Volume 62: Frankfurt’s Great Late Gothic Architect and Stonemason Madern Gerthener by Gerhard Ringshausen
ISBN 978-3-943407-35-8


Volume 61: Municipal Youth Welfare in Frankfurt am Main during the Weimar Republic by Kristina Matron
ISBN 978-3-921606-97-1


Over the years, the Studies on Frankfurt’s History have been issued in co-operation with different publishing houses.

Volume 60: Stockfish and Turnip by Christoph Regulski
ISBN 978-3-86539-680-8

Volume 59: Architecture of the 1950s in Frankfurt am Main by Almut Gehebe-Gerhardt
ISBN 978-3-8653-9675-4

I redesigned the well-established book series in 2007 for the Waldemar Kramer publishing house by commission of manager Dr Henriette Kramer. The focus of the Kramer publishing programme was on the cultural history of the city of Frankfurt am Main. The Studienreihe look features multi-coloured bands with a section of Kramer’s striped letter K logo (original logo design by master typographer Joachim Romann, 1916—1996).

Volume 56: Paintings from St. Katharinen’s Gallery Parapets by Joachim Proescholdt
ISBN 978-3-7829-0569-5

Volume 55: Money Powers Culture by Gudrun-Christine Schimpf
ISBN 978-3-7829-0568-8

Volume 58: Administered Lust by Fritz Koch
ISBN 978-3-8653-9672-3

Volume 57: Modern municipal image-building in Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden und Offenbach by Torben Giese
ISBN 978-3-8653-9671-6

The original concept also included a layout without any image on the frontpage and one with a full-format upright image.

In Summer 2008, the Studienreihe design was shown in Bremen’s Neues Museum Weserburg in the exhibition Ein X für ein U, presenting 25 years of typography deriving from Bremen University of Arts. The exhibition was organized in association with the 23rd Forum Typography conference.

The daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said “the traditional book series now has a new face. The cover design is as fresh as the approach of editor Evelyn Brockhoff.”

TITLE: Studienreihe
SHORT INFO: Book cover design
CLIENT: Institute for City History Frankfurt am Main
DIRECTOR: Dr Evelyn Brockhoff
AGENCY: Dr Henriette Kramer editorial office
YEAR: 2007 et seq.
DROSSMEDIA.COM’S ROLE: Design, Pre-Press
LINK: https://societaets-verlag.de/


APPENDIX: Full-bleed cover for volume 63 (proposal)

TITLE: 30 Years of Collaboration in European Metrology
SHORT INFO: Anniversary Publication
CLIENT: Euramet e.V.
AGENCY: drossmedia.com
YEAR: 2016/17
DROSSMEDIA.COM’S ROLE: Art Direction, Design
CO-DESIGNER: Maşite Atik
PRINT PRODUCTION: bonneberg.com
LINK: euramet.org

Volume 78 now available: Collected, Traded, Stolen – Art in Frankfurt and the region between 1933 and 1945 published by Evelyn Brockhoff and Franziska Kiermeier

From 1933 onwards, the National Socialists put an abrupt end to a period of prosperity for the city’s art and cultural scene. The Nazi regime created a new art business that radically marginalized Jewish artists, collectors, and dealers, thus creating a gap for profiteers – the cover design features stickers on the backside of a Flemish painting from the 1600s.
ISBN: 978-3-95542-314-8

Frankfurt women making history.

Fourteen remarkable biographical contributions from the 17th to the 20th century bear witness to their unusual actions, their resistance and their daring transgressions.
ISBN: 978-3-95542-275-2

From Stone Age to the Present Day – 8,000 years of urban development in Frankfurt am Main.

The cover page features a museum model of a Neolithic long house blending into an aerial view of the financial district.
ISBN: 978-3-95542-157-1

My AFGK volume 75 cover features an atmospheric 1928 photo of a group of entrepreneurs around architect Martin Elsässer in the Frankfurt warehouse area.

An interesting detail is the signage in – back then brandnew – Futura constructivist type style in the background of the photo. The book presents four introductory essays and about 150 individual biographies of known and unknown catalysts of progress in the city of Frankfurt during the Weimar Republic.
ISBN: 978-3-95542-160-1

AFGK volume 73 features an early 1920ies photo with Frankfurt’s City Government and Friedrich Ebert, then President of Weimar Germany on the Römer balcony.
ISBN: 978-3-942921-66-4

Another proposal was the „pure art“ concept for the book series. The AFGK series will from now on be released by the Societäsverlag publishing house.

Hardcover previewPreceding volumesDas ‘neue’ Frankfurt (The ‘New’ Frankfurt) is the title of volume number 72 and my second cover design for the established AFGK Archive for Frankfurt’s History and Art book series. The cover features a 17th century decorative painting by Jacob Marrel in constrast to the modern skyline on the back cover.

‘New’ stands for innovations in Frankfurt art from the Middle Ages to today.
ISBN: 978-3-86539-673-0

TITLE: AFGK book cover designs
CLIENT: Institute for City History Frankfurt am Main
DIRECTOR: Dr Evelyn Brockhoff
AGENCY: Dr Henriette Kramer editorial office
YEAR: 2008 et seq.
DROSSMEDIA.COM’S ROLE: Design, Pre-Press
LINKS: http://www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de/
BUY ONLINE: http://www.societaets-verlag.de/buecher/

December 2016: Powered by Selima.

November 2016: Michael’s handwriting powered by Elastic.

October 2016: Dada Gold

September 2016: Michael’s handwriting (Hommage à Octavo).

August 2016: Michael’s handwriting (featuring POWDR by Ian Barnard).

July 2016: Michael’s handwriting (spatula technique).
Click image for a 1800×2546 px version.

The Making of July in stop-motion animation on Vimeo.

Things similar to the July style could be done entirely in Photoshop with the new Liquify Tool or the awesome Mixer Brush.
Liquify tool on Youtube
Mixer Brush on Youtube

June 2016: Michael’s handwriting powered by Arabella Script.

May 2016: Brusher and M+ fonts powered by Michael’s handwriting.

April 2016: Michael’s handwriting powered by Amatic SC font.

March 2016: Michael’s handwriting modified.

February 2016: Michael’s handwriting modified.

January 2016: Michael’s handwriting powered by Brusher.

TITLE: 2016 Hand Lettering Calendar
SHORT INFO: in-house project
YEAR: 2016
DROSSMEDIA.COM’S ROLE: Design

Higher resolution available on request.

Poster designs for a public event regularly held at the Leiferde species protection centre. This facility is run by NABU, the respected Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union in Germany.

Pen marking by numbers (above: detail of the outlines)

TITLE: Stork Festival
SHORT INFO: Poster with date in felt marker
CLIENT: Leiferde species protection centre
AGENCY: http://www.bonneberg.com/
YEAR: 2015
DROSSMEDIA.COM’S ROLE: Graphic Design
LINK: http://www.nabuzentrum-leiferde.de/

APPENDIX: Menu by Lido restaurant

TITLE: What if?
SHORT INFO: Arti art contest entry
MEDIUM: Inkjet and watercolour, 30 x 20 cm
Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 70 cm each
YEAR: 2010/2003
ORIGINAL PHOTO: “Crocuses”, fotolia.com/Andrzej Tokarski
LINKS: http://www.kunstverein-wolfsburg.de/arti/

TITLE: Save the Date
SHORT INFO: Poster contest entry
CLIENT: HfK Bremen, University of the Arts
AGENCY: drossmedia.com
YEAR: 2012
DROSSMEDIA’S ROLE: Design
LINKS: http://www.hfk-bremen.de

The European Association of National Metrology Institutes (EURAMET) coordinates the cooperation of the national metrology institutes of Europe in fields like research in metrology, traceability of measurements to the SI units, international recognition of national measurement standards.

In autumn 2011 EURAMET ran an exhibition stand at the International Congress of Metrology 2011 in Paris, powered by drossmedia.com

TITLE: Euramet exhibit booth materials
SHORT INFO: Roll-up banner, posters, flyers
CLIENT: Euramet e.V.
AGENCY: drossmedia.com
YEAR: 2008/2011
DROSSMEDIA.COM’S ROLE: Print Design
EURAMET LOGO DESIGN: Alberto Parra del Riego, PTB
EURAMET WEBSITE DESIGN: Neonaut GmbH
LINK: http://www.euramet.org/