p 128–135 10 / 10 Frank Abele, Munich (DE) bfgest.de
Since 2000 Frank Abele – together with Ursula Wangler – is manager and creative director of Büro für Gestaltung Wangler & Abele in Munich. The agency develops corporate designs, ex hibition designs and information and orientation systems. Among the latter, are numerous renowned projects such as Munich International Airport, BMW Welt (BMW Automobile Delivery) in Munich, German Bundestag and Parliament buildings in the Spreebogen in Berlin, Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, City of Munich, Olympic Stadium Berlin, FIFA 2010 World Cup Stadiums Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth in South Africa and many more. The office was founded in 1983 (Büro für Gestaltung Prof. Eberhard Stauß Ursula Wangler). Frank Abele studied Visual Design at University for Applied Sciences Schwäbisch Gmünd as well as Social Sciences at Ludwig-Maximilans-University Munich with Sociology being the main subject.
p 136–139 Überbeschilderung oder minimalVariante Moniteurs, Berlin (DE) moniteurs.de
Since 1994, Moniteurs has been a leading graphic design organization, specializing in Information and Corporate Design — both for digital and analogue media. Our portfolio includes: Wayfinding systems, books, brochures and catalogues, as well as corporate design and websites. Strong typographic elements are characteristic of our style. Our design concepts include aspects such as openness, versatility, aesthetics and construction. Moniteurs’ managing partners are Sibylle Schlaich, Heike Nehl and Isolde Frey. They lead a core staff of ten designers.
p 140 / 141 Für uns muss jedes Projekt eine neue Herausforderung darstellen Vier5, Paris (FR) vier5.de The work of Vier5 is based on a classical notion of design. Design as the possibility of drafting and creating new, forward-looking images in the field of visual communication. A further focus of our work lies on designing and applying new, up-to-date fonts. The work of Vier5 aims to prevent any visual empty phrases and to replace them with individual, creative statements, which were developed especially for the used medium and client.
stalten publishers. Quit in 2007 and moved back to Karlsruhe for working on his own. Actually he’s doing a lot of logo development, corporate designs, magazine illustrations, and a lot of illustrative print communication. He sees himself as graphic designer and graphical illustrator. His work is 95 % vector based – never trust pixels. He loves Macromedia Freehand and hates Adobe Illustrator. If someday Freehand is not running anymore on his computer, he’ll quit his job (probably). Freehand for Life!
p 142 / 143 Für mich wachsen Schriften über die Zeit Timo Gaessner, Berlin (DE) milieugrotesque.com timogaessner.com 123buero.com
Timo Gaessner, born in 1975, studied graphic and type design at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, and a trained signmaker and silkscreen printer. Since 2002, he runs Berlin-based 123buero, a graphic design practice focused on printed matter, identity programmes, exhibition and type design. In 2010, he established the digital type foundry MilieuGrotesque through which all recently developed typefaces are distributed exlusively. Timo has lectured and set workshops at École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and University of the Arts in Bremen, among others. Since summer 2011, he has been a visiting lecturer for type design at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe.
back flap Steffen Mackert, Karlsruhe (DE) shivamat.com
Steffen Mackert, born in 1975 in Karlsruhe, studied visual communication in Pforzheim. He’s focusing on illustration and classical graphic design. He made an internship at Mutabor Design (Hamburg), came back to Karlsruhe, graduated quite well and went back to Hamburg for another three years, working for Mutabor. He’s been blessed to write, illustrate and create a book about surfing, which has been published at Ge-
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