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jungundwenig
Christopher Jung and Tobias Wenig
www.jungundwenig.com
info@jungundwenig.com
Birthplace: Pforzheim, Germany (CJ)/Tübingen, Germany (TW)
Residence: Berlin, Germany
Connecting cities: Leipzig, Germany
When developing their projects, the
designers are greatly infl uenced by their
most immediate surroundings. They fi nd
inspiration in the works of people such
as Cyan, Günter Karl Bose, and Markus
Dreben, as well as the outstanding Leipzig
typographers Jan Tschichold and Walter
Tiemann.
As well as creating seductive images of short
duration, this creative team endeavors
not to forget its roots. It is worried by the
JUNGUNDWENIG IS THE CREATIVE studio
of Cristopher Jung and Tobias Wenig. This
design duo met when they were studying
at the Visual Arts Academy in Leipzig in
1999. They began working together in
2004, specializing in design for books and
magazines and art for albums, cinema,
and multimedia for clients on the arts and
culture scene.
fact that formal questions form the main
body of critical discourse, while content
and purpose are, unfortunately, not
questioned in the same way.
jungundwenig are also passionate
about music and fi nd most satisfaction
in the smallest of things – “a letter that
resembles an animal, an almost empty
page with only two or three elements on
it, a pleasantly colored surface… it could
be anything.”
Pforzheim, Germany (CJ)
Tübingen, Germany (TW)
Berlin, Germany
Leipzig, Germany
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