• Graphic Design & Branding

    I am Daniela Bak, an independent Graphic Designer and author. I live in Paris and work with clients worldwide, in English and French.

    After graduating with a Master's degree from the Panninghen School of Design in Paris, I worked for Television Channels, designing and directing animated graphics and visual identites. Later I specialized in Newspaper and Magazine Design, creating publications, or redesigning existing ones. I was also the Art Director of J'économise, a French monthly publication. Today I create global Visual Brand Identites for companies and entrepreneurs.

    I taught the course Visual Communication at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris for 8 years, and wrote a book based on my course. The book "Visual Communication & Graphic Design" was published in French by Editions Eyrolles, and it can be ordered here and here.

  • Porfolio

    Visual Communication Consultant, Graphic Designer and Art Director

  • Testimonials

     

     

    " Our communications agency was searching for a "rare gem": a hugely creative freelance art director who would also be a good listener - two essential attributes for our work in the public sector. And then we found her!


    Daniela is highly meticulous and she never takes the easy way out: the exploratory phase is always rich and innovative, the proposed artwork is carefully thought out and reasoned, and the projects are finalized within the rules of the art.

    With satisfied clients, competitions won, and a very likable working partner, who could ask for more? "

     

    Marc Dubreuil

    IDCommunes, Associate director

     

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    " Daniela is a true, smart, sharp, clever artist, experienced in many media: I have relied upon her creativity many times for picture book illustration, computer-generated animation, branding and packaging design.

    Ms. Bak is one of my top choices worldwide for a wide range of effective, precise, unique and fun challenges.

    She always "delivers" as they say, and is a pleasure to work with. "

     

    Ari Frankel

    Child Matters, President

     

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    " Daniela has designed three websites (and related material, e.g. logos, ads) for me. I receive many compliments on the beauty of the designs, often from artists/designers and others professionals (e.g. magazine advertising managers and editors).

    Daniela is a true artist who is extremely creative without ever losing sight of practical considerations. She is visually imaginative and daring, taking you to places that you wouldn't have considered before and getting you to fall in love with them. She has a deep understanding and feel for colour, form and balance.

    She is always original, never clichéd. She takes visual conventions and revitalises them so that your concept stands out from the rest of the field yet remains identifiable. Her reinvention of the rainbow motif, a very widely used LGBT symbol, deeply impressed my then editor at Diva magazine for being original and imaginative, yet easily recognizable. "

     

    Ronete Cohen

    Psycologist and writer

     

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  • Clients

    Hachette - Bayard - Belin - NouvelObs - Orange - Atlas - J'ai Lu - M6 - TF1 - Arte - Strategies - Stif - ParuVendu - Epiceum - Rampazzo - PurProjet - Dumas - La Villette - Clichy-sous-Bois - Michelin - Afca - Aract - Adcf - Ocde - Total - Adife - Mango - Europe1 - Sony Music - Essilor - Polaroïd - Time-Life - Challanges - SudOuest - J'économise - France2 - Canal+ - TVcampus - Vocable - Wasia Prod. - Big Mama - Milgrom Market Research - France Television - Rangoli - Wipardi - Thélaine - Museum of Natural Science - Channel 2 - Inedi - Railenium - APT - Edim - and more …

  • Credo

     

     

    "Like all forms of design, visual design is about problem solving, not about personal preference or unsupported opinion."

    Bob Baxley
     

    "Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple."

    Albert Einstein

     

    "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

    Steve Jobs

     

    "Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable."

    Douglas Martin

     

    "The details are not the details. They make the design."

    Charles Eames

     

    "You know you have achieved perfection, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away."

    Antoine de Saint-Exupery

     

    "If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good I am satisfied."

    Alfred Nobel

     

    "The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution."

    Bertrand Russell

     

    "No shortcuts today; I’m in a hurry."

    Swiss saying

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