Hello. I design communication for companies, projects and cultural organizations. My best works arise when I can truly and fully apply the ideas of my customers. Convince me with your values and visions. I am looking forward to a collaboration.

Projects

Description

Year

Prause – Office for better construction

Corporate design for the wood construction planning office Prause

2020

The family business »Prause Holzbauplanung« is one of the leading companies in Germany in the field of wood construction planning and digitalisation of the planning process. They also operate in Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg. Together with the client we worked over a year on a new identity for the company.
For the understatement, we crossed out the »Holzbauplanung« of the name and replaced it with the claim »Büro für besseres Bauen« meaning Office for a better construction. In that way they can directly assume a leading position in front of the building industry.
The tree as a natural resource in its reduced and constructed representation is composed of two modules, which could also be read as a one and zero. Since the company was founded, its color has been blue. For a contrast we added yellow as an additional color for active marking.
On the website, you can see interesting projects, showing the possibilities of wood construction. But a big part of it is the magazine, in which coworkers of Prause can write articles about their fields and publish them under their names. The aimes of the website are to present the company with its values and aimes, the engagement and growth of the coworkers, and to strengthen the brand within the wood construction sector.

Tags

Corporate Design, Webdesign

Link

www.holzbauplanung.de

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Dominik Antoni – photographer

Corporate design an playful simple website

2020

A wonderfully simple new website for the photographer and image maker Dominik Antoni from Essen (NRW, Germany). The images are not shown alone in a white museal space. The website acts as flexible as the content Dominik produces is different. Because of small and effective interactions, it feels like you could be browsing through the site for indefinitely without getting bored.
Besides the website, new business cards were designed, with an elaborated edge coloring on all sides and a fitting letter paper for PDF-I invoices or love letters to clients.

Tags

Corporate Design, Webdesign

Link

www.dominik-antoni.de

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Website politicalbeauty.de

Webdesign for the art group »Center for political Beauty«

2020

The Zentrum für Politische Schönheit (ZPS - Center for Political Beauty) is well known for its controversial actions, which have the finger on the pulse of the times and the current political discourse. With trenchant art performances and installations, they send strong messages and show grievances which are often disregarded in Germany and Europe.
Ash on the skin of the artists is their trademark, which is mixed with the color range of skin tones. Together, they are easy to recognize and a core element of the corporate design.
We designed the website with Peter Post, (CEO of Scholz & Volkmer), who developed the corporate design.

Tags

Webdesign

Link

www.politicalbeauty.de

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Shitstorm

Awarded work: Top 100 Mut zur Wut 2019

Letterpress poster about the debate culture on the Internet

2019

This letterpress poster was created during my time on Walz at the printing company Hügelschäffer. Regarding poster print, Conney Hügelschäffer and I pushed the old printing facility [62 2/3] in Volkach or Mainbernheim to its limits. The 3-colour poster is 100 x 70 cm big and was printed 29 times.
The shitstorm was one of the first hundred posters of the poster competition “Mut zu Wut 2019”, among 3120 participants from 66 countries.

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Poster, Typography

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Amélie traduit

Visual identity for a translator

2019

Amélie Gärtner, a French translator, has decided to go freelance after having worked several years in a translation company. She translates from German and English intro French.
Rather than showing projects, the company's communication is translated on the website and the business card. As this field purely deals with languages and words, we have decided to show only one picture of Amélie and to communicate mainly with words.

Tags

Corporate Design, Webdesign, Text

Link

www.amelietraduit.fr

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Oberschuirshof

Visual identity for the farm Oberschuirshof south from Essen

2018

The farm Oberschuirshof located south from Essen has been owned by the family Weber since 1760. Nikolas Weber has recently taken over the farm from his parents and wishes to bring the agricultural production closer to the people. He wants to connect the missing dots between the product on the fields, the animals in the stable and the meal on the table.
Therefore, the communication needed to be as simple and transparent as possible. Farming means hard work, and that should be made clear. It wasn't about creating a romantic view of a farm but about showing the true - and sometimes muddy- reality of it. The handwriting used for most of the headlines has been drawn from instructions by Nikolas Weber and creates the visual identity of the farm, together with the colors and the typographic design.

Tags

Corporate Design, Webdesign

Link

www.oberschuirshof.de

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Akduell

Redesign of the student paper

2018

The student paper of the University of Duisburg-Essen has been coming out every month since May 2018 on a larger scale. With 8 sections and 8 different formats, the new Akduell layout gives a lot of free space for editorial work. The 20 pages in Berlin newspaper format offer enough room for a double cover in which various artists and illustrators may comment or add to the focus theme in their own way.
The fonts show a strong contrast: the headline, logo and info boxes in “Aperçu” have a reduced and smooth look, and the “Ergilo” used as a modern Renaissance-Antiqua for the text is harsher and more edged. This contrast is mirrored in the layout between the headers and the stories, info boxes as well as formats.

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Typography, Corporate Design

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Non-linear text structures

Narrative structures in various textual forms – Part of the graduating work

2017

Once the developed text structures from the analogical studies had been used for fiction, I tried to use them for other text types. The exhibition system for this part of the work was found during the same period.

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Typography, Installation, Experiment

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Der Heizer Narrated in relations

Art Direktors Club Auszeichnung Junioren 2018 / Experiementelles Gestalten

Type Directors Club/TDC64 Winning No. #179

Mirroring of the sign language on Kafkas novel “Der Heizer” – Part of the graduating work

2017

In “Der Heizer Narrated in relations”, the structure inspired by the sign language puts a strong emphasis on the relations between persons and objects.
The work is an experiment of typographic and medium realization. The aim is to break up the linearity of texts or stories and to bring them to life in a non-linear way. When I asked myself how to tell a story without hearing the sound of words in one’s head, I started to get interested in the sign language. This language is purely visual, and works in a multidimensional way. In the spoken language, we mainly have acoustic information, whereas in the sign language, the face, mouth, gestures, form and position of the hands, speed and body posture are all crucial for the statement and are used to create links and relationships in the space.

Tags

Typography, Book, Experiment

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Der Heizer Narrated in space

Art Direktors Club Auszeichnung Junioren 2018 / Experiementelles Gestalten

Type Directors Club/TDC64 Winning No. #179

Mirroring of the sign language on Kafka’s novel “Der Heizer” – Part of the graduating work

2017

The space presented in the literature work is mirrored in the text space of the book. New relations and links come to life and spread through the entire story.
The work is an experiment of typographic and medium realization. The aim is to break up the linearity of texts or stories and to bring them to life in a non-linear way. When I asked myself how to tell a story without hearing the sound of words in one’s head, I started to get interested in the sign language. This language is purely visual, and works in a multidimensional way.
The narrative structure of non-hearing people is significantly different from the one of hearing people. Information is linked via space.

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Typography, Book, Experiment

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Der Heizer Simultaneous narrative

Art Direktors Club Auszeichnung Junioren 2018 / Experiementelles Gestalten

Type Directors Club/TDC64 Winning No. #179

Mirorring the narrative structure of sign language on text – Part of the graduating work

2017

In “Der Heizer Simultaneous narrative”, simultaneous events or trains of thought are presented on the same level, simultaneously.
The work is an experiment of typographic and medium realization. The aim is to break up the linearity of texts or stories and to bring them to life in a non-linear way. When I asked myself how to tell a story without hearing the sound of words in one’s head, I started to get interested in the sign language. This language is purely visual, and works in a multidimensional way. In the spoken language, we mainly have acoustic information, whereas in the sign language, the face, mouth, gestures, form and position of the hands, speed and body posture are all crucial for the statement. Information is communicated simultaneously. The narrative structure of non-hearing people is significantly different from the one of hearing people. I try to apply these alternative differences to reading a text and I have opted for the modalities of the sign language.

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Typography, Book, Experiment

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Folkwang Finale – Promoted in relations

Poster for the end exhibition – Part of the graduating work

2017

The work shows a text structure which I have worked on in my bachelor’s thesis under the title “Non-linear narrative structures”.
On this poster, a press release of the annual exhibition of the Folkwang University of the Arts is told in a non-linear way and shows the event programme in various ways of reading. The poster is a two-colour print with ink roller and felt-tip pens.

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Typography, Poster

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Der Heizer Told in categories

Art Direktors Club Auszeichnung Junioren 2018 / Experiementelles Gestalten

Type Directors Club/TDC64 Winning No. #179

Non-linear text structure online

2017

Tags

Typography, Webdesign, Experiment

Link

heizerinkategorien.alexanderboenninger.de

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Der Heizer Non-linear narrative

Art Direktors Club Auszeichnung Junioren 2018 / Experiementelles Gestalten

Type Directors Club/TDC64 Winning No. #179

“Non-linear text structure” online – Part of the graduating work

2017

Tags

Typography, Webdesign, Experiment

Link

heizernonlinear.alexanderboenninger.de

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Please wait

Intervention to become aware of the waiting time

2016

Nobody likes to wait. And therefore, no wonder there are a myriad of methods and strategies to try and shorten the waiting time. Fact is, we can’t shorten it. So there comes the question if we shouldn’t enjoy and fully grasp this waiting time. In this test, road signs were put on pedestrian traffic lights and suggested to the awaiting pedestrians that they possibly had to wait a few hours. Besides this effect, the installation has had another repercussion. See here.

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Installation, Experiment

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Patience machine

Production of waiting time

2016

The production of waiting time seems absurd but also creates a really interesting moment. How do you make someone wait? The patience machine makes it possible. A piece of candy and a paper with an unknown message. If that isn't enough to wait 3 minutes. Once the button is turned, the machine starts a countdown and drops the long awaited content once the time runs out.

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Installation, Experiment

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Small conflicts

Illustration and text

2016

Tags

Illustration, Text

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Friend normal

A friendly typeface

2016

The friend is a new humanistic sans serif font and a secure nice companion with character. Even when times are getting tough, the friend keeps you company for readability. It is dynamic and has static bonds, which makes it low-key, friendly and even more unique. Just like we would imagine the perfect significant other.

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Typedesign, Typography, Poster

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It’s ok to get fat, it’s Christmas

Snack attacks at Christmas

2016

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Poster

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A self-cleaning litter box

For the exhibition “100 Beste Plakate 2016” in Dornbirn

2015

Ein selbstreinigendes Katzenklo wünscht sich Monika Schnitzbauer für Dornbirn.

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Poster

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Schadow Klein 11-9

New writing of the Schadow work for small dot sizes

2015

Schadow Klein was designed as an optical size cut of the Schadow work (1952 - Georg Trump) for the point sizes between 11 and 9. The font is designed as a company font for an association which retraces the history of Lufthansa and takes care of the maintenance of old Lufthansa planes.

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Typedesign, Typography

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Emscherkunst 2016 goes Morse

German Design Award 2017

Corporate design for the Emscherkunst exhibition

2014

Art always wants to tell us something or nothing. Some artists have a relatively clear meaning, some may want to not be understood or the works can have a dual meaning. All in all, art has a very cryptic language. Which is why the Emscherkunst 2016 used the Morse code. Thanks to the conception of this type of communication, there is a vast playroom in which the signs can for example be switched out by pieces of nature or where the signs reach out on the entire page. The creation of this concept designed by KoeperHerfurth won the German Design Award 2017.

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Typography, Poster, Corporate Design, Text, Orientation system

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Folkwang Finale 2015

Visual for the graduate’s exhibition of the Folkwang University of the Arts

2015

Folkwang Finale is the name of the new exhibition format where the bachelor and diploma graduates show their graduation works. During the second year, the main aim was to give the exhibition a particular branding, with enough playroom for the years to come, and with a frame in which the exhibition can be implemented without too much effort.

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Typography, Poster, Corporate Design, Orientation system

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POP UP

Exhibition of the design department of the Folkwang University of the Arts

2015

How do our works change in a public space? And how do our works change the public space? That is what we wanted to discover with POP UP, the student exhibition of the design department of the Folkwang University of the Arts. The university didn’t have the necessary room space for this project, so we went on the hunt in the city center of Essen. We wanted to find a space which isn’t associated with art. After a long time and extensive researches, we decided on the Viehoferstr. 36. We renovated the building for our 4-day-exhibition. We showed already existing works, but also new projects linked to the space. Before the event, we were shooting in the dark, but it turned out to be a fantastic event, created by a lot of students and which brought in a surprising number of visitors. We managed to be taken into consideration in the city center of Essen and to present our works in a really rugged but also honest environment.

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Typography, Poster, Corporate Design, Event

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Let’s go to the theater

Poster campaign for the theater Schauspielhaus Bochum

2014

“Should we pop to the theater?” is a question which we don’t often hear and if so, the answer is often no. These chains of arguments will make it a lot harder to find an excuse.

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Typography, Poster, Campaign

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We can do theater better than you

Poster campaign for the theater Schauspielhaus Bochum

2014

Theater isn’t only present in the theater building. Irwin Goffman says we all play theater. This is more than obvious in politics. A selection of notorious acts from current and historical political figures shows with humor that theater should better be left to professionals.

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Typography, Poster

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Paul Rand

Typographical interpretation in booklet format

2013

Paul Rand was one of the first and most famous modernist graphic designers in the USA. Over a period of 60 years, he has influenced the industry with his unusual and artificial advertising and campaigns. Paul Rand began working in the thirties, when he created a “graphic vocabulary”, based on a pure and simple form. In 1938, PM, the leading American magazine for graphic design, celebrated him as a designer who remained unimpaired by traditions. With his modernist design, Rand managed to break away from the stereotypical campaigns which had been the norm up to this date. He later worked as a teacher, a theoretician and a philosopher in the design industry.

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Typography, Book

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Honest food products

Project on the question of manipulation

2013

Even if we know how vegetables, dumplings, or “currywurst” look like when they are cooked, we like to get ourselves fooled. The product aesthetics is one which fools you beyond the product and promises that the 3rd choice mushrooms taste just like they look on the packaging. The surface of food products packaging was explicit enough to show the manipulation which always happens, even if we’re not willingly acknowledging it, once we enter a supermarket. It isn’t possible to picture it otherwise. Or is it?

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Installation, Experiment

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Made in Essen

1st place in the CD cover contest of the Sparkasse Essen

2012

The sampler initiated by the Sparkasse Essen is mainly aimed at young bands and offers them in this way a particularly good opportunity to present themselves.
The CD cover proposal was created based on the wear and tear of music instruments, the garbage and other traces left by the practice of music. Pretty quickly, these artefacts of music I found created an aesthetic that was used for the CD artwork. The sampler, which mainly aims at young bands, offers them in this edition a chance to present themselves. For the booklet, I therefore paid a visit to each band in their studio, in order to show their actual traces. The tracklist is a list of handwritten songs (by the bands) which echoes a setlist for a concert. I drafted the idea during my first semester. I then won 1st place of a contest organized by the Sparkasse Essen and could implement it in 2013.

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Typography, Poster

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Prause – Office for better construction

Dominik Antoni – photographer

Website politicalbeauty.de

Shitstorm

Amélie traduit

Oberschuirshof

Akduell

Non-linear text structures

Der Heizer Narrated in relations

Der Heizer Narrated in space

Der Heizer Simultaneous narrative

Folkwang Finale – Promoted in relations

Der Heizer Told in categories

Der Heizer Non-linear narrative

Please wait

Patience machine

Small conflicts

Friend normal

It’s ok to get fat, it’s Christmas

A self-cleaning litter box

Schadow Klein 11-9

Emscherkunst 2016 goes Morse

Folkwang Finale 2015

POP UP

Let’s go to the theater

We can do theater better than you

Paul Rand

Honest food products

Made in Essen