We team up with individuals, organisations and companies who share our optimism that a better world is possible.
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It takes a village: Explore a selection of our projects
Publix:
Visual presentation, digital tools and a comprehensive website for Publix, the house for journalism and democracy in Berlin → Visit website
Strategy, Research, Website design, Product design, Website dev, Accessibility audit, SEO audit
My Country Talks:
Facilitating tens of thousands of unlikely conversations, to bridge societal divide—with a custom, secure software platform → Visit website
Product design, Product dev, Tech audit, Award-winning
TypeMates:
Bold new website and custom online shop for TypeMates, the passionately-eclectic type foundry → Visit website
Website dev, E-commerce, Data migration
PLATTE:
New online platform to showcase, empower and connect the next generation of Berlin-based fashion designers → Visit website
Website design, Website dev
Sovereign Tech Agency:
Naming, visual identity, website and merch for STA—the German gov program strengthening open-source software and digital resilience → Visit website
Strategy, Visual identity, Naming, Website design, Website dev, Accessibility audit
Media Lab Bayern:
Brand refresh and website relaunch for Media Lab, the innovation hub and funding program for digital media in Bavaria → Visit website
Strategy, Research, Visual identity, Website design, Website dev, Data migration, Accessibility audit, SEO audit
Democracy Next:
New website and online guide for DemNext, the leading action institute focused on citizen assemblies → Visit website
Website design, Product design, Website dev, Product dev
Prototype Fund:
Brand refresh and website relaunch for the innovative open-source funding program, aimed at independent developers and teams → Visit website
Visual identity, Website design, Website dev, Data migration, Open-source codebase
Dekoder.org:
Visual direction, adaptive design system and scrollytelling website for an interactive online documentary. Nominated for a Grimme Online award. → Visit website
Strategy, Visual identity, Website design, Website dev
Sovereign Tech Resilience:
A printed report commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency, analyzing bug bounty programs, including many data visualizations → Visit website
Print design, Visual identity
GenoDigital:
Pro-bono visual identity and website design for Germany’s leading cooperative community and political initiative empowering co-ops → Visit website
Visual identity, Website design, Pro-bono
Start into Media:
Inspiring young Bavarians to explore careers in media, gaming and journalism—with a new visual identity, website and offers database → Visit website
Strategy, Research, Visual identity, Website design, Website dev, Data migration, Accessibility audit
Youth Policy Labs:
Comprehensive open-data portal about global youth policies, wrapped in a fresh visual identity → Visit website
Strategy, Research, Visual identity, Website design, Website dev, Data migration
Platform Coops:
Supporting cooperative founders and empowering the solidarity economy with a fresh visual identity
Visual identity
Neue deutsche Medienmacher*innen:
Updated visual identity and comprehensive website relaunch, creating an online knowledge database about diversity in media → Visit website
Visual identity, Website dev, Website design
Siemens Arts Program:
Celebrating the ten-year anniversary of Siemens’s arts and culture program, with a whimsical social media campaign and motion design.
Visual identity
evenly:
A small but mighty brand refresh and website relaunch for app development experts evenly → Visit website
Website dev, Website design, Strategy, Visual identity
Media Forward Fund:
Visual identity and website for the philanthropic funding program, focused on media diversity and journalistic impact → Visit website
Visual identity, Website design, Website dev
European Cultural Foundation:
Technical audit + input on processes, workflows and tooling for Display Europe, the pan-European cooperative media platform
Tech audit
Liquid Democracy:
Supporting on the relaunch of mein.berlin.de—a web portal all about neighborhood initiatives and participatory city planning from the Senate of Berlin → Visit website
Research, Product design, Product dev
Erato Labs:
Visual identity and design system for Erato Labs, a German artificial intelligence startup, building open-source B2B tooling → Visit website
Visual identity, Website design
“12 out of 10!”: What our project partners say about us
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Andreas Karsten CEO, Youth Policy LabsIt is such a pleasure working with you. Your sense of purpose; your empathy and respect; sense of beauty and design; the clean and smart coding; your pragmatism and professionalism. It fills me with great joy to know that we'll keep working together.
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Alexander Rühl Teamlead Marketing, Media Lab BayernOver the last months we’ve redesigned and rebuilt Media Lab Bayern’s website with great support from Village One. Seriously, I’ve rarely seen such a smooth relaunch. Kudos to the entire team!
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Claudia Chzwalisz Founder + CEO, DemocracyNextWe immensely enjoyed working with this amazing team. If anyone is looking for a creative, talented, value-driven team for design & web development I would highly recommend to reach out!
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Leonid A. Klimov Science Editor, dekoderI’d like to say thank you for this incredible collaboration. Not just in terms of the excellent outcome, but also about how to do things (together) and why. Love in all directions!
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Patricia Leu Co-Director, Prototype Fund12/10 – would do again! I want to give a huge thanks to the entire team at Village One for their tremendous work on our website relaunch. Working together has been an absolute pleasure.
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