Studio for digital design and visual communications

Patrik de Jong is the Creative Director of Artificial Rome. It’s not always the easiest job when you’re dealing with a bunch of individualists and – let’s face it – nerds. Astonishingly, he manages to keep up with this matter-of-fact feature and still works as an excellent designer with an ingenious output.

Born in 1979 in Bochum, Germany, he started out by the age of 18 and was dragged along by the new economy hype. 

Aged 20 Patrik started freelancing at various advertising agencies (W+K, HiRes!, Leo Burnett, Tribal DDB amongst others), studying Communication & Illustration Design in the meantime. In 2004 he teamed up with Dirk Hoffmann, they would co-found Artificial Rome in 2014. Since then, the team has, in successive years, received many awards in prestigious competitions including the Cannes Lions, the Art Directors Club,the Red Dot Award and the New York Festivals. 

Patrik has been a speaker at the OFFF Festival, Resonate, ADC Conference, Playground Festival and was Guest Lecturer at the HAW, FH Lübeck and the Miami Ad School.

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Digital Design

Bildwerk is an interdisciplinary studio in the heart of Vienna and combines visual art, interaction design and cutting-edge technologies to create smart, multimedia experiences. The collective animates digital ideas for customers from culture, industry and the public sector who want to present themselves individually and innovatively. Together with a wide-ranging network of lateral thinkers in the back, the team creates holistic, sensual worlds of experience for exhibitions, trade fairs and events as well as in public spaces.

Austrian illustrator and type designer working in Barcelona. 

Her lettering designs and surrealist compositions are explorations of color, geometry and optical illusions. As the founder of her own studio, Birgit has designed for major international brands like Adobe, Nike and Samsung. She is a believer of sharing the creative juices and lectures about design & illustration at creative conferences & universities worldwide. She also belongs to the sort of people who get grumpy when there's no food around :)

Illustration

Bleed is an independent design consultancy with offices in Oslo and Vienna. Since its founding in 2000, Bleed has actively and consciously shaped the design scene in Europe.

Restless, intuitive, and contemplative, Bleed question convention and the very definition of design. Although always thinking — more importantly, they are always doing. Representing a mix of cultures and disciplines, creating strong and sustainable solutions through strategy and design. With their eyes firmly set on the horizon, Bleed continue to blur design, art, and technology to create compelling products, services and experiences for their clients. 

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Graphic Design

Burton is a lifelong designer and creative technologist. Previously at IDEO and AIGA, he is now a UX Design Lead on Google's privacy and data protection team. He  had a unorthodox path to the design industry. Driven by ideas & ideologies borne from music and activism, which today inform the work that he does as a designer.

Craig Black is a Scottish born graphic designer, lettering artist and typographer.

He is known for his bespoke and innovative typographic illustrations, visual identities, packaging, murals, installations and everything in between. His strengths lie in his ability to cross disciplines without the restriction of a fixed personal style.

Typography and lettering is just the starting point of Craig’s work and he believes in creating engaging, modern and precise visuals whilst maintaining originality in all of his work.


Strong design and execution in constant evolution.

Daniela Leitner works on style development with focus on non-conventional materials of visual approaches, no matter if traditional or digital. Having a background in advertising and strategy she believes in simple storytelling and a strong core idea.


Visual Art

David Mikula is a creative leader and new media artist based in New York City.

Put simply: he designs beloved experiences and tells subversive stories that bring the best out of humanity.

He’s helped build robots that fight cancer with Nike, made pianos that take requests via Twitter. Directed the film on Google Material Design, another on criminal justice reform. Designed airports and hospitals. Worked with NASA. Challenged Jeff Bezos to save the Amazon rainforest. Helped launch Impossible Foods. And hopes to invent the first sport to be played in outer space.

Over the past fifteen years, all of this work has become recognized for its striking balance of impact and experimentation, intention and play. After spending time at Wieden+Kennedy, Digital Kitchen, B-Reel, and Redscout: David founded Friends, a design and innovation studio with its own cult following. At Friends, he worked alongside ambitious leaders to tackle some of the most challenging issues of our time—health care, diversity, climate change, and education.

Most recently, David has joined Oscar Health to lead brand innovation and work towards healing the United States’ broken health care system.

You can expect that he will always put his energy towards building better, fairer futures.

Creative Network of Illustrator Ladies based in Vienna.

The DRAWING LADIES VIENNA are founded by Florine Glück and Janina Kepczynski alias Janinski. They are both illustrators and designers based in Vienna running their own studio. With the Drawing Ladies Vienna they decided to build a creative space for illustrators to meet: Once a month a group of Ladies meet for the #LadiesDrawingNight to draw together on one theme, to network, exchange and inspire one another.

On their instagram this non-profit platform represents Illustrator Ladies of all styles, techniques and specialties and shows a wide range of diversity.

This concept of online and offline networking for local creatives in the illustration field already began to grow into a worldwide network of Drawing Ladies.

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Esra Gülmen (1986, Istanbul) is a visual artist and designer working as a head of design at Heimat, Berlin. 

After studying interior design, she worked as an assistant professor, taught basic design at Marmara Fine Arts Faculty. After 2 years of working as an academic, she moved to Germany and started her new career as an art director and designer at Ogilvy Frankfurt. Later on she switched over to Ogilvy Amsterdam. She has won many international awards including Cannes Lions, D&AD, One Show, Eurobest, Epica, LIA, ADC Germany.
 
 Esra is a member of ADC Germany and four times in a row she was selected to 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide from Lürzer's Archive Magazine.
 
 Her artworks evolve around human psychology and the tiny struggles of everyday life. For Esra, practicing art is a form of self therapy.
 
 She has exhibited her art in many group shows and opened three solo shows so far in Amsterdam, Hamburg and Berlin.

Audiovisual designer & musician with a crush for winegums.


As a filmmaker, he has been represented with his abstract short films in recent years at several international film festivals. He has discovered his greatest passion at the interface of image and sound and occasionally likes to work with live projections. In addition to his visual work, sound is more than important for Kuş. He is a musician in several bands and is currently developing his solo project KARGA. As much as he likes heavily distorted guitar sounds, he likes to ride his fancy folding bike especially to the vending machine in the night and grab some winegums.

Live images by Elisabeth Anna Photography, Portrait by Julia Weithaler 

Audiovisual Design

It's A Living is not just a statement but it is also a life philosophy for Ricardo Gonzalez, a designer, and artist from Durango México currently living in Brooklyn. His signature script style can be easily recognized from large scale murals to commercial work for some of the biggest brands to a simple sticker in the streets. 

Type Design

Joshua Davis is a designer, technologist, author & artist using creative coding. Since 1995 he used hardware and software to create algorithmic image making & animation.

He produces public and private work for companies, collectors, and institutions. His website, praystation.com, which he used to exhibit new design work and experiments using code, was one of the first to offer open source files for download.
Joshua currently maintains an open source library for processing, HYPE framework.

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Exploring the connection between sound and form.

The South African visual artist's work ranges from music videos and digital artworks to generative realtime live visuals and performances.

Joëlles approach is highly experimental, producing an output that is often unexpected and unknown at the start. Using frequencies and minimal structures she embraces the imperfections that emerge from her process as she tries to capture the atmosphere and emotions that she feels in the moment.

Her works range from music videos and digital artworks to generative realtime visuals and performance, and are constructed of computer generated images driven by audio, resulting in images and forms that are largely sculpted by sound.
She  also works as a product designer, creating elegant and usable experiences while exploring and understanding how humans interact with technology.

Florian Kowatz has been working in branding for the past 20 years. Designing in all fields — corporate, TV, industry, consulting, start-ups — he always wondered how a project that began great suddenly turned out to be crazy. No matter how good of a concept it started off with. By dabbling in an ethnographical approach, sociology and cultural anthropology Florian started his own creative studio „KR8 bureau“ in 2015. Brands that KR8 bureau designed have been unconventional, structural disruptive, fun, and quite often without a logo — breaking expectations of their clients and their brand’s consumers.

Brand Design

We are LWZ is a design and animation studio based in Vienna. They experiment with unconventional approaches and cause visual derailments with happy endings.

Motion Design

He is a graphic designer specializing in systems for cities, events, institutions and transit systems. His creation of the 1968 Mexico Olympics identity built him an international reputation as a graphic designer and the resulting design program, a multidimensional integration of logos, typography and color, is considered a pinnacle of environmental and branding design.

Over the past 5 decades he has helped to define the field of environmental graphics. He teaches corporate and way finding design at Parsons where he has been a visiting lecturer since 1973. 

Lo Siento is a small studio from Barcelona that specially enjoys taking over the whole concept of the identity projects.
Its main feature is an organic and physical approach to the solutions, resulting in a field where graphic and industrial design dialogue, always searching an alliance with the artisan processes.

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Graphic Design, Illustration & Custom Typography

At the end of 2008, after working in agencies and studios between Barcelona, Düsseldorf and Munich, Marta Cerdà won the ADC Young Guns and decided to found her own studio. Since then she worked on global projects which call for Art Direction, Design, Illustration and Custom Typography for Arts, Culture and Advertising Clients. 

Conceptual process & cinematic storytelling

MOMOCO is an EMMY award winning and BAFTA nominated creative studio. The firm has produced film design, branding, commercials and animation for 12 years. Well known, world-wide for its main title sequences, Momoco has collaborated with directors such as Richard Curtis, Ridley Scott, Lasse Halstrom, Kevin Spacey and Dustin Hoffman.
The team is led by directors Nic Benns and Miki Kato.

Film

Great design speaks to your head, and your heart. It makes you feel different, and think differently. It makes you remember, and respond.
That’s what they aim for: to go from insight to ideas to design that connects. To craft things with intelligence, sensitivity and precision.

Musketon is the creative alter ego of Bert. 

Based in Belgium, he's an award winning graphic designer trying to conquer the world with his car, Toon and himself. Musketon followed the Exit signs to follow his dream which is to become the self employed creative he's always wanted to be.

He commits lots of time and sleepless nights to make it up to this point on the ladder. Right now, he is able to do what he loves doing the most. Time well invested, if you ask me. 

Today he is focussing on working with a select number of brands that he can relate to (Mazda for instance) and developing personal art projects. 

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Founded in 2013 by Gregor Stubics and Andreas Niedermayer in Vienna, Austria. Together with the talented Lisa Prantl the small three-person team is focused on creating animations that are not only engaging audiences but also emotionally touching them by heart and laughter. Due to close collaborations with other creatives their projects always vary in style which keeps things fresh. But you will always find joy and fun in their work.

The hybrid film company from Amsterdam specialised in live action direction/production, animation and motion graphics, high-end VFX and VR/AR development. Their tight-knit team of directors, creatives and producers create award winning content for commercials, series and films.

Process is specializing in generative and interactive design and working in the fields of branding, web, installation and print. As well as traditional graphic design solutions, Process designs and develops highly specialized software that is used as tools for and by clients. The studio is directed by Martin Grödl and Moritz Resl.

Clients include Design Museum Holon, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Prodigy, Raiffeisen Bank, The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Sagmeister & Walsh, Vienna University of Technology, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Wienerberger AG and Zurich University of the Arts.

Working at the intersection of design and technology

Responsive Spaces is offering an integrated view on digital media systems, design and experience. They are specialists for innovative and captivating media solutions with a strong focus on real-time and collaborative systems to enhance the experience of virtual as well as of real spaces. While they focus on brand communication within a business context, they enjoy working in more creative and independent environments as well.

The piece designed specifically for OFFF Vienna uses the natural topography of "Halle E" at the MQ as three-dimensional playground. Seismographic data produced by the visitors are visually and physically enhanced and intensified.

Spatial Design

Katja & Martin Ludl are founders of Spine Production and Studio Dock 7. Fascinated by the world, they are attracted to leave their cozy habitual bubble several times a year. This enhances recharging their batteries and focusing on projects with an open-minded approach. Image composition is the core of their work. The attention to details and attempting to catch genuine emotions before they blow out, awakens Katjas & Martins hunting instinct for getting the best with the most creative approach.“


Studio Elastik’s founder Constantin Demner and filmmaker Katalin Hanappi have created a nomadic working lifestyle, spending half of the year travelling and working abroad. Now they embark on yet another mission - working from a tiny sailboat, just big enough to shelter the two. Constantin Demner established Studio Elastik as a nomadic design studio long before dislocated work became a thing. Besides running the studio with an international client list, Constantin lectures at the Digital Arts Department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna — die Angewandte. Katalin Hanappi is a documentary film director and photographer in the fields of science, adventure and nature. Her work has taken her across Africa, Oceania, the Americas and Europe. She is accustomed to filming in the most far flung of locations, with wild animals and ambitious set-ups. 

www.studioelastik.com 
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www.katalinhanappi.com 
@these.wild.eyes 

Always work and think whole hearted – with or without serif.

Professionell type design, lettering and refreshing design with type – that’s the sphere of action in which the Vienna based office operates day by day. 

Since 2008 the small and independent Austrian foundry creates big type families, like Ingeborg and Henriette or display fonts for their casual collection: Typejockey’s Shots. Several of them awarded by notable institutions – including Type Directors Club New York or European Design Award.

Moreover, Typejockeys develops Custom Type for example for the Austrian oil and gas company OMV, the waste management business Saubermacher or the German meat manufactorer Reinert. They work on environmental projects such as signage for buildings, architectural branding or park house orientation, draw logotypes for agencies or publishing houses and create letterings of all kinds.

Usted is an independent creative agency based in Barcelona that likes to question its own identity. They think communication is about putting oneself in others’ shoes, so they play being their clients, their audiences and their collaborators to find a right strategy. All of their work is strongly concept oriented and they believe the idea is as important as its execution. 

Besides working for clients like FC Barcelona, Elisava School of Design, Clipper Rolling Paper, Glovo and Barcelona City Council, they regularly collaborate in conceptualizing tasks with design studios such as Mucho, Lo Siento or Hey, amongst others.

Vallée Duhamel is a studio based in Montreal and founded by Julien Vallée and Eve Duhamel. The studio creates the most playful and innovative designs that you've ever seen, images and videos for a wide range of clients from events to commercials, music, fashion, posters, magazines and objects. Vallée Duhamel specializes in high quality, lo-fi, and often handmade visuals and installations, and favours a playful and experimental approach toward work.

Wade Jeffree and Leta Sobierajski are a couple who share a taste for quirky aesthetics and crisp design. The studio combines traditional graphic design elements with photography, art, fashion, and technology to create satisfying and emotional visuals. Their work ranges from conventional identities to bizarre compositions, spanning all disciplines. They live and work in Brooklyn, New York. Their client list includes Adobe, Bloomberg Businessweek, D.S. & Durga, Google, Gucci, IBM, The New York Times, Refinery 29, Renault, Shiseido, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Target, Tate Modern, and UNIQLO among many others. In addition, Wade and Leta have given talks at conferences all over the world including North America, South America, Europe, and Australia.

Multitasking design & art studio presenting OFFF Vienna 2019 Main Titles

Yarza Twins is an award-winning London-based design studio run by Eva & Marta Yarza. Their unique approach to design combines concept, beauty and experimentation which creates emotional connections between their projects, clients and audiences.

Unlike other studios, they have a background in Fine Arts and Architecture as well as Communication Design that gives them the tools and knowledge to comfortably specialise in creative direction, branding, art direction, strategy, graphic design, moving image, animation, illustration, typography, editorial and set design. 

Studio Yukiko is a visual practice led by Johannes Conrad and Michelle Phillips.

Yukiko provides creative direction, art direction and design for print, digital media and video. Unlimited imagination and progressive ideas combined with fine visual sensibility and unique style form the main ingredients of their practice.
Yukiko’s work has been awarded by D&AD, ADC Germany, TDC New York and Lead Awards, amongst others.

15.-16. Oct 2021
Halle E, MQ Vienna

Bildwerk

Vienna Digital Design

Craig Black

Glasgow Graphic Design, Illustration

David Mikula

New York City Graphic Design

Esra Gülmen

Berlin Visual Art

It's A Living

Durango, México / Brooklyn Visual Art, Type Design

KR8bureau

Wien Brand Design

LWZ

Vienna Motion Design

Responsive Spaces

Linz Digital Design, Spatial Design

Studio Elastik & Katalin Hanappi

Vienna Graphic Design, Film

Usted

Barcelona Graphic Design

15.-16. Oct 2021 Halle E, MQ Vienna

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