Yukiko develop concepts and execute visual systems for the arts, culture, counter-culture and new technologies.
Studio Yukiko
Studio Yukiko is a Berlin-based creative agency specialising in creative direction, art direction, brand strategy, concept development, and design direction for cultural institutions, public organisations, and commercial clients.
The studio produces award-winning work that unearths narratives, tells stories of local communities worldwide, and immerses itself in the currents of internet and contemporary youth culture. With its ongoing research practice, Yukiko explores new forms of visual storytelling and expands its understanding of cultural, social, and technological contexts in which its work exists.
Yukiko approaches every project as a strategic and multidisciplinary endeavour. Working across brand strategy, visual identity, creative direction, motion, editorial, digital, and spatial design, the studio develops worlds that extend far beyond a single medium. Research and dialogue sit at the heart of the process. Yukiko works closely with clients and collaborators to uncover what makes an organisation, product, or institution distinctive, translating these insights into identities that are meaningful, culturally relevant, and built to endure.
With an international team and an extensive network of collaborators, including architects, artists, writers, coders, philosophers, illustrators, photographers, and researchers, the studio moves fluidly across disciplines and audiences. Equally informed by contemporary youth culture, local communities, internet culture, and emerging technologies, Yukiko creates work that resonates across both physical and digital environments.
The studio’s work has been recognised by D&AD, ADC Germany, TDC New York, and TDC Tokyo, among others. Members of the team have also served on the juries of D&AD, TDC, and LADAWARDS, contributing to the wider discourse on contemporary design.
Yukiko approaches every project as a strategic and multidisciplinary endeavour. Working across brand strategy, visual identity, creative direction, motion, editorial, digital, and spatial design, the studio develops worlds that extend far beyond a single medium. Research and dialogue sit at the heart of the process. Yukiko works closely with clients and collaborators to uncover what makes an organisation, product, or institution distinctive, translating these insights into identities that are meaningful, culturally relevant, and built to endure.
With an international team and an extensive network of collaborators, including architects, artists, writers, coders, philosophers, illustrators, photographers, and researchers, the studio moves fluidly across disciplines and audiences. Equally informed by contemporary youth culture, local communities, internet culture, and emerging technologies, Yukiko creates work that resonates across both physical and digital environments. The studio’s work has been recognised by D&AD, ADC Germany, TDC New York, and TDC Tokyo, among others. Members of the team have also served on the juries of D&AD, TDC, and LADAWARDS, contributing to the wider discourse on contemporary design.
Studio@y-u-k-i-k-o.com
Tel: +49 (0)30 26 557 594
IG: @studio_yukiko
Studio Yukiko GmbH
Körnerstraße 19
10785 Berlin-Tiergarten
Handelsregister Berlin-Charlottenburg
HRB 263649 B
For new business enquiries:
johannes@y-u-k-i-k-o.com
To be considered for future positions please send a CV and portfolio (pdfs or presentation links only please):
apply@y-u-k-i-k-o.com
Internship applications (no links, pdf only please):
work-it@y-u-k-i-k-o.com
TEAM
Michelle Phillips
Founder, Creative Direction
Johannes Conrad
Founder, Managing Director, Creative Direction
Sebastien Millot
Art Direction
Klara Troost
Design Direction
Tonia Kozlova
Design Direction
Mayar Badary
Production
Rebecca Tenbusch
Production + Strategy
Dr. Florian Hadler
Strategy Direction
Sebastian Lymann
Creative Direction, Copy
Lou Hillereau
Design
Matt Clark
UI/UX Design
SELECTED CLIENTS
Apple
Netflix
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
Highsnobiety
Fondation Beyeler
Hinge
Raumlabor Berlin
Nike
Vans
Camper
Dazed
Calvin Klein
Puma
Volkswagen
Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
Weleda
Paramount Plus
OÖLKG
Sleek Magazine
Sony Music
Museum der bildende Künste Leipzig
Floating University
LAS - Light Art Space
Vice
Amnesty International
Cura Magazine
Die Zeit
Spotify
Deutsche Telekom
Meta
DoorDash
ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe
SELECTED AWARDS
2025
D&AD Wooden Pencil
2024
D&AD Wooden Pencil
2024
Tokyo Type Directors Club
2023
BCM – Best of Content Marketing Award
2023
Deutscher Digital Award
2023
Art Directors Club
2023
German Brand Awards
2023
ADC Germany, Golden Nail
2023
D&AD Wooden Pencil
2023
Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher (Most Beautiful German Books)
2023
Latin American Design Awards (Judge)
2021
D&AD (Judge)
2019
Stack Awards:
Art Director of the Year
Art Director of the Year
2019
Stack Awards, Commended
2019
Stack Awards:
Magazine of the Year; Flaneur Magazine
Magazine of the Year; Flaneur Magazine
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 & TEACHING
Adobe Max (US)
Us By Night, Antwerp (Belgium)
Nicer Tuesdays, London (UK)
Parsons School of Design, NYC (US)
Out Of Office, Jakarta (Indonesia)
Google VISD Summit (US)
OFFF, Barcelona (Spain)
Forward Festival (Berlin)
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Germany)
Rhode Island School of Design (US)
Type Paris (France)
CXI Brand Talks (Germany)
University of the Arts Berlin (Germany)
Berlin International University of Applied Sciences (Germany)
Ultrafett, Bielefeld (Germany)
INTL (Scotland)
Graphic Days, Turino (Italy)
Kunstmuseum, Bonn (Germany)
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
Wallpaper China (2026)
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (2019)
Creative Review (2017)
Computer Arts Magazine (2016)
Etapes (2016)
Novum (2016)
Grafik (2016)
Start Me Up, Gestalten (2015)
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (2015)
CREDITS
Custom Yukiko Typeface by Florian Karsten + Yukiko
Selected photos by Christian Werner, Diana Pfammatter, Malte Seidel, Morgan Hickinbotham
Selected texts written by Madeleine Morley
UPDATES
(Upcoming) Johannes and Michelle to talk at Paradiso in Yucatán (Mexico)
Klara talks at ZHdK in Zurich (Switzerland)
Tonia talks at The International Assembly in Glasgow (Scotland)
Klara talks at ESAD–IDEA in Porto (Portugal)
Michelle at Elisava Barcelona (Spain)
Yukiko Exhibition at Parco Gallery, Milan during Salone del Mobile 2025 (Italy)
