The studio was founded as W.A.F. by Malte Müller and Andreas Lexa in 2011. It has since evolved into a design firm that has completed visual identities and websites for diverse international clients such as Artek, Art Basel, Die Zeit, Vitra, Kiko Kostadinov, ADAY, Deutsche Telekom and Maharishi. As the digital arm of ACRONYM®, WAF GMBH provides visual design and technological direction to the brand.
Our office can be reached now by calling +49 (0) 160 96705966 or addressing email to office@waf.gmbh.
Current research
We use Are.na aligned with its self-description: as a visual platform that helps us think. We are currently working with and intrigued by the following channels.
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Web design as architecture
by Malte Müller
144 blocks · Sep 19 -
A.M.
by WAF GMBH
9 blocks · Aug 24 -
Project A
by WAF GMBH
40 blocks · Aug 05 -
Parsing Felix
by WAF GMBH
26 blocks · Aug 03 -
GMBH
by WAF GMBH
123 blocks · Sep 16 -
Local Harvest
by WAF GMBH
43 blocks · Sep 14 -
OTTO 958
by WAF GMBH
46 blocks · Aug 01 -
Mildly interactive
by WAF GMBH
24 blocks · Jun 11
Team members
Currently
Malte Müller, Tim Rausch, Klara Neubauer, Lukas Esser, Lisa Rinaldi
Alumni
Andreas Lexa, Friederike Wolf, Nadine Schwery, Hanna Wolff, Paul Bille, Fox
Frequent collaborators
David Kamp, Louise & Florian Kunth aka. Island, Sarah Bernhard, Jens Franke, Martin Wolf, Lena Rix, Yokohama Coffee Bar, Sebastian Weyrauch, Nadine Schwery, Jannik Schäfer, Benjamin Behr, Andreas Schober, Jihee Lee, 21st digital, Matthias Oertel, Marc Wright, Anika Väth, Julian Bühler, Anne Levy, Sascha Hillingshäuser, Maria Knabe
Website information
Version: 1.2, deployed on December 16th, 2020
Typeface: Ucity, designed by Yassin Baggar for Fatypeflux
CMS: Kirby 2.5.12, by Bastian Allgeier
Are.na integration: Arena PHP
100% vanilla JS, no analytics, no cookies
No frameworks, no artificial sweeteners
Compiled using Grunt 2.4
Total page weight: 653,3kb
Postal service
WAF GMBH is a design company and occasional post office in Hamburg, Europe.
