Dr. Heike Sperling, born 1965, graduated in Communication Design from the Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal, Germany. Sperling wrote her dissertation in the field of aesthetics under the guidance of Prof. Bazon Brock. She received her PhD in 1999.
She started her career as an assistant and junior creative director of RTL Television, German private broadcasting company. The development and launch of the corporate on-air design of the German private TV-channel VOX in 1993 remains one of her stand-out projects.
Between 1993 and 2002 Sperling worked as a freelance producer, director and creative director in Germany and the US (clients include German private TV-broadcasters PRO7, RTL, SAT1, VIVA as well as for Cinemaxx Movie Theatres, Gauloises Blondes Cigarettes, IBM, T-Online, and Hotwired). Additionally, she produced music videos, focussing on experimental and electronic music. 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.
From 2002 to 2003 Dr. Sperling served 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.
Dr. Heike Sperling has been working as an Assistant Professor at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in the faculty of Media Design since 1998. She regularly gives lectures at several European colleges and universities.
Throughout her career, Dr. Heike Sperling received numerous awards for outstanding work in Germany and abroad. Today, she works as a freelance creative consultant.
In 2004, Dr. Sperling was appointed a professorship by the University of Music Duesseldorf in Digital Visual Media at the Institute For Music And Media (IMM) . She is now Managing Co-Director of the IMM.
In 2005 Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling initiated the lecture series BASECAMP at the IMM. Ever since, she curates the monthly event.
Currently Heike Sperling tours her lecture "A Perfect Match? On The Alliance Of The Audio And The Visual." on diverse European platforms, universities and communications/ advertising agencies.
For further information see her website .
