German design

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The facilities of Giesinger Bräu can be visited, and they offer guided tours of the brewery. For these tours, I designed a gift certificate (Gutschein) revolving around lock and keys as a symbol of granting access. As a more individualized alternative, I exchanged the core element for an illustration of one of their graffiti-covered brewing tanks. - - - beer | brewery | bier | brauerei | german | vintage |illustration | label | ephemera | hop | ribbon | tatoo | engraving

Graphic design owes much to the photographic field. By looking at 20th-century theories like "typophoto" and Swiss Design, we can learn a lot about modern style.

DIN 1451: Designed in 1931 for the German standards body DIN – Deutsches Institut für Normung – it looks and behaves as if it had been produced today. It extols all of the principles of the Bauhaus and has not dated in any way.

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German designer Mark Bohle certainly has a knack for poster design, boasting a portfolio of work that showcases skilfully drawn typography and illustration that manages to be at once wonderfully weird and very concise.

In the first of a new series, we look at Germany’s creative culture, which is both forward-thinking and respectful of the country’s rich history.