F1RSTDESIGN.COM

Our Cologne communication design office F1RSTDESIGN has been founded in 1999 by Christopher Ledwig. Lucid in its concepts without being ordinary – F1RSTDESIGN's design philosophy answers the needs of various fields ranging from local, national as well as international clients. F1RSTDESIGN has grown into a team of communication and industrial designers and architects performing cross-disciplinary based on international experience. We cover the traditional skills of communication design in 2D [corporate design, graphics, interface design, editorial design] and 3D [wayfinding systems, fair trade, shop design, packaging]. Our inter-disciplinary team is characterized by cross-media-solutions following an analytical design approach.

We are an interdisciplinary team of communication-, industrial designers and architects with an international background and work in all fields of communication design – from corporate design and -redesign to books and wayfinding/signage systems in the field of 2D and exhibition, interior and package design in the field of 3D.

CEO Dipl. Des. Christopher Ledwig has been lecturer for corporate design at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Wuppertal. At the moment he teaches typography and crossmedia at the technical college in Trier – department intermedia design.

AWARDS
- European Design Award 2011 [Bronze] http://www.europeandesign.org/#/ed-awards/winners/various/30-signs-displ...
- 2. Prize Invited competition for the identification of Roman roads
- 1. Prize Zollverein Park Unesco world heritage site [1. Prize im Europe-wide Competition]
- Graphic Design Award of Honor SEGD.org Society for Environmental [9 of 409]
- Federation of German Graphic Designers Logo competition
- 1. Prize Microsoft 18/1 Poster Competition
- Special-prize Rover Group Calendar competition
- Sponk - Designprize Cologne, for the category Corporate Design

PUBLICATIONS
- form Magazine, 05.2011
- Letterhead 2, ZEIXS unique books Publishers
- Website Design 3, ZEIXS unique books Publishers
- Minimal Graphics, Harper Collins Publishers
- Signaletik, DOM Publishers
- Follow Me! – Wayfinding & Signage System, dopress books
- CO & CO Corporate Design Magazin, 4.2010
- Signs, Symbols,Pictos, Unique books Publishers
- Package & Label Design, ZEIXS unique books Publishers
- Landscape Architecture Europe, LAE Publishers
- Logo 2, ZEIXS unique books Publishers
- New Food Shop Graphics, PIE Books
- This way please, Page One Publishing
- Walk This Way, Collins Design
- Packaging Design, Mao Mao Publications
- Creative Card Design, PIE Books
- CO & CO Corporate Design Magazin, 2.2008
- segdDESIGN Magazine No. 21 08_2008
- 31/8 Magazin 06.2008
- beef magazin 03.2007
- CO & CO Corporate Design Magazin, 3.2006
- roger Magazin 03.2005
- CO & CO Corporate Design Magazin, 2.2004
- CO & CO Corporate Design Magazin, 1.2004
- Index Logo, with publisher, 4 Mentions
- Pictogram and Icon Graphics, PIE Books
- ...

LECTURES
-"Wayfinding Systems", University of Wuppertal department Architecture
- Forum Typografie - Literate culture in the Ruhr
- "Publish Architecture", University of Wuppertal department Architecture
- Comment on Observatorium: "observations on the present state", Stroom foundation Den Haag stroom.nl
- "Local calls" University of Wuppertal
- Annual Conference SEGD Society of Environmental Graphic Design, Austin Texas USA
- Rheinform Architects as a series of Lectures, Cologne

EXPOSITIONS
- "Made in Germany" 2009 School of Architecture & Design in Thailand