Melville Brand Design

11/05/2026

LIVING SYSTEMS — Kettnaker Journal 2026
Rooms that move with life.

The family-run brand Kettnaker has become a dear client over the years to us: for the third consecutive time, we have developed and designed the Journal for Kettnaker — premium furniture manufacturer from Dürmentingen in the Swabian Alps. They are crafting tailor-made sideboards, cupboards, wardrobes and beds of the most durable quality since 1870.

The signature of this edition is the new colour story. We translated the season’s palette into mood boards that begin on the outer cover and migrate, page by page, into the heart of the book in a quiet gradient that carries Kettnaker’s emotional palette across the entire journal and blurs the line between surface and content. Precision in the detail. Calm in the proportion. A journal as an invitation to discover.

Editorial Design / Catalogue Design
Client: Kettnaker
CD at Kettnaker: Karin Brobeil

27/03/2025

For the typenerds out there and all those who want to see a beutiful piece of editorial design and crazy print techniques...Published by Slanted Publishers, designed by Lars Harmsen togehter with Threedotstype and Pola Małaczewska. Printed on Reflex GmbH & Co.KG.

15/03/2024

Soft-launch (we need to make a few tiny adjustments) of the new Sugarscroll website, showcasing work of students from Fh Dortmund Design Fachbereich Design der Fachhochschule Dortmund. Thanks to Johannes König for the amazing design! https://sugarscroll.de

11/03/2024

FH Dortmund / Fachbereich Design der Fachhochschule Dortmund just published a review of the 100 Poster Battle exhibition I organised at Die Neue Sammlung a few months ago. Thanks to Tilman Abegg for this fantastic review.

https://www.fh-dortmund.de/story/design-zehn-beispiele-fuer-richtig-gute-poster.php

16/02/2024

Thanks to bayern design GmbH for inviting me to a lecture at Neues Museum - Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design Nürnberg and talking about TYPOGRAPHY IN SPACE.
https://bayern-design.de/beitrag/genau-mein-type/

27/10/2022

Nice article about the latest book "Great Pubs" by Horst Friedrichs, Stuart Husband and Melville Brand Design. Published by Prestel Verlag

Lust auf ein Ale und Geselligkeit? Dann sollten Sie einen britischen Pub aufsuchen. Dieser Bildband zeigt feine Lokale, viktorianische Stuben und aufpolierte Kaschemmen.

30/12/2021

Thank you Mindsparkle Mag

Top 10: Business Cards. This week's Top 10 Series features the most beautiful coffee packaging designs with many inspirational styles carefully curated by Mindsparkle Mag.

08/12/2021

Join us! — Grafik Design Praktikum — März bis August, Bewerbungen gerne ab jetzt /// https://melvilledesign.de/jobs/

07/12/2021

Oktoberfest, published by Slanted Publishers is now also available at Hugendubel Buchhandlungen :)

05/11/2021

A new publication full of COLOURS by Melville CD Lars Harmsen for Slanted Publishers.