Connie Koch Email & Phone Number

I am a founder, partner and creative director at ahoy. Our goal is to deliver exceptional design with just that extra amount of playfulness, color and irritation that makes the result more striking, contemporary and memorable. We believe in the great power of design across all media. The first impression counts, and design creates an impression in under a second. Will it impress? Will it look as great as your vision and mission?Our answer: it can, and it must. Our style merges a disciplined European design sensibility with a fresh American attitude, always putting the message first. In my view, meaningful content is the key criteria to successful design: a viable purpose and mission that makes our planet a more sustainable, more equitable and creative place. But meaningful, excellent design elevates your cause to be seen, memorized, and acted upon.We're passionate experts in design, making sure you will love the 'facelift' we create for your brand. We strive to (re)position visual identities with authenticity, originality, conceptual power and contemporary style that stands the test of time. We further help ensure consistency and playfulness across all outputs, so your project is not only recognizable across all channels, but also alive. Our clients are wonderful but very busy people. They often dread a brand audit or refresh, fearing a time- and money-consuming process with vague or hard-to-implement results. We help turn this fear into fun! As a small agency, we're hands-on and common-sense, and focus on what really matters to you with proactive guidance and cost- and time-efficient solutions. We listen well and tailor our services directly to your needs and budgets for maximum impact. You can implement our templates with your own team, or entrust us to create any outputs you may need – from visual identities and visual brand guidelines to websites, campaigns, social media templates, publications, videos, signage, invitations and other print outputs.In my role as partner and creative director, I personally oversee all and create some of the creative work executed at ahoy, and over the years I was fortunate to develop decade-long relationships with most of ahoy’s clients including Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Global Fund, several agencies of the United Nations, the Vilcek Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the AICP Show and Next Awards, New York University and NY Public Radio. Our efforts bear fruits: our work has been widely published and won numerous international awards. Let's add your project to the recognition it deserves.

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  Founder, Partner And Creative Director

  Ahoy Studios

  Jun 2000 - Present - New York / Zurich / Berlin

  AHOY is an internationally operating, women-owned 'boutique' branding and design agency, hatched in New York City in 2000. Today, ahoy operates between the USA, Germany and Switzerland under the creative direction of Connie Koch, Aline Ozkan and Denise Sommer: friends, founders and partners with a mutually rewarding passion for design in any form of media.Our mojo is communication to shake up, inspire and empower minds, hearts, and lives. We specialize in visual and verbal communication with a pleasant wake up call for everyone and everything seeking to make our world a more caring, creative and progressive place, leaving no one behind. A popular mission these days... ahoy's been at it for twenty years!Environmental protection, social justice, peace and global health, art and design, cultural expression and exchange, education, women’s rights, racism awareness, aid for developing countries and respect toward immigrants and minorities are the issues we support through our work.Twenty years in practice, ahoy has reached adulthood. With it comes an international reputation for developing award-winning design concepts for clients with an exceptionally high standard of design sophistication.From grassroots local NYC NGOs like social justice agents BronXchange and Northstar Fund to United Nations agencies like the United Nations Development Group, the World Health Organization and the World Bank Group; from government agencies of Germany and Switzerland to U.S. foundations like Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Rockefeller Foundation to cultural institutions like the edgy Austrian Cultural Forum and the immigrant-honoring Vilcek Foundation; from leading universities like NYU and Drexel University to art fairs and public players PULSE Contemporary Art Fair and Public Art Fund, and from design-driven trade shows like Athens Fashion and Intertextile Shanghai to the leading U.S. advertising award show, the AICP Show and Next Awards.Find out more at ahoystudios.com.

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  The Berlin University Of The Arts

  Verbal And Visual Communication