Gui Bonsiepe [ˈgɪː ˈbo˘nsɪːpe˘] (born 23 March 1934) is a German designer, teacher and writer. Especially inSouth America and Germany, his publications are considered standards ofdesign theory[citation needed].
Gui Bonsiepe was born inGlücksburg, and studiedGraphics andArchitecture until 1955 atBayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich and atTU München. Until 1959, he studied atUlm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm) in the Information Department.[1][2] Between 1960 and 1968, he worked as an assistant professor at Ulm School of Design.[3]After closure of the Ulm School of Design in 1968, Bonsiepe relocated to South America, working as a design consultant. From 1970 to 1973, he led the design team for the operations room of theCybersyn project.[4]From 1987 to 1989, Bonsiepe worked as an interface designer in asoftware company inEmeryville, California, United States.[1]
From 1993 to 2003, Bonsiepe was Professor for Interface Design atKöln International School of Design (KISD) in Germany.[1] He was Professor for Integrated Media at Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI),Universidade do Estado de Rio de Janeiro, where he planned and established a Master of Design study program.[5]
He was one of the three keynote speakers atDesign History Society Annual Conference (2013) atNational Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, along withSujata Keshavan andTapati Guha-Thakurta.[6] He had visited NID in 1979 too as one of the speakers inUnited Nations Industrial Development Organization - ICSID conference.
He lives inLa Plata,Buenos Aires and inFlorianópolis,Brasil.[7]
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