Creative Consultant

Heike Sperling, born 1965, graduated in Communication Design from the University of Wuppertal, Germany. Sperling wrote her dissertation of Aesthetics under the guidance of Prof. Bazon Brock. She received her PhD in 1999.

She started her career as an assistant creative director of RTL Television, a German private broadcasting company. The development and launch of the on-air corporate design of the German private TV-channel VOX in 1993 remains one of her stand-out projects.
Between 1993 and 2002 Dr. Heike Sperling worked as a freelance producer, director and creative director in Germany and the US. Additionally, she produced music videos, focussing on experimental and electronic music. (Projects)
From 2000 to 2003 Dr. Sperling designed collages for brand eins, a leading German business magazine.
In 2001, she developed the on-air corporate design for the launching campaign of the new music TV-broadcaster VIVA PLUS as a freelance creative director and producer in a close collaboration with Double Standard's Chris Rehberger.
From 2002 Dr. Sperling served two years as the Head of Design for the German public TV-broadcaster WDR. At WDR, she was responsible for the on-air-, set-, sound- and lighting design.

Throughout her career, Dr. Heike Sperling received numerous awards for outstanding work in Germany and abroad. Today, she works as a creative consultant.

Dr. Heike Sperling is co-chairing with Prof. Manfred Becker the post-graduate-program Motion Design at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since 1998.
She is also teaching at NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano, Italy, the Academy of Art and Design in Basel, Switzerland, the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg, Austria and the University of the Arts (HFK) Bremen.
In 2004, Dr. Sperling was appointed by Düsseldorf's Robert Schumann School of Music and Media and Media as professor for Digital Visual Media at their Institute For Music And Media.

In 2005 Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling initiated the lecture series BASECAMP at the Institute of Music and Media. Ever since, Professor Sperling curates the monthly event.
She tours her own lectures on diverse European platforms, universities and communications/ advertising agencies.

Selection

Winner
Eyes & Ears Awards Of Europe
TV On Air Design, Opener Kanzlerbungalow, WDR Television 

Winner
Eyes & Ears Awards Of Europe
TV Set Design, Kanzlerbungalow, WDR Television 

Finalist Award
Eyes & Ears Awards Of Europe
TV Promotion Campaign On Air, Image Campaign Spring/Summer, WDR Television

Finalist Award
Art Directors Club Germany
Christmas Campaign, WDR Television 

Bronze Lion
International Advertising Film Festivals Cannes, France
Advertising Film Gauloises Blondes Cigarettes (text film)

Premier Prix
Europe's Premier Creative Award
Advertising Film Gauloises Blondes Cigarettes (text film)

Finalist Award
Art Directors Club Germany
Advertising Film Gauloises Blondes Cigarettes (text film)

Finalist Award
The New York Festivals
Advertising Film Gauloises Blondes Cigarettes (text film)

Winner (TV/Cinema)
Cresta International Advertising Award
Advertising Film Gauloises Blondes Cigarettes (text film)

Golden "Die Klappe"
International Advertising Film Contest
Advertising Film Gauloises Blondes Cigarettes (text film)

Silver Award
BDA International
Art Advertising Bumpers Pro7 Television

Finalist Award
Art Directors Club Germany
TV On Air Design, Opener Hotzpotz RTL2 Television