Oliver Helfrich

FreeDesigndom
project at Solar Initiative
identity and publications for Dutch design festival

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The event-style consists of black dots which are clustered on top of all kinds of carriers.
The top layer stays the same, the second layer can change every year. By doing so, the identity is ever changing and reinventing itself, though still recognizable.

De Kinderkoffer
project at Koeweiden Postma
card games for an educational program

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This card game prepares parents with a mental disability how to deal with parenthood.
By using pictographic images, everyday situations and tasks are explained.

Hella Jongerius
project at Studio Dumbar
identity for Dutch design lab
Red Dot Design Award 2008

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The work of Hella Jongerius is known for the combination of industrial proces and individual craft. The identity reflects that philosophy: the basic layout is brought to life by the content of each designer, the result is a highly individual identity.

Omroep C
project at Studio Dumbar
identity and campaign for broad-casting organisation
Red Dot Design Award 2008 European Design Award 2008

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Because the visual identity of Omroep C was developped for the main purpose to win the necessary number of members to go on air, most stationary items can serve as application forms as well.

ArtAids
project at Studio Dumbar
identity, logo, publications
Red Dot Design Award 2006

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ArtAids assigns prominent artists to create a work of art to be sold in order to raise money for very specific AIDS projects in devel-oping countries. The stationary can be used two-sided, depen-ding on which aspect is stressed out, Art or Aids.

Amsterdam Sinfonietta
project at Studio Dumbar
identity & poster series for an orchestra
Red Dot Grand Prix 2006 European Design Award 2007

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"The poster series were design-ed for Amsterdam Sinfonietta, an independent ensemble mostly consisting of young musicians. Each individual concert differs in repertoire, musicians and atmo-sphere, and this is incorporated in the design. Apart from the dis-tinct logo, which is a consistent element placed in the upper left- or right-hand corner, the musical themes are interpreted graphic-ally by taking up content-related associations in the imagery".

CCTV
project at Studio Dumbar
logo proposal for the Chinese Broadcasting Network

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This logo relates to the ancient chinese puzzle as well as to
the skin of the new CCTV build-ing in Beijing, a kind of wireframe texture based on triangles. The logo allows for a flexible usage: as a static text, as an animation, as a monospace-font, for intro-ducing different formats and pro-grams or even to create a cor-porate logo family for all CCTV channels.

Design.nl
project at Studio Dumbar
print identity & animation for Dutch Design portal

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The printed matters of the design portal Design.nl use the logo in a playful way. No additional forms have been added, the humorous tone of the logo has been trans-lated into various illustrations.

Ministery of Economic Affairs
project at Studio Dumbar
housestyle

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The identity for the Ministery of Economic Affairs was based on one colour and a huge set of icons. Unfortunately, the identity did not last for very long…