My design education started as an intern at Condé Nast Verlag for VOGUE Magazine in Munich, Germany. By no time I had the opportunity to help out in the Art Department, cutting and pasting copy, it was a very artisanal profession given macs didn’t exist yet. I was actually discovering a profession I had no idea existed! This was what I wanted to do, there was absolutely no doubt – as fast as possible.
I got introduced to Art Center College of Design (Europe) by a friend who had been there and encouraged me to take the fast lane, have an amazing portfolio and be done in less than three years. It’s wasn’t the standard student life, but come the day of my graduation I understood that it was worth the pain.!
I graduated in Spring 1994 and worked for Corporate Design firms in Hamburg for seven years, working for a variety of clients from Paper Mills to Health Insurances.
I moved back to Munich in 2001 and, to my delight, having worked for Condé Nast Publications in the past called for a warm welcome back. I worked for Glamour, Architectural Digest, GQ as well as for other publication houses as a freelancer.
After a year at Amazon.de where I took over the Creative Department in Apparel, one part of the job was producing and implementing images on the Apparel pages of Clothing, Shoes & Bags, Jewellery & Watches. The other part was working on the german website in being cohesive and consistent with European Amazon websites in France, Italy, Spain and the UK.
A vacancy at Burda Publishing caught my eye, because it meant that I could assimilate everything I had learnt in the last 20 years. For four years I was Creative Director in the Fashion, Lifestyle and Beauty department. My main clients ranged from Swarovski, Breuninger, St. Moritz for whom I developed concepts, planned productions. I continued my creative work with C3 for Swarovski as a freelancer till 2022.
There was still one area I hadn’t been in, and that was book design. I joined gestalten for two books of which I fully created and designed “The Parklands”.
As much as my career has taken very many different and exciting routes, I am eager to find out what next challenges are up next!