About Us

We Increase The Significance Of Brands.

JUSTBLUE is an owner-managed creative agency specialising in branding, design and communication. We make brands more meaningful, thereby increasing their relevance in the target group and consequently boosting brand success.

The basis for greater brand relevance is a strong content idea that corresponds to the brand’s values and contributes to its goals.

Our Mission

Our mission is to create exceptional and meaningful brand experiences and to anchor these firmly in the minds and hearts of the target group. After all, only relevant messages carry weight and make a difference. We are driven by a passion to achieve something special. We have reached our goal when brands are measurably more successful thanks to our measures.

Your Partner

As your branding partner, you can always rely on JUSTBLUE. Timing: tight? Initial situation: difficult? No worries! We’ll get it sorted together. For us, no road is too long and no mountain too steep. We work with you to develop a brand vision and turn it into reality. Together we will write success stories with your brand.

We Listen

Listening is the key to understanding. That’s why our work always starts with you. We want to understand what makes your target group tick, what you need for your brand and what objectives you have for it. We are flexible and support you exactly where you need us. Whether it’s a big impact or a small sub-project: you determine the interface.

On Fire!

We burn for our projects. We are driven by a passion to achieve the extraordinary. Because we are convinced that only those who are enthusiastic themselves can also inspire others. This is how we create target group-relevant content that is rationally convincing and emotionally appealing.

Experts Without Detours

A direct line instead of silent mail. With us, the people you talk to are also directly involved in the realisation of your projects. That’s because we don’t just have a contact level, but provide you with a direct line to creation, to your experts. They not only have the necessary expertise, but also the experience to make your project a success.

Our Clients

We’re proud to have been partnering with most of our clients successfully for many years. It doesn’t matter whether they’re global players or start-ups – more relevance helps every brand move forward!

Team

Fueling Ideas. Together.

The JUSTBLUE team consists of over 40 employees – all united by their individual creativity and passion for brands. Each of us brings their very own talent to the table. Individually tailored to the project requirements, each project team offers the perfect mix of experienced brand strategists and creative impulse generators. This is how we always combine our expertise for more relevance and brand success!

Jobs

Join Our Mission

Is the fire for Brands burning in you? Do you dream of giving brands more meaning? Are you a creative strategist or a strategic creative? We need both! Then come to JUSTBLUE. Let’s create great things together. 🚀

Become part of our team!

Since the agency was founded in 1998, JUSTBLUE has been increasing the relevance of brands through their visuality.

Originally founded as a pure design studio, we quickly realised that successful visuality requires not only a creative idea but also a clean conceptualisation. Over the years, we have built up extensive brand expertise with sound branding know-how and have developed into one of the leading branding agencies in Germany. We are proud of our long-standing client relationships at the highest creative and brand-strategic level. They are both a confirmation and an incentive for us to continue to develop. Because in an age of sensory overload, shortened attention spans and digital media, relevance is more important than ever.

In 1998, the two creative minds Jörg Ratzlaff and Sebastian Beck joined forces and founded justblue.design, initially as a 3D and structural design studio. As a small agency from Hamburg Altona, they succeeded in working for global companies such as Jill Sander and AB InBev.

From 2005, the strategic direction is expanded to include 2D design with a focus on packaging. This lays the foundation for a multidisciplinary agency. The team quickly develops an excellent reputation in a specialised discipline: more than three-quarters of all drink’s crates produced in Europe after 1998 are designed by justblue.design.

the accompanying success, the agency also grows in terms of personnel. Through targeted recruiting, the expertise in brand design is being successively expanded.

The course for the future is also paved early on on the owner side. Firstly, long-standing employee Nils Ruge takes over company shares from founder Jörg Ratzlaff in 2018. New expertise in branding and marketing is gained at owner level in 2020 through Damian Selzer, who brings with him many years of professional experience on the customer side. In 2023, the circle of owners will be further expanded by Fabian Hartmann, also a long-standing employee of JUSTBLUE, and Jörg Ratzlaff will retire as owner.

Over time, justblue.design has evolved from a pure design agency to a branding agency. The range of services now includes complete branding at all levels: from brand consulting, design and execution to communication.

In order to reflect this, justblue.design becomes JUSTBLUE in 2024. Still owner-managed, still agile and still full of passion. Always with the goal of giving brands more significance and making them more successful.