CV (2025)

Education/
Employment


Print Tutor
(2023/10 – 2025/09)

working:
Mediendesign Ravensburg
+   Casinopress

DHBW Ravensburg
Rasvensburg, Germany



Dual Student
(2022/10 – 2025/09)

studying:
Mediendesign Ravensburg

Bachelor of Arts
DHBW Ravensburg
Rasvensburg, Germany

(2022/10 – 2025/09)

working:
Schmittgall HEALTH

Bachelor of Arts
Schmittgall HEALTH
Stuttgart, Germany



Internship
(2022/05 – 2022/08)

working:
Schmittgall HEALTH

Schmittgall HEALTH
Stuttgart, Germany



Tools
[Digital]

Adobe CC 
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Indesign
Adobe After Effects
Figma
Touchdesigner
Blender
Midjourney
Cursor
Glyphs


[Analog]

Printing Techniques 
Screen Printing
Letterpress
Risography
Offset Printing
Laser cutting


[Languages]

German
English
Turkish
Spanish

Awards



[2025] – Creative Consience Award (Gold)

[2025] – ADC Student Award (Honouring)








Ismail Karahan (B.A.) 


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Contact info@ismail-karahan.de

Ismail Karahan is a Graphic + Type Designer. Focusing on the visual spaces and the places that are occupied and shaped by them. Based in Stuttgart. Specializing in crafting visually impactful designs that blend innovative concepts with functional aesthetics, resulting in work that captivates and inspires.


Services

[Graphic Design]
[Type Design]
[Art Direction]
[Editorial Design]
[Visual Identity]
[Brand Strategy]
[Web Design]
[Motion Design]




Working across a broad range of design tools and disciplines, with a strong focus on experimentation and process. Moving fluidly between concept and execution, embracing uncertainty as part of creative development. At the intersection of physicality + digitality.













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[ 1 ]        (NON)SENSE
    
[B.A. Project]

[2025]

(NON)SENSE critiques contemporary information culture through the endless production of contentless characters. Writing is reimagined as pure form, detached from meaning and function, transforming into a visual system that mirrors the overproduction of information in the digital age. By pushing typography into a field of tension between sense and nonsense, the work reflects on a condition where meaning becomes secondary to the act of endless reproduction itself.






[ 2 ]        Project_Erdung

 [Music Video]

[2024]

Project_Erdung is an experimental music video format created for a local musician known for his improvised, analog synthesizer sets. The challenge: to translate a constantly evolving, lyric-free sound into an equally dynamic visual language.







[ 3 ]        Impuls Werkschau[campaign]

[2025]

The Werkschau is the annual exhibition presenting the Bachelor’s theses of MDRV. Our team created the visual identity for the 2025 edition, called “Impuls Werkschau”. Out of several competing concepts, our proposal was selected and realized as the official appearance for this year's exhibition. 

Website, Instagram, Slanted






[ 4 ]        re/[campaign]
[2025]
re/ is a speculative and critical design project that challenges the structures of digital surveillance and data exploitation. At its core is re/set, an open-source tool that visualizes your digital presence, uncovers data exploi-tation, and empowers you to reclaim control. With modes for selective deletion, protection, and full digital purge, turns passive users into active resistors. It’s more than a tool – it’s a call for digital self-determination in an algorithmic world.




[ 5 ]        Highlight Mixtape
[multidisciplinary]

[2025]
This mixtape is a short documentation of my design journey. It brings together various smaller projects and experiments I created over time, including typographic studies, motion sequences, visual explorations, and fragments from ongoing works. The video offers a glimpse into my process and reflects the way I approach and develop visual ideas through design.