Bianca Strauch-Freytag
Bianca Strauch-Freytag (* 1972 ) is a German graphic designer . She was best known as the designer of the Cologne record label Kompakt .
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After graduating from school in 1992 and spending a year abroad in Montpellier , France , Strauch studied mathematics at the University of Cologne from 1993 to 1999 . Since 1994 she has worked as a graphic designer and DJ . From 1995 to 1999 she was Art Director of the Cologne music fanzine House Attack .
From 1996 to 2000 she worked for Kompakt, where she was responsible for the corporate design of the label and the affiliated record store. The point that characterizes the CD, which can also be found in the logo, was developed by her. During this time she created the record covers for publications by compact artists such as Wolfgang Voigt , Reinhard Voigt , Jürgen Paape and Olaf Dettinger. The minimalist covers of other labels founded by Wolfgang Voigt such as Profan or Studio 1 were also designed by Strauch.
Strauch was also responsible for the covers of numerous publications on Harvest Records , including the covers of the Harvest compilations Battery Park (1996) and In Technicolor (1997) or albums by the band Air Liquide and the musician Khan .
Together with Jörg Burger , she founded the Cologne-based graphics agency Granit in 1997 , where she worked until 2000. In the same year she stopped working as a DJ. Since then, Strauch has been working as a freelance graphic designer. After stays in Berlin and Rome, she returned to Kompakt from 2005 to 2006.
Her cover of Thomas Fehlmann's album Honigpumpe , the title of which goes back to Joseph Beuys ' installation Honey Pump in the Workplace , was created in 2007 in weeks of manual labor.
Bianca Strauch has lived and worked in Hamburg since 2006. Together with Frank Maximilian Freytag she founded the agency Mjam Mjam Design in Hamburg-Altona .
Works (selection)
- 1995: Cover for The Bionaut - Lush Life Electronica
- 1995: Cover for Love Inc. - Life's A Gas
- 1996: Cover for Gas - Gas
- 1996: Cover for Khan - I Don't Wanna Say Anything
- 1997: Cover for Tetsu Inoue & Jonah Sharp - Instant Replay
- 1998: Cover for Kron - Gold Und Liebe
- 1998: Cover for Cinnamon - UOAA
- 1998: Cover for Forever Sweet - Give & Take
- 1999: Cover for Sturm - Sturm
- 2000: Cover for Dettinger - Oasis
- 2000: Cover for Pluramon - Bit Sand Riders
- 2002: Cover for Thomas Fehlmann - Visions Of Blah
- 2003: Cover for Bus - Middle Of The Road
- 2004: Cover for Pole - Pole
- 2004: Cover for Hans Nieswandt - The True Sound Center
- 2004: Cover for Triola - Triola in the five-tone room
- 2005: Cover for Jan Jelinek - Cosmic Pitch
- 2006: Cover for Jan Jelinek - animal observations
- 2006: Cover for Mapstation - Distance Told Me Things To Be Said
- 2007: Cover for Thomas Fehlmann - honey pump
- 2008: Cover for Systematics - What We Did In The Afternoons
- 2009: Cover for Daniel Meteo - Working Class
- 2010: Cover for Thomas Fehlmann - Gute Luft
- 2011: Cover for Station 17 - Fever
- 2011: Cover for Matthew De Gennaro - Adversaria
- 2013: Cover for Bus - Eagles
- 2014: Cover for Cristian Vogel - Polyphonic Beings
- 2014: Cover for Autopilot - Compilation scrapbook 01
- 2015: Cover for Cummi Flu - Z
- 2015: Cover for Pole - Wald
- 2016: Cover for Bus - Working Class
- 2016: Cover for Guido Moebius - Batakur Baska
- 2016: Cover for Cummi Flue / Raz Ohara - Y
- 2016: Cover for Ofrin - Black Box
- 2017: Cover for The Orb / Fenin / Bus - Hippies in Transit
- 2017: Cover for The Orb - The Orb Chronicles - 20 Years of Shitkatapult
- 2017: Cover for Si Begg - Blueprints
Web links
- Official website biancastrauch.de
- Bianca Strauch at Discogs (English)
- Creating a framework with Bianca Strauch - Interview in De: Bug 12 (2000)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Bianca Strauch Portfolio (PDF; 6.2 MB), accessed on April 9, 2011
- ↑ a b The total mess ( memento of the original from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Article and interview at spex.de , accessed on April 9, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strauch-Freytag, Bianca |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shrub, Bianca |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German graphic designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |