This FC Style issue #10 is a tribute to the captain of the German basketball world champions and player of the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA: Dennis Schröder.
“While Germany confuses his attitude with arrogance, at the Staples Center in Los ...
Creative Direction
S/BM Translations – Visual Identity
“Remaining steadfastly committed to delivering translations that resonate authentically with human expression.” Stefano Bianco Maselli
Translations in the era of artificial intelligence. This discourse revolves around the paramount ...
Visual Identities
SKOUD Cosmetics – Visual Identity
Creative Direction & visual identity of SKOUD Cosmetics reflect innovation and elegance. As the first luxury skincare brand created by cosmetic scientists in Germany, it combines beauty with scientific expertise. SKOUD Cosmetics visual identity ...
Visual Identity
ARMANI ✖ FOREVER / FC Style #9 – Magazine
All about Giorgio Armani, the greatest living fashion designer of our time who turns 90 and we pay tribute to him with this issue. A comprehensive and insightful interview with him conducted by Jörg Rohleder accompanied by photos from his incredible ...
Creative Direction
Robb Report Germany – Magazine
We did the redesign of the German Lifestyle Magazine Robb Report. No. 31, an Issue about Individuality,
Mentor- & Collectorship. 2023
Editorial Design / Relaunch
November Walk – Book
“I understood Katharina Trudzinski’s work slowly, like how, when approaching something in a landscape, its shape and scale become apparent to you only gradually. But here I had the work right in front of me – a photograph, that is, of a ...
Book Design
Foto Wien Festival – Website
FOTO WIEN Biennale, 2.6.–20.8.23
For four weeks, the new photography festival will present current contemporary tendencies in photography and put trend-setting positions in the history of photography up for discussion through outstanding ...
Web Design / Relaunch
European Month of Photography – Website
EMOP – European Month of Photography is Germany’s largest festival of photographic imagery and celebrates its tenth edition throughout March 2023 in Berlin. The attempt to develop a calendar that is inviting experienced and not ...
Web Design / Relaunch
Rodriguez Jr. – Artwork & Videos
“Feathers & Bones” is the latest album of the music producer and live performer Rodriguez Jr which will be released on May 26th. The record will come after the 3 singles featuring Stereo MC’s (Connected) and Liset Alea. The music ...
Visual Design
Logos – Visual Identities
A logo is a significant visual symbol, that conveys the values and characteristics of a brand. Studio Last has created unique and tailored branding concepts and logos for digital and print medias, brands, companies and artists.
A collection of logos ...
Visual Identities
Focus Relaunch – Magazine
Since 2017 Matthias Last was responsible for the creative consulting and the ongoing gradual relaunch of FOCUS Magazin, one of Germany’s leading weekly newsmagazines. The goal was to conceive a visually intriguing and contemporary publication. ...
Editorial Design / Relaunch
Berlin Westend – Visual Identity
The Berlin-based full service production company, berlin westend. With a focus on the fashion and luxury industry, and providing editorial, commercial and e-commerce services, Berlin Westend has now evolved into a 360° Creative Studio, providing ...
Visual Identity
Christian Werner – Visual Identity
»His images are among the most exciting that contemporary German photography has to offer«, cultural critic Adriano Sack wrote about the work of Christian Werner. Since the end of the 1990s the photographer has been an integral part of Berlin’s ...
Web Design
Jacket 100.90.45.65_Reissue 2012/2022 – Apparel
The SL Jacket. We created a deep blue bomber jacket made of 100% cotton with leather applications on the sleeve pocket, cuffs, collar and lower hem. The jacket’s overall dark appearance is contrasted by a metallic bronze fabric on the inside ...
Visual Design
Leaving the Chelsea with Egg / Viva Hoffmann – Book
LEAVING THE CHELSEA WITH EGG is her third book, a novel that revolves around a road trip through the USA together with the young William Eggelston. Viva Hoffmann played in numerous films by Andy Warhol, such as Tub Girls or the ...
Book Design
Hidden Hills – Book
Hidden Hills” plays in the lands of the American West. It celebrates a mythical ritualistic dimension, the fading presence of ancient voices that whispered back from the ‘empty’ desert. Five years ago the photographer Cornelia Thonhauser ...
Book Design
100.000 Words in search of … – Website
In view of fast-changing writing cultures, Swiss publishing house Diaphanes is conducting an experiment titled
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND WORDS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR. They invited 100 authors from various backgrounds and languages to produce a text of ...
Web Design
For Our Planet Sustainability Award 2021
Creation and design of the Sustainability Award 2021 for the initiative FOR OUR PLANET. Launched by Hubert Burda Media, the project supports future-oriented companies in the areas of innovation and sustainability. The sculpture made of 100% ...
Object Design
The JDG Issue of Interview – Magazine
Featuring artistic interpretations of gender fluidity, diversity and fan culture – the JDG Issue of INTERVIEW Magazine Germany is all about Jack Dylan Grazer, the lead in the amazing HBO show “We Are Who We Are”. Interviewed by the ...
Editorial Design / Relaunch
You all get what you see – Various Posters
Various Poster for music, art and culture
With Frank Höhne (Illustration), Staffan Larson (Illustration)
Graphic Design
ESDAC by Christian Werner – Book
A retrospective on the photographic work of Christian Werner, 2007 – 2020
Familiar faces, anonymous portraits, abandoned landscapes, animals and urban spaces – EVERYTHING SO DEMOCRATIC AND COOL sketches an associative collage of our ...
Book Design
Atiptap e.V. – Website
“If we all switched from bottled to tap water, 1.5 times as much CO2‚ could be saved as is produced annually by domestic air traffic.” We designed a new Website for the association A TIP: TAP e.V., who has for the last 10 years advocated the ...
Web Design
Space Mining – Book
SPACE MINING is Berlin-based visual artist Anina Brisolla’s monographic catalogue and features work of the past ten years. Her work centres around the relationship between people, nature and space. The catalogue contains texts and essays by Hannah ...
Book Design
Berlinale Debate – Newspaper
Art direction for the publication BERLINALE DEBATE for the sponsors, contributors and staff of the international film festival Berlinale. Commissioned by Plantage Berlin. In cooperation with the author Ralf Grauel. 2011
Corporate Design
Monopol Magazin Online – Website
Our aim for the redesign of the online version of German art magazine MONOPOL Magazin was to create a news portal that brings together aesthetic playfulness with the objective approach of journalism. Throughout the design, a clear structure, the use ...
Web Design / Relaunch
Blake & Vargas – Space
BLAKE & VARGAS, our project space for contemporary art and culture curated by Sarah Bernauer & Matthias Last. Beside exhibitions, B &V, hosts residencies, readings, performances and publishes limited editions and artist books in ...
Visual Identity
Blake & Vargas – Website
BLAKE & VARGAS, our project space for contemporary art and culture curated by Sarah Bernauer & Matthias Last. Beside exhibitions, B&V, hosts residencies, readings, performances and publishes limited editions and artist books in ...
Web Design
Homage to Otto Anderson – Sculpture
For the Heilig-Geist-Kirche Pinneberg (Hamburg metropolitan region) we designed a typographic sculpture consisting of more than 900 letters that was milled out of metal as an homage to the transparent, minimal and geometric designs of the church’s ...
Graphic Design
B-LA Connect – Website
B-LA CONNECT is a platform for promoting collaboration and networking between the creative communities of the twin cities of Berlin and Los Angeles. Over the next few years, a large exhibition and exchange project will take place between project ...
Web Design
Superdesk – Magazine
Art direction for Sourcefabric’s corporate magazine SUPERDESK, featuring their eponymous open-source tool. The magazine introduces publishing companies and media to the newsroom of the future by demonstrating innovative technologies to connect ...
Corporate Design
HKW Anthropozän-Projekt – Supplement
We conceived a supplement for the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin’s centre for international contemporary culture, about their exhibition DAS ANTHROPOZÄN-PROJEKT. With their ongoing project, the institution brings together positions from ...
Art Direction
Heavy Duty Bag – Edition
Together with Berlin-based Gruppe Magazine, a young collective of designer and artists, and the label Standardclothing, we developed HEAVY DUTY, a limited edition carrier bag. Both versatile and sustainable, its minimal yet playful design follows the ...
Visual Design
Milky Ways – Artwork
MILKY WAYS is a textual and pictorial collage that derives its content from various conversations with users from adult dating websites. This material has been sampled into an ambivalent play about how physical desire is expressed in the disembodied ...
Graphic Design
B-LA Connect – Festival
B-LA CONNECT is a platform to promote collaborations and networking between the creative communities of the twin cities of Berlin and Los Angeles. Over the next few years, a large exhibition and exchange project will take place between project spaces ...
Visual Identity
Working Women #1 – Magazine
Exploring and empowering the female perspective in today’s business world, the magazine WORKING WOMEN approaches issues from business strategies, work-life-balance to style and fashion. Commissioned by Emotion Verlag GmbH, we took care of the ...
Editorial Design / Launch
Secret Societies – UdK Workshop
Man has always been fascinated with secret societies and their clandestine rites, their covert knowledge, and exclusive circle of members. Together with students of the University of the Arts in Berlin, Matthias Last created a visual campaign for the ...
Graphic Design
ACF London – Exhibition Poster Series
Seizing upon Britain’s obsession with ornithology, the performance THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BIRDS presents a story inspired by David Attenborough about modern-day London from a bird’s perspective. We designed a poster series for the event for the ...
Graphic Design
Die Villa – Event Location
DIE VILLA was a luxury event location based in Berlin that was showcasing exclusive contemporary interior design in a refurbished Art Nouveau villa. We developed the location’s complete corporate identity, from business card and print collateral to ...
Visual Identity
We Collective – The Picture Editors
WE COLLECTIVE is a joint project by a group of German photography editors. Apart from functioning as digital portfolio, the website showcases selected works by contemporary photographers that are curated by the members of the collective themselves. ...
Visual Identity
FOCUS Innovation Award 2020
Development and design of the FOCUS Innovation Award 2020 for future-oriented companies and start-ups with innovative ideas. The winner of this year’s award is the Danish company Too Good to Go. A startup that sustainably deals with food ...
Object Design
What time is now – Apparel
Now as never / Now as a promise / Now as loss
Now as a question / Now as memory / Now as movement
Now as a blue print / Now as a rope / Now as the future
A visual and textual investigation of the state of NOW we used as inspiration for a wearable ...
Visual Design
PQPP2 – Production Company
Studio Last designed the visual identity and website for PQPP2, a German production company founded by Thilo Mischke. This agency produces text and movie features for news media and TV-formats. Their recent documentary-series UNCOVERED was nominated ...
Visual Identity
Sarah Bernauer – Website
We designed and set up a new website for the Swiss artist Sarah Bernauer. Starting from her deep interest for language, Bernauer transfers her subjects into a wide variety of media such as sculpture, film, audio, print and photography and combines ...
Web Design
The Future is Bold – Apparel
BOLD is a communication agency based in Berlin and Los Angeles. As a give-away for their clients during the press events, Studio Last designed a statement scarf, featuring a typographic play of knitted colour and geometric forms with the slogan THE ...
Graphic Design
HMKE – Gallery
For decades the art gallery HMKE is successfully publishing editions of works by artists such as as Jorinde Voigt, Christian Jankowski or John Bock. Formerly based in Hamburg, the gallery has since moved to Berlin, where Alfons Klosterfelde continues ...
Visual Identity
Form and Content – Corporate Agency
Form & Content, a corporate publishing agency for fashion and luxury brands, was founded by Rahel Morgen, Jan Joswig and Matthias Last in 2013. We created the agency’s website and visual identity. 2013
Code: Stefan ...
Visual Identity
Lebensgenuss – Supplement
Commissioned by Hubert Burda Media, we envisioned the lifestyle supplement Lebensgenuss for German magazine FOCUS Magazin. 2016
Editorial Design / Relaunch
Anina Brisolla – Website
We created a visual identity and a new website for the German artist Anina Brisolla. Brisollas’s work centres around the relationship between people, nature and space. By using images from the internet which she then transforms and reinterprets, ...
Web Design
Lebensstil – Supplement
Commissioned by Hubert Burda Media, we envisioned the fashion and lifestyle supplement LEBENSSTIL for German magazine FOCUS Magazin that is all about ideas, fashion and trends for the modern man. 2016
Editorial Design / Relaunch
Tageswoche – Newspaper
Matthias Last and Manuel Bürger created the corporate and visual identity for the newspaper TAGESWOCHE, a news publication and news portal from Basel. together we developed a modern and unique newscast: a hybrid medium that consists of daily ...
Editorial Design / Launch
Unger #1 – Magazine
U-MAGAZINE is a corporate magazine about lifestyle, new trends and fashion first published in 2014. Initiated by Hamburg fashion department store UNGER, Matthias Last was responsible for the development and art direction of the magazine’s first ...
Editorial Design / Launch
Die Elbe – Magazine
MEIN LAND – DIE ELBE is a magazine about cities and provinces alongside the eponymous river. With the development and art direction of the publication we focussed on contemporary storytelling of places and their inhabitants that brings to live the ...
Editorial Design / Launch
Telekom – Annual Report
Art direction for the annual report 2011 of the Deutsche Telekom AG. Pink all over and thus matching the colour of their logo, we turned the annual report into an objet that wants to be touched and read. More than presenting numbers and facts ...
Corporate Design
Tageswoche – Website
Matthias Last created in collaboration with Manuel Bürger and Sourcefabric the corporate and visual identity for the newspaper TAGESWOCHE, a news publication and news portal from Basel. together we developed a modern and unique newscast: a hybrid ...
Web Design / Launch
Ideale anstatt Idole – Book
In 1982 Anna Hurter became the first female honorary citizen of the Swiss town of Dübendorf due to her devotion to charity work. Studio Last designed the book IDEALE ANSTATT IDOLE published in 2016 dedicated to the life of an outstanding woman. The ...
Book Design
Booktype – Magazine
Development and art direction of THE FUTURE OF A BOOK, a corporate magazine for Sourcefabric. The magazine illustrates the company’s open source tool Booktype and presents new opportunities of how to self-publish books. 2012
Photos: Florian ...
Corporate Design
René Talmon L’Armée – Website
René Talmon l’Armée is a jewellery designer who started his career in Paris where he opened his first showroom in 2004 – it was followed by two stores in Berlin. We created a new visual identity and website for the brand. Informed by Parisian ...
Web Design
FC#1_Juergen Teller ✖ Robert Lewandowski – Magazine
Creative direction & design for the fashion and lifestyle supplement FC Style for German FOCUS Magazine.
The Issue No.1 is about the magic team, the footballer Robert Lewandowski and the photographer Juergen Teller. 2022
CD / Design: ...
Editorial Design / Relaunch
Johann König ✖ Lars Eidinger / FC Style #2 – Magazine
FC STYLE #2
Lars Eidinger is one of the most talented German theatre and film actors. His greatest role in theatre at the Berlin Schaubühne was as Prince Hamlet in Shakespeare’s Tragedy “Hamlet”.
For the second issue of FC Style ...
Editorial Design / Relaunch
Bryan Adams ✖ Bryan Adams / FC Style #3 – Magazine
FC Style #3
Bryan Adams is a musician and a brilliant photographer. A supplement about him, his stories and his greatest photographic hits. 2022
Editor in Chief: Jörg Harlan Rohleder
Creative Director: Matthias Last – Studio Last
Picture ...
Editorial Design / Relaunch
Baz Luhrmann ✖ Hollywood / FC Style #4 – Magazine
FC STYLE #4
An issue about the film director of of such imposing and colourful movies such as Elvis, The Grat Gatsby, Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge and others photographed in black and white.
Editor in Chief: Jörg Harlan Rohleder
Creative ...
Editorial Design / Relaunch
V. Ólafsson ✖ Classic Culture FC Style #5 – Magazine
FC Style No.5, an issue about and with the Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson. He is celebrated for his recordings of Philip Glass, Johann Sebastian Bach & Claude Debussy. In his very own way, he has brought composers of the most diverse ...
Editorial Design / Relaunch
OTTO ✖ Happy 75 / FC Style #6 – Magazine
On the occasion of his 75th anniversary, we dedicate this issue to Germany’s greatest living comedian. The experimental arrangement is: OTTO x Balenciaga x Lukas Wassmann. 2023
Editor in Chief: Jörg Harlan Rohleder
Creative ...
Editorial Design / Relaunch
Jared Leto ✖ Renaissance Man / FC Style #7 – Magazine
FC Style No.: 7
An issue dedicated to the multi-talented and Oscar-winning actor and musician JARED LETO. With a long interview by Jörg Harlan Rohleder and a fashion spread, photographed by the great Ronald Dick. 2023
Editor in Chief: Jörg ...
Editorial Design / Relaunch
Album Covers – Artwork
Art Direction and Design for various artists and compilations. With Özgür Albayrak (Photo), Staffan Larsson & Enver Hadzijaj (Illustrations). 2010-2015
Graphic Design
American by Werner Amann – Book
AMERICAN is the definite result of German photographer Werner Amann’s long-term project which began in 1996 and ended in 2009. During that time, he took innumerable photographs in the cities of Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas, Gainesville, Miami ...
Book Design
Swarovski – Web Magazine
Swarovski, one of the world’s premier jewellery and accessory brands, approached us to take in hand the art direction of SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL, a web magazine dedicated to the essence and context of their latest collection. Over the years we have ...
Corporate Design
Werner Amann – Website
Whether it is the techno scene in Berlin, daily life in modern Iran or America, Werner Amann always approaches his motives with a passionate, curious and unbiased eye. We designed a website for the Berlin-based photographer. 2016
www.werneramann.com
Web Design
Der Freitag – Newspaper
Matthias Last did the Art direction for the relaunch of the newspaper DER FREITAG in cooperation with Alexander Seeberg-Elverfeldt. Founded in 1990, shortly before the reunification of Germany, the newspaper was originally conceived for an East ...
Editorial Design / Relaunch
Sloe Berlin – Website
We created a new website for the fashion label SLOE Berlin. Unimpressed by seasonal trends, the concept of SLOE combines timelessness with cutting-edge design and a sense of romantic rebellion. 2016
Photography: Robin Kater
Code: Alan ...
Web Design
Sloe Berlin 2015 – Lookbook
Campaign and lookbook 2015 for the fashion label SLOE Berlin. Unimpressed by seasonal trends, the concept of SLOE combines timelessness with cutting-edge design and a sense of romantic rebellion. 2015
Photography: Stephanie Pfaender
Visual Identity
Sloe Berlin 2014 – Lookbook
Campaign and lookbook 2014 for the fashion label SLOE Berlin. Unimpressed by seasonal trends, the concept of SLOE combines timelessness with cutting-edge design and a sense of romantic rebellion. 2014
Photography: Mirjam Wählen
Visual Identity
Sloe Berlin 2013 – Lookbook
Campaign and Lookbook 2013/14 for the Bag and Fashion Label SLOE Berlin.
Independed of seasonal trends, the concept of SLOE combines timlessness with cutting-edge design and a sense of romantic rebellion.
Photography: Claudia Crassl. 2013
Visual Identity
Sloe Berlin Launch – Fashion Label
SLOE Berlin was established in 2012 by Antonia Siegmund and Matthias Last. Baffled by the lack of functional, elegant yet affordable bags, we set upon creating our own bag: one that lasts forever and is fit for all kind of occasions. SLOE’s ...
Visual Identity
Get Physical – Label Show
We designed the annual showcases for GET PHYSICAl, a record label for electronic dance music based in Berlin. The label was created in 2002 by Groove magazine editor in chief Thomas Koch and the two producer teams M.A.N.D.Y. (Patrick Bodmer and ...
Graphic Design
BMW Pure Impulse – Magazine
Development & Art Direction of the first issue of the corporate-magazine PURE IMPULSE – THE GLOBAL EXPERIENCE MAGAZINE for special events of the BMW i8. Commissioned by Journal International. 2014
Corporate Design
Ramp – Magazine
RAMP is a German car magazine. On the occasion of RAMP’s third anniversary, we gave the publication a redesign, introducing a contemporary visual language for the issue FOREVER YOUNG that provokes a more diverse take on automobile culture and ...
Editorial Design / Relaunch
Porsche Christophorus – Book
Art direction and design of the PORSCHE BOOK – an exclusive publication handed out to Porsche customers. Our concept for this book was to put the spotlight on the individual work of the various designers who shaped the unique perception of the ...
Corporate Design
Watergate Records – Artwork
6 years (2007 – 2013) art direction for the Berlin-based label WATERGATE Records, part of the WATERGATE Club.
Matthias Last (Studio Last) together with Alexander Seeberg Elverfeldt and the magnificent Illustrator: Frank Höhne.
Visual Design
Nicole Zepter – Website
We created a website for the German author and publisher Nicole Zepter. Best known for her book Kunst hassen. Eine enttäuschte Liebe (To hate art. a disappointed love) from 2013, Zepter is also the editor and co-founder of the politics and zeitgeist ...
Web Design
Dummy #14 – Magazine
DUMMY is an independent society magazine that has been published quarterly since 2003. Each issue is dedicated to one specific social theme and always designed by a new art director. The 14th issue of DUMMY MAGAZIN is dedicated to TEMPO – the pace ...
Editorial Design
Neue Heimat – Cultural Venue
CI and website for a new cultural venue NEUE HEIMAT located on the former premises of the Deutsche Bahn close to Warschauer Straße train station in Berlin. It combined several clubs, bars and concert locations, as well as restaurants and an art ...
Web Design
FHM Collections – Magazine
Relaunch, art direction and design of the men’s fashion and lifestyle magazine COLLECTIONS published bi-annually by German FHM Magazine. 2006
Editorial Design / Relaunch
Liebeskind Berlin – Visual Identity
Art direction for the fashion label LIEBESKIND. Our goal was to move the label that was founded in 2003 in the west of Germany closer to Berlin by creating a campaign, website, image concept and lookbooks that convey the atmosphere and idiosyncratic ...
Visual Identity
Week – Magazine
Commissioned by Jakob Augstein, we developed a visual and content related concept for the weekly political magazine WEEK. In opposition to the existing political magazines in Germany, THE WEEK was covering international topics and social issues from ...
Editorial Design
Handcraft – Magazine
Development of the HANDCRAFT Magazine, a corporate magazine about handcraft and trade. Comissioned by Indians Publishing. 2011
Editorial Design / Launch
Data MC – Artwork
DATA MC was founded by DJ San Gabriel and Rapper Ono during an live event at the legendary Café Moskau in Berlin in 2007. Deeply rooted in the Berlin Club Scene, DATA MC fusions hip-hop and electro elements. While focusing mainly on live acts, the ...
Graphic Design
Maxim Fashion – Magazine
Matthias Last was in charge of art direction for MAXIM FASHION, a men’s fashion and lifestyle magazine MAXIM FASHION published bi-annually by German MAXIM Magazine. 2004 – 2006
Editorial Design / Relaunch