THE C.A.T.E. LUNCH TALK SERIES No.9 / Saskia van der Meer

by Tania Prill & Andrea Rauschenbusch
Seg. 4 / EG

How would you describe the head of a squirrel?

Saskia van der Meer is a German/Dutch interdisciplinary designer based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Her work is located in various fields of (graphic) design, with a strong focus on (unreadable) typography, editorial design, posters and visual identity. She is also passionate about sound, film/animation and performance and combines this with her design approaches, for instance in her spatial works or artistic research. At the moment she is interested in the visual sense of touch, translation chains between the visual and the tactile and wonders why colour-blind octopods are able to taste colours …
Right after her bachelor's degree at University of the Arts Bremen, she spent there two semesters as a lecturer before completing her diploma in Communication Design and Exhibition Design/Scenography at University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe.
She currently lives and works as a graphic designer in Rotterdam including at Team Thursday.