Dirk Rudolph

Dirk Rudolph (* 1964 ) is a German photographer and graphic artist. Since 1989 he has mainly designed sound carrier packaging for numerous artists at home and abroad.

Professional background

Dirk Rudolph is self-taught as a photographer and has completed his training as a screen printer. At the beginning of the 80s he played in the punk bands “Fenton Weills”, “The Clean Three” and “Day of Milk”. He wrote fanzines , designed cassette covers and tour posters for befriended bands and was the owner of an independent record label in Hagen . When his main employer, a printing company in Hagen, had to file for bankruptcy in 1989, Dirk Rudolph started his own business as a graphic designer .

Dirk Rudolph often works with stencils that he creates based on a photo on the computer and uses in his collages . He often splatters, sprinkles and sprays the pictures with blobs of paint. Letters are created with a brush, pen, packaging tape or on the computer.

His cover art can be found on numerous albums by various musicians, e. B. Phillip Boa , Element of Crime , Scorpions , Ich + Ich , Fler , Bushido , Pia Lund , Reamonn , Georgie Fame , The Singers Unlimited . Götz Alsmann , Valentine, Enigma , Jean-Yves Thibaudet , Bryan Adams , Kain , P: lot , Rufus Wainwright , Rammstein , Lambretta , Rivo Drei , Till Brönner , Schrottbound , And Then She Came and In Extremo . The sound carriers were for the most part awarded gold and platinum . For the band Die Toten Hosen , Rudolph designed the covers of the albums Back to Happiness , Only Visiting , In aller Stille (album) and Ballast der Republik . He designed the cover of the EP Friss oder dies and with it the posters for the two-year Friss oder dies tour . In addition, Dirk Rudolph developed the entire visual appearance of the Motor Music company .

In 1999 a 160-page illustrated book with Dirk Rudolph's graphics was published under the title Spark . In 2006 Rudolph illustrated a book with stories by Edgar Allan Poe together with other artists .

literature

• Dirk Rudolph: Spark. Die Gestalten Verlag , Berlin 1999. ISBN 3-931126-33-1 .
• Edgar Allan Poe: Illustrated Tales of Mystery and Imagination . Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 2006.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Straightforward process without fussing around. Die Toten Hosen , November 2004, accessed April 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ impulses emotions irritations. The strange and strange imagery of Dirk Rudolph. Subway , March 2000, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on April 7, 2018 . 
3. ↑ article about the picture book Spark ( Memento of the original June 8, 2007 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Article at faz.net

Web links

• Official website of Dirk Rudolph
• Literature by and about Dirk Rudolph in the catalog of the German National Library