ABOUT
studio nicolas zupfer is a stuttgart-based design practice, established in 2015, specializing in visual communication for individuals and institutions engaged in art, design, education, music, theater, and related fields.
we believe that design can forge meaningful connections and cultural impact. our mission is to craft visual experiences that not only communicate but resonate deeply, fostering a greater understanding and appreciation of the content.
our approach prioritizes open, collaborative processes over schematic solutions, with changing perspectives and practicing complicity as core principles. we often work in-situ at artist studios, museum offices, or rehearsal stages—developing designs in close dialogue with clients, fellow designers, production experts, and distribution specialists.
each design is content-based and concept-driven—balancing experimentation, craftmanship and budged. we utilize implicit conditions like occasion, strategy, structure, materiality, technology, production, distribution, perception as explicit design elements to create resonance between context, content, and form.
we work on a wide range of projects, including campaigns, publications, identities, websites, exhibitions—from start to finish, on both small and large scales. our services encompass concept, art direction, graphic design, web development, project management, and often extend to fundraising, consulting, editing, text, prompt engineering, photography, postproduction, and retouching.
strategically, we aim to create bespoke solutions and distinctive outcomes that convey content both rationally and intuitively. stylistically, we strive for complex simplicity, systematic poetry, rough elegance, and contemporary timelessness.
SOME CLIENTS & COLLABORATORS
- agora – das theater der deutschsprachigen gemeinschaft belgiens
- alf setzer
- alisch berlec hönow
- ania michaelis
- arup engineers
- arróniz – arte contemporáneo
- art basel
- atelierjak
- biennale d’architectura di venezia
- bonnie begusch
- bmw group culture
- braid records
- cemile sahin
- charlotte klink
- christian jankowski
- citizen.kane kollektiv
- dave bopp
- dcv
- discotheca flaming star
- distanz
- dorten studios – creative consultancy
- enbw kunstförderung
- fabian treiber
- felix ensslin
- fft düsseldorf
- felix-nussbaum-haus
- filderbahnfreundemöhringen ffm
- forum kunst rottweil
- galerie haverkampf leistenschneider
- galerie michael sturm
- galerie müller-roth
- galerie sturm & schober
- gianfranco foschino
- hatje cantz
- heidelberger kunstverein
- herman de vries
- hochschule für künste bremen
- institut francais
- institut für künstlerische postmigrationsforschung
- inter akt initiative
- jangled nerves
- johanna diehl
- jonas bolle
- kai10 | arthena foundation
- katharina jabs
- kanton zürich – fachstelle kultur
- kerber verlag
- kulturamt der stadt stuttgart
- kunsthalle nürnberg
- kunstsammlungen chemnitz
- kunststiftung baden-württemberg
- kunstmuseum stuttgart
- kunstverein friedrichshafen
- kunstverein gästezimmer
- kunstverein wagenhalle
- kw institute for contemporary art berlin
- landesverband galerien baden-württemberg
- lpb landeszentrale für politische bildung baden-württemberg
- marc sinan company
- maryja kalesnikawa
- marie-luise zielonka
- martin riches
- max eastley
- merz akademie stuttgart
- modo verlag
- moris
- museum für neue kunst freiburg
- museum gunzenhauser
- museumsquartier osnabrück
- nadine bracht
- nam huynh
- negative gain productions
- nikola lutz
- niggli verlag
- oana vainer
- projekt triangle
- raphael sbrzesny
- rainer ganahl
- slavoj žižek
- schauspiel stuttgart
- s-k-a-m – stuttgarter kollektiv für aktuelle musik
- snoeck verlagsgesellschaft
- spector books
- splitterwerk
- staatliche akademie der bildenden künste stuttgart
- städtische galerie karlsruhe
- stadtbibliothek stuttgart
- stadtgalerie saarbrücken
- stapelberg & fritz
- steffen krebber
- studienstiftung des deutschen volkes
- timm roller
- transcript verlag
- uli cluss
- ülkü süngün
- unverstität bern – institut für kunstgeschichte
- universität stuttgart – fakultät architektur und stadtplanung
- verlag der buchandlung walther und franz könig
- verlag für moderne kunst
- villa merkel – galerien der stadt esslingen a.n.
- wolke verlag
- xtr human