S A susanna ammon DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
ABOUT ME
HELLO MY NAME IS SUSANNA Long story short, I‘m a graphic designer, illustrator and freelancer born in Aachen, Germany. Thanks to the awesome band Gorillaz, I discovered my passion to illustrations and decided to study graphic design. I love exploring new creative styles which motivate me to try new things and develop my work and sometimes I just read a lot of comics and play video games.
ABOUT ME
EDUCATION 2014
Diploma Communication & Design Studies
2011 - 2014
Kรถlner Design Akademie
2011
Abitur (German university entrance qualification)
2005 - 2011
Kaiser Karls Gymnasium, Aachen
2001 - 2005
St. Ursula Gymnasium, Aachen
LANGUAGES German Greek English Spanish
ABOUT ME
EXPERIENCE Feb 14 / April 14
Dec 13 / Jan 14
Full time Traineeship at KABELBRAND, Cologne Corprate design, logo design, social media, illustration, presentation layouts Full time traineeship at LOOXX*_Messemagazin, D端sseldorf Fashion styling, journalist, illustration, editorial design, image editing
SKILLS Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Quarks Express HTML & CSS
MY WORK
SEMI COLOGNE
CORPORATE DESIGN
Adobe Photoshop | Adobe InDesign
Semi Cologne is a brand design for a fictional advertising agency in cologne. This project tool place during a marketing course of my communication design studies. The name was chosen by our lecturers. The challenge was to create an image for the agency. I adapted the agency logo on the emblem and colors of Cologne.
MY WORK
MY WORK
FARINA & THE SCENT EXPEDITION GAME DESIGN
Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe InDesign | Nikon D3000 MULTIPLE OWNERS Game cards llustration: Susanna Ammon | Playboard illustration: Max Schmücker & Sven Diederichs | Design & layout: Isabelle Hölzer | Text: Mirela Dizdarevic
This game was build for the Farina Scent Museum in Cologne, Germany. Goal of the game is to collect all the ingredients for Cologne‘s famous perfume. The players can travel around the world by ship to search for the wanted ingredients or collect herbs in the historic city of Cologne. During the journey, the player meets pirates who steal items or friendly seaman who guides them to the next harbor.
MY WORK
MY WORK
MECHANIKUS
CORPORATE DESIGN
Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe InDesign | Nikon D90
Corporate identity for fictional vintage car repair shop, Mechanikus.
MY WORK
MY WORK
FRANZ KAFKA‘S BEFORE THE LAW ILLUSTRATION
Marker | Adobe Photoshop
Personal interpretation of Franz Kafka‘s parable Before The Law. Drawn with grey and black markers on paper. Speech bubbles and text edited with Photoshop.
MY WORK
MY WORK
JAZZ EVOLUTION
PRODUCT DESIGN | ILLUSTRATION Pencil | Acrylic Paint | Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe InDesign
Jazz Evolution is a box including a booklet, a poster and 2 CD‘s with 14 tracks. The 40 pages long booklet illustrates the most impressive and influential jazz musicians in chronological order and explains the different genres of jazz both written and drawn. All of the portraits are drawn by pencil, the musician on the box is drawn with acrylic paint. It exists a printed version.
MY WORK
MY WORK
VARIOUS COVER DESIGNS EDITORIAL DESIGN
Pencil | Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe InDesign
A result of the task to create covers for the book ‚‘Alice in Wonderland‘‘, a business magazine called ‚‘Hybris‘‘ and a random music CD. Alice in Wonderland is first drawn by pencil and then painted with Adobe Photoshop, Angela Merkel eating Greece on the Hybris cover is directly made with Adobe Illustrator and Nneka on the vinyl has outlines drawn by pencil and is also colored in Photoshop.
MY WORK
MY WORK
SPLINTERED
EDITORIAL DESIGN
Adobe Photoshop | Adobe InDesign
MULTIPLE OWNERS: Illustration: Susanna Ammon | Layout: Isabelle Hölzer Splintered is a slip cover Magazine which displays the issue ‚‘privacy‘‘ from two perspectives. The private pages are colored in cyan and the public pages in magenta. It exists a printed version.
MY WORK
MY WORK
DUEL OF THE CHEMISTS GAME DESIGN
Pencil | Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe InDesign
This is my major project. It is a card game for chemistry students. It teaches chemical reactions by playing.
MY WORK
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S A susanna ammon DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
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