LU SAUTER
Portfolio
Brand Design
Redesign of an existing festival in Hamburg
Rock & Wrestling Festival An iconic subculture event from Hamburg that combines amateur wrestling in absurd costumes with live bands and party entertainment.
Develop a visual language and overall look and feel for a new coffee brand.
Awake | Spiritual Mokka & coffee ground reeding
A mocha that combines the enjoyment of coffee with the tradition of coffee grounds reading as an interactive experience.
AWAKE is not a mass-produced product for supermarket shelves, but an exclusive lifestyle item for concept stores. It is aimed at an urban, predominantly female target group who use coffee for conscious moments such as girls’ nights or dinner parties.
2026/25
Brand project Festival | Prof. Sven Vogel
Basic project Coffee| Prof. Sven Vogel
Editorial Design

It`s not a book it’s a catalog
Alert Level Yellow – a catalog. Fotos © Lu Sauter


“Know your rights” | the clash
Select a song with lyrics and create a small booklet with digital and analog elements based on its content.
Font © Neville Brody
Spiegel Publishing House brochure, architectural photos | Media profile HHS

2023 Yearbook, Media Profile HHS
2026/25
Catalog design| Prof. Stefan Stefanescu
Basic project | Prof. Stefan Stefanescu
Publisher’s brochure & yearbook | HHS
Type Design

Develop a graphic sheet in A1 portrait format on the question “What is a typeface?”
Letter “Z” in an urban environment
Take photos of three-dimensional everyday objects or constellations that form the shape of a Z, and place them centrally in the frame with a minimal background.

Three-dimensional cardboard constellations as the basis for an individual alphabet.
2026/25
Basic project | Prof. Pierre Pané-Farré
2024 | Portfolio for HAW
Typography

Design of a legible typographic booklet that incorporates two feminist texts.
2025
Basic project | Saskia Kühnemund
+ Lisa-Marie Fechteler
3D Design

Building an analog hut without material constraints.
My work “Candy Crush” plays with the ambivalence of protection and the abyss. The giant pink teddy bear serves as an innocent shell for a crime scene.
2025
Basix project | Prof. Natalia Stachon
Fotography




Several weeks of black-and-white portrait studies of the same person, focusing on genuine emotions.
2025
Basic project | Prof. Vincent Kohlbecher
Interaction Design

App development to solve an everyday problem using the example of an application for party planning with the help of Figma.
2025
Basic project | Claudia Wasem
Time Based Media
Short Film/ Horror Movie „Worm“ basic project time based media.
2025
Basic project | Prof. Katharina Duve
+ Timo Rychert
Mixed Media

Analog collage series made from newspaper clippings and paint, which ironically questions various role models and characters by adding short phrases.

Analog, graphic-typographic poster on the theme of “cooperation,” which, as a free work without any advertising function, creates an exciting composition of shapes, rhythms, and images.
2024
Portfolio for HAW
Aptitude test communication design
Drawing

A series of analog drawings that captures the cluttered chaos of everyday spaces such as workshops and basements.
Visualization of my own intuitions and ideas about Thomas Brasch’s poem in a freehand drawing that fills the room. “I don’t want to lose what I have, but I don’t want to stay where I am, but I don’t want to leave those I love, but I don’t want to see those I know anymore, but I don’t want to die where I live, but I don’t want to go where I die: I want to stay where I have never been” – I don’t want to lose what I have, Thomas Brasch
2024
Portfolio for HAW
Aptitude test drawing
Painting

Yellow Series – Nine postcard-sized images based on my own photographs of everyday yellow objects, rendered in a painterly style.

Picturesque depiction of a personal shelf as a “shelfie,” in which selected objects were staged in terms of shape and color as a portrait of one’s own personality.
2024
Portfolio for HAW
Aptitude test painting
Webdesign

Development of an interactive educational website on the topic of deepfakes, which uses definitions, technical analyses, and quiz elements to visualize the dangers and opportunities of AI-generated media for the media evening at the Heinrich Hertz School.
2023
Media profile HHS
deep-fake.eu
Sketches
2023-2024
Portfolio for HAW
Digital skills
Photoshop
Indesign
Illustrator
Figma
Premiere Pro
Wordpress
About me
VITA
- Date of birth November 14, 2005
- Place of birth Hamburg
- Nationality german
EDUCATION
- Since 04/2025 Communication Design (B.A.)
at HAW Hamburg
Application grade 1.15 - 07/2024 A-Level (Abitur)
Heinrich-Hertz-Schule, Hamburg- Final grade 1.7
- Profile focus Media & Art
INTERNSHIPS
- 2026 | Internship at VasataSchröder advertising agency
- 2023 | Internship at Schenk-Fleischhaker Architects
- 2022 | Internship Event-Planung, Gut Karslhöhe
- 2018 | Internship Effectiv-Team
JOBS
- 2025 – present | Interior design office Woomey&k
- 2024 – present | Babysitting
- 2021 – present | Tutoring students, focusing on Spanish
- 2024 – present | Event catering service and bar
- 2016 – 2022 | Voice-over artist for radio and TV commercials
© Lu Sauter, 2026