Category: Graphic

Our Black Forest – Romanticism and Reality

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Logo of the exhibition

Background

gewerkdesign created the catalogue’s cover, its basic layout and all printed materials for the special exhibition »Our Black Forest – Romanticism and Reality« at the Augustinermuseums in Freiburg.

The exhibition presents paintings, photographs, and religious objects from the Augustinermuseum’s large Black Forest collection in a modern and humorous way. The exhibition’s unconventional corporate design refers to stereotypes about the Black Forest (like fir cones or the traditional Bollenhut) and matches it with stereotypical expressions like: »Idyllic. Beauty.«, »True. Authenticity.« oder »Wild. Romantic.«

Portfolio / Range of Services: brand design of the exhibition, catalogue design, concept and planning, layout, supervision of the production, final artwork

Details

• Published: April 2011
• Editor: Freiburg City Museums,
FAugustinermuseum
• Michael Imhof Verlag
• 216 pages

Related projects

• Zwei Räder – Freiherr von Drais
Fund die Geschichte des Fahrrads
• Pillen + Pipetten – Facetten einer
FSchlüsselindustrie
• Flucht und Verwandlung.
FNelly Sachs, Schriftstellerin

Team

• Birgit Schlegel
• Christine Kitta
• Susanne Kluge

Photography
• gewerkdesign

STASI. State Security in the SED-Dictatorship

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Training centre of the BSTU, Berlin

The STASI headquarters in 1990

Background

The catalogue’s nine narrative chapters document the history, ideology, structure and influence of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) of the GDR.

It presets the paradigmatic life stories of six GDR citizens, each of whom had become targets of the STASI. The stories are supplemented by documents, photographs, drawings and 12 essays by distinguished experts.

Portfolio / Range of Services: brand design of the exhibition and all printed materials, catalogue design, layout and final artwork, supervision of the production

Details

• Published: January 2011
• Catalogue accompanying the
Fexhibition with 12 essays
• Editor: Federal Commissioner
Ffor the Records of the State
FSecurity Service of the former
FGerman Democratic Republic,
FBStU
• 222 pages

Related projects

• STASI. Die Ausstellung zur
FStaatssicherheit der DDR
• Feind ist, wer anders denkt
• Berliner Mauerweg – Außenring
• Berliner Mauer

Team

• Birgit Schlegel
• Christine Kitta

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Pills and Pipettes – The chemical pharmaceutical industry as exemplified by Schering

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Verlag Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig

Wie bedeutend ist die Entwicklung der Pharmazie und der Chemie für die Welt? Ein ergänzender Ausstellungskatalog über die Industriegeschichte Berlins.

Background

The catalogue »Pills and Pipettes – The chemical pharmaceutical industry as exemplified by Schering« supplements the exhibition at the German Museum of Technology and provides the reader with an overview of the various different perspectives involved.

With critical essays, historical photographs and infographics, the book encompasses everything from historical development to crucial current topics like the search for alternatives to animal experimentation, the supply of medicines worldwide and advances in the field of modern biotechnology.

Portfolio / Range of Services: catalogue design, layout and typesetting, final artwork, supervision of the production

Details

• Published: May 2010
• Catalogue accompanying the
Fexhibition by Volker Koesling
Fand Florian Schülke
• Editor: Foundation of the
FGerman Museum of
FTechnology Berlin and
FSchering Foundation
• Verlag Koehler & Amelang,
FLeipzig
• 266 pages

Related projects

• Alles Zucker! Nahrung –
FWerkstoff – Energie

Team

• Birgit Schlegel
• Christine Kitta

Photography
•  gewerkdesign

Flight and Metamorphosis – Nelly Sachs, writer, Berlin

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Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin

A glimpse into the surroundings of the poet and Nobel Laureate Nelly Sachs

Background

In the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, the Swedish author Aris Fioretos illustrates the historic and biographic context of Nelly Sachs’s poems, presenting numerous previously unpublished photographs and documents.

Nelly Sachs, who in 1940 fled from Berlin to Stockholm on one of the last passenger planes, was awarded to Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966. A large portion of her poetic output was written in a 4 m2 alcove within her apartment in Stockholm. The furniture of Sachs’s apartment are stored at the Royal Swedish Library and were documented and photographed for the catalogue.

Portfolio / Range of Services: catalogue and print design of all graphic products

Details

• Published: March 2010
• Catalogue accompanying
Fthe exhibition by Aris Fioretos
• Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin
• 350 pages

Related projects

• Starke Frauen
• Solange ich lebe, kriegt
Fmich der Tod nicht.
• Vom Locken der Federn –
FLeben als Modistin,
FMuse, Stilikone
• Flucht und Verwandlung.
FNelly Sachs, Schriftstellerin
F(Ausstellung)

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Katharina Erben
• Christine Kitta

Publishing
• Ola Wallin

Cover Photography
• Harry Järv, Kungliga Biblioteket Stockholm

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Signs and Boards for the Hannover Garden Region

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Background

In order to make to Hannover Garden Region accessible to tourists, gewerkdesign created a distinctive signage system that highlights its parks, gardens and points of interest in the garden region’s 21 cities.
The signage system includes signs and boards for guidance and information. The signs harmonically blend into the landscape yet remain recognizable thanks to their distinct colours and can be combined according to their particular function.

Portfolio / Range of Services: development of a signage system for guidance and information, design, detailed design, graphic design of boards and signs, applying the design to printed materials for tourists, designation of the signs’ and boards’ positions, supervision of the production

Details

• Opening: August 2009
• Region Hannover
• Client: Project Office for
Fthe Hannover Garden Region
• 400 signs

Related projects

• Berliner Mauerweg –
FAußenring
• Didaktik trifft Gestalt –
FWald. Berlin. Klima.

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Andreas Baumbach
• Christine Kitta
• Rita Rentzsch

Curator
• Ralf Rummel

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Berlin Wall

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Background

Starting point for gewerkdesign’s logotype for the Berlin Wall was a rectangle mirroring the proportions of the wall and corresponding with the words »Berliner Mauer«. Omitting one segment of the rectangle in between the words makes reference to the former division of Berlin into an eastern and western part, yet also the opening of the wall. The missing segment is repeated a little below the rectangle and can be used for including additional information like a place, an event, or a date.

The logotype was selected in an elaborate selection procedure by the Federal Government of Germany. It identifies all institutions subject to public law that are dedicated to the research and information about the Berlin Wall or the history of the German division. It is also used as a certificate for quality approved products and services of non-governmental institutions.

The Berlin Wall logotype was awarded the European Design Award in Stockholm 2008.

Portfolio / Range of Services: logotype design, brand design

Details

• Published: September 2008
• Client: The Federal Government
FCommissioner for Culture
Fand the Media

Related projects

• Berliner Mauerweg – Außenring
• Stiftung Berliner Mauer

Team

• Jens Imig
• Stefan Rothert
• Birgit Schlegel
• Susanne Kluge

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Berlin Wall Memorial

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Marienfelde Refugee Center Museum, Berlin

Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Straße 111, Berlin

Background

The logotype by gewerkdesign for the Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Straße 111 was first published in 1999.

It consists of the three delicate numerals 1 and the words »Berliner Mauer – Dokumentationszentrum«, alluding to the address of the memorial and the division of the Berlin Wall into three parts: the eastern wall, the death zone, and the western wall. The logotype is very flexible because the space in between the numerals is variable and responds to the width of the print product.

As the Berlin Wall Memorial and the Marienfelde Refugee Centre Memorial were combined by a superordinate institution in 2009 – the Foundation of the Berlin Wall – their respective logotypes were redesigned and made to fit together harmonically.

Portfolio / Range of Services: logotype design, style guide, print materials (office equipment, basic layout of flyers), catalogues, posters

Details

• Published: August 1999,
Fredesign 2009
• Client: Foundation of the
FBerlin Wall with the Berlin
FWall Memorial and the
FMarienfelde Refugee Centre
FMemorial

Related projects

• Berliner Mauer Logo
• bcc – Berliner Congress Center

Team

• Birgit Schlegel
• Christine Kitta
• Susanne Kluge

Photography
• gewerkdesign

Berlin Wall Trail – Outer circle

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Background

In 2006 gewerkdesign created a signage system for the the Berlin Wall hiking and bike trail, which traces the course of the former GDR border fortifications encircling West Berlin.

During the course of the 160 km long train gewerkdesign’s simple orange signs point out historical sites and, similar to the well known »stolpersteine«, honour the memory of the 46 people, who were kille trying to cross the border.

Portfolio / Range of Services: signage system, design, planning, supervision of the implementation

Details

• Opening: April 2006
• Berlin Wall Hiking and
FBike Trail
• Client: Grün Berlin Park
Fund Garten GmbH
• ca. 60 posts, continually
Fexpanded

Related projects

• Gartenregion Hannover,
FInformations- und Leitsystem

Design process

Team

• Jens Imig
• Birgit Schlegel
• Andreas Baumbach
• Julia Junghähnel
• Rita Rentzsch
• Tobias Solcher

Photography
• gewerkdesign