Raban Ruddigkeit

Raban was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1968. In the 1980s he co-founded the first and last fanzine of the GDR. After ten years as designer for magazines and ten years as art director in advertising (e.g. Scholz & Friends, Jung von Matt), since 2009 he has been linking these two worlds in his own Berlin studio. To date he has won more than 100 national and international awards (Cannes Design Lion, European Design Award, ADC Europe…). In 2012 his atelier was awarded as “Rookie Agency of the Year” by Art directors club and KfW Banking Group.

He is the Founder of “Freistil – The Book Of Illustrators” and Co-Editor of “Typodarium”, and “Photodarium” (formerly Poladarium). In 2013 he publish his first monography “Rapport”. Raban has lectured and taught in Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt and at the UdK Berlin, where he lives since 1996. 2015 he start with Lea Brousse the new adventure Brousse & Ruddigkeit. From winter 2016 Raban Ruddigkeit is teaching at Münster School of Design. Read Wikipedia in german.