Sven Tillack (born 1986) is a graphic designer based in Stuttgart, Germany. The center of his work revolves around content-driven visual expression in two- and three-dimensional space. After an apprenticeship in media design, he graduated from Stuttgart Academy Of Fine Arts in 2017. Together with Steffen Knöll, he co-founded Studio Tillack Knöll, Design Practice in 2018, a graphic design studio focusing on a wide array of projects, including digital and spatial design, as well as institutional identities and printed matter. Their work is internationally recognized and exhibited in major design competitions and festivals such as Biennale internationale de design graphique (Graphic Design Biennal Chaumont) , Tokyo Type Directors Club and 100 Beste Plakate (100 Best Posters) among others, as well as awarded by Schönste Deutsche Bücher (Best German Book Design). In 2023 Studio Tillack Knöll were invited to take part in the annual design competition for Kieler Woche. Tillack has a strong interest and thus background in print techniques, besides working on ICC profiles for riso printing, he authored Exploriso: Low-Tech Fine Art, a book that delves into risography as an artistic process. He has experience in teaching locally as well as internationally.

Teaching + Workshops

2024	Poster Playground: 7×7 ways to design a poster, Design Summer academy, Phoenix Creative Park, Hangzhou, China Various design programmes and creative methods using different techniques together on one poster. Working iteratively and presenting the work inside the group were the core values taught in this two-week class.
2023	Community Characters , a workshop as part of the INT’L International Graphic Design Festival. Two day workshop generating a basic variable font by working on one to two letters with two characteristics each. As a joint experience the group came up with a full unicase glyphset.
2021–22	Typografie II Integriertes Produktdesign Hochschule Coburg, Fachgruppe Design Prof.in Natalie Weinmann Three-day deep dives into motion design and kinetic typography.
2020–24	Portfolio-Beratung Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Fachgruppe Kunst Meisterschüler:innen im Weißenhof-Programm der Bildenden Kunst Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Prof. Ricarda Roggan Basics in typography as well as layout grids and print preparation.
2018–24	Gestaltung Digitaler Medien Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Fachgruppe Design Klasse Prof. Gerwin Schmidt (3./4. Semester) Basics in HTML and CSS, Screendesign and a basic understanding of the history of the WWW and the internet in general as well as working on own projects as the class progresses. Digressions into Blender, as well as After Effects and Cavalry.
2018–22	Grundlagen der Gestaltung Fachgruppe Architektur Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Fachgruppe Design Grundklasse, Prof. Fahim Mohammadi
2019	Algorithm.Camp, at HfG Karlsruhe and ABK Stuttgart, in collaboration with Sascia Reibel and Grischa Erbe. A series of small input lectures with practical tasks over the course of two days.
2018	Workshop series during Macau Design Biennal exhibition in Shanghai Poster design under the given topic of sustainability

Lectures / Guest critique

2024	Studio presentation and guest critique, Prof.in Anja Weber, Merz Akademie, Stuttgart
2024	Studio presentation during Design Summer academy, Phoenix Creative Park, Hangzhou, China
2024	Studio presentation and guest critique, Vom Körper zur Fläche, LBA Tobias Hönow, Merz Akademie, Stuttgart
2023	Talking Thursdays, hosted by 2×Elliott
2023	Celebrating The Opéra, a presentation on The Opéra anniversary edition with editor Matthias Straub, Galerie Kernweine, Stuttgart.
2023	Fast Forward! Graphic design in the age of technocapitalism, at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, class of Prof. Wim Westerveld
2022	Exploriso: Low-tech Fine Art? — Risography as an Artistic Printing Method, Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Medien e.V., Koblenz
2021	Guest cirtique in the class of Yanik Hauschild, lecturer at Hochschule Düsseldorf
2021	Mix & Match! Color Management on the Risograph , during Start Art Week, in collaboration with RISO Deutschland, Metapaper, and Drucken3000 at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf.
2021	First Things First, Lecture in the design department supervised by Prof. Ilka Helmig und Prof. Eva Kubinyi, FH Aachen
2018	Talk at Shanghai Expo, Macau Design Biennal in Shanghai, China
2017	Exploriso: Low-tech Fine Art?, Adobe Creative Jam, Stuttgart