a big national or international brand or organization. Your communication and marketing departments are confronted with the spectacular technology-driven acceleration of, well, pretty much everything. Machine learning, large language models, neural networks, computational design, algorithmic publishing, variable fonts, programming languages are becoming daily items. How to integrate them into a communication design strategy? how to think short and long term about the impact of these technologies. Start with booking a meeting with, and a talk by, Demian Conrad. Details below.

Ready for your personal talk with Demian Conrad

After booking a talk by Demian, you will get an invitation to select a time option that works for you and your team. The talk is structured in 40 minutes keynote followed by 40 minutes of Q&A at your headquarters (or a location of your choosing in Switzerland; if abroad, travel costs will come on top of the fee). Make sure that the conference room is well-equipped with projection and sound systems. The conference can be recorded for your internal use but not for further dissemination through any channel, except in case of explicit agreement with the speaker. In the says following the talk, further notes and relevant links and references will be sent by e-mail. Of course, the book "Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age" can also be a good companion for the talk.

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Demian Conrad short Biography

Demian Conrad an award-winning designer, founder and Creative Director of Automatico Studio. He is an author, releasing several titles on industrial design, graphic design and digital technology. Demian is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, Schweizerischer Werkbund and Architekturforum Biel.

He is currently lecturer in Basel at IDCE (Institute Digital Communication Environments) at HGK FHNW University. He has been lecturer, teacher and researcher at HEAD-Geneva for about 10 years. Demian has taught also in many other institutions such as Innokick Lausanne (HES-SO), Eracom Lausanne (école romande d'arts et communication), SUPSI Lugano (Dipartimento ambiente costruzioni e design), EAA La Chaux-de-Fonds (École d’arts appliqués), ESAD Valence (École Supérieure d'Art et Design de Valence). He has lectured at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW Basel, ECAL Lausanne, HEAD-Geneva, SUSPI Lugano, TedX Conference Geneva, Creative Morning Milano, Creative Morning Basel, University of Bolzano, DesignLibrary Milan, PosterHeros Turin and EASD Valencia (Escola d'Art i Superior de Disseny).

From 2013-2019 Demian founded, directed and managed the contemporary furniture brand DADADUM, creating a compelling collection and bringing it to the Swiss and European market. He manages all the product line art direction and development, marketing and sales distribution. The company won several design awards such as Swiss Design Preis and European Design Awards and was supported by the Canton of Vaud. He sold the company in 2019 to focus on the challenges of the rapidly evolving field of visual communication.

From 2017-2023 Demian run an experimental laboratory named Center for Future Publishing in Geneva, where he organized and produced, workshops, conferences, installations, partnering with institutions and exhibiting all over Europe, such as Porto Design Biennial, Weltformat Festival in Lucerne, Triennale de l’art imprimé contemporain in Le Locle among others. The laboratory has been researching in the field of pedagogy, algorithmic graphic design and creative printmaking. Explore the archive.

Demian initiated a collaborative book project, asking more than 100 influential people in the Swiss cultural community to take a picture of a design product they love. The result is a little celebration of an intimate view on Swiss design under the title: Famous Ordinary Things. The book is out of stock.

Demian run a research project on creative coding at HEAD-Geneva, which resulted in a 600 pages book “Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age” published by Onomatopee (NL). The book sold out only in just 4 months, a second edition is under production with publisher Set Margins’.

In 2022 Demian Conrad published with the historical publisher Niggli the book “Who the Hell is Müller-Brockmann”. A research project on how the Swiss Style has impacted the UK and vice-versa. The book is also published and translated into Korean.

Demian has given talks and conducted workshops in the field of Branding, Idea Creation, Visual Identities, Poetry, Experimental Design, Algorithmic Design, Creative Coding, Artificial Intelligence and Creative Printmaking.

He is currently co-organizing the Alliance Graphique International annual congress that will be hosted in Basel in October 2024. In this event, Demian is heading a special project where he curates an exhibition on poster generated with a custom tailor made AI model. AGI-Open.