Big win for ramp.space at the international 2024/2025 MERCURY Awards. The Reutlingen-based media house with integrated studio took home gold in five categories at this year’s competition and earned seven more awards in silver and bronze.
Michael Köckritz And ramp.space Win Twelve Awards At The MERCURY Excellence Awards
The MERCURY Awards are among the most prestigious independent honors in the international design and publishing industry, attracting participants from more than 80 countries. Submissions are judged on various criteria, including how effectively and creatively the content is communicated to the respective target groups.
Michael Köckritz, founder, editor-in-chief and publisher of ramp.space: “We’re delighted that our work has once again impressed the MERCURY jury and that we have earned recognition in such key categories. Our projects reflect our passion for design and storytelling, and this success motivates us to keep developing bold and exciting concepts.”
An overview of the awards
The first gold award was in the category Magazines – Overall Presentation: Style/Culture for rampstyle #33 Director’s Cut + Uhren.Special, which was recognized for its concept and presentation. In the category Magazines – Design: Automotive, ramp #65 – Surfing Cowboys Director’s Cut was named best magazine for its innovative approach to automotive magazine design.
Another gold award, in the category Design: Automotive, went to the coffee table book BMW Milestones – BMW Drivers Club Edition, created for BMW Bank GmbH. ramp.space also secured two more gold awards for projects commissioned by sports car manufacturer Porsche. The magalog ORIGINALE 10, produced for Porsche AG, won in the category Custom Publications – General Audience: Auto Enthusiast, while the book Porsche Vibes, created for Porsche Lifestyle GmbH, was honored in the category Design: Coffee Table Publication.
In addition to its gold awards, ramp.space earned several silver and bronze honors as well. In the category Magazines – Overall Presentation: Auto/Car Enthusiast, the magazine ramp.special 50 Jahre VW Golf – Mitten im Leben, created for Volkswagen Passenger Cars, won silver. The silver award in the category Writing: Magazines – Overall went to rampstyle #33 – When You Know, You Know. The magazine ramp #63 – Happy on the Road was awarded
silver in the category Design: Automotive, while the book Porsche 75 Years, produced for Porsche Lifestyle GmbH, won silver in the category Employee Publications: Internal. Finally, the silver award in the category Design: Coffee Table Publication went to The Porsche Book, created for teNeues Verlag GmbH.
ramp.space also took home two bronze awards: one for the magazine THE DRIVE #16, created for BMW Bank GmbH, in the category Custom Publications – Business-to-Business: Automotive, and one for ramp #64 – How About That! in the category Writing: Magazines – Overall.
About ramp.space
ramp.space sees itself as a leading luxury impact brand, the natural combination of a modern publishing house – ramp.publishing – and an interdisciplinary think-and-do tank featuring an integrated studio for brands, content-driven brand communication, strategic branded entertainment and design – ramp.studio. Since 2020, ramp.pictures has been part of the ramp.space service portfolio as an in-house photo and video agency. Founded in 2007 by Michael Köckritz and Christian Gläsel as Red Indians Publishing, ramp.space has published the avant-garde car-and-culture magazine ramp since 2007, rampstyle since 2011, and the line extensions rampclassics and rampdesign since 2013. Both ramp and rampstyle have been available in an English edition since the summer of 2017. ramp has also been published under a licensing agreement in China since 2013 with the title ramp Car.Culture.Magazine.
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