Marie-Luise Charlotte Weier
uses the pronouns: she/her
and goes by “ise”
hello@ise-y.de
@allesisey
KVK: 99460793
VAT: NL005388501B72
uses the pronouns: she/her
and goes by “ise”
hello@ise-y.de
@allesisey
KVK: 99460793
VAT: NL005388501B72
With a background in Contextual Design, she understands design and artistic practice as tools for making sense of the world and for cultural critique. Through objects, images, and situations, she approaches authorship as a form of responsibility, using narrative and imagination to create spaces for collective reflection.
She is an external lecturer in book design at MdRV (Cooperative State University Baden-Württemberg, Ravensburg) and a mentor and coach in filmmaking at the intersectional feminist project GIRLS GO MOVIE in Mannheim, Germany.
She works as a “Riso Chef”, giving and hosting Riso printing workshops and producing books, zines, flyers, posters and more at
Scholarship
Walz Scholarship by Verein der Schwarzen Kunst e.V.
– including residencies at:
Manufaktur für Bleisatz und Buchdruck Willi Beck, Dachau (DE)
Druckladen at Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz (DE)
Slowtype, Ludwigshafen (DE)
Papiermühle, Homburg (DE) – kindly supported by plener stiftung
Teaching & Workshops
A two-day course exploring book design as a combination of content, typography, image, navigation, materiality, and production, with a focus on how books evolve in response to changing cultural, technological, and market conditions. Through lectures, examples, and practical group exercises, participants develop and present their own book concepts.Media Design Program – with Prof. Dipl.-Des. Andrea Hennig
Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University, Ravensburg (DE)
since 2023
– 2026-07: “An experimental book about El Niño 2026“
– 2026-04: Book design: “The narrative cookbook”
– 2025-07: Book design: “History – but cool!”
– 2025-04: Book design: “History – but cool!”
– 2023-07: Book Design: “Water. From the source to the mouth”
– 2023-04: Book Design: “Water. From the source to the mouth”
Mentoring and Media Literacy
Film education and creative media projects for girls* and young women*, including one-week film production camps for participants with and without disabilities, as well as school and youth workshops. Combining hands-on filmmaking with media literacy and critical engagement with gender, representation, hate speech, and disinformation, participants develop and produce short films from idea and script through filming and editing.Various school & holiday workshops
GIRLS* GO MOVIE, Mannheim (DE)
since 2023
– 2026-08: “FOR ALL” Inclusive Filmworkshop, Mannheim
– 2026-07: School Workshop, Mannheim
– 2026-06: School Workshop, Mannheim
– 2026-06: “Hate-less” Media Literacy and Filmworkshop, Mannheim
– 2025-08: “FOR ALL” Inclusive Filmworkshop, Mannheim
– 2025-07: School Workshop, Mannheim
– 2024-08: “FOR ALL” Inclusive Filmworkshop, Mannheim
– 2023-07: School Workshop, Mannheim
– 2023-04: Individual Mentoring
Risoprinting
Introduction workshops in risoprinting at PrintRoom, guiding participants through the process of creating posters, postcards, zines, and art prints using drawings, photographs, collages, texts, or digital files. The workshops are designed for beginners, with hands-on guidance throughout.
In parallel, ise curates the workshop programme at PrintRoom, developing and coordinating a diverse programme of accessible, hands-on sessions around risograph printing and related practices.Riso Lab
PrintRoom, Rotterdam (NL)
since 2026
Education
M.A. Contextual Design, Cum Laude
2023-2025
Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg in Ravensburg (DE)
B.A. Media Design, Ravensburger Designpreis
2019-2022
Lapin Yliopisto | University of Lapland in Rovaniemi (FI)
Erasmus exchange semester
2022
IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt, Franz-Oberthür-Berufsschule (DE)
Apprenticeship Mediengestalterin Digital/Print
2016-2019
Solo Show
“Special presentation: The fascinating world of the Arctic Circle captured in a book made of ice“
Red Dot Designmuseum, Essen (DE)
PYRY
Group Shows
„Design for Democracy – Atmospheres for a better life“
WDC-Campus, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
PYRY
2026
“Inframezzo” at Milan Design Week 2026
Baggio Military Hospital Complex Via Giovanni Labus, Milano (IT)
“Against Enforced Legibility…”
2025
“I am so going to do this tomorrow!“
KunstRUIM Amsterdam (NL)
Catalogue of Resistance, Intimacy and Pause
2025
Design Academy Graduation Show
Mircostad, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)
Catalogue of Resistance, Intimacy and Pause
2025
Crip Realities: Against the Clock, Into the Future
Hans C, Dortmund (DE)
Catalogue of Resistance, Intimacy and Pause
2024
“The Other Field”
Microstad, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)
MuPu-Stool
2024
DDW24
De Fabriek, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)
DONT MOVE THE FOUNTAIN
2024
“Up and Coming: Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung 2024“
Einbuch.Haus, Berlin (DE)
AUTO-biografie
2024
Fair of Stiftung Buchkunst “Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung“
Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024, Frankfurt (DE)
AUTO-biografie
2024
Headquarter Vienna
Vienna Design Week , Vienna (AT)
DONT MOVE THE FOUNTAIN
2023
Sonderausstellung “Best Brands & Communication Design – Red Dot Winners Selection 2023”
Museum für Kommunikation Berlin (DE)
PYRY
2023
“Friedrichsplatz 05 – Guter Grund”
Alter Müller, Rottweil (DE)
PYRY
2022
Intervention in the exhibition “MUSTERUNG. POP UND POLITIK IN DER ZEITGENÖSSISCHEN TEXTILKUNST” as part of the UN:SEEN Werkschau
Kunstmuseum Ravensburg (DE)
PYRY
2022,
“PROGRESS/PROCESS”
Kellari Galleria, Rovaniemi (FI)
about time and space.
2022
“Spring in Lapland”
Lapin Yliopisto, Rovaniemi (FI)
Always Spring never Fall…
Awards
“Against Enforced Legibility…”
2025
Förderpreis für junge Buchgestaltung, Shortlist
AUTO-biografie
2024
Red Dot: Junior Prize, 10.000 €
PYRY
2023
iF Design Student Award
PYRY
2023
Ravensburger Designpreis, 1.000 €
PYRY
2023
ADC Talent Award Auszeichnung
PYRY
2023
Mentions
Catalogue of Resistance, Intimacy and Pause
GS2025 Catalogue of Design Academy Eindhoven
“Against Enforced Legibility…”
Exhibition and Workshop documented by STROBO - Magazin für die junge Kultur im Ruhrgebiet
Catalogue of Resistance, Intimacy and Pause
Command E magazine, 4th edition »Chaos und Kontrolle« 2024, media design DHBW Ravensburg
PYRY
SYMPLIFY Magazine of
PYRY
Slanted Magazine #42—Books
PYRY
International Yearbook Brands & Communication Design 2023/2024
PYRY
Red Dot Gala at the Berlin Konzerthaus
PYRY
iF Design Student Award Ceremony 2023 at the ARTER in Istanbul
PYRY
SEHNSUCHTSREISEN
e-mail: hello@ise-y.de