That has become the claim to represent the essence of what Daniela offers. In cooperation with medical doctors, the Iyengar Yoga teacher is currently building a centre for holistic female health in Bonn, after several years in Switzerland. Whether during
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Back in 2016 I started working for Die Drei!, an Osnabrück based agency, after a period of having done occasional freelance jobs for them. After almost three years I returned to being full-time self-employed, focusing on my work for States
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Andrina Tisi is a health coach based in Switzerland with a broad knowledge and a wide variety of services. She was also the first client to book the Bright Idea Branding Page package. Whilst in need of a complete re-branding,
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Some time ago, a very outspoken woman came to us asking for help. No wonder, she’s a keynote-speaker. As such, she needed a strong presence online, matching the one she unmistakingly has onstage. “Nothing less than heavenly”, was the short
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A Swedish native living and working in London, Asa came to Bright Idea with a bold business idea in need of branding and a website to rocket-launch her business: Tailor Matched, a match-making agency focusing on overall compatibility but with
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Vanessa Laszlo stands for sustainable cultural change. She achieves this with effective psychology for and in companies. And it’s big companies, where she can achieve great successes on a regular basis. No wonder, because she has a lot of professional
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How to play the triangle is an interactive, theatrical concert inspired by the music of Leonard Bernstein and his West Side Story. The audience will actually be able to participate playing the triangle, after having had a short workshop. Not
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After five years Tatiana Koleva, a world renown percussionist I’ve been working together with extensively throughout the years, decided it the time had come to refresh her website. For me, it was also a chance to incorporate some more up-to-date
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Bright Idea was initially founded by Dr. Katja Brunkhorst, offering her expertise on copywriting, communication and transcreation. The visual identity and web design for Bright Idea, features a distinctive color palette of magenta, black and white, paired with a bold
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Graf Interiors is the name of an online shop for interior design and home decoration, offering quality products from selected high-end manufacturers across Europe, as well as their own product line. For the latter, Graf Interiors needed help creating a
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To satisfy nine ladies at the same time, isn’t all that easy. Therefore, we as Bright Idea were all the more pleased that we succeeded in the web relaunch for DiaMonde. Founder Nataša and her eight employees work in a
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Medical doctor, yoga teacher and expert in ayurvedic medicine. Dr. Janna Scharfenberg has been combining her broad knowledge and expertise for a couple of years now, as a mentor and business coach. Although her online platform In Good Health has
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When creating the concept for a unique kids storage box, Graf Interiors asked Bright Idea to come up with branding concept. We came up with the name Cuby, designed the logo accompanied by a basic brand identity to kickstart the
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Business coach and marketing expert Susanne Rohr already had a thriving business herself, but needed a more streamlined visual identity, including a derivative logo and color scheme for her online programm. S o I first created a main logo and
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There’s good news and bad news. The bad news first: The website I created for Brighton Photo Booth is no longer maintained. The good news: The booth is still there and who needs a website for a photobooth anyways? After
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Whisky’s had been a landmark rock bar for years in the center of Osnabrück. In 2017 Alexander Schröder and his now wife Carolin Hermjohannknecht decided to take over the bar, which by that time was in serious need of a
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Katharina, aka Frau Maier, is a force of nature. Her “modern style consulting”, known from TV and radio, deserves this name and offers so much more than stale, “stupid color advice”. When Katja and I first met on the phone
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Henning Tepe comes from fashion family. Having worked for years in his parents’ luxury fashion store in the heart of Osnabrück, he decided the time had come to venture out on his own. His very own Tepe Men is a
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An odd combination to say the least, but when you walk into the store it actually makes sense. Gitarren & Lampen opened its doors in October 2014 in Osnabrück and they sell…guitars and lamps. Packed with old guitars, amps and
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The Amsterdam Marimba Weekend will take place for the first time on May 9th ’til May 11th. It’s meant as an opportunity for marimba players to engage in various workshops with world renown marimba players, or ‘marimbists’ as they’re called.
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I just finished Thirty Six States, a states of grace portfolio- or coffee table book if you will…It features a selection of more recent work I’ve done. To view a PDF-version of Thirty Six States, click here. If you wish
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DocMaKlang is a very convenient, spacious recording studio in Osnabrück. Studio owner Matthias Lohmöller asked states of grace to design a new logo and business cards…here it is!
On november 22nd the new Shock Records & Coffee opened its doors in Osnabrück. states of grace took care of the corporate design, including a brand new, responsive website that beautifully scales down to smartphone viewports. As in the overall
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Borowski Motors is a specialized dealer for All Terrain Vehicles, but also sells scooters and motorbikes. STATES of GRACE was asked to built an entirely new website, with a strong focus on the broad range of vehicles Borowski Motors offers.
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In a time where independent record stores are becoming a rare commodity, Osnabrück’s Shock Records is still proudly standing after more than 20 years. Now Shock has joined hands with Schnalli, owner of the infamous Bastard Club in Osnabrück, to
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During some downtime I figured I’d start with a new series of designs, this one here being the first thereof. Web designs, rough sketches for websites or templates if you will…Uncommissioned and uncomprimised. I obviously didn’t focus so much on
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The Backpackers United website is basically a one-page site with a list of links to hostel-network websites all over the globe. It needed a total make-over; a complete new design and a new logo. The result has a slight 1950’s
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Penthouse Backpackers is a hostel, located in the heart of Osnabrück on the top floor of a four-storey building. Apart from the logo that had to be maintained as such, I re-designed and programmed the whole site. Fully responsive, including
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I have started working on a new website for Isaan Thaipas Bar, a thai-restaurant/cafe in Osnabrück. Their specialty Thaipas, are thai versions of tapas (described in the immaculately funny comedy show ‘The IT Crowd’ as: ‘Tiny food from Spain’). In
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22quadrat is a design agency that has, in its relatively short existence, already left its award-winning mark in the graphic design world. The guys from 22quadrat are always looking for interdisciplinary challenges, whilst maintaining their strongly rooted views on design.
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What started out as joke, might actually take slightly serious forms. The character Christian Steiffen is an ironic take on a typical german ‘schlager’ singer. Osnabrück’s favourite son Hardy Schwetter created his alter ego years ago and might finally be
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Tatiana Koleva, native Bulgarian and living in the Netherlands, is a world renown percussionist. Although she’s best known as a marimbist, Tatiana covers the whole spectrum of percussion, always looking for new musical experiments.
Saytheword.de is the home of Dr. Katja Brunkhorst; cosmopolitan, rock singer and multi-disciplined, academically trained literature vulture who offers high quality copywriting and translation. Together with theWord, States of Grace can offer you the complete package: Sophisticated copy and design.
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De Bliksem is a small music bar with a rich history that stretches over more than 20 years. From a finctional point of view, the website should most importantly display upcoming events and photo’s. The look is strongly based on
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