Laboratory community

The Labor Ateliergemeinschaft is an association of seven freelance graphic designers , illustrators and authors that was founded in 1999 in Frankfurt am Main .

history

The laboratory studio community was founded in the summer of 1999 by five freelance illustrators and graphic designers in the rooms of a former dental laboratory in Frankfurt am Main. Other designers and authors were added in the following years.

Today the following people work in the studio community:

• by Zubinski (Kirsten Fabinski and Zuni Fellehner)
• Anke Kuhl
• Jörg Mühle
• Moni Port
• Natascha Vlahović
• Philip Waechter

In this composition, the laboratory works - individually or together - on different projects: books for children and young people, articles for newspapers and magazines, book covers and graphic design, novels, scripts, plays, materials for cultural mediation and museum education, readings, workshops, exhibitions and free work. As a joint project, the Labor Ateliergemeinschaft is primarily known for their children's scribble and hands-on books, although the book Ich so du so is the first non-fiction book to be published.

An exhibition in the picture book museum in Troisdorf in 2019 was dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the laboratory studio community.

Former members of the studio are u. a. Alexandra Maxeiner , Christopher Fellehner and Claudia Weikert .

Common books

• Playgrounds, Beltz & Gelberg , 2019, ISBN 978-3-407-75454-7
• Children's artist Fratzenbuch, Beltz & Gelberg , 2018, ISBN 978-3-407-75424-0
• Ich so du so, Beltz & Gelberg , 2017, ISBN 978-3-407-82316-8
• Children's artist experience collector's book, Beltz & Gelberg , 2017, ISBN 978-3-407-82208-6
• Rasterwelt, Beltz & Gelberg , 2016, ISBN 978-3-407-82182-9
• Really cozy. The children's artist book on living and building, Beltz & Gelberg , 2015, ISBN 978-3-407-82094-5
• 9 children's artist scribble cinemas, flip books to paint on, Beltz & Gelberg , 2015
• Wild & Irresistible Children's Artists Kritzelmini, Beltz & Gelberg , 2014, ISBN 978-3-407-79589-2 , ISBN 978-3-407-79590-8
• Children's artist travel book, Beltz & Gelberg , 2014, ISBN 978-3-407-79569-4
• Children's artist friend book, Beltz & Gelberg , 2012, ISBN 978-3-407-79475-8
• Children's artist adventure book, Beltz & Gelberg , 2011, ISBN 978-3-407-79988-3
• Kinder Künstler Mitmach Minis, Beltz & Gelberg , 2011, ISBN 978-3-407-79990-6 , ISBN 978-3-407-79989-0
• Children's artist hands-on book, Beltz & Gelberg , 2010, ISBN 978-3-407-79974-6
• Children's artist scribble book, Beltz & Gelberg , 2009, ISBN 978-3-407-79396-6

Exhibitions

• Laboratory samples 1–17 , annual exhibition of the Labor Ateliergemeinschaft (1999–2017)
• "Secret! An art exhibition for children and everyone else ”, Ludwigsburg Museum , 2015/2016
• "Pssst. An exhibition for children ”, MMK Frankfurt (2012/2013). Together with eight artists from England, the studio community Labor has developed and designed works for children. The central theme of the exhibition were secrets that were picked up and presented in their various forms.
• "Attention Potatoes!", Children's Book Fair in Bologna, (2016).
• Congratulations - 20 years of LABOR studio community , picture book museum Troisdorf , September 7, 2019-10 November 2019.

Awards

• 2018: Nomination for the German Youth Literature Prize for Ich so du so
• 2018: Award The Most Beautiful German Books 2018 from the Book Art Foundation for Ich so du so
• 2018: Leipzig Reading Compass of the Reading Foundation and the Leipzig Book Fair for Ich so du so
• 2017: Longlist The Most Beautiful German Books 2017 by the Stiftung Buchkunst für Rasterwelt
• 2009: Toad of the month of the study and advice center for children's and youth literature in cooperation with the Austrian Library for Children Artist Kritzelbuch in September 2009

Web links

• Official website
• Entry culture portal of the city of Frankfurt
• Blog of the laboratory studio community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Über uns / About us - Labor Ateliergemeinschaft. Retrieved September 15, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Contemporary German Literature - Bologna Children's Book Fair 2016 - Program in the City - Goethe-Institut. Retrieved September 15, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Fridtjof Küchemann: Children's non-fiction book “Ich so du so”: Nobody really needs the average . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 15, 2019]).
4. ^ Fridtjof Küchemann: Labor Ateliergemeinschaft: Kritzelkrakeln, Kraken tickle . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 14, 2019]).
5. ↑ museum.de: SECRET. AN ART EXHIBITION FOR CHILDREN AND EVERYONE ELSE - museum.de . ( museum.de [accessed on September 5, 2017]).
6. ↑ Web link to MMK Frankfurt
7. ↑ Contemporary German Literature - Book Market - Bologna Children's Book Fair 2016 - Goethe-Institut. Retrieved September 15, 2019 . 
8. ↑ beltz: I so you so - everything is super normal - laboratory studio community | BELTZ. Retrieved September 15, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Leipzig Reading Compass 2018
10. ↑ Longlist - The Most Beautiful German Books 2017
11. ↑ Toad of the Month, September 2009