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Clothes and Stories

BLAUTON Employee Magazine

Cartoon collage: man with baby carriage and sports gear, Viking with hammer, orange dancer, yellow flutist, hammock lounger, singer at microphone.

The Hirmer Gruppe is a family enterprise in the best sense of the word: family-run in the third generation, it is a true institution, and not just at their headquarters in Munich.

For more than 70 years, the people at Hirmer have been providing new ideas, solid values, and accompanying stories to ensure that the “prime address for men’s fashion” keeps flourishing in the future.

Developed together with Birke und Partner the BLAUTON values magazine tells these vibrant stories. Written and illustrated by an esteemed editorial team, including Dr. Wolfgang Pauser, the Well-Brüder and Fabian Birke.

Rosebud delivers Positioning, Editorial Strategy, Editorial Concept, Editorial Design, Brand Publishing, Internal Communication, Art Buying and Illustration.

Young child peers through a keyhole-shaped cutout in a green book cover with a blue spine.
Split image: left black bottle silhouette on green; right close-up of a young boy with light hair in a navy dotted shirt, with BLAUTON at the top.
Two-page magazine spread: left blue geometric abstract artwork, right editorial page with columns and red heading 'Mannsein?'.
Two-page magazine spread: left page 'Autoren' with author portraits; right page 'Mannsein!' with a portrait of an elderly man and a street cafe.
Group of business professionals in suits gathered on a yellow-blue two-page spread, with the prominent 'VORBILDER' headline.
Two adults in formal attire pose in a magazine spread; seated figure in navy suit with hat, standing partner in gray blazer holds hands; 66 and 34
Two-page magazine spread: left shows portraits of a young man and an older man; right shows two suited businessmen standing and talking.
Four studio portraits: man in gray blazer with bow tie; boy in blue shirt and red pants; man in olive sweater; man in dark blazer; gray backdrop.
Group of eight adults posing for a photo in a sunlit park with trees and outdoor cafe seating.
Magazine spread: man in a brown high-tech jacket with glowing shoulder panels, under the headline 'Das ist NEU!' about smart textiles.
Magazine spread featuring red flowers on green background; prominent title INSTITUTION with German text block.
Caricatured modern man in a suit walks, pulling an orange shopping cart with a baby inside, plus a tennis racket in his backpack, amid editorial text.
Double-page German magazine spread with four cartoons: blue-clad Viking; yellow-dress dancer; person resting in hammock; man at desk.
Two posters: left mint background with blue banana-pattern tie; right lavender background with red high-heeled shoe.
Two-page pastel magazine spread with pink lips illustration on the left and orange lips illustration on the right, above German text blocks.
Two-page German infographic spread titled Verstehen Sie Mann? with charts, diagrams, and icons about men and gender statistics.
Two-page spread: left Campo Bahia article with yellow circular infographic; right Phönix page shows a large concrete ashtray sculpture.
Illustrated Munich map on a magazine spread with landmarks and a blue ribbon reading Mein München.
Green soccer-field infographic: 25 kg chalk to mark a soccer field; 10,321,920 ways to lace a soccer boot with eight eyelets.
Person in a suit adjusts a bow tie; infographic shows women find men in suits attractive, with 81%, 77%, and 17% and a shoe illustration.
Infographic showing men's clothing color preferences with stacked color swatches and percentage labels (Blue 39%, Black 35%).
Green book cover with blue spine; yellow "BLAUTON" top left and "# 2 Konsequenz" top right; yellow blocks read "ausbaden" and "ausschlürfen."
Two-page poster spread: left green page with small text blocks; right yellow page with a long red German quote and tiny illustrated people.
Two-page spread: left shows blue collage of three figures in trench coats; right shows German article 'Haltung und Stil' with columns and signatures.
Two-page magazine spread: left page shows illustrated portraits for Protagonisten; right page shows a theater auditorium photo and a man at a podium.
Two-page magazine spread; left page shows two men (serious gray-haired top, smiling bottom) under bold KONSEQUENZ?; right page dense article text.
Vintage mechanical cash register with open cash drawer on a two-page magazine spread.
Two-page spread: left a tall stack of smooth stones; right a colorful abstract geometric sculpture. Texts 'Das muss sein!' and 'Muss das sein?'
Open magazine spread: left green page with gray pebble; right white page with yellow duck; both with German text blocks.
Two-page magazine spread: left a glass jar filled with multicolored fabric scraps on a brown backdrop; right a pink-flowered stem with jewelry rings.
Cactus sculpture wrapped in fabric on the left; cluster of white balloons with braided straps on the right, set against a burgundy background.
Blue bow ties mounted on orange and olive walls beside a magazine spread titled 'Channels als Chance'.
Illustrated cross-section of a multi-story HIRMER department store with shoppers; nearby signs read Webshop and Trattoria da Luigi.
Blue double-exposure of a European city building blended with a portrait, featuring the German title 'Eine Frage der Haltung'.
Magazine spread on business conduct; left: two men at a cafe table, center: Hirmer department store storefront, right: two men shaking hands beside a warehouse.
Two-page German magazine spread: left shows section 4 with Hirmer building ad; right shows section 5 with blue-tinted seaside group photo.
Two-page German magazine spread of infographics with charts, icons, and illustrations, featuring 'Konsequenz in Zahlen' and 'Markenzeichen'.
Two-page magazine spread: left page features bold German quote 'Auch Männer haben Redebedarf.'; right page illustrated Nürnberg map with landmarks.
Person in blue blazer folds jeans in a clothing store, with racks of clothes and a coat on display.
Infographic about keeping New Year’s resolutions in German; two gender bars show 9%, 47%, 39%, 5% with a footnote.
Infographic: German diet split with leek for vegetarians (3.7%) and cow for meat-eaters (96.3%).
Two pink amaryllis blooms on twisting stems adorned with rings, against a green-and-brown corner backdrop.
Glass jar filled with folded multicolored fabric scraps on a neutral brown background.
Infographic 'Das A und O' with A in speech bubble and O in thought bubble; left: 90% fidelity, 38% doubt; right: 93.3% discipline, 50% spanking.
Three line portraits on a beige poster: Karl Lagerfeld with ponytail and sunglasses; Michael Jordan basketball shorts; Udo Lindenberg with hat.
Metal rectangular ashtray with rounded edges on a white surface; vintage German advertisement posters on the right.
Painted soccer player lying on green grass, knees bent, wearing red jersey, blue shorts, red socks, white sneakers.