Berlin Design Night

Nachtschicht 2015

On June 12th the third edition of Create Berlin’s Berlin Design Night took place. Together with our colleagues from Rattlesnake, Bananenbiegerei, Emil Futur and Sophia Halamoda we opened the doors of our studio to welcome all of you – thanks for coming and making it a memorable evening with inspiring talks, drinks, great music and ambitious pingpong matches on our improvised Eiermann-pingpong-table. Can’t wait for next year!

Book series

Myth & Truth

The book series my partner in crime from Vienna, Cora Akdogan, and I designed for Christian Brandstätter Publishers is growing and growing. Just recently the fourth issue was released – about the probably most famous horses in the world (or at least Austria)…

Signage

Old Masters Picture Gallery, Zwinger Dresden

Together with fellow Leipzig based design studio Gourdin & Müller we are working on a new signage for the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Picture Gallery) at the Dresden Zwinger. The collection of more than 750 paintings from the 15th – 18th century is regarded as one of the most important and is being renovated at the moment. The opening of the first part of the gallery is scheduled for late 2015.

Since early 2014 we’re working on the planning, developing and the design of the new signage, that will guide visitors through the impressing building of Georg Semper in the future. Stay tuned for more…

Travelling exhibition

Stolpersteine

We designed the banners for the new travelling exhibition about “Stolpersteine” in Leipzig. Individually selected cases with portraits, documents, diary entries and texts are freely arranged around a static, duplex-coloured historical middle axis, that puts personal the fate of victims in a broader socio-historical context. Transfering the all-to-well known historical documents such as pictures of concentration camps, iconic buildings and disturbing decrees by the Nazis into an iridescent colour range takes away some of the historical weight and creates a very modern feel to the whole exhibition. In the end, it was not an easy topic, however a very beautiful project!

Lecture & Workshop

FH Joanneum, Graz, AT

Über-Schrift: What’s so elemental about typedesign? And why do graphic designer don’t really know much about it? Why do you keep on designing new typefaces when there seems to be enough type already? And why does that always take so long? Generally: why does good type need to be so "expensive"? And how am I supposed to tell a good from a bad typeface? These are only some of the topics I’m trying to cover in my talk and the 2-day workshop at University of Applied Sciences in Graz, Austria.

Logo & Corporate Design

OKTA

Sleek, functional, modern and timeless – we designed the logo, stationary and (soon) website for fellow Stuttgart based architect OKTA. The almost architectural looking logotype, which is strictly reduced to basic geometrical shapes such as circle, square, triangle is built upon shapes that are also inherent parts of the archetypical canon of forms in architecture itself.

More to come soon…

Book series

Mythos und Wahrheit / Myth and Truth

Sisi, The Josephinum, Kaiser Franz Joseph, Schönbrunn – Viennese icons that are well known even in hidden places at the back of beyond. This newly developed and designed series – in close cooperation with Viennese designer Cora Akdogan – takes a fresh look at some of these icons – visually not like most of the books in the tourist shop around the corner.

Corporate Identity

THE WYE

THE WYE is not just a gallery, it is not just a co-working space for artists, designer, start ups and engineers, it is not just the organizer and curator of various exhibitions across the globe.

First and foremost, THE WYE is a new way of collaborative working at the intersection of art, design and technology, an international network that empowers and connects creatives, engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs to pioneer new forms of creative expressions and to apply technology innovations to businesses that create meaningful value for people in our digital culture.

Together with Nadine from JUST DAMN R!GHT and in close cooperation with THE WYE, we develop, design and optimize the comprehensive corporate identity of THE WYE, ranging from logotype and stationary to digital and analogue brochures to supporting their digital brand management across various social media channels.

Dato Serif Black

Work in Progress

Sometimes you have to put a project aside for a longer period of time before picking it up again. So, some weeks ago now, I started working on Dato again, since there’s still a huge amount of work to do before it can possibly be released: correction of single masters (or redrawing them from scratch), extending character sets, as well as adding a Black for all 6 styles of Dato Regular… Still a long way to go.

New Corporate Identity

LM wins at the iF Communication Design Awards

We’re very proud to say that the new corporate identity we developed together with the guys from Morgen Digital for LM Audit & Tax just won one of this years’ iF Communication Design Awards. Yeah!

Over. And out.

Thanks for a great 2013, wishing all of you all the best for 2014!

Workshop

University of Applied Sciences, Graz, AT

Hello Graz, long time no see. I’m really looking forward to being there again… Further information and pictures to come…

New Corporate Identity

Bayerische Akademie für Werbung und Marketing

We designed the new Corporate Identity for BAW (Bavarian Academy for Advertising and Marketing). Together with the guys from Morgen Digital, who were responsible for the new website and Brand Identity, we developed the new brand and refined its branding guidelines carefully in a long and demanding process, that asked for a shift of a long established brand in German advertising scene.

Exhibition

Ampersand Conference, Brighton, UK

Proud to say that Dato Sans and Dato Serif are part of this years first ever student typeface exhibition hosted in conjunction with Brighton’s Ampersand Conference.

Lecture

Typographische Gesellschaft Munich

15 minutes about developing Bergamo, 15 minutes about why it sometimes takes years to design a typeface and 15 minutes about why you sometimes discard decisions over and over again, just to make new ones, better ones…

Workshop

Wei sraum, Innsbruck, AT

An intense weekend of typedesign, in the middle of summer, in the middle of the Alps. In the end, it didn’t feel like summer because of all the rain, but it was intense nevertheless. The two and a half day workshop focussed on the very basics of developing a new typeface: from controlling the movements of the brush to sketching (and correcting) to deriving actual designs that can then be digitized and built to a whole typeface. Thanks to everyone who was attending and thanks to the folks at Wei sraum, it was a fantastic weekend!