Prof. Dr. Nicholas Qyll
@nicholasqyll.bsky.social
Professor of Visual Communication @thm.de 📍Cologne 💼 Giessen https://linktr.ee/nicholasqyll
🎓 Happy to have contributed as an expert to Anna Wirz’s master’s thesis on academic #personalbranding. Thanks to Anna and to my Finnish colleague @emppuliittus.bsky.social for the inspiring connection. Find the excellent thesis here: www.theseus.fi/handle/10024... #personastudies
🎉 Happy to share the latest research! Our joint chapter “Virtuelle Personas. Zur relativen Authentizität medialer (Id)Entitäten” has just been published in the edited volume „Simulakra, Persona, Artefakt“ (Büchner Verlag, pp. 108–147). www.buechner-verlag.de/buch/simulak... #PersonaStudies @thm.de
🟩 Excursion to the Museum for Communication Frankfurt with DMS students … We explored how news shape perception and how AI reframes reality. Great focus, curiosity, and critical discussion throughout the day. And yes: excursions matter. 😁 #excursion #news #AI #proflife @thm.de
Well deserved! 🥉☺️
🏅Bronze für Victoria Friepes, Nele Rühr, Emma Sprenger und Paula Süß beim UDA Design-Wettbewerb. Die THM-Studentinnen haben im Kurs "Visuelle Kommunikation" die Plakatserie zu "Fühl. Mal. Kunst" entwickelt – eine Ausstellung zu vier Emotionen in vier Räumen. 👉 www.thm.de/site/hochsch...
🎉 Herzlichen Glückwunsch an unsere Studierenden Jennifer Oeste, Joshua Kauß und Alex Balzer für ihre Auszeichnungen beim Wettbewerb des UTB-Verlags zur neuen Buchreihe „StudyGuide“. Im Kurs Visuelle Kommunikation bei Prof. Dr. Nicholas Qyll beeindruckten sie mit ihren kreativen Cover-Designs. 📚
Couldn’t be there in person, but proud to have co-developed the talk Prof. David Marshall gave at #Pop25: Virtual Persona Economy: Exploring Synthetic Identities in Influencer Culture. Thanks, David! 🙏 Image credits: © PoP Conference 2025 #VirtualPersona #SyntheticIdentity #PersonaStudies
Workshop: Today at @tuberlin.bsky.social, Prof. Dr. Georg Adlmaier-Herbst and I guided researchers on enhancing their visibility, engaging their audience, and building an authentic digital presence. #ScienceCommunication #PersonalBranding #SocialMedia #Scifluencer @ursopolarmadeira.bsky.social
New essay: On Creative Dynamics in Typographic Experiments „ … a must-read for anyone passionate about the intersection of structure and intuition in design.“ (Prof. Arafat Al Naim, American University in the Emirates) 📖 ResearchGate: tinyurl.com/ycx59me4 📖 Academia: tinyurl.com/4h42ze6w
🚀 I was very pleased to read the positive review of my latest article by my colleague, Prof. Arafat Al Naim on Facebook: www.facebook.com/megrafik/pos... #Typography #DesignThinking #Creativity #ExperimentalDesign #TypeExperiments #FlowState #DesignEducation @slanted.bsky.social
Excited to share that my essay “On Creative Dynamics in Typographic Experiments” has been published in the latest issue of Slanted Magazine – Experimental Type 3.0 (pp. 278–285)! @slanted.bsky.social #ExperimentalTypography #DesignResearch #Creativity #CreativeProcess #Parameters
Excursion to Museum Wiesbaden: As part of the Visual Communication course @thm.de, we visited the exhibition “Poster Women. Women’s Posters” – an inspiring tour & a creative poster workshop! 💡🎭 🎨 museum-wiesbaden.de/en/plakatfra... #PosterDesign #DesignExcursion #Creativity