Michael Narten

Michael Narten (born March 18, 1964 in Hanover ) is a German graphic designer , author and architectural photographer .

Life

Growing up in Hanover, Michael Narten completed an apprenticeship in an advertising agency from 1981 and then worked as an employee in the field of illustration , as a graphic designer and finally as an art director in a communications agency based in Hamburg . He also performed as a guitarist with a band and composed his own rock music .

In the early 1990s Narts began with the inclusion of black and white photographs with a focus on landscape and architectural images became increasingly freelance active and started in 2000 independently . In his own office, he designed products for customers from the industry, developed corporate designs , customer magazines and business reports, the designs of which have received awards from Manager Magazin . In 2004 Michael Narten started designing his first books, and later also his own book concepts, for which he developed the photographs, graphics and texts.

Michael Narten first appeared as an author in November 2009 with texts for the illustrated book “Zeitreise durch Hannover. Out and about with Wilhelm Hauschild ”. Narten's books on the history of the city of Hanover have since been published by Leuenhagen & Paris . In Narten's 2013 illustrated book Zeitreise durch Hannover. He juxtaposed cityscapes then and now - mostly from almost exactly the same point of view - detailed historical architectural photographs by various authors with current color views, thereby enabling the viewer to become aware of developments and inviting the reader to reconsider their own life.

Works (selection)

• Wilhelm Hauschild , Michael Narten (collaborator): Time travel through Hanover. Out and about with Wilhelm Hauschild , Hanover: Leuenhagen & Paris, 2009, ISBN 978-3-923976-69-0
• Michael Narten: Hannover black on white , Hannover: Leuenhagen & Paris, 2010, ISBN 978-3-923976-79-9
• Michael Narten: Hannover (illustrated book, deutsch, english, español), Hannover: Leuenhagen & Paris, 2011, ISBN 978-3-923976-82-9
• Michael Narten: Time travel through Hanover. Cityscapes then and now , Hanover: Leuenhagen & Paris, 2013, ISBN 978-3-923976-93-5
• East Frisian Islands. Seven places of longing in the North Sea , Rostock: Hinstorff, 2014, ISBN 978-3-356-01817-2 ; Content text from the publisher's report
• Michael Narten: East Frisia. Region between sea and moor , Rostock: Hinstorff, 2015, ISBN 978-3-356-01910-0
• Michael Narten, Achim Uhlenhut : Out and about in Hanover. 125 years of Üstra , 1st edition, illustrated edition, Hanover: Leuenhagen & Paris, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945497-04-3
• Michael Narten: Michael Narten's journey through Hanover. Cityscapes then and now , Hannover: Leuenhagen & Paris, 2018, ISBN 978-3-945497-09-8

Web links

• michaelnarten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Narten, Achim Uhlenhut : The authors in this: On the way in Hanover. 125 years of Üstra , 1st edition, illustrated edition, Hanover: Leuenhagen & Paris, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945497-04-3 , p. 574
2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
3. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Narten: Closing words , as well as picture credits , in this: Time travel through Hanover ... (see in the section works ), p. 142f.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Narten: Vita on his page michaelnarten.de , last accessed on January 6, 2015