Communication design is all about content: delivering a message, not just decoration. “Communication” implies functionality and flexibility; it’s solving problems through analytical thinking, well-researched concepts and intelligent structures — with elegance. To tell a story well is to take the inherent personality of a project and translate into a visual language: form follows content.
But communication design is also the reaction to a socio-cultural context:
it can’t be separated from its underlying values, assumptions and ideologies—
all design is political. So we must try to minimise the negative impact of our work on people and planet. I interpret communication design as a critical and active form of social production.
My name is Hannes Mitterberger and I’m a communication designer.
Let’s have a conversation about your next project
Communication design is all about content: delivering a message, not just decoration. “Communication” implies functionality and flexibility; it’s solving problems through analytical thinking, well-researched concepts and intelligent structures — with elegance. To tell a story well is to take the inherent personality of a project and translate into a visual language.
But communication design is also the reaction to a socio-cultural context:
it can’t be separated from its underlying values, assumptions and ideologies—all design is political. So we must try to minimise the negative impact of our work on people and planet. I interpret communication design as a critical and active form of social production.
My name is Hannes Mitterberger and I’m a communication designer.
Let’s have a conversation about your next project
Communication design is all about content: delivering a message, not just decoration. “Communication” implies functionality and flexibility; it’s solving problems through analytical thinking, well-researched concepts and intelligent structures — with elegance. To tell a story well is to take the inherent personality of a project and translate into a visual language.
But communication design is also the reaction to a socio-cultural context: it can’t be separated from its underlying values, assumptions and ideologies—all design is political.
So we must try to minimise the negative impact of our work on people and planet. I interpret communication design as a critical and active form of social production.
My name is Hannes Mitterberger and
I’m a communication designer.
Let’s have a conversation about your next project
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Poster design still serves as a strong tool to send messages on current and socially relevant topics. Here are some of my most successful results.
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“Don't settle for black and white” with this conceptual photo-essay in two parts, poetically invoking the everyday dystopia of Brexit-London.
Get a copy here.
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Conceptual photo-essay in two parts. Get a copy here.
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Some of my most successful posters.
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“Don’t settle for black and white” with this conceptual photo-essay in two parts, poetically invoking the everyday dystopia of Brexit-London. Get a copy here.
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“Don't settle for black and white” with this conceptual photo-essay in two parts, poetically invoking the everyday dystopia of Brexit-London.
Get a copy here.
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Conceptual photo-essay in two parts. Get a copy here.
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Conceptual photo-essay in two parts. Get a copy here.
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“Beta” versions + co-design + flexibility = a corporate design refresh for a cultural/art institution in Berlin that didn’t want to have a “corporate” design.
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corporate design refresh for a cultural/art institution in Berlin.
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corporate design refresh for a cultural/art institution in Berlin.
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Editorial design is archival work: this concept-driven photo catalogue relies heavily on visual quotes and literary cross references.
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Concept-driven photo book heavy on (visual) quotes.
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Concept-driven photo book heavy on (visual) quotes.
Editorial Design
Graphic Design
Concept
Research
Writing
Editorial Design
Graphic Design
Concept
Research
Writing
Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Concept, Research, Writing
Editorial Design, Graphic Design, Concept, Research, Writing
The catalogue’s cover design was inspired by classic “Ilford” photo paper boxes. Its interior picks up on the editorial design of a book by Erich Fried from 1980 on Ingeborg Bachman's poem “Bohemia lies by the Sea”. I also wrote a ten page long analysis (in German language) based on several interviews with the artist and a relevant literature research on the topic of “non-places” – a recurring theme in her work.
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Master thesis—or “scientific design magazine”—on why you actually care about flags, even if you don’t. Spoiler: A flag is a logo is an empty vessel for emotions.
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Master thesis—or “scientific design magazine”—on why you actually care about flags, even if you don’t. Spoiler: A flag is a logo is an empty vessel.
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Master thesis on flag design
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Master thesis on flag design
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A visual identity focusing on the joy of discovery, making the abstract tangible. People shouldn't ask “What IS design?” but rather “What is design TO ME?”
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A visual identity focusing on the joy of discovery, making the abstract tangible: not “What IS design?”, but rather “What is design TO ME?”
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Visual identity and concept for an annual design festival (AUT)
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Visual identity and concept for an annual design festival (AUT)