Andreas Karl (Austria), creative director and CEO of Karl Design

Posted: January 8th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Jury 2010 | Tags: Andreas Karl, Austria, Karl Design | No Comments »

Andreas Karl was learned in visual communications and arts in a Wuerzburg (Germany). In the first working years it was the freelance illustrator for publishing houses and children’s books, then being more and more focused on logos and brands. With 1991 Andreas worked as the creative director and the senior designer in such brands-agencies, as
FCB/Design, Syndicate Brand and Corporate Design and Knut Hartmann Designteam. In 2001 He has based own studio in Frankfurt am Main, naming it KARL DESIGN. Three years later Karl has moved to the Vein/Austria where it and his family lives till now. For all these of year of ten works of Andreas Karl took the first places and received the international design awards. Andreas Karl was the winner of the ending in 1996 “Graphic Ecu Competition” in Paris, the first open and international competition of design for the European currency. Andreas Karl – the ardent fighter for human rights, it has created some noncommercial posters and symbols against war and for rescue of animals and the nature. If you ask Andreas about its philosophy in work, it will quote a phrase of writer Robert Lee Frost “Two roads dispersed in wood. I have chosen least popular””.