Illustrator and animator. Hairy.

I’m a multidisciplinary designer with 7+ years experience in in-house and freelance design environment. My practice focuses on products, design research and brand identities – mainly at the intersection of culture and technology. Currently, I’m based in Berlin and working as Designer and Managing Director at Minge+Schmidt.

People-pleasing is boring, passive and inauthentic. Carla creates influential and provocative brand experiences by challenging people to make bold and unconventional statements that acknowledge current social tension, cultivating meaningful connections between progressive brands and socially conscious audiences with high expectations. Working as an independent freelance designer and art director, Carla works predominantly with beauty, fashion, food and lifestyle brands from all around the globe. With an extensive creative network, Carla forms specialist teams that cater to the individual needs of her clients, resulting in strong collaborations and more impactful results. From conception to outcome, Carla uses finely-tuned processes in conceptual design and strategic thinking to execute on aesthetically striking visual identity systems, boutique packaging and thought-provoking advertising.

She has a bachelor’s degree in urban planning and a master’s degree in public art. She has opened her own lecture series named Seeking Unseen at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. She is the co-founder of Paleworks, a studio & brand focusing on the variety of producing—in the areas of art, architecture, and design. She established urbanbacklog, a blog based on visual impressions about the cities. Her profession ranges from writing to styling, product design to architectural photography.

Terhedebrügge is a Berlin based design studio founded by graphic designer Antonia Terhedebrügge and furniture designer Silvia Terhedebrügge. With their work they connect two and three dimensional layers and combining it with a quite clear, conceptual and graphical arise. They do furniture projects as well as graphic design projects - in cooperation with manufactures, cultural institutions, brands, industry, designers and friends.