Yukiko concept 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 generation and graphic design for both commercial and cultural 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 youth culture. With its research arm, Yukiko continually experiments with new forms of visual storytelling and deepens its understanding of the audiences its projects engage.
Yukiko’s approach is both conceptual and holistic. Every design project is treated as a multifaceted endeavour, often bringing together distinct communication strategies — from corporate and brand design to creative direction, motion, photography, animation, and spatial design. With a progressive, international, and diverse team, Yukiko speaks many visual and strategic languages, navigating a broad spectrum of audiences with fluency, curiosity, and cultural awareness.
The studio collaborates with an extensive network of creatives — architects, sound artists, philosophers, coders, illustrators, and photographers — expanding its practice beyond traditional design boundaries. Yukiko’s process is deeply strategic, dedicated to understanding each client’s long-term needs, a product’s authenticity, and a brand’s cultural positioning. Instead of offering prefabricated solutions, the studio develops ideas through close and active dialogue with all collaborators involved in the process.
Ultimately, the studio’s distinctive spirit drives both its outlook and output. With an agile and highly skilled team, Yukiko delivers dynamic yet deeply conceptual solutions. Designing fluently for both IRL and URL formats, the studio connects with local and international audiences alike — translating ideas and concepts through the lens of contemporary, mainstream, and counter-culture. Yukiko’s work has been recognised by D&AD, ADC Germany, TDC New York, and TDC Tokyo, among others. Team members have also served on the juries of D&AD, TDC, and LADAWARDS, shaping discourse in contemporary design.
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 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, portfolio and give us three reasons why we should hire you (no links, pdf 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
Ira Ivanova
Design Direction
Mayar Badary
Production
Barbara Mastrobuono
Production
Rebecca Tenbusch
Production + Strategy
Sebastian Lymann
Creative Direction, Copy
Dr. Florian Hadler
Strategy
Tonia Kozlova
Design
Klara Troost
Design
Lou Hillereau
Design
Matt Clark
UI/UX
Yun Kuo
IxD
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
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
Adobe Max (US)
Nice 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, NYC (US)
Type Paris (France)
Nicer Tuesdays, London (UK)
Berlin International University of Applied Sciences
Ultrafett, Bielefeld (Germany)
INTL (Online)
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
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
Texts written by Madeleine Morley
Photographic documentation by Christian Werner, Diana Pfammatter, Morgan Hickinbotham et al.
Custom Yukiko Typeface by Florian Karsten, Yukiko
UPDATES
(Upcoming) Tonia talks at The International Assembly, Glasgow (Scotland)
Klara talks at ESAD–IDEA in Porto (Portugal)
Lecture: Michelle at Elisava Barcelona (Spain)
Yukiko Exhibition at Parco Gallery, Milan during Salone del Mobile 2025 (Italy)
AWARDS: Yukiko wins ADC, D&AD + most beautiful german books. Yay.
