Welcome to my design portfolio.
Please scroll down and have a look at some of my work as a graphic designer and art director. If you would like to commission me for your project – or just say hello – please drop me a note. I’d love to hear from you!
Be sure to check out my friends link-list at the bottom of the page. There’s something for everyone.
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Bicycling Website
Project: Web Design
Client: Rodale, New York
Work in progress.
Saiten Website
Web concept and design for a local culture magazine with focus on a feature rich event calendar, including map functionality. In co-production with > Christof Täschler / Kabeljau.
Project: Web Concept and Design
Client: Verlag Saiten, St.Gallen
Code: Vadian.net, St.Gallen
Women’s Health Website
Total redesign of Rodale's Women's Health magazine website.
Project: Web Design
Client: Rodale, New York
Crosstown Jam Website
Web site for a great little mobile game, conceived and executed by Kabeljau and Forest Games for Swiss Recycling. The Flash site has been designed and built together with our man in Buenos Aires. An example in telework.
Project: Web Concept, Design and Production
Client: Swiss Recycling / Code-R, Zurich
Corporate Designs
Corporate identity system for an event- and public relations consultancy. A flexible system of three visual elements and the color blue make up the corporate design world. The web site and other applications are in the works.
Project: Corporate Identity and Web Design
Clients: ColorFrog, Torino / Across the Line, Maur / Protoscar, Rovio
Flyers & Posters
Quick and dirty (but sometimes quite beautiful) posters for a concert venue. Usually, they send me an image or a logo as basis and to set the style, the rest is mine to define.
Project: Design
Clients: Salzhaus, Winterthur / KinoK, St.Gallen
Sony Slotcar Game
Flash game to promote Sony's release of GranTurismo 4. Players compete in a live ranking system. The game features "real drifting in corners", 10 different race tracks in unique landscapes, race cars with individual performance, a night track and more crazy stuff. Idea and concept in collaboration with > Dave Broz / Elunia Visual Media, Zurich.
Project: Game Concept and Design
Client: Sony PlayStation Switzerland, Winterthur
Code: Elunia Visual Media, Zurich
Dachkantine
Brand Identitiy
Corporate design and web design for the a rooftop lounge and club location in Zurich. Wide open space illustrations and nostalgic travel sticker style icons create a colorful setting for all sorts of creative events. Idea and design in collaboration with > Anne-Catherine Wehrli.
Project: Identity and Web Design
Client: Dachkantine, Zurich
Runner’s World Website
I got commissioned by Rodale Inc. to help redesign their huge web portal for active runners and marathon lovers. It was quite a design challenge to get all this information on the page in a intelligent and comprehensible way.
Project: Web Design
Client: Rodale, New York
Voo:Doo
Brand Identity
Visual brand identity and launch campaign for a wireless internet solution. Created in collaboration with > Claudia Blum / Kabeljau.
Project: Visual Concept and Design
Client: Schoop Partner, Zürich
Illustration: Claudia Blum
Audio Relation Website
An unusual way to move through a web site. Everything being on the same page, visitors can slide horizontally through the content while listening to a context sensitive sound scape.
Project: Web Concept and Design
Client: Audio Relation, Zurich
Code: Elunia Visual Media, Zurich
Sony PlayStation
Mini Sites
Various mini sites created with Flash, to promote upcoming game titles or events by Sony PlayStation Switzerland. All designs are based on an existing visual product language, but freely interpreted to create rich interactive experiences.
Project: Concept, Web Design and Production
Client: Sony PlayStation Switzerland, Winterthur
Friends
Agent SY – let her be your design agent
> www.agentsy.ch
ALA – passionate web development
> www.ala.ch
Anne-Catherine Wehrli – great missy
> www.anniewehrli.ch
Bangladesh – music activists
> www.bangladesh.ch
Benjamin Guedel – illustrations from hell
> www.guedel.biz
Bilderclub – illustrations from Berlin
> www.bilderklub.de
Bildwurf – Kinowerbung
> www.bildwurf.ch
CG-Raum – excellent furniture and handyman
> www.cg-raum.ch
Christina Ruegg – motion graphics princess
> www.mizkriz.com
Christof Täschler – Mr. “mastermind” on the road
> www.la40.net
Claudia Blum – Ms. “the eye” Kabeljau
> www.kabeljau.ch/claudia
Die Gestalten – if it's great, they publish it
> www.die-gestalten.de
DubClub – Mr. Whitemoon's happy get togethers
> www.dubclub.ch
Elunia – if it's interactive, they can build it
> www.elunia.ch
Funktion – our ally for all things sound
> www.funktion.ch
François Chalet – yeah, frenchy french!
> www.francoischalet.ch
Helen Erikkson – beautiful photography
> www.heleneriksson.net
Jane Mount – artist, conceptionist, producer
> www.janemount.com
Jochen Walzl – dangerous photography
> www.picturecraft.org
K3000 – where it all began
> www.k3000.ch
Kabeljau – my life
> www.kabeljau.ch
Maria Tackmann – big heart and illustratress
> www.marima.ch
Martin Woodtli – great crazy guy and designer
> www.woodt.li
moiré – masters of the book
> www.moire.ch
moxi ltd. – respect!
> www.moxi.ch
Multi Vitamin – Mr. code and problem solver
> www.multi-vitamin.ch
Reinhard Gassner – exceptional designer/persona
> www.ateliergassner.at
Roman Schmid – Booyakasha!
> www.banal.ch
RosiOne – da queen of cans and walls
> www.rosyone.com
Roger Walch – all things Japanese and more
> www.rowmuse.com
Sami Wolf – Paris needs good art direction
> www.wolf.to
Schörghofer – our ex Kabeljau CFO
> www.schoerghofer.ch
Seelenluft – Beat, yo my man!
> www.seelenluft.net
Skiliftbügelgeber – a growing source of madness
> skiliftbuegelgeber.ch
soDA – delicious art/life magazine
> www.soda.ch
Timo Kuhn – another Swiss bloke in NY
> newforms.ch
Tomato – great inspiration to do the uncommon
> www.tomato.co.uk
Urs Althaus – illustrator, advertiser, surfer
> www.hausgrafik.ch
Vadian.net – excellent programmers! thanks for the net
> www.vadian.net
Yoga Plakat – relax and revive your body & soul
> www.yogaplakat.ch
etc.
Clients
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Across the Line, Maur
> www.axtl.ws
Adwired Communications, Zürich
> www.adwired.ch
Ascom Business Systems, Solothurn
> www.ascom.ch
Audio Relation, Zürich
> www.audiorelation.com
AudioWorks, Bern
> www.audioworks.ch
B
Bilanz, Zürich
> www.bilanz.ch
Brain2, Zürich
> www.brain2.ch
C
Carol Bokuniewicz Design, New York
> www.carolbdesign.com
CG-Raum, Zürich
> www.cg-raum.ch
ColorFrog, Torino
> www.colorfrog.com
Computerworld, Zürich
> www.computerworld.ch
D
Dachkantine, Zürich
> www.dachkantine.ch
Die Gestalter, St.Gallen
> www.gestalter.ch
Digital Variant, New York
> www.digitalvariant.com
F
Fachhochschule Vorarlberg, Dornbirn
> www.fhv.at
Forbo International, Eglisau
> www.forbo.com
K
KinoK, St.Gallen
> www.kinok.ch
Kunsthalle St. Gallen
> www.k9000.ch
L
Lanker, Montlingen
> www.lanker.ch
M
Maxomedia, Bern
> www.maxomedia.ch
MetaDesign Suisse, Zürich
> www.metadesign.ch
O
Oos, Zürich
> www.oos.com
Openair St.Gallen
> www.openairsg.ch
P
Partner & Partner, Winterthur
> www.partner-partner.com
Popteen, Tokyo
> www.popteen.net
Protoscar, Rovio
> www.protoscar.com
Publicitas North America, New York
> www.publicitas.us
Punkt G Gestaltungsschule, Zürich
> www.punktg.ch
R
René Sennhauser, Zürich
> sennhauser.net
Reuters, Zürich
> www.reuters.com
Rodale, New York
> www.rodale.com
Ruegg Werbung, Zürich
> www.ruegg.ch
S
Saiten Kulturmagazin, St.Gallen
> www.saiten.ch
Salzhaus Winterthur
> www.salzhaus.ch
Schule für Gestaltung St.Gallen
> www.gbssg.ch
Smallwood & Stewart Publ., New York
> www.smallwoodandstewart.com
SwissLife, Zürich
> www.swisslife.com
SmartBooks Publishing, Kilchberg
> www.smartbooks.ch
Sony PlayStation Switzerland, Winterthur
> ch.scee.com
X
XeniX, Zürich
> www.xenix.ch
Xess+Baba, Zürich
> www.xessbaba.ch
etc.
Me
Olivier Heitz
Schöneggstrasse 5
8004 Zürich
Switzerland
Email: > mail(at)olivierheitz.com
Bio: > download PDF
Archive
Publications

WebDesign in der Praxis
Blum/Heitz/Täschler
SmartBooks Publishing, 1999

100% Illustrator
Blum/Täschler
SmartBooks Publishing, 2001
Exhibitions
Büro Discount
> www.burodiscount.net/exhibition
Memberships
American Institute of Graphic Arts
> www.aiga.org
Swiss Usability Professionals Association
> www.swissupa.ch


























































