Who we are
A Portrait of co-founder and creative partner of YLF Design - Christian Kriegsheim.
Christian Kriegsheim
Christian was born in 1979. He grew up in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin and has discovered his pleasure for fast sports already in his childhood. At first on his cute red bobby-car and more serious later, he enjoyed himself by speeding up his racing kart in competitions. As a youngster, his passion finally led him to a junior ice hockey team, where he worked himself up to a professional level. After several years on ice, he did high grade Martial Arts and even ran his own schools in which he gave lessons to other students.
Besides his sportive activities he was even more interested in arts and design. Christian finally decided to find his personal challenge in life by being creative, so he expressed himself in street arts, graphics, illustrations and murals. His first stages in professional business were internships and freelancing in several agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi or McCann Erickson. He also graduated successfully an apprenticeship as an advertising merchant inside of Ogilvy & Mather. Not enough, Christian became “Bachelor of Arts” after four years of studying Communication Design at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden. To fund his study and advance his designs he worked for several clients from all over the world.
Motivated by the pursuit of the new, Christian was always up to cross different techniques which often led him to unique designs and self-initiated projects. His unbending will pushed him forward to become a determined and creative designer in all kind of disciplines.
A Portrait of co-founder and creative partner of YLF Design - Harry Seifert.
Harry Seifert
Harry Seifert was born in 1984 in Tbiliskaja near the Black Sea in Russia. At the age of 3 he moved over to Germany where his career should start as a creative “madman”.
Harry is a mainly self-educated person, who has his roots in the field of comicbooks and fine arts, from where he developed a deep passion for illustration and painting. Furthermore his creative inducement lead him to the world of music, which he lives out constantly through playing guitar, singing and songwriting, especially with the independent soundstudio Esc. Laboratory.
Over the years he participated on many art-exhibitions and did complimentary work for example by leading workshops for creative offsprings and organizing cultural events. After his final secondary-school examination at the Eleonorengymnasium Worms, he first began to study Computer Science but altered soon to Communication Design at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden.
To ameliorate his abilities in design and gain more practical experience, he worked for different agencies like Taobot or Michael Eibes Design and numerous clients from all over the world while being a student. Until today his never-ending inquisitiveness emerged him to be a precise and creative designer in all kinds of disciplines with an ongoing hunger for new challenges and projects of any kind.
Tomas Matousek
Tomas was born in 1979 in Frankfurt a.M. as the youngest of three children. So he learned early to enforce himself against his elder brothers and sisters. For his parents he always was a troublechild, because since Tomas has started to walk he got interested in scribbling on everything he could reach. Well, his mother did the only and right thing – so Tomas was attending to painting courses at the early age of four, where he got in touch with arts for the first time. Later on, when he was a teenager Tomas explored his passion for typography. Inspired by the local graffiti scene he started to style his own letters and expressed his manner in street arts and paintings.
Because of Tomas Czech roots it was no surprise that his passion for sports leaded him to ice hockey. For several years he was engaged with the Czech national sport. The result of being the fastest on ice brought him to Canada, where he played in a high school team during his exchange.
But finally, after being back in Germany, he realized that all would lead to his creative abilities in his further life. To combine his graphic skills with his craftsmanship he decided to start an apprenticeship as a carpenter at first. After he absolved successfully in 2007, years of studies in graphic design at the BTK Berlin followed.
Beside of building up his own fashion label for which he always designed and produced new shirts, he worked as a graphic- and interior designer for different clients from all over. Pushed by his creative nature he is always up to new, so he became a specialist in typography, interior concepts and graphic design.
What we do
YLF Design is a crossmedia Design studio founded in 2010.
The studios strength lies in offering creative and strategic partnerships and supports to communicate in the most effective way concernig the needs of our partners. Wether you need a single service or a solution across different media and disciplines, our aim is to help your business to be successful.
Therefor you benefit from our experience in the fields of corporate design, printed matter, photography, webdesign and development as well as illustration, graphic design and a constantly growing motiondesign section. Furthermore we can attend the printing-process of the developed designs to help your product turn out excellent and inspiring in regard of todays green printing possibilities.
Services
Corporate Design – a strong brand appearance presents the centralized philosophy of you and your business. By researching the current situation of you and the markets and combining our visual knowledge with a strong strategy, we are adept to reposition an existing brand or create a new one, based on the ideas that we develop for you.
Printed matter – the combination of exact typographic rules and the artistic senses of our creative team, leads to sophisticated and innovative layouts for your printed matter, which we develop together with relevant photography and illustration.
Photography – every image contains a message that has to turn out right. Therefor we set up the needed illumination concept to tell your story, attending your target audience and channel. Our service is to take, post and if required also compose your photographic message in the right color and tone.
Illustration – our expertise includes a wide range of illustrative services for different requirements. From concept or characterdesign to storyboard development or editorial illustrations – in every case you will receive the high quality of fine arts.
Graphic Design – every surface presents a space which offers nearly boundless possibilities to be defined. Our aim is to create the right balance between emotion and information, form and space, as well as excitement and benefit, to reach a functional and innovative design solution.
Web Design & Development – we create intelligent digital appearances based on the developed brand-strategy with an engaging design to increase the awareness and sales of our partners. We help your brand to expand into the online-market and communicate proper with the online-society.
Motiondesign – the magical mood of a photographic moment or the slightly stroke of a skillful drawing combined with the factor of time. We make sure that the image moves right.
Crossmedia – the kernel of our philosophy and service. In every matter we create concepts which establish in the market by memorizing the concepts ability to expand to other medias, that are necessary for your future business.
