Samuel Lewek
Ludwigsburg, Germany
Hello! I’m a research-driven art director and motion designer with a focus on typography & abstract shapes. I like to dig deep in the mud to find a different angle on a problem.
Get in touch if you have a project in mind, a great font to share or if you’re interested in the topics of body & movement!
- Freelance Motion Designer and Art Director since 2021.
- Previously Motion Designer at Studio Dumbar.
- Member of the FMX conference program board.
- Postgraduate in Motion Design, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
- Communication Design graduate, Hochschule Wismar.
Visual and kinetic brand systems – 2D and 3D motion graphics – Custom lettering – Concept and style development – Art direction – Visual research – Editorial design – Generative design – Streamlining workflows – Exploring new tools
I worked with (selection): Musikinformationszentrum (miz), Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, FMX Conference, Studio Dumbar for Apple Music, Studio Dumbar for Google/YouTube, Studio Dumbar for LVMH, Studio Dumbar for Meta, Studio Dumbar for OpenAI, Studio Dumbar for Theater Rotterdam, Panama for bwegt, Panama for Mercedes, Docuvista for ZDF, M.A.R.K.13.
- Dancing in Norms (DIN) – 2024 – 2:30 min. – Animated short
- Chronos – 2023 – 1:20 min. – Experimental short
- Dix meets Bix – 2022 – 60:00 min. – Audiovisual performance
- Touched – 2022 – 1:50 min. – Experimental short
- Im Trüben – 2020 – 144 pp. – Catalog of metaphors
- Reanimation – 2019 – 1:10 min. – Animated short
- Imbalance – 2018 – 1:30 min. – Animated short
- Winner of The Motion Awards 2024 – DIN / Student>Open Format
- Nominated for The Motion Awards 2024 – DIN / Experimental
- Gold at ADC Talent Award 2024 – DIN / Abschl.-Arb>Motion Design
- Silver at ADC Talent Award 2024 – DIN / Abschl.-Arb>Experiment
- Silver at ADC Europe Student Awards 2024 – DIN / Film Craft
- Four Stars at BIAFF 2025 – Imbalance
- Nominated for Best 60-Second Film at BIAFF 2025 – Imbalance
- Nominated for Best Animation at BIAFF 2025 – Imbalance
- Student merit at Young Ones ADC 2024 – DIN / Film Craft
- Special mention at AED Neuland 2021 – Im Trüben
- Special mention at DIA-Preis 2019 – Reanimation
- Talk at FMX 2025 conference (DE) – May 2025
- Talk at ADC Creative Club Stuttgart 2023 (DE) – Nov 2023
- Lecture at Kapuziner Kreativzentrum (DE) – Aug 2022
- Talk at DIA Hochschule Wismar 2021 (DE) – Jun 2021
- Screening at BIAFF 2025 (UK) – Imbalance – Apr 2025
- Screening at Demo Festival 2025 (NL) – Dix meets Bix – Jan 2025
- Screening at ITFS (DE) – DIN / Hochschulpräsentation – Apr 2024
- Screening at UNiCA 2024 (PL) – Imbalance – Mar 2024
- Screening at 30. Deutscher Minutenwettbewerb (DE) – Imbalance – Apr 2023
- Performance at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (DE) – Dix meets Bix – Nov 2022
- Exhibition “DIA 2022” at Galerie hinter dem Rathaus (DE) – Im Trüben – 2022
- Exhibition “Kunst gegen den Stillstand” at Peter-Weiss-Haus (DE) – Im Trüben – Sep 2020
- Screening at Filmfest Dresden 2017 (DE) – Wahn & Holf / Kids special – Apr 2017
- Article “FMX Drops 2025 Conference Trailer“ at AWN – Nov 2024
- Dancing in Norms got selected as FMX 2025 conference trailer – Nov 2024
- FMX 2025 Trailer on YouTube – Nov 2024
- Featured at Fonts In Use – Sonnentraum – Oct 2023
- Article “Live-Jazz und animierte Kunst” at re.flect – Dix meets Bix – Nov 2022
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Lettering for “Homebound Vol.1” by Cihan Tamti – Nov 2020
- Featured at Call for Creatives – Im Trüben – 2020
- Featured at Design Made in Germany – Im Trüben – 2020