It varies a lot in size and scope: “There are seven of us at the moment, sometimes there are four, sometimes fourteen” says m23. The staff originates from Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The Berlin studio focuses on the design of complex communication systems. Its activities include corporate design, book and poster design, magazine design and digital media. The work is conceptual and analytical but at the same time has an enormous sense of humour. Fons Hickmann is professor for Graphic Design / Communication Design at the Berlin University of the Arts. He is a member of the ADC, TDC New York and the AGI Alliance Graphique Internationale.
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Fons gave an interview with ballesterer.at about the groundbreaking dress from Nigeria and the new beginning as the bane and blessing of design. You can read the interview at DER STANDARD ↓
https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000119375629/kein-trikot-ist-frei-von-retro
Ein Gespräch über das bahnbrechende Dress von Nigeria und den Neubeginn als Fluch und Segen des Designs
The Museum of Art and Design Hamburg (Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg) owns an impressive collection of posters from the last 200 years. The exhibition »Das Plakat« (The Poster) presents a selection of 400 posters by the renowned and unknown designers. For this exhibition we designed a poster series and a catalogue. At the center of our ideation process was the aesthetics of posters glued on top of each other reminiscent of the ones we see in the public space. Fragments of the over-glued posters come through at the edges and give a hint of the richness of the history this impressive medium possesses.
Untold Stories is the first ever survey exhibition curated by Peter Lindbergh himself. Born in 1944 and raised in Duisburg, the German photographer spent two years working on an uncompromising collection of 140 photographs that will offer a deep insight into his extensive oeuvre, spanning from the early 1980’s to the present day. We announced the exhibition at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg with four black and white posters.
Check out the whole campaign on our website → https://fonshickmann.com/work/mkg_peter_lindbergh_untold_stories_poster/
Touch — Whether sensual, emotional or spiritual: touches creates relationships and connections. If touches are missing, more sensible and unsettled outcomes can result. But how will we deal with touches in the future? This is what the newest issue of Dialog for Diakonie Düsseldorf is about.
Throwback to »Die Finals – Berlin 2019«. Ten German championships in one city during one weekend, 3400 athletes competing for a total of 194 titles within 48 hours. Let us look back to this weekend of the absolute athletic superlatives which Fons Hickmann M23 designed the identity for!
One out of four motives of our Posters for the Peter Lindbergh Exhibition at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.
You can get your own copy at their shop!
Habt ihr schon die Plakate zur Peter Lindbergh-Ausstellung in der Stadt entdeckt? Die Poster könnt ihr übrigens in vier Ausführungen bei uns im Museumsshop kaufen. 🖤
#mkghamburg #untoldstories #kunstmeilehamburg
Fons Hickmann m23 Buchhandlung Walther König
100 Beste Plakate - We are open!
100 beste Plakate des Jahres 2019 aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz in Ausstellungen in Berlin, Essen, St.Gallen, Luzern, Seoul, Wien, Zürich und G...
Fons talked in an Interview of Sächsischer Staatspreis für Design amongst other great Designers about some interesting topics about Design in our society, sustainability, economy and much more!
www.designpreis.sachsen.de Martin Dulig, Staatsminister für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Verkehr des Freistaates Sachsen Thomas Geisler, Direktor des Kunstgewerbemuseums…
🎼 The new program for RIAS Kammerchor Berlin is here!
And this season is tinted in a lot of different vibrant colors – in our teaser you can take a look what's waiting ahead!
We're thrilled!
For booking and subscription options check out their post below ↓
***Das Programm für die kommende Saison ist ab sofort online!***
Was es wohl mit diesen Farben und Formen auf sich hat?
Finden Sie es heraus und werfen Sie einen Blick in unseren Konzertkalender oder die brandneue Saisonbroschüre, um mehr über die Konzerte der kommenden Saison zu erfahren!
https://www.rias-kammerchor.de/konzerte/konzertkalender/index_ger.html?lang=ger&startdate=2020/9/1&month:int=9&year:int=2020
Es können außerdem ab sofort Abonnements für die Saison 2020/21 gebucht werden. Selbstverständlich haben Sie die Wahl aus verschiedenen Angeboten, mehr dazu erfahren Sie hier:
https://www.rias-kammerchor.de/service/abonnements/index_ger.html
Vielen Dank an unsere Agentur Fons Hickmann m23 für diesen wundervollen Teaser.
👀 sneak peek! our book for the »Das Plakat« exhibition at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
The new season Wiener Staatsoper — We in M23 are more than happy to design the upcoming campagne and corporate design!
You can get your very own copy here ⟶
https://shop.wiener-staatsoper.at/saisonbuch-2020-2021.html
We feel very honored that our Poster for »Das Plakat« for Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg found a sweet spot in the Graphis Poster Award manual! 🏆
A small #throwback during this quarantine!
⟶ Check out our Posters for Neubad • 3/3
Thanks for the feature Typosters!
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Posters by Fons Hickmann m23 for RIAS Kammerchor Berlin
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Novum World of Graphic Design about our latest poster series for Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. Thanks for the feature!
Das Plakat
Das Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg verfügt über eine beeindruckende Sammlung von Plakaten der letzten 200 Jahre. Für die Ausstellung »Das Plakat«, die eine Auswahl von 400 Postern renommierter und unbekannter Designer zeigt, gestaltete Fons Hickmann m23 eine Plakatserie sowie einen Katalog, deren Ästhetik an übereinandergeklebte Plakate erinnert, die an die im öffentlichen Raum sichtbar sind.
https://fonshickmann.com/work/mkg_das_plakat_poster/
Das Museum bietet im Übrigen derzeit auch digitale Angebote: https://sammlungonline.mkg-hamburg.de
New season, new identity ⟶ Wiener Staatsoper
stay tuned for more • https://fonshickmann.com/work/filter/Wiener,Staatsoper/
A small #throwback during this quarantine!
⟶ Check out our Posters for Neubad • 2/3
A small #throwback during this quarantine!
⟶ Check out our Posters for Neubad • 1/3
Awards from graphis NY 🏆 happy to get the gold and the special award #POSTER from Graphis designed for Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Skopje Poster Festival and Neubad !
Concert, performance, talks at Bergerkirche.
M23 designed a poster series for this exciting three-part event "dreiteilige musiklastige Sozialübung".
We are very sad that the first event could not take place and are hopefully looking forward to the third event in May!
The brand new issue of »ALBERT« for the Einstein Foundation in Berlin is finally here! And it’s all about our Digital Future 👨💻
Digitization is omnipresent. It influences how we
experience the world, how we try to understand it, how
we generate new knowledge and preserve the old.
It is paradoxical: thanks to new means of communication and research technologies, the world is becoming increasingly easier to describe — and more complex. Albert No. 5 takes a closer look at the entanglements of the digital.
Grab an issue and enjoy!
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Liebe Leute. Wir vermissen euch schon und möchten euch in der nächsten Zeit weiterhin #jetzterstrecht💪 digital Einblicke und Zugänge zu unseren Sammlungen bieten, denn auf Kultur können wir nicht verzichten. Bis morgen. Bleibt gesund und inspiriert!
& stay tuned 👍
#mkghamburg #culturedoesntstop #MuseumFromHome #DigitalMuseum #DigAMus #digitalart #museum #hamburg #mkgsammlungonline #sammlung #artoninstagram #kunstmeilehamburg
[Video: MKG / Fons Hickmann m23] 🙏
High Five!
We are very pleased to announce that our poster „Kurz & Mittwoch“ for Neubad is currently sweeping the board for all important prices for excellent graphic design. 100 beste Plakate TOKYO TDC Graphis Graphic Design Festival Scotland Typo/Graphic Posters so far!
Cast off!
M23 had the pleasure to design a poster for the Sagmeister & Walsh »Beauty« exhibition at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg!
You still have the chance to visit it until April 24th!
We are thrilled to present you the campaign design for the exhibition »Das Plakat. 200 Jahre Kunst und Geschichte«! Visit the great exhibition about 200 years of poster design now at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg!
Jetzt im MKG: „Das Plakat. 200 Jahre Kunst und Geschichte“! Im Plakat treffen Kunst und Geschichte, Design und Werbung aufeinander. Mit rund 400 Exponaten von rund 200 Künstler*innen und Designer*innen bietet die aktuelle Schau auf über 1.000 qm Ausstellungsfläche einen groß angelegten und repräsentativen Überblick über die Geschichte des Plakates von den Anfängen im frühen 19. Jahrhundert bis heute. #mkghamburg #kunstmeilehamburg
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Fons talking about his creative process and philosophies in the new Graphis Journal #363! Thank you Graphis for this article!
Graphis Master Fons Hickmann is an exemplary designer who founded the titular studio, Fons Hickmann m23. He has worked with brands such as Doctors Without Borders, and has done editorial and poster work for magazines,
We are happy to announce that the new website for Juwelier Baldauf is now online! → https://juwelier-baldauf.de/
Check it out for some beautiful jewelry! ✨
Photography: Christian Rothe
Font: GT Super by Grilli Type / Monument Grotesk by Dinamo
Fons's article about olympic emblems was published in the »Olympic Games, The Design« by Niggli Verlag. Have a look!
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Ein blauer Kreis, ein roter "Klecks" und ein braunes Rechteck: Welche Form und welche Farbe findet ihr besonders schön? Das fragen wir euch u.a. in unserer "Beauty"-Ausstellung. Drei Kombinationen seht ihr zur Zeit auf Großflächenplakaten von Fons Hickmann m23 an vielen Hamburger Bahnstationen. Der bisherige Favorit ist ziemlich eindeutig! 😍🔵 #mkghamburg #kunstmeilehamburg
Foto: MKG/Silke Oldenburg
This week we got the nicely printed exhibition catalog of the »100 Beste Plakate 18 in KR«, which is currently on display in the Paper Gallery of Doosung Paper (두성종이) in Seoul, Korea. Great to find the foreword written by Fons as the president of the 100 beste Plakate in this catalog as well. If you are now in Seoul, don't miss this exhibition. Thanks for sending us the catalog, Jeff Kim!
The second issue of the »dialog« magazine for Diakonie Düsseldorf which we designed, has arrived. In this issue, it is concerned about the arrival of immigrants and refugees in the society, integration and barriers, which we need to overcome together, and above all, how our society handles the support for achievements and problems of the arrival of immigrants and refugees. Photography Anna Ehrenstein
Hooray! Happy to announce that our posters are currently on display at the Graphic Design Festival Scotland 2019! facebook.com/graphicdesignfestivalscotland/ 🏆#gdfscotland #gdfs
Recently we designed a new catalog for the Berlin-based painter Sador Weinsčlucker. For this visual archive, we translated his newly designed one-page website into a 100-page catalog. Have a look!
https://weinsclucker.de
A week has passed in a flash! On last Friday, there was a meaningful reading soirée »Die verschwundene Stadt« to commemorate the history of the Tiergarten quarter in the church of St. Matthäus, Berlin.
For this cultural event, M23 designed a 30-meter-long paper roll with historical texts and images about the Tiergarten district, which is complemented on three different evenings and assembled altogether into a 100-meter-long timeline.
Have a look and enjoy your weekend!
M23 has recently created some new print matters for the upcoming scenic reading »Die verschwundene Stadt« at St.-Matthäus-Kirche – starting today at 19 pm.
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Throwback to »Die Finals – Berlin 2019«. Ten German championships in one city during one weekend, 3400 athletes competing for a total of 194 titles within 48 hours. Let us look back to this weekend of the absolute athletic superlatives which Fons Hickmann M23 designed the identity for!
High Five! We are very pleased to announce that our poster „Kurz & Mittwoch“ for Neubad is currently sweeping the board for all important prices for excellent graphic design. 100 beste Plakate TOKYO TDC Graphis Graphic Design Festival Scotland Typo/Graphic Posters so far!
Cast off! M23 had the pleasure to design a poster for the Sagmeister & Walsh »Beauty« exhibition at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg! You still have the chance to visit it until April 24th!
Waiting for the weekend to come. Meanwhile we're excited to be part of DEMO Festival.
Fons Hickmann designed a Future Korean Flag for Gwangju Design Biennale 2019 / 2019 광주디자인비엔날레 This draft of the Korean flag illustrates a possibility of diverging and merging as a process. Presently the circle is divided, but in the future North and South Korea will reunite.
The dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch left behind an eclectic and an extraordinarily comprehensive artistic heritage. After her passing in 2009, her son, Salomon Bausch, founded the non-profit Pina Bausch Foundation, which administers her collective artistic legacy with the purpose of making it more accessible to the general public. To commemorate the decade of its existence, we designed a dedicated poster campaign. The capital X in the centre symbolises the ten year anniversary. Simultaneously it provides the stage for exhibiting the Foundation’s archive and collection stock and embedding them into the narrative context.
»Die Finals – Berlin 2019« are running! Ten German championships in Berlin during this weekend, 3400 athletes competing for a total of 194 titles within 48 hours. Check out the typeface, we designed!
PAGE featured Albert Magazine #3 in which we cooperated with Refrakt. Thanks to PAGE for the feature and a big thank you to Refrakt for the amazing work. https://page-online.de/kreation/dreidimensional-und-futuristisch-3d-als-visueller-mega-trend/
And the Oscar goes to … To celebrate the relaunch of Homebase. Künstleragentur's new website we created a short trailer animation. The agency represents more than 50 directors, screenwriters as well as actresses and actors. Music: Fakear & La Fine Équipe — 5th Season
Kurz und Mittwoch is an unconventional jazz session at Neubad Lucerne, short but intensive. There is improvisation, experimentation and interaction. Just like it’s graphic design, made by Fons Hickmann.
Christmas time is flu time. Watch out for bacteria and stay healthy. Fons Hickmann m23 wishes you happy holidays and a good health for 2019! Poster for the Triotage at Neubad Lucerne.
Throwback: a hot poster for cold days. This summer, the Diakonie Düsseldorf asked us to design a poster for their summer festival in Flingern.
We had the chance to create this years Christmas card for Connecting Talents! Have a look at our website for the designs of the last years: https://fonshickmann.com/work/ct_connecting_talents_christmas_cards/
Our collection of animated posters is growing – have a look … https://fonshickmann.com/work/filter/animated/
Have a look at the webiste we've made for Bündnis internationaler Produktionshäuser e.V. – https://produktionshaeuser.de
My animated poster for the Swiss Folk-Trance duo Cyril Cyril at Neubad Luzern. Find more animated posters for Neubad here! https://bit.ly/2L4U0SP
»Who owns the city?« We designed a campaign, a flyer, a brochure and a website for the Bündnis Internationaler Produktionshäuser. More at https://goo.gl/m44i5d
Our poster series for RIAS Kammerchor won one of the 100 beste Plakate awards! Have a look at the whole series online https://goo.gl/JZNhpK or at the Kulturforum in Berlin.
We hope everyone is well recovered from the amazing Duotage | Festival. Here is a lovely animation of the poster we've made! Animation by @Erich Brechbühl Check out more at https://goo.gl/ddejDW
Did you already discover whats behind the amazing images in the new issue of the Albert magazine? Images and app by Refrakt Check out the whole issue on our website https://goo.gl/FhwMWE
Yeah – we are proud to announce that our book »Kochtagebücher« (Cooking Diaries) won a TDC award! Check out the whole project on our website https://goo.gl/eT7pAZ
Whether you need reading material, a christmas gift or inspiration – »Morgen und davor« (Tomorrow and before – 100 works from 10 years of Klasse Fons Hickmann) fulfills all these purposes. Its available here http://bit.ly/2j5PnvI Check out the whole project here http://bit.ly/2BbFLrk Edited by Pascal Kress and Fons Hickmann. Published by Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz. Featuring contributions from Franziska Morlok, Martin Conrads, and Anke Nowottne. Designed by Lena Drießen and Majada Daria. Universität der Künste Berlin Video by Piotr Zapasnik
What a search bar! You can type in any keyword and our archive will automatically show you all related works. www.fonshickmann.com Programmed by Martin Wecke • Design Code Lab
Today we were at the printers. It will never become less exciting!
Our animated science fiction poster for the Festival of Tolerance with tanks to Mirko Ilić
We picked our four favorites of the new book »Kochtagebücher« we designed for GREENPEACE MAGAZIN. Photographed by Hans Hansen
What are you doing tonight? See ya in Lisboa Macau. 超盈文化
Happy birthday to our new intern Daniel Künzner!
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