Graphic Design in context
My practice as Graphic Designer is highly influenced by the cultural context I am living in. I don't see Graphic Design necessarily as a means to produce design for print or internet, rather generally as a task to support and create ways of communicating responsibly in order to support and critically contribute to the challenges of a contemporary society.
Strong collaboration and communication are decisive and at the same time enriching elements of my way of working. In order to produce the most successful concepts it is crucial to know background and motivation of all the contributors and listen and learn from their points of view.
I am interested in producing design with a clear message in regards of design and content for 'people', rather than 'clients'. Sustainability plays an important role both as elementary idea as well as in the production process.
The areas I mainly work in can be circumscribed by terms like the arts/cultural institutions and initiatives, environment, youth work/social matters/education, politics and travel/tourism.
Not only the latter is also an area I am active in creating self initiated projects. This way of working is beneficial for my commercial work. Further research and discussion with other practitioners might inspire further initiatives.
Experience
Since 1997 I have been working in several fields outlined above, both as employee and as freelancer/sole trader in the UK, Austria and on European level. I am highly experienced in carrying out self organized projects as well as being a coordinating or contributing member of a motivated team in collaboration with charities as well as small and middle sized companies.
News
100609 • A lot of magazine design and revisions of older projects kept me busy this spring, but there were also Michael Schimek's Corporate Design and a personal web page for the archeologist Barbara Horejs. It was a pleasure to work for both.
100506 • Beside that Gregor has fixed a few php related errors on this page (thanks so much!), there are a lot of new photos uploaded here [link] from my latest travel and a few more. I've been busy the first few months of the year. Read about it at kublogger [link].
090907 • or-bits.com and Scouts' Annual Report 08/09 were 2 recent projects. Also check samples of my photographic work - regularly updated.
