We're busy splitting our time between our own art, independent projects and collaborations with aspiring world changers. Sparked from the idea of bringing smart design and social responsibility together, we create inspiring things that you love dearly.
We work with businesses big and small, support the DIY movement and want to see more cool ideas getting launched - may it be a hobby or new business idea - we support you to make it happen.
Apart from living and spreading the workisnotajob. idea, we offer multidisciplinary creative services. We are passionate about design, social media, playing with words, type and colours to create visual experiences and make powerful statements.
If you are an artist, entrepreneur, visionary or simply need to get amazing design stuff done, we can help you. We are always keen to collaborate and hear about interesting people and projects. We'd love to work with you!
This is a selection of projects we’ve been working on lately:
How To Find Work You Love E-Book / Art Direction, Design & Illustrations
The E-Book "How to Find Work You Love" is a collaboration project between workisnotajob, career coach Phil Bolton of Less Ordinary Living and Escape the City, a UK based Online Platform and movement for people who want to do something different. This awesome electronic publication is full of original workisnotajob. artwork and we've also done the layout, design and illustrations. Everyone who dreams of finding work they love should use this amazing toolbox packed with exercises and inspiration. Find out more or buy by clicking the link below!
www.startsomethingyoulove.com
University of East London - CEWE / Mentorship
CEWE is the Centre of Excellence for Women's Entrepreneurship - a place for enterprise development, based at the University of East London. workisnotajob. founder Catharina is part of their Patron Scheme, working as a mentor with aspiring female entrepreneurs. Main goals are to provide support to female UEL students and graduates to develop their entrepreneurial skills and support them to start up their own businesses.
www.uel.ac.uk/cewe
hello handmade manifesto / Text and Design
hello handmade is a place for independent, handmade design and original ideas. Germany's famous handmade platform is full of DIY inspiration, celebrates handmade culture and organises an annual fair in Hamburg, Germany. We created the official hello handmade manifesto that is for everyone who makes things and supports the DIY movement. It has been made into a fabulous print and available as letterpress and screenprint poster. Available in different colours and two languages, english and German. You can grab yours from our shop!www.hello-handmade.com
TEDx Huntsville / Design T-Shirts and Flyers
We've created promotional material for the 2011 TEDx Huntsville event themed "Explore". TEDx are independently organised TED events, created in the spirit of TED's mission "Ideas worth spreading". The Tees, brochure and other promo materials are in the typical typographic style of workisnotajob. stating the famous TED tagline.
www.ted.com/tedx
Tattly / Typographic Design Temporary Tattoo
Tattly is a temporary tattoo store for design-minded kids and kids-at-heart run by Tina Roth Eisenberg, also known as "swissmiss". We are proud to be part of this fun idea and created an exclusive workisnotajob. tattly that you can purchase in packs. Get your Tattly on!www.tattly.com
workisnotajob. Wall Art / Design and Production
We LOVE when people inquire about our designs as wall art in LARGE dimensions! Whatever suits your walls, we are excited to make it happen. We love to paint on walls or produce large pieces. The example below was a 1,50m x 1,50m (59''x59'') print on canvas that we've created on special demand. Awesome! Check out the shop and inquire about customised wall art now!
11:11 AM Collaboration T-Shirt / Design
Collaboration tee designed to support 11:11AM charity. You can help raise awareness and money for young adult cancer research by buying this tee in our shop. Please check out the 11:11AM website 1111am.com and follow their Tumblr blog for more info on this charitable movement.www.1111am.com
Available in our shop!
Local Correspondents "Songs for Japan" / CD Cover Design
The musicians of Brooklyn's Local Correspondents community, compelled by the recent tragedy in Japan, created a compilation mix, available for a minimum donation of $5, with a suggested donation of $10 or more. One hundred percent of the proceeds raised will benefit the continuing global relief efforts of The American Red Cross and we designed the cover.localcorrespondents.bandcamp.com
Product line / Design, Production and Distribution
Apart from our mission to inspire you to work on what you love, we've created a selection of Prints and Wood Block Mounted Prints as well as T-Shirts and Hoodies to cover your beautiful body. Check out our very own workisnotajob. shop and grab your favourite workisnotajob. design today.Browse workisnotajob. stuff now
Hamburgs Kreativgesellschaft "Work in Progress Kongress" 2012 / Speaker
Catharina and Sophie will be speaking at the "Work in Progress" Congress organised by Hamburg Kreativ-gesellschaft. Cathi has been invited to be part of a panel about dreams vs. work and will be speaking about her "work is not a job" - philosophy and discussing the future of work. Sophie will be part of a panel about the DIY revolution and handmade economy as an alternative to mass production and oportunity to rethink consumerism.
work-in-progress-hamburg.de
words series / Design
Leap, learn, create, explore, play, work, wonder, dream, inspire, love, grow, listen, dance..workisnotajob. collection of some of our favourite words. Available as wood block prints.Check out the shop now
Girls Who Rock Benefit Concert 2011 / Design
GIRLS WHO ROCK is an annual concert in NYC that aims to bring together the strongest voices in technology, entertainment, and design to advocate and fundraise for girls’ education worldwide. We created the official 2011 Concert Invite, Save The Date and other promotional materials like banner, flyers and Twitter background and are glad to be working with such amazing women who help to raise awareness and money for this important cause. www.girlswhorock.org
Etsy / Illustration
We've been chosen to contribute the official Etsy Twitter background for the month of September 2011. Each month Etsy's Twitter profile will be re-designed by an emerging, new artist and the design will be made available as a free wallpaper download on your mobile device. Happy to be part of this series among other fantastic illustrators, artists and designers.www.etsy.com/blog/en/tags/twitter-artist-series
UpStart / Poster Design
UpStart is a non-profit arts collective which aims to put creativity at the centre of public consciousness during the Irish General Election Campaign in 2011. They did this by reinterpreting the spaces commonly used for displaying election campaign posters in Dublin City. We contributed a Poster that was hung in two different locations in Dublin, Ireland.www.upstart.ie
Le Cool Dublin / Cover Design + Interview
Le Cool is a free weekly cultural agenda and alternative city guide. It covers a variety of awesome European cities and we've been fortunate enough to contribute cover designs for two issues for the fair city of Dublin and also answered a few questions. www.lecool.com
