Gestalten

Gestalten specializes in developing content for aficionados of cutting-edge visual culture worldwide.

The company is best known for the more than three hundred books we have published that document and anticipate vital design movements for our own title list as well as customer publishing projects. Gestalten also provides Curation, Art Direction, Consulting, Production, Distribution and Design Services to international clients such as Volkswagen and Diesel.

Always working directly with talented young designers and artists, Gestalten brings a deep understanding of visual culture on a global level to whatever we do and remains firmly committed to presenting visual trends with timeless substance. The company has 40 staff members through offices in Berlin, London, New York and Tokyo.

In 1990, industrial design students Markus Hollmann-Loges, Andreas Peyerl and Robert Klanten began to curate and organise prototype design shows commissioned by the world's biggest consumer fair in Frankfurt in between attending their lectures and writing their dissertations. Very much aware of the limitations of their field of study, they soon moved to Berlin, where they quickly met key people involved in the local Techno and cultural scenes. With the advent of desktop publishing, they formed a loosely organized graphic design agency called Die Gestalten and started designing flyers and posters for clients such as the groundbreaking club Tresor and the annual Loveparade.

In 1994, Die Gestalten created "Localizer", a comprehensive and strongly visual survey of the Techno and electronic music scenes, in cooperation with Chromapark. A year later, they founded Die Gestalten Verlag for the sole purpose of publishing this project. Since then the company has established itself as a national and international leader in high quality design for high profile clients and a core design audience. Since 2008, the company works under the new name of Gestalten and has nearly 40 staff members through our offices in Berlin, London, New York and Tokyo.