What we do

distylerie is a design agency based in Zurich. We distil and design the essence of your brand to implement it coherently for a powerful design experience.

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Workflow

IDENTIFY ESSENCE — We distil the essence of your product or brand to create a foundation for all your media channels. This casts your entire communication from one mould and generates intense customer experiences.

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Steps

Mindset / project setup


By defining goals together we set the project in motion.

Positioning / exploration


Strategic focusing shows creativity the way.

Design direction proposition


From the brand story flows the look and feel of the design.

Develop basics


Detail-adjustments on the basic elements shape the character of the identity.

Design Experience Essence


The brandbook captures the distilled essence.

Implementation / GO live


Using powerful implementations, we bring the developed essence alive.

Core competence — To help our clients define their vision and then translate it visually. The elaborated basics in turn lead to clear guidelines for the design. This simplifies the path to implementation and gives the brand a strong, unified character.

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Project DNA

REACH TO VISION — Our DESIGN EXPERIENCE ESSENCE model has proven again and again to be the DNA for an incredibly strong brand. We are happy to provide more information on request.

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Team Ecosystem

Synergies for all players — DESIGN EXPERIENCE ESSENCE works perfectly for our network of experts. Instead of starting from scratch, they use our distilled basics as a springboard for powerful implementations while further developing your brand.

Reference

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Swiss Cycling

Radar
Festival

Sika

Gadget

Inventify

ZETRA

Twiliner

MAAG entertainment

Dfinity

Neo Medical

Our dream project — offers a universe of multi-applications, from digital implementations to motion and space design. We work best with clients who are looking for a consistent, well thought-out and impactful visual language for their brand.

Core Team

Damien Julien
Brand Designer / Creative Direction

Damien studied graphic design and typography in La Chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland). For the next seven years, he worked at international design agencies such as Interbrand and Metadesign. There he developed projects for clients like BMW, Actelion, Art Basel, Lucerne Festival, Schindler etc. Then he founded distylerie, and was able to realise his own branding vision.

Damien’s understanding of branding includes definition, concept and realisation. He focuses on elaborate and experimental design to develop impactful and emotional experiences.

Sarah Wucherpfennig
Brand and UX/UI designer

Sarah trained as a graphic designer at the Wave agency in Lucerne. Thanks to an international scholarship from the Leonardo Foundation, she was able to expand her practical experience in London, among other places. 

She always brings a good portion of openness and curiosity to projects. Sarah enriches the distylerie team with her strength in implementing design concepts in a target group and media specific way.

Florian Klein
Brand Designer / 3D Artist

Florian is a trained graphic designer and grew up bilingual in Ticino. In his adopted home of Zurich, he gained a lot of experience in advertising and communications agencies and has already worked for major national and international clients.

He expresses his creativity not only through design but also through photography. At distylerie, he enjoys the good coffee and skillfully uses his strengths in image editing and creating visuals with 3D programmes and Photoshop.

Micaela Marques Pinto
Brand Consultant

Micaela studied Linguistics and Organizational Communication at ZHAW. She is a co-founder of the social start-up Plentii, where she is responsible for marketing and communications.

At distylerie, she is primarily involved in brand strategy and concept development, where she sees language as a powerful tool to make the brand vision understandable to all stakeholders, resulting in a strong visual presence.

Carlo Roman Picaso
Brand- and Motion Designer

​​Carlo completed a Master's degree in Design with a specialization in Animation at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He gained ample experience as a Motion Graphic Designer, working at CH MEDIA and ETH, among others.

Carlo's always aims to emotionally engage people through animated visuals and dynamic content. This focus is evident in his animation work at distylerie.

Jonas Habermacher
Brand- and Motion Designer

Jonas studied graphic design in Lucerne and undertook further training in film and animation. At Interbrand, he gained considerable experience in brand design for clients like ABB, Schindler, Sika, AMG Mercedes, Deutsche Telekom and more.

Today, Jonas is specialised in concept and motion design.

Matthias Brück
Full-Stack Web Developer

After studying Computer Science at the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Matthias became software developer, project manager and technical consultant specializing in Python, the Django Web Framework. He is also experienced in Django CMS, WordPress and building responsive front ends with Bootstrap.

Matthias gave live to various websites and online platforms from concept to final implementation. As a Berlin-based freelancer for distylerie, he develops cutting-edge online platforms.

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