Studio Victor Balko is a multidisciplinary practise for graphic design, based in Frankfurt, Germany.

We specialize in print (as in books, brochures, posters, etc.), but we also create identities and design websites. From time to time we do illustrations or animations.

Victor Balko graduated from the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main. After a couple of internships in London, he worked as Art Director for Steidl Publishers in Göttingen. From 2010 to 2015, he co-published and designed Album, a magazine for contemporary photography.

Selected clients:

• Die Andere Bibliothek
• Aperture Foundation
• Büchergilde Gutenberg
• cass Verlag
• Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden
• Deutscher Kunstverlag
• Hartmann Books
• Hertie-Stiftung
• Kehrer Verlag
• Kissler Effgen + Partner Architekten
• Kunsthalle zu Kiel
• Kunstverein Schwerin
• Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie
• Mettler Landschaftsarchitektur
• Museum der Moderne Salzburg
• Sprengel Museum Hannover
• Trespasser
• Verlagsgruppe E. A. Seemann Henschel

Teaching:

• 2020: publication design workshop, HfG Offenbach
• 2018: book design workshop, HfG Offenbach
• 2018: book design workshop & lecture, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
• 2013: lecture, Academy for Visual Arts Frankfurt
• 2013: magazine design and self-publishing workshop (with Album, Magazin für Fotografie), HGB Leipzig
• 2013: lecture (with Album, Magazin für Fotografie), ZZF Leipzig
• 2011: lecture (with Album, Magazin für Fotografie), Frankfurter Kunstverein

Jury work:

• 2021: Die schönsten deutschen Bücher / The Most Beautiful German Books, Stiftung Buchkunst
• 2020: Die schönsten deutschen Bücher / The Most Beautiful German Books, Stiftung Buchkunst

Press:

• PAGE 08/2020
• novum 11/2018
• novum 03/2013
• PAGE 11/2012