Lumír Španihel

Lumír Španihel

Designer & Art Director in Amsterdam, he/him

About

Lumír is a designer & art director based in Amsterdam, NL working on a range of projects within editorial design, digital design, storytelling and image-making for media, culture & tech.

Available for new exciting projects, small and big.

Projects

2024

Lifeworld is a multifarious artwork created by artist Olafur Eliasson, commissioned by CIRCA and WeTransfer.

Made for public spaces in Berlin, London, Seoul, New York and WeTransfer.com

2024

Wild Memory Radio is an online radio project bringing together human memory and machine imagination, combining spoken contributions from a global roster of 30 influential creators, each of whom recalls a place that is special to them.

2024

Visual Identity for New Rules, a series from WePresent interrogating how to thrive as an artist in unstable creative industries that are changing beyond all recognition, packaged into comprehensive free guide book and event series.

Work Experience

2024 — Now
Amsterdam

Founded in 2009 as the simplest way to send big files around the world, WeTransfer has since grown into an ecosystem of creative productivity tools and cultural organization, supporting the global community of creatives who rely on its tools every single day.

Design + Art Direction for WeTransfer's Creative Studio & editorial platform WePresent. Past collaborations on digital editorial projects and campaigns with major global cultural institutions and artists, branded content, events and publications.

2020 — 2024
2018 — 2019
The Hague

Verve (by Vruchtvlees) is Dutch award-winning agency translating the Dutch design tradition into the digital world, and European Agency of the Year 2018-2019 awarded by European Design Awards.

Design for clients like Miro, Spaces, Dutch Design Week, Ancienne Belgique, Museumnacht, Theater Rotterdam or Voordekunst, the results are innovative, creative and unique brand identities, campaigns & websites, bridging the culture & tech together.

2016 — 2018
Copenhagen

GN brings people closer through leading intelligent hearing, audio, video, and gaming solutions.

Design for internal clients of Jabra and ReSound brands. Creative on integrated campaigns, content management, internal communications and external event support.

2016 — 2017
Copenhagen

Native North's menswear line stems from the synergy between timeless Scandinavian design and meticulous attention to unique and high quality fabric choices.

Creative for brand's visual content, integrated campaigns, e-commerce and retail activations.

2015 — 2015
Berlin

DMY Berlin was an annual contemporary design festival where both aspiring and established designers present new products, prototypes and design concepts, developing a visionary nucleus of leading creative thinkers from the Berlin design scene and Central/Eastern European designers.

Creative for visual and editorial content, communication and event production support.

Volunteering

2024 — Now
London / Amsterdam

Since 2014, Creative mentor Network has been working to shape inclusive leaders, elevate emerging talent, and foster systemic change in the UK creative industries. The programme supports young talent from lower socioeconomic backgrounds to help develop their creative careers through mentoring, education, and opportunities.

2023 — 2023
Amsterdam

Documentary capturing queerness in South Africa’s townships during the first pride event in Langa, Cape Town.

Collaborating with a film director Alex Revers and photographer Vivian Camphuijsen and the agency Eyeforce on the visual identity for the documentary and exhibition 'This Is A Beginning, Not The End', presented during Amsterdam Pride Month 2023 in the A'DAM Tower.