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About us

gewerkdesign is an interdisciplinary design studio. We conceive and realise content-driven, audience-focused and integral projects for our clients. Even the most challenging topics are communicated with sensitivity and precision. Unique design products with a focus on sustainability are created for collaborations and on our own behalf. We also explore topics at the intersection of design and art to broaden horizons and inspire new ideas.

We develop our bespoke design solutions, with a particular focus on the conceptual phase, in close collaboration with our clients. We put together our teams flexibly in line with the project phases, placing great emphasis on project and production management. With this management expertise and our knowledge of design solutions, we ensure maximum creativity, always within the agreed time and budget frames. For specific requirements, we have access to a specialised network. This enables us to reliably achieve high-quality and long-lasting results that are always individually tailored to our clients’ project objectives.

Working method

We oversee projects throughout all phases of the HOAS process, from the preliminary research through conceptualisation and design to implementation.

Foundation

At the start of the design process, it is essential to gain a thorough understanding of a task’s complexity – through attentive listening, analytical observation and realistic process planning. Only by working together, it is ensured that a project’s potential and momentum truly unfold. Workshops and collaborative communication on eye level are the means we use to achieve this.

Concept

The design concept encompasses the overarching guiding principle, tailored to the intended content, the framework conditions and the objectives, which the design implementations follow. Ideally, the design concept can be applied to all dimensions of design – spatial, graphic, physical and digital. This results in a cohesive whole that is comprehensive, distinctive and unique in its impact.

Draft

Building on the preliminary research and the concept, our interdisciplinary teams work closely with the clients to define a design solution and select the appropriate creative means. This approach is effective, time-saving and cost-efficient for all involved.

Implementation

For the implementation, we bring the necessary experience, reliability and perseverance to the table. Our projects are built to last because we place great importance on sustainability in both content and materials. As a result, many of our clients have been working with us for years, utilising a range of our services and entrusting us with the management of their projects through every stage of development.

References

  • Amt für Kultur der Stadt Dessau-Roßlau

  • ARD Hauptstadtstudio, Berlin

  • Arolsen Archives – International Center on Nazi Persecution, Bad Arolsen

  • Augustinermuseum Freiburg

  • Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin

  • bcc Berlin Congress Center, Berlin

  • Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), Berlin

  • Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin

  • Berliner Forsten – Senatsverwaltung für Mobilität, Verkehr, Klimaschutz und Umwelt, Berlin

  • Berliner Forum für Geschichte und Gegenwart, Berlin

  • Bertelsmann, Gütersloh/Brüssel

  • Bundesbeauftragter für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen DDR (BStU), Berlin

  • Bundeskanzler-Willy-Brandt-Stiftung, Berlin

  • Bürger Museum Wolfenbüttel

  • Cronos Verlag, Zürich

  • Danfoss Universe, Nordborg


  • Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin


  • Design Zentrum Bremen

  • 
Deutsche Bahn, Berlin

  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gefäßchirurgie, Berlin und Dresden

  • 
Deutsches Architektur-Museum, Frankfurt am Main


  • Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
Deutsches Museum, Munich


  • Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin

  • Deutschlandradio Kultur, Berlin

  • Focke Museum – Bremer Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Bremen

  • Gasometer Oberhausen 


  • Gärtnermuseum Wolfenbüttel 


  • Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen


  • Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin


  • Grün Berlin

  • Hansestadt Wismar


  • Haus der Brandenburgisch-Preußischen Geschichte, Potsdam


  • Haus der Geschichte Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf


  • Hertha BSC, Berlin 


  • Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen, Ottersberg


  • Hochschule Luzern 


  • Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz / SODA.WORKS, Berlin

  • Industriemuseum Chemnitz

  • 
Interstuhl Büromöbel, Meßstetten-Tieringen

  • Jüdisches Museum, Berlin

  • Jüdisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main

  • Jüdisches Museum, München

  • Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-Däniken

  • 
Knesebeck Verlag, Munich

  • 
Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Berlin

  • Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz

  • Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften, Munich


  • Miraikan – National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokio

  • Modulor, Berlin


  • MODUS Möbel, Berlin

  • 
Münchner Stadtmuseum, München

  • Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin

  • 
Museum für Kommunikation, Bern

  • Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt am Main

  • Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg


  • Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund

  • Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig

  • Museum für Natur und Mensch, Oldenburg


  • Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin


  • Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel


  • Museum Neukölln, Berlin


  • Museum Strauhof, Zürich 


  • Museum Wolfenbüttel

  • Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, Bonn

  • Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern

  • 
Nicolai Verlag, Berlin


  • Nobel Museum, Stockholm


  • Norstedts Verlag, Stockholm

  • Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum, Emden


  • Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg


  • Ökodorf Brodowin

  • Porzellanfabriken Christian Seltmann, Weiden


  • Posteo, Berlin


  • Projektbüro Gartenregion Hannover

  • Ricordi & C., Milan

  • SCC Events, Berlin


  • Schiffahrtsmuseum der oldenburgischen Unterweser, Brake

  • Schloss Eutin

  • 
Schwedische Botschaft, Berlin

  • 
Schwedisches Architekturmuseum, Stockholm 


  • Senatsverwaltung für Mobilität, Verkehr, Klimaschutz und Umwelt – Berliner Forsten, Berlin

  • Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin


  • Sport-Gesundheitspark, Berlin

  • Sprengel Museum, Hannover


  • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden


  • Staatliche Schlösser, Burgen und Gärten Sachsen, Dresden

  • Stadt Doberlug-Kirchhain

  • 
Stadt Frankfurt am Main


  • Stadt Wolfenbüttel


  • Stadtmuseum Oldenburg


  • StadtPalais – Museum für Stuttgart


  • Städtische Museen Freiburg


  • Stiftung Berliner Mauer, Berlin

  • Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden

  • Stiftung Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung, Berlin


  • Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora, Weimar


  • Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg: Altonaer Museum, Hamburg

  • Stiftung Historische Museen Hamburg: Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg 


  • Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Berlin

  • 
Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt, Lutherstadt Wittenberg


  • Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten, Celle


  • Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam

  • Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten: Gedenkstätte Bautzen

  • Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten: Gedenkstätte Münchner Platz Dresden

  • Stiftung Sächsische Gedenkstätten: Gedenkstätte Pirna-Sonnenstein


  • Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig

  • 
Stiftung Topographie des Terrors, Berlin

  • Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin

  • SV Werder Bremen

  • Technische Universität Eindhoven 


  • Technoseum, Mannheim

  • Übersee-Museum, Bremen


  • Universität der Künste, Berlin


  • Universität Hamburg


  • Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck

  • 
Universitätsstadt Marburg


  • Universum Managementgesellschaft, Bremen

  • Velotaxi, Berlin


  • Vertretung der Europäischen Kommission in Deutschland, Berlin

  • VolkswagenStiftung, Hannover

  • Wartburg-Stiftung, Eisenach

  • 
Whisky & Cigars, Berlin


  • Wilhelm Wagenfeld Stiftung, Bremen


  • WonderWolf Productions, Düsseldorf


  • Worpsweder Touristik- und Kulturmarketing, Worpswede

  • ZBW – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel

  • ZEIT Stiftung Bucerius, Hamburg

  • Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zürich

Network

gewerkdesign is a member of the following organisations:

  • IDZ Berlin

  • VerA

  • ICOM

  • Museumsrunde

Origin of the name

Our company name has defined us since our foundation in 1992. At gewerkdesign, the creative community takes centre stage, much like a »Gewerk« – a guild comprising specialised trades. Thinking of the »gewerk« [in English: trade, discipline] in the context of design led us to the name gewerkdesign. For us, it is the most apt description of our interdisciplinary design approach. To emphasise its uniqueness, the terms »gewerk« and »gewerkdesign« have been protected by trademark law since 2008.

Susanne Benzing

Project Management, Exhibition Production

Education: Dipl.-Des. Communication Design (University of the Arts Berlin), Focus: Project Management, Exhibition Production

Andreas Berzdorf

Exhibition Design

Education: M.A. Social Design (Design Academy Eindhoven), B.A. Communication Design (HAW Hamburg), Focus: Concept – Draft, Exhibition Design, Communication Design

Sophia Bouveret

Exhibition Architecture

Education: M.Sc. Architecture (RWTH Aachen University), B.Sc. Architecture (RWTH Aachen University), Focus: Exhibition Design

Kristina von Bülow

Communication and Content

Education: M.A. Arts Management (Technical University of Kaiserslautern), B.A. Art History and Information Science (University of Düsseldorf), A.A. Communication Studies (Seattle Central College), Focus: Communication of Scenography and Fine Arts

Jens Imig

Founder of gewerkdesign, Managing Director

Education: Dipl.-Des. Visual Communication, Meisterschüler (University of the Arts Berlin), Focus: Concept Design, Exhibition Design, Business Management, Teaching: Workshops, seminars, lectures

Julia Junghaenel

Project Management, Exhibition Production

Education: Dipl.-Des. Product Design (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam), Focus: Project Design, Project Management, Exhibition Production

Anna Koppmann

Project Management, Exhibition Production

Education: Dipl.-Des. Product Design (University of the Arts Berlin), Focus: Project Management, Exhibition Production

Antoine Laurent

Exhibition Design, Illustration

Education: B.A. Scenography (L'École de Design Nantes Atlantique), M.A. Mutations of Built Environment (City Design Lab Nantes), Focus: Exhibition Design, Illustration, Animation

Jens H. Lohmann

Controlling, Finances

Education: Chief Notary employee (University Passau, Ländernotarkasse Leipzig), Focus: Contract Design, Controlling, Finances

Bianca Mohr

Scenography, Interior Design

Education: M.A. Interior Design | Interior Arts (Detmold School for Architecture and Interior Design) // Member of the German Architectural Association Berlin, Focus: Scenography, Interior Design, Draft Design and Detailed Planning

Mattea Müther

Exhibition Architecture (intern)

Education: B.A. Architecture and Urban Design (FH Potsdam)

Florian Roth

Exhibition Design

Education: M.A. Exhibition Design (Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences), B.A. Design with focus on Product Design and Communication Design (FH Münster), Focus: Exhibition Design, Communication Design, Product Design

Stefan Rothert

Founder of gewerkdesign, Managing Director

Education: Dipl.-Des. Industrial Design (University of the Arts Berlin), Product Design (University of Applied Sciences, Krefeld), Focus: Concept Design, Industrial Design, Business Management, Teaching: Workshops, seminars, lectures

Carsten Saalmann

Exhibition Architecture, Detailed Planning

Education: Dipl.-Ing. Architecture (Bauhaus University Weimar), Focus: Project Planning, Architecture HOAI stages 1–5

Birgit Schlegel

Founder of gewerkdesign, Managing Director

Education: Dipl.-Ing. Economic Engineering for the Publishing and Printing Industry (University of Applied Sciences for Print and Media Technology Stuttgart), Dipl.-Des. Visual Communication, Meisterschülerin (University of the Arts Berlin), Focus: Concept Design, Graphic Design, Book Design, Business Management

Janine de Souza

Graphic Design, Communication Design

Education: Dipl.-Des. (FH) Communication Design (University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt), Focus: Graphic Design, Spatial Communication

Christina Storch

Office Management

Education: Dipl.-Des. Graphic Design (Braunschweig University of Art), Focus: Corporate Design

Gabriel Tecklenburg

Graphic Design, Communication Design

Education: State certified graphic designer (Lette Association Berlin), Focus: Exhibition graphics, corporate design, typography, book design, interface design, wayfinding systems

Alumni

Staff

  • Thilo Albers

  • Linda Bauer

  • Andreas Baumbach

  • Willy Bernklau

  • Klaus Böhm

  • Sebastian Büsching

  • Tanja Büsching

  • Maria Theresa Collberg

  • Viola Ebbighausen

  • Benedikt Esch

  • Klaus Fermor 

  • Sebastian Franke

  • Isabell Fringer

  • Petra Funk

  • Nanna Funke

  • Vivian van Gaal

  • Juan García del Castillo

  • Friederike Gerlach

  • Nica Giuliani

  • Johannes Gotaut

  • Ariane Grabe

  • Kathleen Gust 

  • Stephan Harmanus

  • Tania Hartmann

  • Adele Heymann

  • Christian Hoffmann

  • Barbara Höffer

  • Henning Humml

  • Lisa Jacob

  • Evelina Johansson

  • Martin Kamratowski

  • Christine Kitta

  • Martina Kohl

  • Yunus Kleff

  • Sven Klomp

  • Susanne Kluge

  • Takaya Kobayashi

  • Sidse Kristensen

  • Susanne Kunz

  • Fabian Lefelmann

  • Sebastian Legge

  • Malte Lührs

  • Michaela Misner

  • Anne-Kathrin Müller

  • Haleh Najafi-Shoushtari

  • Christine Neumeister

  • Agnes Oswald

  • Georgina Prüßing Mascarenhas

  • Stephan Rändel 

  • Rita Rentzsch

  • Victor Reichert

  • Kate Riep

  • Costanza Rossi

  • Marlene Schaefermeyer

  • Aniela Schober

  • Stefan Schöbinger

  • Franziska Schuh 

  • Steffen Sendelbach 

  • Tobias Solcher

  • Marten Suhr

  • Markus Tewes

  • Marie-Luise Uhle

  • Hendrik Unger

  • Ann-Christin Warntjen

  • Christian Wolf

  • Alexandra Zackiewicz

Interns 

  • Stefanie Attenberger

  • Dorothee Ahrens

  • Lucie Behrens

  • Liliane Böhm

  • Volker Böhm

  • Bettina Bühr

  • Ronald Cerdas

  • Dave Bynoe

  • Friederike Delius

  • Barbara Diem

  • Ernst Dullemod

  • Riccardo Galletta

  • Nils Fischer

  • Ida Flik

  • Isabell Fringer

  • Constanze Hager

  • Livia Hammer

  • Philipp Heinke

  • Andrea Horezky

  • Chen-Yu Hsieh

  • Sophie Jahnke

  • Helene Jantzen

  • Vanessa Jenni

  • Elisabeth Kamm

  • Marielena Jori Kehn

  • Lara Ketzenberg

  • Katja Kirchhoff

  • Franziska Kleedehn

  • Jacob Köhler

  • Nadine Koller

  • Lena Krämer

  • Christian Krüger

  • Marie-Katrin Lauenroth 

  • Leander Lentner

  • Nina Ludwig

  • Anchal Mittal

  • Sarah Mohs

  • Naya Moldenhauer

  • Kerstin H. Müller

  • Amelie Neb

  • Marcus Neumann

  • Kensuke Onodera

  • Richard van Os

  • Sinem Özer

  • Maike Panz

  • Till Pliestermann

  • Anna Priese

  • Katrin Reinhardt

  • Sindy Richter

  • Christine Ringer

  • Simon Rittmeier

  • Sudhir Saseedharan

  • Oskar Schieferstein

  • Denise Murray Schlegel

  • Jan Schlegel

  • Andrea Selent

  • Riddhi Shah

  • Marie Teigler

  • Ines Thalmüller

  • Aybike Topal

  • Franziska Waldemer

  • Julia Walk

  • Sarah Wietrzychowski

  • Johanna Ziemann

  • Kerstin Zipfel

Job vacancies

Without a network of expertise and fresh inspiration, it is almost impossible to cope with the increasing complexity of our design projects. We are committed to constantly broadening our horizons and enhancing our team‘s skills. Therefore, we are always delighted to hear from interested candidates and to receive qualified applications

Apply now: eingang@gewerk.com

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