Niels Schrader was born in 1977
  in Caracas, Venezuela. He took
  up studies at the University o
 f Applied Sciences in Düsseldor
 f in 1997 and graduated in Comm
 unication Design in 2003. Herea
 fter he enrolled for the master
  programme at the Sandberg Inst
 itute Amsterdam. He worked as a
  freelance designer for Uwe Loe
 sch and Irma Boom and set up hi
 s own studio in Amsterdam in 20
 05.

 Among his major clients are the
  DasArts Foundation, the Amster
 dam School of the Arts, the Ber
 lage Institute, the Academy of
 Creative and Performing Arts, E
 pisode Publishers, Museum De Pa
 viljoens, Slewe Gallery and KCA
 P Architects&Planners. He curre
 ntly teaches at the Willem de K
 ooning Academy in Rotterdam. In
  2008 he worked as a guest tuto
 r in design at the Delft Univer
 sity of Technology.

 His conceptual design is based
 on a ‘dialogue principle’ which
  translates digital information
  into physical media, and vice
 versa. This transformation proc
 ess of data from one state of a
 ggregation to the next often re
 sults in new stimulating forms
 of artistic expression.

 Schrader has received several a
 wards and nominations, includin
 g the iF communication design a
 ward, the red dot: best of the
 best and the Certificate of Typ
 ographic Excellence. For his wo
 rk with digital source codes he
  was nominated in the category
 ‘Net-Art’ for the Internet Soci
 ety Award Nederland 2006.

 His short film White Blackout w
 as screened at various film fes
 tivals such as the ‘Amsterdam F
 ilm eXperience’, the Weimar ‘ba
 ckup_festival’, the ‘Biggest Vi
 sual Power Show Essen’ and the
 ‘Milano Film Festival’ and, in
 addition, will be shown soon at
  the ‘The Int’l Fest of Cinema
 and Technology’ in Los Angeles.