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

W3 Webseite

For more than 40 years W3 – Workshop for International Culture and Politics – has been an independent place for encounters and diversity. In the course of a CI redesign we also designed the new website of the non-profit organisation. Here you can find a comprehensive overview of the projects and topics of W3 and of the events on a specific topic. Events can be booked via the calendar function.

Medium: Website > w3-hamburg
Category: Arts and culture
Client: W3 – Werkstatt für internationale Kultur und Politik
Year: 2019
Content management system: WordPress
Typeface: Frutiger
Web development: Stadtkreation
See also: CI for W3

ta bum!

The booklet ‘ta bum! Musical Impulses’ is a collection of compositions, games and stories for early musical education conceived by the music teacher Esther Videsott.
The design is very playful but also functional: the different formats of the pages, the illustrations and patterns, the ring binding and free spaces make the booklet a functional and creative tool for educators. The multilingualism is represented by different colours.

Medium: Booklet
Category: Education
Client: Ladin Pedagogical Institute
Title: ta bum! Musical impulses
Author: / Editor: Esther Videsott
Publisher: Ladin Pedagogical Institute
Year: 2019
Format: 210x297mm
Pages: 28
Typeface: GT Eesti
Special features: Ring binding

Bauforum 2019

The seventh ‘Internationales Bauforum’ took place in August 2019 at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. 14 interdisciplinary teams were invited to develop models for a future approach to Hamburg’s main traffic arteries, the Magistralen. In cooperation with the urban planning agency urbanista, we developed the CI and graphic language for the event, which lasted several days. We designed all printed media including a magazine, detailed work booklets about each Magistrale for the teams, as well as exhibition boards.

Media: CI, signage, posters, booklets, magazine, exhibition design, various gadgets
Category: Architecture and urban planning
Client: Hamburg Authority for Urban Development and the Environment
Title: Internationales Bauforum 2019 – Magistralen
Editor: Hamburg Authority for Urban Development and the Environment
Year: 2019
Typeface: Founders Grotesk, Founders Grotesk Mono

Produktionsprojekte

How to find a language for a restless form? The artist book ‘Produktionsprojekte’ was designed in intensive dialogue with the artist. It represents the artist’s works, but also his experimental working method through the page layout, the dynamic arrangement of the images and the repetitive use of typography. The catalogue also contains its own typo-/graphic interpretations of Samuel Treindl’s working method. Due to the elaborate printing and binding technique, the catalogue itself becomes a ‘production project’.

Medium: Book
Category: Arts and culture
Client: Samuel Treindl
Title: Produktionsprojekte
Author: Samuel Treindl
Publisher: Self-published
Year: 2019
Format: 235x304mm
Pages: 92
Typeface: Berthold Akzidenz Grotesk, Berthold Baskerville
Special features: Offset printing with five colours, screen printed cover, open binding
See also: Buchhandlung Walter König

Veddel Übersetzen

The week of events ‘Über-Setzen. Erkundungen auf der Veddel’ took place as part of the 9th Hamburg Summer of Architecture. Projects by HafenCity University students were presented around the old customs area on the Elbe island of Veddel, accompanied by thematic discovery tours on Veddel and the Elbe. For the design, we played typographically with words, syllables and lines that create a connection between format and meanings.

Media: CI, various flyers, social media graphics
Category: Architecture and urban planning
Client: Association of German Architects Hamburg (BDA)
Title: Veddel Übersetzen
Publisher: Association of German Architects Hamburg (BDA)
Year: 2019
Typeface: Univers

Roga

How can we create a vibrant system that is flexible and cost-effective in reproduction? For the secondary school in Rosengarten near Hamburg, we developed a typeface consisting of clean geometric shapes and patterns. The Typography was expanded into a corporate identity with different elements in black and white that invite play.

Media: CI, font, logo, business cards, exercise books, flyers
Category: Education
Client: Rosengarten Oberschule
Title: ROGA
Year: since 2017
Typeface: GT Eesti

Heterocronias

Is there only one form of time and does it apply to all? In ‘Heterocronias’ different positions on the concept of time and the question of the objectivity of time are brought together in one publication. On the cover the ambiguity of ‘time’ is taken up by repeating the title. The typography is arranged in a circle.

Medium: Book
Category: Philosophy
Client: Edições Ricochete
Title: Heterocronias
Editor: Marlon Salomon
Publisher: Edições Ricochete
Year: 2018
Format: 155x230mm
Pages: 382
Typefaces: Plantin, Franklin Gothic
Special features: Softcover with flaps

our daily bread

The wall object ‘Our daily bread’ was created as a contribution to the exhibition ‘Frenzi and Friends in a Black Box’ at FORUM BOX in Helsinki.

Category: Personal
Title: Our daily bread
Year: 2017
Format: 35mm
Typeface: CA Normal

w3

The W3 – Werkstatt für internationale Kultur und Politik e.V. is a cultural and political information and education centre in the middle of Hamburg Altona. A diverse range of events invites people to meet, exchange and critically question our social conditions. On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the W3 – Werkstatt für internationale Kultur und Politik in Hamburg, we revised the corporate design and all printed media of the institution. A prominent use of the logo on all media and a clear and typographic visual language ensures recognition and creates flexibility.

Media: CI, website, business cards, letterhead, stamp, event flyer, event posters, postcards, banners, roll-ups, displays, cotton bags, social media graphics and more
Category: Arts and culture
Client: W3 – Werkstatt für internationale Kultur und Politik
Year: 2019
See also: webdesign for W3

Betreten auf…

The second edition of our ongoing personal studio project. For this monthly calendar we created adventurous creatures, strange ventures and combined worlds of thought. Created in a daring and thoughtful collaboration of three designers per month, this calendar is dedicated to the small and big adventures of life.
The KLASS calendar is a framework in which we experiment with design forms and create everything from design to printing and finishing ourselves.

Medium: Calendar
Category: Personal
Title: Betreten auf eigenes Abenteuer
Year: 2016
Format: 280x400mm (open format)
Pages: 14
Special features: Risography printing in 5 colors

4

On the occasion of our 4th anniversary, this issue of our ongoing personal studio project KLASS calendar is entirely dedicated to the number four: 4 years of KLASS, 4 designers, 4 sheets divided into 4 areas, 4 x 4 words made of 4 letters, 4 numbers, all neatly mixed together and then 4 different ways to hang the posters up.
The KLASS calendar is a project that we reinvent every year. Everything from design to printing to finishing is done by us.

Medium: Calendar
Category: Personal
Title: 4×4
Year: 2018
Format: 230x345mm
Pages: 14
Special features: Risography printed folded posters

Bestiarium

The KLASS calendar is an ongoing personal project of our studio with changing topics. ‘Bestiarium’ is the first edition and it plays with the most classic form of all calendars – the animal calendar. But not too strictly: already with the January motif we leave the animal world and show mushrooms.
The KLASS calendar is a framework in which we experiment with design forms and with our collaboration. From design to printing and finishing, we create everything ourselves.

Medium: Calendar
Category: Personal
Title: Bestiarium
Year: 2015
Format: 260x390mm
Pages: 13
Special features: Risography printing in 5 colours

Ja/Nein

The third edition of our ongoing personal studio project is a booklet that you can hang on your wall. Each double page was dedicated to one contrast. We confronted opposites or interwove them, we questioned or reinterpreted and, above all, we called for tolerance.
The KLASS calendar is a framework in which we experiment with design forms and create everything from design to printing and finishing ourselves.

Medium: Calendar
Category: Personal
Title: Ja aber nein
Year: 2017
Format: 230x345mm
Pages: 14
Special features: Risography printed booklet in 4 colours with thread-stitching

52 Frauen

The KLASS calendar is an ongoing personal project that we reinvent every year. The 5th edition was a weekly calendar. Each of the 52 weeks of this calendar was dedicated to a woman who fascinates, moves or encourages us. The result is a mixture of quotes, portraits and inspired designs.
The KLASS calendar is a framework in which we experiment with design forms and also communicate content which we find important.

Medium: Calendar
Category: Personal
Title: 52 Frauen
Year: 2019
Format: 133x192mm
Pages: 56
Special features: Risography printing in 5 colours

hplus

H+ is a company specialized in the maintenance and cleaning of building services equipment. The design of the website provides a clear overview and access to the services offered. Photos of the special equipment provide a visible insight into the technical processes.

Medium: Website > hplus services
Category: Building services engineering
Client: h+ services
Year: 2017
Content management system: WordPress
Typeface: Benton Sans
Special features: responsive

99% Urban

The 99% Urban platform is an online magazine offering artistic perspectives on the city and its social realities. It is published biannually with a specific focus. The design of the website is inspired by modernist typography, it is both simple and unusual.

Medium: Website
Category: Arts and culture
Client: 99% Urban
Year: 2014
Typeface: Cabin
See also: 99 Prozent CI

why not integration

Website design for the non-profit organisation ‘why not Integration’. Why not creates intercultural meeting places and offers workshops for institutions about topics like integration, diversity and political participation.

Medium: Website > why-not-integration.org
Category: Non profit
Client: why not Integration
Year: 2017
Typeface: Gill Sans
Special features: responsive

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