GRAPHIC DESIGN
I am Mara Weyel, a passionate graphic designer with a heart for typography, colour and visual storytelling. In every project, I strive to do more than simply make things look good. I want to find the idea behind the project and turn it into a visual language that feels clear, distinctive and genuinely right for you.
I work across visual identities, websites, editorial design and printed matter. I am interested in how typography, colour, images, shapes and composition come together to create a coherent visual language — and how small decisions can change the way something is perceived.
My approach is conceptual and precise, but never purely functional. I like clear structures, good typography and strong ideas, but I also believe that design should have some character and room for unexpected things.
I have been working independently since 2022. Before that, I spent 15 years as Art Director at KW Neun Grafikagentur in Augsburg, working on a wide range of design projects and developing a broad experience in visual communication.
Since 2025, I have also been teaching Visual Communication at Hochschule Augsburg. Teaching has become another way of thinking about design: looking closely at why something works, questioning familiar solutions and putting visual decisions into words.
Here you can find excerpts from my graphic design portfolio. Click click.
Mara Weyel
Grafikdesign &
Bildende Kunst
ART
I am Mara Weyel, an artist working across painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. My work starts with the body — as something physical, personal and political. I am interested in how our bodies carry experiences, memories, identities and social expectations, and what happens when we start to question or rearrange them.
I like to take things apart, play with them, distort them and put them back together differently. Fragmentation, repetition, transformation and repair are recurring elements in my work. Sometimes this can be raw, sometimes playful, sometimes a little strange. For me, making art is also a way of asking: Who am I allowed to be? Who decides what a body should look like? And what happens when I make my own rules?
More recently, my work has moved from the body as an image towards the body as a system of signs. I am researching historical writing systems, symbols and visual codes and translating gestures, postures and movements into my own visual language. My ongoing body alphabet is an attempt to develop a new alphabet — one that does not start with sounds or letters, but with the human body.
My background in graphic design naturally finds its way into my art. I have always been fascinated by typography, colour, grids, symbols and the way visual systems shape how we see and understand the world. In my artistic practice, I take these structures apart again and see what happens when they become more physical, ambiguous and unruly.
Here you can find excerpts from my artistic work, from paintings and drawings to sculptures and installations. Have a look around, click clack.
