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Studio Yukiko

Studio Yukiko is a Berlin-based creative agency specialising in creative direction, art direction, brand strategy, concept generation and graphic design for commercial and cultural clients alike.

The studio produces award-winning work, unearthing narratives, telling stories of local communities worldwide, and immerses themselves in the trends of internet and youth culture. With its research arm, Yukiko continually experiments with contemporary forms of visual storytelling and fosters a deeper understanding of the audiences with which its projects engage.

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Yukiko’s unique approach is both conceptual and holistic: Design projects are understood as multifaceted endeavours, and its work often brings together distinct communication strategies including corporate design, brand strategy, creative direction, motion design, animation, photography, and spatial design. With its progressive, international and diverse team, Yukiko speaks many visual and strategic languages and understands many audiences.

The studio also collaborates with a broad network of creatives such as architects, sound artists, philosophers, coders, illustrators and photographers.

Yukiko’s process is a deeply strategic one: It is dedicated to understanding a client’s long-term needs, as well as a product’s sense of authenticity and a brand’s market positioning. Instead of providing a client with prefabricated ideas or packages, Yukiko develops solutions that derive from intimate and active dialogues between all participants involved in a project.

Ultimately, the studio’s distinctly unique spirit feeds both its outlook and output. And with an agile, knowledgeable team, Yukiko offers its clients dynamic yet thoroughly concep­tualised solutions.

Yukiko design systems fluently for IRL and URL formats and speak to local and International audiences, translating ideas and concepts through the filter of current, mainstream and counter-culture.

Yukiko’s work has been awarded by D&AD, ADC Germany, TDC New York and Lead Awards.

Recently the studio’s Flaneur magazine received Art Directors of the Year at the Stack Awards as well as Magazine of the Year.

Yukiko’s unique approach is both conceptual and holistic: Design projects are understood as multifaceted endeavours, and its work often brings together distinct communication strategies including corporate design, brand strategy, creative direction, motion design, animation, photography, and spatial design. With its progressive, international and diverse team, Yukiko speaks many visual and strategic languages and understands many audiences.

The studio also collaborates with a broad network of creatives such as architects, sound artists, philosophers, coders, illustrators and photographers.

Yukiko’s process is a deeply strategic one: It is dedicated to understanding a client’s long-term needs, as well as a product’s sense of authenticity and a brand’s market positioning.

Instead of providing a client with prefabricated ideas or packages, Yukiko develops solutions that derive from intimate and active dialogues between all participants involved in a project. Ultimately, the studio’s distinctly unique spirit feeds both its outlook and output. And with an agile, knowledgeable team, Yukiko offers its clients dynamic yet thoroughly concep­tualised solutions.

Yukiko design systems fluently for IRL and URL formats and speak to local and International audiences. Translating ideas and concepts through the filter of current, mainstream and counter-culture. Yukiko’s work has been awarded by D&AD, ADC Germany, TDC New York and Lead Awards. Recently the studio’s Flaneur magazine received Art Directors of the Year at the 2019 Stack Awards as well as Magazine of the Year.

Studio@y-u-k-i-k-o.com
Tel: +49 (0)30 26 557 594
IG: @studio_yukiko

Studio Yukiko
Conrad + Phillips GbR
Körnerstraße 19
10785 Berlin-Tiergarten

For new business enquiries:
johannes@y-u-k-i-k-o.com

To join our team:
apply@y-u-k-i-k-o.com

Currently Hiring:
Project Manager

Next Internship:
February 2023 – July 2023
(submissions currently closed)

Internship applications:
work-it@y-u-k-i-k-o.com

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TEAM

Michelle Phillips
Founder, Creative Direction
Johannes Conrad
Founder, Managing Director, Creative Direction
Sebastien Millot
Design Direction, Art Direction
Ira Ivanova
Design Direction
Tina Cucu
Project Manager
Sebastian Lymann
Creative Direction, Copy
Dr. Florian Hadler
Associate Strategy
Tonia Kozlova
Design
Paloma Moniz
Design
Lou Hillereau
Design

SELECTED CLIENTS

Apple
Netflix
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Highsnobiety
Fondation Beyeler
Raumlabor Berlin
Nike
Camper
Dazed
Calvin Klein
Volkswagen
HKW Berlin
Goethe Institut
OÖLKG
Sleek Magazine
Sony Music
Museum der bildende Künste Leipzig
Forecast Berlin
Vice
Amnesty International
Cura Magazine
Die Zeit

SELECTED AWARDS

2021
D&AD (Judge)
2019
Stack Awards:
Art Director of the Year
2019
Stack Awards:
Magazine of the Year; Flaneur Magazine
2019
Stack Awards, Commended
2018
The One Club, Merrit
2018
Finnish Photobook Award
2017
Stack Awards
2016
D&AD Wooden Pencil
2016
German Design Award, Nomination
2014
Lead Awards, Newcomer, Bronze
2014
D&AD Slice, Entire Magazine
2014
ADC Germany, Distinction
2014
Type Directors Club, New York, Typographic Excellence

TALKS & WORKSHOPS

Adobe Max (US)
Parsons School of Design, NYC (US)
Nicer Tuesdays, London (UK)
OFFF, Barcelona (Spain)
Rhode Island School of Design, NYC (US)
Ultrafett, Bielefeld (Germany)
INTL (Online)
Graphic Days, Turino (Italy)
Printing plant, Amsterdam (NL)
OFFF, Vienna (Austria)
OFFF, Servilla (Spain)
Ten To Six, FH Bielefeld (Germany)
Indiecon, Hamburg (Germany)
Design vs Music, Tromsø (Norway)
QVED, Munich (Germany)
DMJX, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Typomania, Moscow (Russia)
Designers Open, Leipzig (Germany)
GLUG, Berlin (Germany)
Brighton University (UK)
Burg Giebichenstein, Halle (Germany)
Sesc, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
HfG Offenbach (Germany)
Hochschule Mainz (Germany)
IGM, Oslo (Norway)
ABK Stuttgart (Germany)

SELECTED PRESS

It's Nice That (2022)
It's Nice That (2022)
Dazed (2021)
Tokion (2021)
Dazed (2021)
It’s Nice That (2020)
032c (2019)
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (2019)
It’s Nice That (2019)
Mag Culture (2019)
It’s Nice That – Ones To Watch (2018)
AIGA Eye for Design (2018)
Monocle (2018)
Metal (2018)
It's Nice That (2018)
AIGA Eye for Design (2017)
It's Nice That (2017)
Creative Review (2017)
IdN (2017)
It’s Nice That (2016)
MagCulture (2016)
MagCulture (2016)
Computer Arts Magazine (2016)
Etapes (2016)
It’s Nice That (2016)
It's Nice That (2016)
Dazed (2016)
Dazed (2016)
Novum (2016)
Grafik (2016)
Typeroom (2016)
AIGA Eye for Design (2015)
Start Me Up, Gestalten (2015)
It’s Nice That (2015)
It’s Nice That (2015)
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (2015)

CREDITS

Website coded by André Pahl
Texts written by Madeleine Morley
Photographic documentation by Christian Werner, Diana Pfammatter, Morgan Hickinbotham et al.
Studio team portrait by Christian Werner
Custom Yukiko Typeface by Florian Karsten, Yukiko
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UPDATES

19.10.
Lecture: Johannes at Adobe Max
16.10.
Feature: Secret Menu on Its Nice That
13.07.
Lecture: Sebastien at Type Paris (France)
02.06.
Feature: Its Nice That on a Review of Branding Projects for the Arts
22.03.
Lecture: Michelle at Parsons School of Design (USA)
10.03.
Lecture: Ira + Sebastien at Rhode Island School of Design (USA)
13.12.
Feature: More is More, victionary (Hong Kong)
23.10.
Lecture + Workshop: Michelle + Ira at Offf Festival, Servilla (Spain)
01.10.
Feature: Tokion Mag (Japan)
27.09.
Now Live: Nike Talking Trash w/ Billie Eilish + Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
28.06.
Watch Online: Yukiko’s talk at Ultrafett, FH Bielefeld / University of Applied Sciences (Germany)
13.06.
On Air: Michelle on the Graphic Support Group Podcast
25.05.
Lecture: Sebastien at Burg Giebichenstein University (Germany)
22.05.
Lecture: Ira + Johannes at Typomania, Moscow (Russia)
30.04.
Judging: Michelle at D&AD, London
12.01.
Lecture: Michelle at Brighton University (UK)
12.10.
Watch now: 15 minutes of Yukiko talking at Nicer Tuesdays
06.09.
Magical soup to open at hamburger bahnhof, berlin
28.03.
Lecture: johannes + michelle at Turino graphic days (Italy)
13.12.
Feature: Graphic Mag (South Korea)
01.11.
Yukiko win Art Directors of the year at Stack Awards, London (UK)
25.09.
Feature: It’s Nice That, Flaneur’s latest issue shows off Studio Yukiko’s typographic excellence
19.09.
Sebastien + Flaneur workshop at KUNSTMUSEUM BONN (Germany)
31.08.
flaneur to take over haus der kulturen der welt for 22.5 hours
27.08.
Feature: Flaneur Magazine on 032c
01.06.
Judging: Michelle is part of the Diploma Commission @HGB University of the Arts Leipzig
19.03.
Panel Discussion: Johannes and Fabian to introduce the new flaneur magazine at SESC, Sao Paulo
26.01.
Feature: Ones to Watch (It’s Nice That)

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