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type: entity
title: Jo Zynda
tags: [lecturer, cdfi, designer, exhibition-design]
related: [cdfi, unicast, lehrstuhl-neue-medien-und-angewandte-grafik]
created: 2026-07-13
updated: 2026-07-13
sources: ["output_cdfi/cdfi_uni_greifswald_de_bildende_kunst_bewerbung_bewerbung.md", "output_cdfi/cdfi_uni_greifswald_de_bildende_kunst_lehrstuhl_neue_medien_und_angewandte_grafi.md"]
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# Jo Zynda

Jo Zynda is an artistic staff member at the [[lehrstuhl-neue-medien-und-angewandte-grafik]] at the [[cdfi]], specializing in applied arts, exhibition design, and cooperation projects.

## Roles and Responsibilities
- **Teaching:** 
    - Leads courses in applied graphics/graphic design, exhibition design, and design competitions.
    - Led the #UniCast seminar in the summer semester of 2020, which involved students creating a film about studying art at the institute.
- **Administration:** Serves as the **ERASMUS+ Subject Coordinator**.
- **Awards:** Received the 2018 Teaching Prize (*Lehrpreis*) from the University of Greifswald in the category "Professional Field Reference in Teaching."

## Professional Background
- **Education:** Diploma Product Designer from HAWK Hildesheim (2008).
- **Entrepreneurship:** Co-founded the start-up **PresseKlang**, which received an exist-scholarship and placed second in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern *Venture Cup*.
- **Practice:** Operates as a freelance designer specializing in product, industrial, graphic, and exhibition design.
- **Training:** Completed a traditional *Wanderschaft* (Walz) as a carpenter (Tischlergeselle) between 2002 and 2004.