manuel kiem - current work

After four months of work i finally passed the diploma at the University of Applied Arts. I developed a cultural magazine with multilingual and transboundary content. The magazine consists of interviews and contributions by artists and authors from Italy, Switzerland and Austria. I designed also a typeface for this project. The letters were used as initials in the articles. Every issue of the magazine should be distributet as an insert in local newspapers. People from different countrys and from different languages can be reached in this way. Only the pilot number of the magazine is available, but I am working on the first number for publication.

The European Forum Alpbach is an annual political event that takes place in the village of Alpbach in Tyrol, Austria. Politicians and decision makers from all areas come together to discuss and brain-storm new ideas and solutions to the world problems. The forum published a daily newspaper called “Alpbach News” for which I designed the layout.

frisbee-design for the frisbee championship in St. Peter in der Au

Recently I’ve decided to produce some business cards. Together they are forming a colorful pattern and additional information shows up. The cards can also be rolled up or foldet to become legible.

Showcase Austria is a travel guide on tv. The booklet i created for a tv and film production company explains the concept of the tv-show. In 52 episodes there were shown local peculiarities of the country.

I created business cards and a leaflet for a friend. The picture i‘ve chosen shows reeds swayed by the wind. I‘ve taken this photo myself last summer.

UNESCO organized an international competition for the creation of an emblem for the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The Convention focuses on living expressions that are important for the sense of identity and continuity of the communities in which they are created and transmitted. Such expressions include oral traditions; traditional dance, music and theatre; traditional knowledge about nature; among others.

My proposed Logotype is inspired by body paintings which appear in many cultures.

This book from VICTION:ARY is the second one presenting the typecube. The collected projects about typography are exciting!

The brewery Stiegl arranges every year a competition to design labels for their “Braukunst Edition”, a series of beer labels created by artists and designers. This time the subject was to design a label for every participating nation on the European Soccer Championship.
Austrians aren’t good kickers, but they are dominating the ski worldcup.

My propose for Austria was selected to be produced.

The book created by Christof Nardin contains 6 years of work, fun and soccer happend in our graphic design class, supervised by fons hickmann. In collaboration with Gerd Haselsteiner I created this video. It was shown at the book presentation at the Designforum Vienna last saturday. The book shows some projects I collaborated.