đ„See you Friday 24.November at Startup House Austria
đTheme: Rhythm
đ€Speaker: Christian Gstöttner l CEO from Obscura
Startup House, Austriaâs Silicon Valley, the home for 40 early-stage startups, entrepreneurs, and innovators.
A thriving ecosystem of collaboration and creativity that fuels exponential growth.
đïžFree-Tickets for our Event will be available from 20. November on our website
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Foto: Fabian Sorger & Philip PĂŒrcher
Our global theme for November is RHYTHM. It was chosen by our Basel chapter and illustrated by Patrizia Stalder.
What rhythms set your pace? A celestial rhythm is pulsing all around us. The earth spins. The sun rises and sets. The moon pulls and releases the tides twice every day. The seasons loop each year. Natural, constant patterns of back-and-forth. But we also live amidst the unnatural rhythms of flickering fluorescent lights, pinging notifications, and vehicles idling at traffic signals. Rhythm can light you up or burn you out.
Rhythm is the heartbeat of creativity. It provides the structure we crave; a framework for ideas to take shape. By recognizing patterns and breaking them, we can find our unique voice.
Rhythm serves as a catalyst for the power of a dancerâs movement. The pacing of a poet’s sentences. The cadence of an actorâs voice. The timing of a comedianâs punchline. The strokes of a painterâs brush. The meter of a musicianâs notes. All that creativity just keeps going and flowing. Rat-a-tat-tat. Tap into your own rhythm and follow wherever it takes you.
How do you keep your own beat? Listen to your breath. Listen to your heart.
Suppito has been one of the best soup addresses in Vienna for years. In the pretty manufactory in the sixth district, they cook according to the five elements of traditional Chinese medicine: the soups, cakes, crackers, muesli/granola and compotes are varied depending on the season and available ingredients and are gluten-, lactose- and yeast-free.
We asked Cordula, the managing director of Suppito, how they started and how endurance has influenced their path throughout their story.
Suppito was more or less born out of a necessity. My mother had suffered from severe coeliac disease since childhood, which was only discovered in her 40s after endless hearing loss and colics. Although she immediately avoided all gluten-containing foods, the loss of hearing continued to occur at regular intervals. Desperate that conventional medicine was unable to help her, she consulted a doctor in traditional Chinese medicine, who successfully treated her hearing loss with acupuncture. In order to get her health complaints under control and learn even more about Chinese medicine, she looked for answers in the five element diet.
Her life and her diet were turned upside down in a flash. She started eating soups, rice congee, cooked fruit, yin-enhancing foods, lots of spices and hot water. Her health improved dramatically. She no longer had hearing problems, was full of energy and her complaints disappeared. Thanks to the right advice and diet, my mother finally had a life that she enjoyed again.
This experience made her rethink. After training in nutritional counseling, she opened her own nutrition practice to help other people get healthy with nutrition.
When Suppito was founded, knowledge of the 5 elements of the traditional Chinese medicine cuisine was not yet widespread. This automatically gave it an unknown touch, which it didn’t deserve, as nothing new had been invented. And on top of that, many of the products had the reputation from the start that “healthyâ food usually doesn’t taste good.
Introducing people to something they don’t know is always a challenge. At the time, tasting clearly helped others to experience that healthy food is good for you AND can also taste very good.
No new invention is needed here either: For me, this is clearly a soup that is cooked over two days with high-quality ingredients, strengthens the center and gives strength. Broth, a beef broth, is ideal for this.
Corona was, like many of us, an incredible experience. From one second to the next, the business had to be closed and no more customers were allowed to be served directly. Suddenly we had orders on a scale that was completely out of the ordinary and turned the previous cooking process completely upside down. We were forced to produce significantly more and reorganize our logistics, stick to a very strict schedule and, of course, the team had to stay healthy so that everything could work as planned. Looking back, it was a really exciting and challenging time that I could only manage with such a great and well-coordinated team.
If you can back an idea 100% out of conviction, it increases your endurance enormously. So my recommendation is to do something that you put your heart and soul into and surround yourself with likeminded team.
Girardigasse 9 (Ecke Lehargasse)
1060 Wien, Ăsterreich / Austria
info@suppito.at | +43 664 213 91 09
shop & go: Mo â Do: 8 â 18 Uhr
lunch & go: Mo â Do: 11:30 â 14:30 Uhr
Recap : Danuta Lang about Endurance
Last Friday, we learned a lot about endurance and why it sometimes pays off to be persistent.
That it’s important to be critical of yourself and your ideas - in other words, to be your own enemy for a moment in order to develop the idea further and make it even better.
Sometimes you also have to accept being exhausting for other people if you believe in your idea and don’t let go before you get a chance to realize it.
Foto: Doris Himmelbauer
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Danuta is an audio lover since day one. During her studies of Journalism and Communication in Vienna, she started working at Hitradio Ă3 and learned the ins and outs of the Radio landscape. Immediately after graduation, she joined the marketing department at Ă3âŠ.and came to stay. Since 11 years she has been able to experience marketing from many different angles (enabling her to acquire a divers/holistic image of the marketing landscape): Starting with event marketing, where she planned and organized large events for hundreds of people. Later on switching to program marketing, her main point of focus being to support clients in their communication needs and implementing their promotions seamlessly into Ă3âs radio program. Currently, her field of work focuses on shaping Ă3âs appearance through classic and online advertising measures and continuously strengthening the perception of one of Austria’s biggest love brands. A brand that reaches more than 2.5 million listeners every day.
During the early days of Corona, with a lot of time to think, she realized there had been a gap in the audio market. A bridge that needed to be built and Ă3 could be the driving force. So she began working on a project that would bring together the skills she had developed over the past few years. A project that is now know as: The Ă3-Podcast Award. The first award for podcasts from Austria. The success of this project proved to be undeniable therefore convincing and motivating Hitradio Ă3 to go one step further. With the goal of reaching the entire communications industry. As a result in 2022 the Ă3-Podcast Festival followed. An event that had never been seen or held before in Austria. An event designed to bring podcasters, creators, marketers, media representatives and journalists together and enable them to connect and network in an inspiring setting. Honored with an Austrian Event Award, the festival will enter its third edition in 2024.
-> Tickets are available from 30.10. on our website!
Endurance is the unwavering flame that burns within us, illuminating a path through darkness and uncertainty. It is the quiet strength that emerges when challenges test our limits, urging us to push beyond what we thought possible. Endurance is not a mere moment but a relentless spirit that whispers, “keep going” when the world feels heavy.
Life’s journey is marked by peaks and valleys, and it is endurance that sustains us during the uphill climbs. It teaches us that setbacks are not defeats but stepping stones towards growth and resilience. With each obstacle we conquer, our spirits grow stronger, and our determination becomes unshakable.
In a world that values instant gratification, endurance is a reminder that the most rewarding victories are born from patience and perseverance. It is the ability to rise, even when we fall, and to embrace the transformative power of persistence. So, let us celebrate the tenacity that resides within us, for in the face of adversity, it is endurance that leads us towards the summit of our potential.
Our Timisoara chapter chose this monthâs exploration of Endurance and Ana Kun illustrated the theme.
From âGrĂ€tzlâ scribbles to travel journals â Urban Sketchers, or USk, is a worldwide network of artists who draw the cities they live in and travel to.
Their mission is âto show the world, drawing by drawingâ.
Urban Sketching is all about drawing on location, involving our senses, feelings and the given circumstances. It is just about you spending more time in a place or situation than just a click of a photo but to feel the place, whether it be a busy city or a quiet forest. All the details that you observe make your sketch special and personal. Not one sketch resembles the other, it is amazing how sketchers look at and sketch places differently.
Time plays an important part in Urban Sketching. You need to stay flexible, because things are changing while you are sketching. Especially if you draw people, you always have to face the fact that they move and even leave. So you apply some kind of personal âshort waysâ to capture the essential in a short amount of time.
Therefore some kind of simplicity in your sketch is essential. Rather than wasting time on snapping all the tiny details, it is more about experiencing a placeâs atmosphere.
It is about your personal choice. We focus on the thing/object/people that seems most important to us at that very moment. Sometimes a cityscape just serves as a background and therefore we just give some hint of place, giving the overall sketch a certain atmosphere. Whether it is urban or rural, changes the whole setting.
And even if you decide to sketch humongous houses with hundreds of windows: itâs your decision how many you will add to your sketch. Nobody will count them afterwards. And no one will count the leaves you added on your trees.
#4 How do viewers usually react to your drawings?
Most viewers react in a very positive way, they are surprised about us documenting our city, our everyday life, our travels. They love when they recognise some places and yes, it happens that some of the viewers get inspired and start sketching themselves.
Simplicity in our sketches makes the drawings easier and faster to read. They communicate our personal view, our focus, our feelings.
To know what to show and what to leave out demands experience - it is always a nice challenge what to choose in a place and how to show it in the least strokes possible.
Although it might be stressful for beginners, as you have gained more experience it removes a lot of pressure from the drawing process. You know from the start that you will only have a certain amount of time to finish your sketch, no time to make major improvements. And most probably it will look far from the perfect image you already created in your head. With every new sketch, you learn to accept the sketch you ended up with and be proud of it - whether it turned out how you imagined it or not.
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âHow to teach graphic designâ
Our last CreativeMornings with Ingmar Thies was very inspiring and we were able to learn a lot.
Ingmar is not only teaching at die Angewandte he also published a new book “how to teach graphic design”.
How do I teach design? Why is listening so important? What can we learn from other disciplines and cultures and from each other?
Answers and suggestions are offered by Sven Ingmar Thies and his 24 interview partners, who are all united by one will: their students should experiment, experience and develop themselves. Teachers of graphic design, design theory, game development, industrial design and behavioural research from China, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Austria and the USA have their say.
The in-depth discussions are complemented by comprehensive reflection and sample assignments.
At the end of Ingmars talk the question came up - if it is not much more. Because the topic is bigger than the title promises. It’s about teaching, about perspectives and about wanting to communicate.
A very great event in the beautiful Studio Tausendzueins.
Many thanks to all involved and especially Ingmar for his insights.
Foto: Thomas Gobauer
The next event will take place on 6 October at Tausend zu eins and we are very excited to have Ingmar Thies, who will talk about Simplicity.
đĄWhat you should know about Sven Ingmar Thies:
Born and raised in Hamburg, Sven Ingmar Thies studied graphic design at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts and went to Tokyo and Yokohama for his final thesis.
Since his studies, he has been interested in a holistic approach to design that does not draw any boundaries to other design disciplines, other fields or even crafts. This conviction was strengthened by two professional stations at Henrion, Ludlow & Schmidt in London, where brands were developed holistically, and at the Kitayama Institute in Tokyo, where he became acquainted with the interplay of architecture and design during a two-year postgraduate scholarship.
In addition to project-related work at the brand agencies Enterprise IG (now Superunion) and Landor (now Landor & Fitch), he founded Thies Design in 1998 and develops consistent brand experiences for companies and institutions.
Since 2011, Sven Ingmar Thies has been teaching graphic design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the class for ideas parallel to his professional work.
“Is communicating, designing and teaching easy?”
Do we find it easy to communicate clearly with each other? Do we listen enough? How does one teach that? - And is it easy to write a book about it?
In his book, Ingmar explores the question of how students learn sustainably, what we can learn from other cultures and how listening can be used consciously. This can also be transferred to everyday design practice and is always an equal cooperation of all participants.
To this end, Sven Ingmar Thies has written down his own teaching experiences at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and interviewed 24 teachers in China, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Austria and the USA. In addition to graphic designers such as Rathna Ramanathan, Brigitte Hartwig and Erik Spiekermann, specialists from other fields such as game design, cognitive psychology and industrial design also provided inspiring insights.
The probability that soon everyone will know someone who knows us is a thousand to one. With the same probability, our studio meets all your needs.
In 1150 Vienna, 135m2 offer the optimal basis for your film & photo production. Located within sight of the U4 Centre, the studio is perfectly connected to the public transport system. With two parking spaces and the premises on the ground floor, getting to and from the studio is child’s play.
Only the building fabric is historic in the charming old building. With a permanently installed background system and modern light & grip hardware, nothing stands in the way of your production. A separate room offers space for the make-up (including its own WC) and important equipment can be safely stored in the safe for shoots lasting several days.
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6. October 2023
Foto: Thomas Gobauer
