Baumann & Baumann

baumann + baumann is the Schwäbisch Gmünd studio that Barbara Baumann (b. 1951) and Gerd Baumann (b. 1950) opened in 1978, a year after completing their diplomas at the Hochschule für Gestaltung. The ampersand in the name is the programme: it links two designers with their partners, co-workers and tasks, and carries projects from conception through to realisation.

The team develops corporate design and communication systems for companies, institutions and municipalities, and designs exhibitions, trade fairs, orientation systems, books, posters and digital applications. Commissioned work includes the German Bundestag in Bonn, the Great Court of the British Museum in London, and identities for Daimler, Siemens, WMF, bulthaup and Messe München. Barbara and Gerd Baumann have taught as guest professors in Bremen, Berlin-Weissensee, Bolzano, Kyoto and Tokyo.