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

> www.saiten.ch

Women’s Health Website

Total redesign of Rodale's Women's Health magazine website.

Project: Web Design
Client: Rodale, New York

> www.womenshealthmag.com

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

> www.crosstownjam.ch

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

> www.audiorelation.com

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

A

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

> Interactive



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

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