Who we are
A Portrait of co-founder and creative partner of YLF Design - Christian Kriegsheim.
Christian Kriegsheim
Christian is a very spiritual mind and was born in 1979 in old europe. He grew up in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin and 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 advancing 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 became 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
1984, the whole world was afraid of George Orwells prediction – but another wondrous occurrence took place: Harry Seifert was born 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.
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What we do
YLF is a young creative design studio, founded by Christian Kriegsheim and Harry Seifert that is specialized in and convinced of cross-media solutions. On the basis of our love and passion for creativity in every manner, analog, digital or conceptional, we develop effective and enduring designs for us and our clients. Moreover we attend our clients deliberately in every aspect of the usage of the corporately developed designs. We also try to elate people who get in touch with us to reach for exceptional ways of visual solutions and to ensure an outstanding visual appearance.
Network
During our extensive time as freelancers we made contact with many talented people from all over the world with whom we accomplished many different projects. So for big applications we are working with a specialized network out of the fields like photography, film, motion, webdesign and development, graphic, illustration and art.
