Mutual understanding
Friends of mine own his gravel bikes and I heard Xaver had seen my work with Velo Klubhaus, so when I reached out to work together we knew we had mutual appreciation of each other's work.

The problem
He immediately threw a problem he was working on my way. He had a new frame soon to be released, the Mauerweg GT, an evolution of the Mauerweg that would remain in production. The top tube sticker was being made in a new way and the current design he had wasn't compatible with this new method.

Digging deeper
What I was hearing from Xaver was that he didn't just want to fix the issue, but to also have the new design evolve as the frame had done. I used a moodboard to dig into the characteristics of the new frame and the GT part of the name. This was the basis of a discussion about the styling of the new sticker design and enabled me to get on the same wavelength as Xaver's vision.

Solutions
I hit upon a potential solution to the technical issue and then, through rapid sketching, used this idea to develop three variations to offer for selection and prototyping. I tend to offer a few flavours of solution to design problems: mild, spicy and hot, with the mild being closest to the original vision and then pushing the spiciness of the idea towards a hotter, more creative solution. After sleeping on it, Xaver went for the hot and we discussed a few tweaks to get it ready for prototyping.

Becoming a team
Even though this solution is held up in production, we have since worked together on a few other things and I'm always really stoked when a company makes me their go to for any visual problem that crops up.
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