For arts sake I went to Paris when I was very young. After some years I decided to start the so called "serious life", got married, and studied Graphic-Design at the "Hochschule der Künste" in Berlin.
Making a couple of detours, once again Paris, then Barcelona – where I designed the OECD-Pavillion for the Osaka-World-Expo at the office of Harnden & Bombelli – I finally reached South Africa. Grey- and Young-Advertising got to know me! I had to fiddle around with Agfa-Cameras and -Films, Epol dogfood, several brands of toiletpaper, unbelievable insurance-companies and I-don’t-know-what.
Someday – on a holiday – I just stayed in Munich. DFS&R made me an offer I did not want to refuse. I now fiddled for Paulaner, CMA, Phillip Morris and Peugeot. Being a young adventerous man, I switched to the Herrwerth & Partner agency, which at that time was supposed to be the most creative outfit in town. Mister Herrwerth taught me to "think simple“. I was allowed to introduce IKEA to the German market.
After that stint I became Creative-Partner with Lauenstein & Partner.
Then I rented my own office in 1982!
Since that time I design a couple of typefaces each year and I guide a some nice young people (apprentices) along to designer stardom.
On top of that, I write a few books and newspaper-articles, about design, computers, food, drink and crime!
I have many happy clients and they have a happy designer, who is open to any challenge!
But as one can see on the lenght of my evergrowing fontlist, I am becoming more and more of a maniac-typedesigner. Not bad either!
In Munich you have to drive to the Friedensengel monument. From there you follow Ismaninger Street four blocks in the direction of Ismaning and then turn right into Rauchstraße.
Friedrich-Herschel-Str. 23
81679 München
Tel: +49-89-98 29 03 15
Many advertising agencies
AC-Verlag, ADAC, Bentronic
Columbia TriStar, essen & trinken,
FileNET, FontShop, FontHaus
Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall
Gehles, HFF-München, TJ Group,
i-motion film, Langen-Müller-Verlag,
H&T Verlag (Handelsblatt-Gruppe),
Markt & Technik, Neon Industries,
Off Road Magazin, Rowohlt Verlag
Siemens Nixdorf, VAN Magazin
and many others!