Sigrun Drapatz
“The design picks up on the aesthetics of the artist's work and takes it further.”
Task
The studio has been supporting the artist Sigrun Drapatz with the design of her website and printed matter since 2008. Following a comprehensive relaunch, the website (www.sigrun-drapatz.de) offers a clearly structured overview of the artist's diverse work. On the homepage, visitors are greeted with motifs from the most important stages of the artist's work. On the following pages, the extensive artistic work is presented with texts, photos, videos and sound sequences. Sigrun Drapatz's works are often characterised by a restrained colour palette that combines grey and natural tones with black or blue as a contrast. At the same time, in recent years the artist has also initiated participative projects that are lively, cheerful and surprisingly colourful. The design can mediate in this field of tension and combine the different aspects. Generous white spaces give the layout a calm and clear appearance. The restrained typography in grey is complemented by brown as an accent colour. Interspersed quotations break up the three-column layout and emphasise central statements. Delicate grey lines divide individual sections. The image material was optimised through extensive image processing.
The website was implemented as a content management system and optimised for various end devices. In addition to the website, the brochure “Block 57” was created, which documents a joint project by Sigrun Drapatz and Tanja Lenuweit. The project is all about the pentagonal block of houses in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The 20-page brochure provides a historical overview of the site, presents the archive being created for Block 57 and documents the events that took place as part of the project. The layout of the brochure is clear and restrained, broken up by specific typographic colour accents in blue and orange. The design is minimalist and offers plenty of space for images and text.
Context
In her work, Sigrun Drapatz deals intensively with social transformation processes, historical narratives, urbanism and migration. She is particularly interested in artistic research. She sees art as a process of dialogue. Her work is interdisciplinary, participatory, site-specific and involves communities and experts from various fields.
- Services: Website www.sigrun-drapatz.de : Concept, design and supervision of programming | Design of a brochure, DIN A5, 20 pages | Design of various invitation cards, DIN long | business card
- Programming of website: www.webberry-webdesign.de
- Client: Sigrun Drapatz
