Essay
Art
Künstler.
Ich mache mir ausdrücklich den Leiniger'schen Kunstbegriff zu eigen
Editorial
Minimal
Tactile
Canvas
Overview
Essay
Art
Künstler.
Ich mache mir ausdrücklich den Leiniger'schen Kunstbegriff zu eigen
Behind the media
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Portfolio
Designer
Benjamin Wasner
Independent designer working across editorial, digital, and spatial contexts. Based in Berlin.
Essay
Practice
On Working Slowly
A reflection on pace, attention, and why the best work resists urgency.
Ideas are perishable
Use the notebook. Always the notebook.
Read note
Write it down immediately. The good ones don’t wait.
Also: sleep on it before sending. Always.
On Good Design
Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better — because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
Photography
Visual
Film Studies
Examining composition through a cinematographer's eye.
Behind the media
A series examining how cinematographers construct meaning through negative space, colour temperature, and the geometry of the frame.
Paused time. Arrested motion. Each still is an argument about what matters in a scene.
Studio Corner
Editorial
Minimal
Tactile
Notes
Type
Notes on Typography
Observations gathered while working with type across print and screen.
Books
Reading List
Titles that shaped how I see the work.
Read collection notes
- The Elements of Typographic Style — Robert Bringhurst
- Thinking with Type — Ellen Lupton
- A Designer’s Art — Paul Rand
- Designing Programmes — Karl Gerstner
- Grid Systems — Josef Müller-Brockmann
- Ways of Seeing — John Berger
Listening
Gymnopédie No. 1
Erik Satie
Listening
The Disintegration Loops
William Basinski
Currently
Building a canvas portfolio — exploring infinite space as a metaphor for how ideas spread and connect.
Available for
Art direction · Editorial projects · Identity systems · Digital experience design
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About
About
Designer working at the intersection of editorial craft and digital experience.
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Ways of Seeing changed everything. Do it again.
Read note
„The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.“ Keep returning to this.
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