Lucas Hesse is a Hamburg-based graphic designer, motion designer & web developer with a focus on typography.. During his studies in Mainz, he spent a semester abroad in Seoul, joined a course at the HfG in Offenbach under the direction of Eike König and gained experience trough an internship at Studio Dumbar in Rotterdam. This made him “curious about how different personalities and people from different cultures approach design.” It taught the designer how some influences can indirectly effect one another. “My work is built very systematically, I break down the content into its simplest form and put it in a graphic scheme that’s as straightforward as possible.” This is seen in the designer’s Swiss-inspired work that focuses on grid-based simplicity which offers the viewer an obtainable clarity. Lucas’ “reduced graphic” aesthetic also translates through a mainly monochrome colour scheme, amplified by designs that are based on the “graphic environment” such as geometric shapes or contours.