WHAT IS ZUM HEIMATHAFEN?
It’s a creative business based in Hamburg. If you think it’s we, then yeah maybe but as well no. I specialize in illustration, print, and packaging design. I can also say „we“ because I either work for agencies in a team or for direct clients, so we are the team. And we create things for the love of good design.
My name is Alex Hanke; I am a designer and printmaker in the field of illustration and graphic design. Some years ago, I was born in the wild lands of East Germany. Early, I discovered how to eat a yummy pencil and what to do with funny stuff like paper and walls. So I started working for different clients in early 1998, long before I moved out to Cologne and afterward to the small city of Hildesheim to graduate in Corporate Design in 2008. In the same year, I established the label “Zum Heimathafen” to separate my art-driven mind from the day-to-day graphic design job. At the moment, I’m working as a freelance artist and creating posters, shirts, and flyers as well as Corporate Design and packaging solutions for clients around the world. So feel free to drop me a line to get more information about the little empire.
Take care!
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Published Work:
The DESIGN AND DESIGN Book of the year Vol. 1
(Index Books / ISBN: 8496309800)
The DESIGN AND DESIGN Book of the year Vol. 2
(Index Books / ISBN: 8492643412)
KOLK. Ausgabe 1 (Hunger Verlag)
Typoshirt One
(Gingko Press / ISBN: 8492643552)
Fresh Box: Cutting Edge Illustrations
(Daab / ISBN: 3942597071)
PAGE Magazine
Assorted exhibitions in:
Hamburg, Magdeburg, Barcelona, Utrecht, Austin, Chicago, Peking, Shanghai, Copenhagen, Vienna