Natascha Tümpel

Studio Natascha Tümpel is an award-winning graphic design studio bridging visual design, experimental graphic and academic research.

With over two decades of experience in graphic design, Natascha creates editorial and exhibition design for museums, artists, architects and publishers. Her work has been exhibited at the Mattress Factory Contemporary Art Museum and the Red Dot Design Museum, and has received numerous awards, including the Red Dot Design Award and the German Design Award for Communication Design.

Her research focuses on computer-aided design processes and the
materiality of visual design. Making graphics is used as an innovative observational framework for research. Graphic design is considered visceral, performative, and situated. Her new body of work Visceral Graphic is an experimental graphic design research and artistic venture that seek new questions and images.

Uncertainty is strategically longed for, searched for and explored.

Art & Research

Digital drawings Superimpositions

Monotyping collage Scores (falling) / Partituren (fallen)

Screen printing Body of printing / Körper des Druckens

Article Künstlerisches Prozesswissen im Bildgestalten

Design research Cantus firmus

Digital photographs Transit blooming

Digital drawings Transit blooming

Digital photographs Visual slipstream / Sichtschatten

Visual Design

Editorial Design Felix M Furtwängler

Editorial Design So viel Silber im Grau. Kunst aus der DDR

Editorial Design & Artist’s Typographic Book Almost / Fast

Editorial Design Multiples

Editorial Design soweit bis jetzt

Editorial Design Kerstin Grimm. Der 7. Brunnen

Exhibition Design Franziska Sibylla Augusta

Exhibition Design Kloster Lorch

Corporate Design Unitarian Church

Miscellaneous ...

Short CV

Education

Since 2013
Doctoral student (part-time), Art & Design, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, DE

2004
M. A. Studio Art, Electronic Media, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA

2001
Dipl.-Designerin (FH), Kommunikationsdesign, Hochschule Niederrhein, DE

Experience

Since 2014
Studio Natascha Tümpel, Jena

2009–2013
Designer, Braun Engels Gestaltung, Ulm

2006–2008
Designer & Artdirector, Fletcher Priest Architects, London

2006
Freelance designer, Phaidon Press Ltd, London

1999
Freelance designer, Gestaltungsbüro Monika Hagenberg & Helfried Hagenberg (AGI member), Meerbusch

Awards

Science

2025
Second place Science Award, Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft e. V. (GIB)

Design & Art

2005
AIGA KC A2 Design Award

2004
AIGA KC Design Award: Editorial Design
AIGA KC Design Award: Pro-Bono Design
AIGA KC Design Award: Interactive/Web Design
AIGA KC Design Award: Identity Design
AIGA KC Design Award: Promotional Design
AIGA KC Design Award: Promotional Design

2003
Best Fest Robert Altman Award, KC Jubilee Filmfestival
Best Experimental Award, KC Jubilee Filmfestival
Best Student Award, KC Jubilee Filmfestival

2002
RedDot Design Award, Design-Zentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen e. V.

2000
Deutscher Preis für Kommunikationsdesign (Junior Award), Design-Zentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen e. V.
F. G.-Winter-Preis, Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Fachbereichs Design Design in Krefeld e. V.

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