Olaf Stein

Johannes Erler was born in 1965 in Hamburg. While studying graphic design in Kiel, he worked with Lo Breier in Hamburg and on joint projects with Neville Brody. In 1992 he graduated as communication designer and became a trainee at MetaDesign where he met Olaf Stein. In 1993, they founded their studio Factor Design in Hamburg. In 2011, Johannes Erler left Factor Design and founded Bureau Johannes Erler.

Henning Skibbe studied communication design at the University of Applied Science in Potsdam and spent one semester at RMIT University in Melbourne. He is specially interested in typography, type and corporate design and illustration. He likes graffiti. Since 2011, he works at Bureau Johannes Erler.