The Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel is steeped in history: Once called the eighth wonder of the world, it is now Germany’s national library for 17th-century literature. We created an elegant and contemporary visual identity for this modern center of historical research.
Casestudy Category: Editorial
We do editorial design. We make printed materials more visually expressive – from layout to cover, from typesetting to typography, from business cards to outdoor posters. We turn books, brochures, annual reports, theatre schedules, catalogues and posters into powerful print products. Many of them are award winners.
Nouveautés!
The fine lace known as »Plauener Spitze« was born in the 1880s in Germany’s Vogtland region. In the fashionable French of the day, novel designs were called »noveautés«. Plauen’s innovative new lace patterns were designed from scratch by students at the art school there and then adopted by the local embroidery and lacemaking industry.
From History to Nowness
In 2019, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation published its fourth annual report. Each of these reports focuses on a specific topic of importance to the foundation. Questions are asked, and philosophical and artistic stances are taken, initiating and expanding a discussion to be continued in future publications.
One Hundred Years of Bauhaus
The Bauhaus’s 100th birthday celebration kicked off in January 2019 with a weeklong festival at Berlin’s Akademie der Künste. Bettina Wagner-Bergelt’s curatorial concept was intended to blow the dust off the (in)famous design movement with a flamboyant merger of past, present and future – and our campaign for the festival was designed to do the same.
Emeka Ogboh: Lagos Soundscapes
Pioneering sound artist Emeka Ogboh is one of the most exciting figures on the international art scene. For Kerber Verlag, we designed Lagos Soundscapes, a compendium of Ogboh’s early works (2009–14) focusing on Lagos, Nigeria’s economic and cultural capital. Subtle typographic differences between the French and English texts in this bilingual catalog highlight an important aspect of Ogboh’s oeuvre: the normalization of a hybrid society. The book was honored with a Red Dot Design Award for Brands & Communication Design.
Mess Things Up!
We began working for Hamburg’s Kampnagel performing arts center in 2007, when Amelie Deuflhard became its artistic director. After five years of productive partnership, we were definitely excited to be given the opportunity to reshape the theater’s corporate design in 2012.
