Short profile
Diplom Designer (FH), studied Design in the BAUHAUS town Dessau, currently Art Director in the heart of Hamburg. Just forget the title. I am Stefan, just a designer. And I simply love my profession.
Several awards. Experience in packaging, corporate design, logos, text, brochures, factsheets, campaigns, advertising, interface design, webdesign, Flash webbanners, search engine optimization (S.E.O.), search engine marketing (S.E.M.), video, illustration (2D + 3D) and photography.
Worked already for clients such as UNIVERSAL MUSIC, Sat.1, BUNDESLIGA, FC Bayern, Bayerischer Runk, Google, DIE WELT, Star Clippers (luxury sail traveling on the biggest sailship on the planet), addictive tv and many more.
Details
July 2010: Just arrived in the cool city Hamburg, enjoying a new, powerful international team and now working as Art Director similar to my experiences in Berlin but with more focus on landing pages and direct marketing.
From february 2007 until june 2010 I worked as a Junior Art Director in a successful advertising and communication agency right in the heart of Berlin. I created for print media, fairs, from corporate design to campaigns, interface design projects (Flash, handwritten HTML, CMS like Typo3 incl. editing workshops for our clients, Dynasite by TCS) and even search engine optimization (S.E.O.) for websites.
Before that you could have seen me working since 2002 in a mediacompany in the mediacity Potsdam-Babelsberg doing projects concerning packaging design, corporate design, advertising and most of the prepress of our products.
I create my projects from the very first sketches to the final products.
Including final draft ... I designed many DVD-artworks, ads, concepts, made storyboards and 3D packshot animations for TV ads for customers like UNIVERSAL MUSIC, Sat.1 (german TV station), DFL (German Soccer Ligue), BUNDESLIGA and many more. Its always interesting work and new international contacts each day.
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:: Awards
From 1996 to 1997 I did my civil service in a hospital in Potsdam. During my time there I won the second place for designing a logo for the house (and bought my first two books about basic graphicdesign from the money :-) ). At this time there was also space for nude- and natural sketching in a course, which I miss a bit today.
School was over for me in 1995 when I did my final exame (german "Abitur"). During my time in school I worked for about 5 years in layout, drawing, picturing and finally writing for our schoolpaper. Since 1990 I did this mostly on my first computer, an ATARI ST. Beside this I also was involved for one year in our schoolradio.
My current interests: natural sciences such as astronomy, biology, product design, interactive media, especially interfacedesign and design in any case, even car design and architectural design.
Actual books I´m reading at the moment:
"A Short History Of Nearly Everything"
by Bill Bryson. Simply great. I would like to see teachers reading out of this book in the schools.
"The Elegant Universe"
by Brian Greene. If you want to know more after Steven Hawkings "A short story of time" or "Universe in a nutshell", this could be one of your next books.
"SAARINEN"
by Pierluigi Serraino - about the architect
Saarinen. Inspiring: Organic shapes meet - in those times - hypermodern architecture. I cant´t get enough of that. One day I´ll design a building too. :-)
2005: Third prize at the shortfilm contest "VISION POSSIBLE 2010" of the city Potsdam. Head of the jury: Director Andreas Dresen. :-)
2004: Special award at the DOCMA-Award, a composing contest by the graphics magazine DOCMA.
2000: The International Agfa Young Creatives PLATINIUM AWARD for the area of Germany.
First prize in redesigning a tower at Dessau maintrainstation for the 100th birthday of Kurt Weill (Composer of the Three Penny Opera, the BAUHAUS town Dessau is his birthtown) and for the Kurt-Weill-Festival.
1999: Third prize for some billboards about advertising new media in public libraries in Niedersachsen, Germany.
