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Ideation, Concept, Typography, Production

CLIENT

In 2013 parts of Germany were hit hard by massive flooding. Flood damage was estimated at some 8 billion euros. Our hometown was left unharmed. We didn’t do anything better than our northern or eastern neighbours. We were simply lucky. So we invented this relief project to share our privileged situation. We made a series of 200 copies by hand.

RECOGNITION

Our Poster was accepted as beneficence by the “House of History” in Bonn, Germany and will be considered as contemporary document for future exhibitions. Even Federal President Joachim Gauck accepted the beneficence.

APPROACH

Each poster was unique and handmade. We laid the paper into dirty flood water and printed afterward a neon screen print on it. We sold each copy for 50 Euros. All donations went directly to charities.

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Logo, Letterhead, Business Cards, Greeting Cards, Stamps, Stickers, Labels, Copywriting, Packaging, Notepad, Responsive Website

CLIENT

All of us at ONOGRIT design studio have been working hard towards this day, and it has finally arrived. We can say the words we’ve been longing to say – Our stationary design is ready to rumble! Rumble with us if you dare. Go on, show us some love on Facebook, Instagram & Twitter.

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Letterhead, Business Cards, Invitation, Copywriting, Envelope design, Packaging

CLIENT

A real king in the house! For the African King Nana Kwadwo Owusu I from Ghana our studio designed a stationary set consisting of letterhead, business card and invitation card for his business correspondence.

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APPROACH

The illustrations show traditional royal ghanaian symbols, which we have developed into uniform icons. One of these classic symbols is, for example, the West African Sankofa bird – a symbol of learning from the past for a better future. As an encouraging fun part, we created a packaging design for a fictitious chocolate. For this we developed a branding based on the business papers and complemented it with a few chocolate fun facts.

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Ideation, Concept, Copy, Production support

CLIENT

Together with Patricius C. M. Schalkwijk – owner of the interior design agency hell & freundlich – we wanted to create an invitation that would make it to a place of honour on the recipient’s desk. It’s so beautiful that it won’t be thrown away light hearted with other printed products. And which remains enthroned on the table even after the actual event – simply because it is so beautiful.

challenge

How do you create lasting value these days? How can something quite ordinary become something special? By a good taste of the client, by a high design skill and an excellent print production.

APPROACH

“Doctors can bury their mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant ivy.” This quote from George Sand was of course a wonderful hanger for our invitation card for the 15th company anniversary. And so we invited directly to “15 ivy-free years” to celebrate this achievement.

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Workshops, Concept Trend Catalogue, Typography, Collages, Key Visuals, Print Production, Bookbinding

CLIENT

The trendbook titles always showed the way: from COME CLOSER to WIDE AWAKE to MAKING HEADWAY. We declared it the “year of collage,” simply because the time was right.

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It was all about MAKING HEADWAY in the global trend book. Moving step-by-step in the right direction – and that meant something completely different for each region. For Europe that meant saving a few countries from financial collapse; for the United States that meant Barack Obama fighting for a second term or a first one for Mitt Romney. And Asia Pacific sought balance between tradition and modernity.

APPROACH

We knew collages would be the next big design thing, so why wait? What a relaxed world we conjured up for ASPIRE TO! How beautiful WITH PRIDE for Asia Pacific! With a store of just 10 images per world we had limited material to evoke magic, but succeeded surprisingly well. We duplicated, retouched, masked and hyperventilated from dawn to dusk.  And we’re most proud of the title. Sometimes second ideas are the best – and if you have been around for a while, you know when it’s a good time to call it a day. A handheld wedge as a symbol of “progress” needs no further explanation. A truly global icon. Sometimes it’s OK to be proud of yourself.