Bus Group

bus.group is a creative service for buoyant immersion. We develop contemporary visual content in close partnership with clients across the corporate and cultural stage. Consider us the stunt doubles of image making, render whisperers of CGI and trip sitters of creative direction. We’ll be your leading lady, background extra, design director and production runner.

Address

bus.group
Ritterstraße 2
10969 Berlin

Instagram

@bus.group

bus.group

Manuel Birnbacher (founder), Daniel Schnitterbaum (founder), Crystal Campbell, Tine Edle von Istler, Felix Feldmann, Hermione Flynn, Jack Lemonidis, Anaís Prieto León, Fabi Lou Sax, Peter Schings

Selected Clients

Art Basel, Away, Babor, Balenciaga, Cartier, Dell, Ferragamo, Instagram, Maison Margiela, Mercedes Maybach, MCM, Nike, Porsche, Rimowa, Renault, Sotheby's, Visa, Woolmark

Work with us

We are looking to expand our team via project-based freelance roles and dedicated full-time positions. Please send your application (portfolio, cover letter and resume) to jobs@bus.group with the respective role included as subject header. Please note, we can’t reply to every application. Thanks for your understanding. Current opportunities can be found below. We are looking forward to hearing from you.

  • Senior CG Artist

    We have an opening for a full-time senior role. Long-term experience in Cinema 4D, Houdini and Redshift is required. Skills in Marvelous and Unreal are a plus.

Credits

Code

Nikolai Sivertsen

Copy

Ollie George

Typeface

Diatype (Dinamo)

Copyright

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Do you have a pen I can borrow?

Event identity for an ongoing lecture series on the cultural intersections of architectural praxis.

Some Notes is a nomadic event that engages with discussion on the working knowledge transfer between Germany and Japan. bus.group continue to provide the graphic design for each edition, uniting the visual language of its two regions in a typographic format.

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If we’re together, then who is alone?

Visual identity and webshop design for a clubwear clothing label.

TWDA (Together We Dance Alone) catches the ‘madness and sadness of dancing’ within a collection of printed shirts. bus.group designed a custom logotype to be used across the clothing label’s presence and product.

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Spatial cues for facial hues

Visual identity and supporting design materials for hair and make-up artist Philipp Verheyen.

bus.group developed a bold, face-less identity for Germany’s most sought-after hair and makeup artist. The design’s red-white colour scheme is supported by kinetic logotype, put to work within a dynamic website.

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Those that do not bruise

Graphic design for a photographic artist book.

Fruit of the Womb welds together a series of ceramic work by the German-Iranian artist Nigin Beck. The book’s photography sets the delicate objects — fruits of Beck’s youth and family — amongst their raw counterparts in a Berlin market scene. The series was collated into a 44-page book and presented inside an embossed dust jacket.

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Wrap up your bruk

CGI and creative direction for a music label’s inaugural release.

"BRUK is a new platform for fresh variations on the soundsystem ethic, developed as an artist-focused endeavour and geared towards producers with range, depth and ingenuity in their sound." Beside the chopping first statement from Josh Thompson's FFT alias, bus.group produced abstracted imagery to cover the sleeve in its own sheathed visual.

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Which role will you play?

Graphic design and 2D animation for an anti-racist online campaign by MTV Germany.

Meine Rolle platforms a crucial discussion on the casting of BIPoC in German TV and media. Delivered direct from the voices of several actors, musicians and online personalities, the effects of typecasting are voiced to and mobilised for the audiences of MTV.

bus.group worked closely with the network and its community of talent – photographed by Iga Drobisz – to produce a frank graphic delivery of the words and experiences described.