Malte Knaack
Malte Knaack sees himself as a visual problem solver who implements customer requests flexibly and creatively without losing his own style. As an experienced illustrator with a solid background in visual communication and editorial design, he works in a variety of styles and is proficient in both analogue and digital techniques. He is skilled in the use of ink, ink, pencil and watercolor for analog work and uses Photoshop, Illustrator, Procreate and Affinity Designer for digital illustrations.
He has been teaching at HAW Hamburg since 2022. Here he shares his knowledge about the exciting combination of layout, typography and illustration with young creatives.
Malte worked for G+J Wirtschaftsmedien for five years as a layout designer and designed pages for the Financial Times Deutschland. His work for business magazines demonstrates his ability to interpret abstract and dry topics from the financial world in a visually appealing way. In collaboration with the editors-in-chief, he develops visual languages that work within the given CI but offer enough freedom for creative image ideas.
In addition, Malte has gained extensive experience in art direction. So he designed the EnergieWinde anniversary magazine for Ørsted, for which he and an editor friend led a self-assembled team of editors, layout designers, infographic designers and image editors.
For Hermes Fulfillment, Malte conceptually accompanied a workshop in which the employees' concerns were filtered out and made more concrete. He then drew a series of comics dealing with employees' problems and possible solutions.
He has also realised several scrollytelling projects - a simple but effective animation technique for the digital presentation of stories. These include the online magazine EnergieWinde and the AOK's G+G magazine.
Malte is available for almost any type of project, from designing explanatory films to developing a visual language for magazine covers to illustrating complex company processes. His work speaks for itself and demonstrates his commitment to providing his customers with high quality and creative solutions.
„I had a lot of fun with the project and it brought some color into my everyday life!“Carla Grando, Ogilvy Zürich