Demokratiefestival Spandau

„Dabei statt nur dafür“ means participating instead of just being there wich was the motto of the three-day democracy festival Spandau 2021. The design of all festival media is composed of a modular key visual: cut-out photo elements – hands gesticulating or mouths grimacing – are held together by a coloured dot grid. For the design of the individual media, the elements are repeatedly varied and recombined to create a lively, varied design.

Media: CI, various flyers, poster, t shirts, stage banner, wristband, social media graphics
Category: Public and municipal
Client: Partnerschaft für Demokratie Spandau
Title: Demokratiefestival Spandau 2021
Year: 2021
Typeface: HK Grotesk
See also: www.demokratiefestival-spandau.de

beautiful mind

Inspired by classic blue jazz aesthetics, we designed the Godemann Bauder Duo’s new album ‚beautiful mind‘ in bright blue to magenta tones. The loud design stands in wild contrast to the self-image: „Acoustic expansiveness, swinging straight-ahead passages, dreamlike moments and yes, even entertaining feel-good sounds are presented – always framed and interlocked by the spontaneity and improvisational responsiveness inherent in jazz.“

Medium: CD cover artwork
Category: Music
Client: Godemann Bauder Duo
Title: beautiful mind
Artist: Godemann Bauder Duo
Year: 2021
Typeface: Druk, Druk Wide
See also: Massoud Godemann Trio „Hope“

KLASS Sticker

Our KLASS sticker sheet gathers a total of 17 sticker motifs designed by us. The sheet is produced as a screen print with colour change from neon orange to neon pink. Each sticker sheet has a unique colour within the two print colours.
KLASS Oracle: For one of the stickers, we developed an Instagram filter so that it becomes an oracle that predicts our future.

Medium: Sticker sheet
Category: Personal
Title: KLASS sticker sheet
Year: 2022
Format: DIN A4
Pages: 1
Special features: two-colour screen printing, Instagram filter: „KLASS Oracle“

Brandhaus Wuppertal

The artist Samuel Treindl initiates the renovation of a burnt-down factory building in Wuppertal’s city centre to create new space for workshops, talks and temporary art projects. The Brandhaus Wuppertal becomes a place of social exchange for cultural workers, architects, artists and local residents. We were invited to the inauguration to print wooden panels with a screen printing workshop, which will become the future furniture of the Brandhaus.
We developed a strong visual identity in green, black and pink, the colours most commonly used at Samuels Art. The typical shape of the factory window becomes the logo and the grid around which the typography can wrap. A small detail: an open window in the middle of the logo to represent the open character of the fire house.

Media: CI, website, flyer
Category: Arts and culture
Client: BRANDHAUS WUPPERTAL
Website: www.brandhaus-wuppertal.de
Year: 2021
See also: artist book PRODUKTIONSPROJEKTE

Kinderstadt Hamburg 2021

We developed a playful colorful visual identity for the first the Kinderstadt Hamburg. Using construction blocks as graphic elements, we developed a key visual of a city landscape. To enhance the topic of building, we added tools, nuts and bolts as additional elements of the Cvisual identity. In contrast to the bright multicolored blocks the CLAIM „wir bauen eine neue Stadt“ is in black and white, but still as fun.

Medium: CI, website, illustrations, flyer, signage, play money and more
Category: event
Client: Patriotische Gesellschaft
Year: 2021
Typeface: Poppins
See also: kinderstadt-hamburg

greta granderath

Greta Granderath is a performance artist and writer based in Hamburg, Germany. We designed a responsive, typography focused, web-portfolio for her. A large menu with the sentence „greta granderath: performance maker & writer“ leads to different aspects of her work and the corresponding portfolios. The blue font on a grey background is a reinterpretation of black and white and underlines her conceptual work, contrasted by a bright linear colour gradient explosion in pink and blue, which is displayed on all clickable elements.

Medium: Website > gretagranderath.de
Category: Arts and culture
Client: Greta Granderath
Year: 2021
Content management system: WordPress
Typeface: HK Grotesk
Special features: responsive, portfolio

Hohlform & Abdruck

The artist’s catalog ‚Hohlform & Abdruck‚ was created on the occasion of the ‚Theatrum‘ exhibition by Anna Mieves at the gallery Wassermühle in Trittau. 80 pages show works from her oeuvre as well as the objects of the Theatrum series, along with a text about her working methods and process images of her casts and molds.

Medium: Book
Category: Arts and culture
Client: Anna Mieves
Title: Hohlform & Abdruck
Publisher: Gudberg Nerger
Year: 2021
Format: 240x300mm
Pages: 80
Typeface: DTL Fleischmann
Special features: glossy dustcover, paperbag

Florian Heinisch

Inspired by the longing place „forest“ in German Romanticism we created a color scheme for the pianist Florian Heinisch… these colors become the background of the individual pages of the website. Always matching the crisp red font color.

Medium: Website > florianheinisch.com
Category: Arts and culture
Client: in medias PR & Management
Year: 2021
Content management system: WordPress
Typeface: Old Standard, News Gothic
Web development: Stadtkreation

A-F-K

AlltagForschungKunst is a Hamburg-based foundation that operates in this interplay of everyday life, research and art. The website presents the work and the funded projects. To create a connection to the existing logo, we designed a perspective website menu: The menu items are set from bold to light. Other special features are the sharp reduction of colour, the intense signal colour and the custom internal scroll bar.

Medium: Website > alltagforschungkunst.de
Category: Arts and culture
Client: Stiftung AlltagForschungKunst
Year: 2020
Content management system: WordPress
Typeface: Spartan
Web development: Stadtkreation

75 Jahre BDA Hamburg

In 2021, the Association of German Architects Hamburg (BDA Hamburg) celebrates its 75th anniversary. We have designed a booklet for this occasion. Printed with a single vibrant spot colour, Pantone Reflex Blue, the booklet shows the history of the past 75 years, accompanied by 75 statements by Hamburg architects.

Medium: Booklet
Category: Architecture and urban planning
Client: Bund Deutscher Architekten Hamburg
Title: 75 Jahre Baukunst für Hamburg
Publisher: BDA Hamburg
Year: 2021
Format: 160x240mm
Pages: 72
Typeface: Frutiger
Special features: 1c pantone print, cover printed on colored paper

Anna Tolpeit

Her favorite color is the brightest yellow and her workplace is the human body. For the physiotherapist Anna Tolpeit we created a logo and based on this, designed various print media such as personalised business cards and a website.

Media: Logo design, website, business cards, flyer
Category: Health
Client: Anna Tolpeit, physiotherapist
Year: 2020
Typeface: GT Walsheim, GT Super
See also: www.annatolpeit.it

Juliana Oliveira

Juliana Oliveira is a Portuguese freelance performer and theatre maker living in Hamburg. We designed a three-column website that reflects her three identities and the three different languages, English, German and Portuguese. Each language has its own typography. The simplicity of the website is accompanied by a warm colour gradient.

Medium: Website > julianaoliveira.de
Category: Arts and culture
Client: Juliana Oliveira
Year: 2020
Content management system: WordPress
Typeface: Inter, Inconsolata, Comprehension
Special features: responsive, portfolio

MAX.A

Inside and outside, in front and behind, refraction and reflection. The architecture magazine MAX.A deals with the material aluminium and its versatile applications in modern architecture. We designed a magazine concept for this purpose. Inspired by illustrations of aluminium profiles, we used outline lettering. The sections and page numbers become an especially strong, form-giving element within the design.

Medium: Magazine
Category: Architecture and urban planning
Client: Euramax
Title: MAX.A – Metal Architecture
Publisher: AIT Verlag
Year: 2020
Format: 205x270mm
Pages: 54
Typeface: GT America, Caslon
Special features: lacquer finishing

48 exxperts

48 exxperts’ is a typographic-illustrative wall calendar for 2021. Each month four interesting female experts are presented. These women range from natural scientists to philosophers, astronauts or fighters. The elaborately produced calendar is perforated several times. Through the perforation the 4 motives on one page can be separated from each other and continue to exist as a single card.

Medium: Calendar
Category: Personal
Title: 48 exxperts
Year: 2021
Format: 235 x 335 mm
Pages: 13
Special features: Risography printing in 5 colours, collaborative work
See also: shop the calendar via slanted

Kindness

KLASS for Kindness’ was the second edition of a print-on-demand campaign initiated by us for a limited period. The shirt sales went to the non-profit Hamburg street magazine ‘Hinz&Kuntz’, which is distributed by homeless people.

Medium: Clothing
Category: Personal
Title: KLASS for Kindness
Year: 2020

PK 3000

Loud and contrasting; what the four women of the Hamburg-based collective PK3000 wished their visual language to be. We developed a system consisting of two strong elements: a drawn stencil lettering together with two-dimensional colour gradients. The logo is used digitally as a stencil on the website and is also used as a classic stencil for screen prints.

Media: CI, website, business cards, letterhead
Category: Arts and culture
Client: PK3000
Year: 2020
See also: www.pk3000.de

future

KLASS for Future’ was the first edition of a print-on-demand campaign initiated by us for a limited period. The shirt is made of fair-trade organic cotton and the proceeds of the shirt sales went to a bee conservation project.

Medium: Clothing
Category: Personal
Title: KLASS for Future
Year: 2020

Dala prenotaziun ala vacanza

From booking to holiday – what do I have to consider? The booklet ‘Begriffe des Handwerks in der ladinischen Sprache’ helps Ladin gastronomy businesses to communicate with guests, clients and other companies. The booklet consists of two interlinked parts: a trilingual Glossary and a part with communication examples, such as menu cards or correct hotel signage. Both parts each have a cover. The formal contents of the booklet are communicated using lively and colourful graphic language.

Medium: Booklet
Category: Trade and craft
Client: Uniun Ladins Val Badia
Title: Dala prenotaziun ala vacanza
Author: / Editor: Ruth Videsott
Publisher: Uniun Ladins Val Badia
Year: 2019
Format: 210x297mm
Pages: 46
Typeface: News Gothic
Special features: 6-page folded cover, offset printing with two spot colours on coloured paper
See also: Issue 1

Dimensions Bildsprache

How can technical functions and processes be presented in unified, simplified graphics? Dimensions is a technology company that provides data apps and data services for different audiences like scientists, universities or companies. Based on the existing CI, we translated this versatile offer into infographics, icons and illustrations. The graphics explain functions on the website; an icon library provides graphic support for presentations and hand-outs. Derived from the logo, we designed matching header graphics for web and print.

Media: Digital design, icons and infographics
Category: Science and technology
Client: Digital Science & Research Solutions Inc.
Year: 2019
Special features: Icon library
See also: www.dimensions.ai

&

After we had already portrayed 53 women with our KLASS calendar 2019, we wanted to continue with it because there are so many more women who were important to us. The monthly calendar 2020 ‘&’ features 48 women who fascinated or inspired us. For this, we started a collaboration with female designers who contributed to the calendar.
Designed by KLASS & with extra contributions from: Janitha Banda & Dorit Birkner & Lana Bragin & Anamaria Fernandez & Johanna Flöter & Gesa Hansen & Annette Jacobs & Lisa Keiffer & Tina Kläring & Claudia Koch & Hedi Lusser & MarameoLab & Franziska Opel & Lisa Seitz & Bente Singelmann & Wondering Woman.

Medium: Calendar
Category: Personal
Title: &
Year: 2020
Format: 135x694mm (open format)
Pages: 56
Special features: Risography printing in 5 colours, collaborative work

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