Agnes Meyer-Wilmes (born in 1960 in Harsewinkel, North Rhine-Westphalia), studied Graphic Design at the University of the Arts Bremen (HFK Bremen). She has professional experience in book publishing houses and advertising agencies in Munich with a focus on editorial design. She founded her own agency, amw-design, in 1996. Subject teacher for editorial design since 2005 and Teacher for Special Purposes in the Desktop Publishing field at HfG Offenbach since 2008. 

• 1989  to 1992
  ​advertizing manager for Markt & Technik magazines, Munich​

• 1992  to 1993
  Zeilbeck & Natzeck Design Company, Munich (Silicon Graphics)​

• 1993 to 1996
  Heye & Partner Munich (McDonald’s, Suzuki)​

• 1998 to 1999
  ​Massmann, Neuser Werbeagentur GmbH Munich (Columbia Tristar)

Customers (selection)

Das Erste (Deutsche Fernsehen BR), Kabel 1, ELBEO, Finanzenverlag München, Bucherverlag München, Grundy Light Entertainment Köln, AudiMobil Ingolstadt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Free art direction (selection)

Heye&Partner München, McCannErickson München, Herrwerth+Partner München, network!werbeagentur GMBH München, Scholz&Friends Berlin, PLEX Berlin

Das Erste (Deutsche Fernsehen BR), Kabel 1, ELBEO, Finanzenverlag München, Bucherverlag München, Grundy Light Entertainment Köln, AudiMobil Ingolstadt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Heye&Partner München, McCannErickson München, Herrwerth+Partner München, network!werbeagentur GMBH München, Scholz&Friends Berlin, PLEX Berlin

• 2005 to 2007
  Akademie für Mode + Design (amd Munich): Lectureship on creative techniques
• 2007 to 2008
  Texterschmiede Hamburg: Workshop Image & Imagination 
• from 2007 onwards
  vdmz Munich, bd Stuttgart, vdmh Frankfurt: Seminars for specialists and executives (selection) Süddeutsche Magazin, Augsburger Allgemeine, Super RTL;
• 2012
  Audi-Mobil (magazine criticism for members magazine of the Audi group)
• 2014
  ​Deutsche Journalistenschule Munich (daily newspaper, project supervision)

Lectures

• 2012
  INTED, Valencia, International Technology, Education and Development Conference
• 2014
  PubKon Berlin, Publishing Conference of the InDesign User Groups Germany, Austria, Switzerland
• 2017
  NichtWort, Design for Language Education, conference at the Haus des Buches, Frankfurt, Germany

Publications

• 2016
  Text-Image Relationships 1, On the Interpretive Relationship of Text and Image in Print Campaigns of Classic Advertising (print and online version on ResearchGate)
• 2020
  Text-Image Relationships 2, Criteria of Page Composition in Daily Newspapers (in progress)
• 2021
  Text-image relationships 3, criteria of the interpretative relationship between text and image in magazines (in progress)
• 2021
  ​Concepts for illustration, chapters 1 to 5 (amw-design.info)