I’m Dikla Stern, a Berlin-based visual artist, senior art director and designer with a strong track record in branding, communication design and education. I lead creative projects across print, web and social media, helping organizations tell their stories with clarity and impact while mentoring teachers, students and professionals through workshops and curricula development. I am passionate about art and culture, regularly organizing and presenting exhibitions, publications and curatorial content. My practice blends art, design and education, enriched by international collaborations and a commitment to accessible, engaging learning experiences for diverse audiences.…

Dikla Stern

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I’m Dikla Stern, a Berlin-based visual artist, senior art director and designer with a strong track record in branding, communication design and education. I lead creative projects across print, web and social media, helping organizations tell their stories with clarity and impact while mentoring teachers, students and professionals through workshops and curricula development. I am passionate about art and culture, regularly organizing and presenting exhibitions, publications and curatorial content. My practice blends art, design and education, enriched by international collaborations and a commitment to accessible, engaging learning experiences for diverse audiences.…

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I’m Dikla Stern, a Berlin-based visual artist, senior art director and designer with a strong track record in branding, communication design and education. I lead creative projects across print, web and social media, helping organizations tell their stories with clarity and impact while mentoring teachers, students and professionals through workshops and curricula development.
I am passionate about art and culture, regularly organizing and presenting exhibitions, publications and curatorial content. My practice blends art, design and education, enriched by international collaborations and a commitment to accessible, engaging learning experiences for diverse audiences.

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Language

German
Fluent
English
Fluent
Hebrew (modern)
Fluent

Work Experience

Freelance Designer, Educator, Public Relations Consultant at Self-employed / Freelance
January 1, 2012 - Present
Pedagogical and Creative Education and public relations for AFBB Academy for Vocational training for Educators and Social Assistants; Design and implementation of teaching content and development of communication strategies; Instructor of Communication and Art Workshops and Continuing Education Courses for Türöffner e. V., Adult Education Center and Youth Art School; Training in self marketing, branding, corporate design, conflict management and creative methods; Conducting workshops and training for teachers, young people and adults, including individual and group coaching; Project management across all stages, from concept through research and creative development; Social media management (Facebook & Instagram).
Concept, Graphic Design and Project Management at Antisemitism Conference
January 1, 2015 - January 1, 2016
Graphic design and implementation of the parliamentary conference from invitations and press kits to roll-ups, presentation walls, conference folders, information materials, site plans, name cards, lanyards and illustrated content.
Graphic and Web Designer at Prudence Group
January 1, 2011 - January 1, 2011
Risk management, information technology, communication strategies. Conception and creation of layouts, logos, brochures and information graphics for various media channels, plus web design and production.
Graphic and Communication at Diringer and Scheidel Construction Group
January 1, 2007 - January 1, 2010
For LanzCarre and Avendi Senior Services GmbH, Brochier Pipeline Construction; press and external communication; advertisements, flyers and information sheets; presentations and exhibition boards designed in line with corporate identity guidelines. Brochures revised, press kits produced and outdoor advertising carried out with banners and public transport displays.
Visual Artist (Art & Cultural Projects) at Self-employed
January 1, 2012 - Present
Organization and implementation of cultural events including fundraising, press and public relations; design, development and presentation of content for print and online media and the creation of newsletters, catalogs and curatorial material. Exhibiting artist with international presentations at the CICA Museum Korea, the Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden, the Biennale Florence and EMoP Berlin, with ongoing work in painting and installation.

Education

Master's degree – Communication Design at University of Applied Sciences for Technology and Design | Mannheim, Germany
August 1, 2005 - April 26, 2007
Communication Design, Media Science, Philosophy
Diploma – Fine Arts & Design at Avni Institute of Fine Arts & Design College – Faculty of Design | Tel Aviv, Israel
September 1, 1999 - August 28, 2002
Art, Concept, Graphic Thinking, Tools, etc.
Master of Arts in Communication Design at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences for Technology and Design, Faculty of Design
January 1, 2005 - January 1, 2007
Diploma in Graphic Design at Avni Institute of Art and Design, Tel Aviv
January 1, 1999 - January 1, 2002

Qualifications

Grants & Scolarships for Art Projects
March 14, 2025 - March 14, 2025
Teaching qualification
January 1, 2023 - November 28, 2025
Erasmus+ Program: English course (C1)
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2020
Business English: C1
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2016
Mediation training
January 1, 2002 - January 1, 2002
Ulpan Etsion
January 1, 1999 - January 1, 1999

Industry Experience

Government, Education, Healthcare, Non-Profit Organization, Real Estate & Construction, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Other
    paper ABOUT EQUUS : Your vision – my mission. Your success – my creative drive.

    OVER 15 YEARS IN THE GAME
    ABOUT EQUUS

    Project Portfolio
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    With over 15 years of experience - passion and creativity at your side:

    As a communication designer (M.A.) in combination as an artist with a background in media science and philosophy, I am passionate about bringing projects and visions to life. For more than 15 years I have been implementing versatile ideas in art, print, online, web design and social media, creating unique worlds alongside the day-to-day business.

    Along the way, I have repeatedly experienced how companies face challenges in the digital and analog world. Often a consultation, a different perspective or view helped to move projects forward, sometimes there was a lack of ideas. There are enough ideas, you just have to see them. And this is exactly where EQUUS comes into play: from the initial inspiration to the finished result, we take care of the concept, design, project management and bring in the right expert when needed.

    GOAL
    Along the way, I have repeatedly experienced how companies face challenges in the digital and analog world. Often a consultation, a different perspective or view helped to move projects forward, sometimes there was a lack of ideas. There are plenty of creativity and ideas available, you just have to see them. And this is exactly where EQUUS comes into play: from the initial inspiration to the finished result, we take care of the concept, design, project management and bring in the right expert when needed.

    EQUUS is implementation and project management, suitable for people (companies) who want to outsource their own individual projects, require ideas internally, on site in Berlin or remotely.

    Good networking and quick recourse to the network of specialists enables rapid implementation of the envisaged project. The aim is to offer the respective project a customized solution.

    SERVICES

    PRINT
    • Logo-Design & Redesign
    • Branding, Visual Design, • Corporate Design
    • External and internal communication
    • Purchasing external services & - Production coordination
    • Creation of content for social media
    • Research, editing of image material
    • Creative thinking, art design, illustration

    ONLINE + DIGITAL
    • Strategy & competitive analysis
    • Web design
    • Creation of white papers, presentations PPP
    • Erstellung von Inhalten (Grafik & Text)

    SOCIAL MEDIA + PR + KI
    • Competitive analysis
    • Consulting & development of social media strategies
    • Social media marketing development
    • Design for digital channels
    • Content creation for social media and texts, graphics, press releases
    • Use of artificial intelligence (AI) for content optimization

    Project Portfolio
    https://www.twine.net/signin

    paper WEB DESIGN CONSULTING & PRINT: Love and Will - Psychosynthesis

    Project Portfolio:
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    Website: https://www.twine.net/signin

    uring the creation of the website the need of „Love and Will“ was in the process support, the advice and the view of the „outsider" position.
    EQUUS supported the concept, the visual design as well as the text content, corrected until the overall appearance of the site was coherent.

    Furthermore, the external communication took the form of print media as well as social media content, and a digital newsletter, which reflects the corporate design of the site.

    CLIENT: Liebe und Wille - Psychosynthesis
    INDUSTRY: Life, Personality
    CATEGORY: Consulting / Print
    TIME FRAME: 2022

    Project Portfolio:
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    Website: https://www.twine.net/signin

    paper DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION: Pitch Deutsche Arthrose-Hilfe e. V.

    Project Portfolio:
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    The Deutsche Arthrose-Hilfe e. V. - Hilfe für gelenkkranke Menschen", whose goal is to assist and help people affected by osteoarthritis, created digital designs on request, which were to find their use in a medical journal. Line drawings were requested. The diagrams represent a certain fact, illustrate and simplify it.

    CLIENT: Deutsche Arthrose-Hilfe e. V. - Help for people suffering from arthritis
    INDUSTRY: Healthcare system
    CATEGORY: Pitch / Illustration
    TIME FRAME: 2016

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    paper BOOK DESIGN & PRINT MATERIALS FOR EXHIBITION: BRAVE NEW WORLD in Germany

    Project Portfolio:
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    Brave new world" is written over a show by Berlin artist Dikla Stern in the Hohenstaufensaal in Annweiler. The large-format paintings and smaller photographs already make it clear at first glance that the term “beautiful” can be very broad in its definition. … (Die Rheinpfalz, 2017)

    For the exhibition, the graphic concept creation for all print and online media has been taken over by me. In addition to the implementation of the exhibition catalog, the communication in the form of posters, exhibition information and postcards, newsletters and social media content. With the team on site, the exhibition conception took place in the 400m2 large premises.

    CLIENT: Political Satirical Pop Art - Contemporary Art
    INDUSTRY: Art & Culture
    CATEGORY: Management / Concept / Design / Web design / Programming
    TIME FRAME: 2017

    The exhibition was supported by: Adrienne and Otmar Hornbach Foundation, Dieter Kissel Foundation, City of Annweiler am Trifels, Hohenstaufensaal, Sparkasse Südliche Weinstraße, VR Bank Südliche Weinstraße, Stadtwerke Annweiler am Trifels, Trifelsgas, etc.

    Project Portfolio:
    https://www.twine.net/signin

    paper CORPORATE DESIGN /BRANDING for LanzCarré: Press Materials, Exhibition Boards, Outdoor Advertising,

    Project Portfolio:
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    LANZCARRÉ & AVENDI - SENIOR SERVICE LIVING AND CARE

    The LanzCarré is a sophisticated designed overall complex with Avendi senior citizens’ service care facility, senior citizens’ service condominiums as well as comfort condominiums, hotel, and retail space for the upscale market in Mannheim Lindenhof, which was realized by Diringer & Scheidel Bauunternehmungsgruppe on the John Deere site in Mannheim in 2008-2010.

    For the press conference as well as for the external communication, classic advertisements, flyers, and information sheets were designed, brochures were prepared, exhibition boards were created as well as press kits with information material. The development of logos, weekly newspaper advertisements and construction signs, flags and outdoor banners were used on construction sites. Advertising on public carriers, such as VRN Rhein-Neckar and Avendi Senioren-Service-Dienstleitungen.

    CLIENT: Diringer & Scheidel - Construction company group GmbH
    INDUSTRY: Construction industry
    CATEGORY: Corporate Design / Logo Design / Print / Digital Illustration
    TIME FRAME: 2008, 2009, 2010

    Project Portfolio:
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    paper DESIGN & MANAGEMENT FOR THE GLOBAL PARLIAMENTARY EVENT: - The German Bundestag & ICCA London

    Project Portfolio:
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    For the 3rd International Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism (ICCA), March 13-15, 2016, with participation of 120 international parliamentarians from 33 countries and over 500 participants, I was tasked with art direction.

    This included creating the design for the conference materials and implementing the graphic realization of the print media as well as online media, as well as handling media purchasing, consulting, monitoring, and handling production with other service providers:

    Cover letters, invitations, giveaways as well as conference folders with various contents, welcome letters, business cards, contact details, lists, site plans, program schedules, information material, press kits, notepads, online presentations, leporello, press wall, etc.

    The special feature of this conference was that it linked six institutions: the Berlin Senate Chancellery, the Federal Foreign Office. The Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, and the German Bundestag as co-organizers; also the Federal Chancellery and the British House of Commons.

    CLIENT: ICCA, The German Bundestag Foreign Office

    INDUSTRY: Government

    CATEGORY: Management Graphics / Concept / Design / Print / Digital Illustration / Production / Consulting

    TIME FRAME
    08/2015 - 03/2016

    Project Portfolio Impressions:
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    paper LOGO DESIGNS: Development of logos and redesign for various target groups and industries.

    Project Portfolio:
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    The logo is the most important feature for any external communication, in the design the first implementation, on which everything else is built. Here we distinguish between monogram logos, letter mark logos, word marks, figurative marks, abstract, combined, illustrated logos or emblems. Below are some examples of logo designs and logo redesigns, each developed to the need and thus stand today as a brand.

    CLIENTS
    Kuba Reisen GmbH – Reisebüro, Duke Pictures – Artist Development, Prudence Group – Security Risk Management, Warteschleife – Begleitung von Menschen in Ausnahmesituationen, Neurosurgery –Minimal Spine & Hand, Jüdisches Politisches Lehrhaus, Jüdische Studien Paderborn, HRComTec GmbH, Diringer & Scheidel Unternehmensgruppe GmbH, Fabian Hensel Photography, Mathias Hüther – Historische Forschung und Dokumentation

    INDUSTRY: Security, Tourism, Culture, Health care system, IT, Research, Construction
    CATEGORY: Logo Design
    TIME FRAME: 2010-2024

    paper LOGO DESIGN & BUSINESS EQUIPMENT: Aeh – Logopädie & Stimmbildung, Liviya Flamme

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    REALIZATION
    Liviya Flamme is a speech therapist, voice and speech coach, local coach and songwriter. For the opening of her practice, which is located in the O-Quadraten in Mannheim, a logo was created. After the development of the corporate design, this has been incorporated into the internal, as well as external communication.

    For the social media channels, the sub-logo “voice to go” characterizes the appearance, which originates from the logo. The external website implemented the corporate design in such a way that there is a uniform appearance

    CLIENT: AEH Liviya Flamme
    INDUSTRY: Healthcare system
    CATEGORY: Concept / Corporate Design / Logo Design / Print / Beratung
    TIME FRAME: 11/2022 - 12/2022

    Project Portfolio:
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    paper WEB DESIGN: Neurosurgery – Minimal Spine & Hand, Dr. med. Ulrich Zils

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    Website: https://www.twine.net/signin

    Ulrich Zils, MD, is a specialist in conservative, surgical and minimally invasive spine therapy and hand surgery. The neurosurgical practice wanted a further development of the logo, business card as well as a new website presence. The website, built on WordPress, is individually developed and programmed to meet the needs of the practice. In addition to the classic information, videos are implemented, a booking system and a self-maintaining blog page.

    CLIENT
    Neurosurgery – Minimal Spine & Hand, Dr. med. Ulrich Zils

    INDUSTRY
    Healthcare system

    CATEGORY: Management / Concept / Design / Logo redesign / Web design / Programming
    TIME FRAME 2021