davidrindlisbacher.com

Education


Bern University of the Arts (2016—2019)
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (2018)


Highlights


Weltformat Newcomer Award (2 nominations) 2018
D&AD Awards Next Designer Shortlist (w/ Maximilian Mauracher) 2021
Bronze ADC Germany (w/ Maximilian Mauracher) 2021
Bronze CCA Austria (w/ Maximilian Mauracher) 2021
Behance features. Behance.net (3X), Graphic Design (8X), Indesign (7X), UI/UX (1X)


Press


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Identity, Web Design

February 2025


Identity and web design for Berlin-based jewelry store YCCIJ. At the heart of the identity is the mirrored logotype, where ligatures connect the letters of the acronym, giving it an organic feel that echoes the jewelry's manufacturing process. On the website, the logo takes center stage in interactive opening animations before retracting to the top of the navigation as the content appears.

Type Design

January 2019


Balladur is an ongoing type design project developed in the Typoclub type class at the Bern University of the Arts. Initially inspired by Jean Balladur’s architecture in the La Grande Motte commune of southern France, the typeface has since evolved into its own visual language. Defined by its high-contrast shapes and stencil-like silhouettes, Balladur features an expanding set of ligatures that seamlessly connect letters into compact, cohesive units. The full typeface will be available soon upon request.

Identity, Web Design

February 2020


/100 is an erratic radio show for sound as artistic expression. What is certain in number, is uncertain in form. Conceived by the desire to reunite in one place the ephemeral and intangible condition of otherwise free-floating sound waves. An ongoing and everlasting archive of genre-crossing episodes composed by carefully selected contributors and friends. Designed with Maximilian Mauracher.

Editorial Design

April 2020


Booklet and screen-printed envelope designed in collaboration with Maximilian Mauracher for XC.HuA Gallery (now known as Hua International) in promotion of their emerging artist Tong Kunniao. The carefully crafted, custom-made envelope not only serves as a functional shipping package but also doubles as a unique advertising space when sent to collectors, making it an integral part of the gallery's branding and communication strategy. This approach enhances both the practical and aesthetic appeal of the promotional materials. The design of the booklet incorporates elegant typography, imagery, and layout that capture the essence of the artist's work.

Vinyl Cover

February 2021


Limited Edition Double Transparent 12" Vinyl including streaming AR (Augmented Reality) application (only for iOS) and a 16-page booklet. Celebrating the release of ENTKUNSTUNG's fifth record, the AR app brings the vinyl’s booklet to life and showcases interactive visuals by Berlin-based artist Herwig Scherabon. It creates a unique listening experience of the eight-track album "Fun ist ein Stahlbad," which deliberately oscillates between Ambient and Techno.

Written & Produced by Felipe Duque
Mastered by Cem Oral at Jammin Masters - Berlin
Art Direction by Maximilian Mauracher
Design by Maximilian Mauracher & David Rindlisbacher
AR Animation and Images by Herwig Scherabon
App Development by Refrakt
Documentation Photography by Felix Werinos

Available for purchase at ENTKUNSTUNG

Poster Design, Identity

August 2022


"Unter dem Pflaster liegt der Strand"

Poster and identity designed for ENTKUNSTUNG's 2022 summer session in Berlin, an event that combines music and visuals at Festsaal Kreuzberg. Copies were printed digitally and hung around Berlin.

The poster was designed to exist in a static as well as an animated state. It is made up of two main contrasting elements: the typographic background and the 3D model of a clear beach ball in the foreground. The word "Entkunstung" is decomposed and distributed strictly to a grid, creating a mosaic effect. The beach ball is used to disturb this repetitive structure, not only by bouncing off it in the animated poster but also through the refraction of the clear material, which distorts the typography behind it. The ball introduces a playful element into the composition, alluding to summer, music, community, and hopefully, a good time. Designed in collaboration with Maximilian Mauracher.

Editorial Design

October 2018


Print portfolio designed for Samuel Rindlisbacher, in the context of an application for an internship in an architecture studio. The portfolio consists of six projects developed between 2015 and 2018. It was important to present the work in a rational and structured way, hence the use of a strict grid-based layout. The cover features a graphic take on the architectural scale, often found throughout the portfolio on the bottom right side of a page.

Editorial Design

November 2020


A compendium of outtakes, leftovers, discarded variations of motifs, actually visual B-Sides left behind on Philotheus Nisch' path to commissioned pictures for various newspapers and magazines. Philotheus Nisch is a photographer. His work contains commercial and artistic projects. He currently lives and works in Leipzig. Designed in collaboration with Maximilian Mauracher.

Photography by Philotheus Nisch
Available for purchase at P-OO-L.COM

136 pages
Softcover with printed transparent sleeve
22.5 x 30.7 cm
Limited edition of 300
ISBN: 978-3-9504596-5-4

Lettering, Social Media Assets

May 2024


Lettering and social media assets designed for David Löhlein in promotion of his sold out show "All Night Long" at Lehmann Club in Stuttgart in July 2024. The lettering was designed to complement the background image, featuring a mix of color variations and cropped visuals that were utilized in promotional social media assets, particularly Instagram posts and stories.

Photo by Bella Christmann
Edit by Phil Chambre

Poster Design, Motion Design

August 2020


Poster, flyer, and motion design proposals for Hua International’s summer 2020 exhibitions in Berlin ("Walking In Ice") and Beijing ("Touching Feeling"). The visuals incorporate textual information about the events alongside images from the exhibition, as well as representations of the title "Touching Feeling." Key design elements include the use of Braille and fingerprint imagery, among others, to enhance the theme and atmosphere. This project was a collaboration with Maximilian Mauracher.

Identity, Lettering, Editorial Design

July 2021


Against Nature, by Herwig Scherabon, is a multimedia exhibition that belongs to a body of work that navigates between artistic and philosophical research. The metaphorical notion of acoustic space and bodily and cognitive experiences underwrites predispositions towards immersion. The variously phenomenological, correlational and mystical positions that support the predominance of the immersive are subject to critique before suggesting a stronger distinction between nature and its representation.

Scherabon expanded the audio-visual material collected in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil to create a pilgrimage around a history of fabricated notions on the natural and our position as a species within a shared environment. The artworks on display are audio-visual objects as well as works in virtual and augmented reality.

Get the Book
Limited Edition of 500 copies
2021
56 pages
18.6 x 29.7 cm
Herwig Scherabon
Curated by ENTKUNSTUNG
Texts by Swantje Martach, Felipe Duque and Alexander W. Schindler
Lettering and Design by David Rindlisbacher
Art Direction by Maximilian Mauracher
Augmented Reality app by Refrakt Studio
Supported by Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin, BMKOES, and Labverde

Identity, Web Design

November 2020


Web design and corporate identity for Pool Publishing, an independent Vienna-based publishing house focused on illustration, graphic design, and photography. The identity uses pool-shaped forms to replace the two 'Os' in 'POOL,' extending across the website, business cards, flyers, and tape. Designed in collaboration with Maximilian Mauracher. Documentation photography by Felix Werinos.

Identity, Lettering

October 2020


Unselected identity proposal for VLAN (Vienna Local Artists Network), featuring a logo, landing page, business cards, and an Instagram post template. Drawing inspiration from Vienna’s rich Art Nouveau architecture, the design captures the city’s artistic heritage while offering a contemporary visual identity. The concept emphasizes elegant detailing and organic forms, echoing the aesthetics of Vienna’s creative past. Created in collaboration with Maximilian Mauracher.

Poster Design

January 2020


Poster and banner designed for the Austrian electronic music group Manifest Vienna to promote their fifth anniversary celebration. The bespoke lettering takes inspiration from traditional Fraktur typefaces, which are deeply rooted in the Germanic region’s typographic heritage. Integrating letterforms set in Fette Fraktur, the design spells out "Fünf" (meaning "five"), directly referencing the event’s milestone. The project was created in January 2020 with art direction by Maximilian Mauracher.

Editorial Design, Poster Design, AR

June 2019


Is an analog image only a part of the physically perceptible world, or can it trigger other images in another dimension? Do the images we see every day stand alone or do they exist in a larger context? What is the big picture? Big Picture is a multimodal graphic narrative on the concept of reality based on the dialogue between Socrates (S) and Glaucon (G) taken from Plato’s Book VII in The Republic. Consisting of a book, an analog and a digital augmented reality (AR) poster, graphic elements are specifically arranged so that different perceptions of reality are interrelated across several platforms. This project was developed under the mentorship of Christoph Miler.

Editorial Design, Scientific Writing

March 2019


Theoretical BA Thesis titled Picture This: An exploration of the future implications brought about by the development of augmented reality technologies and their impact on media consumption, interaction, and manipulation. This paper delves into how these emerging technologies could reshape the way we experience and engage with media in both personal and societal contexts. The thesis was written under the guidance and mentorship of Robert Lzicar and Jonas Christen.

Spacial Design

January 2019


Window display developed within the scope of the release of the trilogy “Robert Walser - Briefe” by the Robert Walser Zentrum. The display was located in Buchhandlung Zytglogge, Bern. The installation was made up of four acrylic glass layers that fit within the existing shape of the window. A CNC machine was used to mill the typography into the glass. Designed and produced in collaboration with Carolina Sanches and Till Seeholzer.

Poster Design

May 2019, December 2018


Posters designed for and submitted to the Typoclub poster competitions, created to promote various Afterwork Lectures. The first poster, titled RUR’ URU2R’, was designed for an Afterwork Lecture with Reto Moser from Grilli Type. The second poster was created for Katharina Reidy's lecture, Music was my first love, which explored the intersection of design and music.

Editorial, Poster Design

January 2018


Look-book created for Julian Zigerli’s Autumn/Winter 2016 collection, designed in a one-week workshop with Bureau Collective at Bern University of the Arts. The design features unfolding pages that culminate in an A0 poster. The collection was previously promoted through a collaboration with (LA) Horde, where a traditional fashion show was reimagined through a 3-hour video capturing the catwalk process, with the black shape representing the camera's movement.

Type Design

January 2018



Etnica is a typeface blending letters from multiple alphabets, inspired by an Arabic letter resembling the Latin letter g. The exploration led to finding corresponding characters from various origins, including Cyrillic, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Korean, Greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit, and Telugu. Etnica is available for purchase upon request.

Editorial Design

February 2018



Promotional magazine spread proposal for Julian Zigerli’s SS ‘18 collection Threesome featuring artists Manon Wertenbroek and Christopher Füllemann. The campaign was to be featured in the magazines Fucking Young and Gayletter. The typographic proposal was inspired by a liquid foam technique used in the collection and in its promotion.