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THINK UP EDITIONS
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Our Story
In 2020, we became involved in selling products creatively through our partner company Think Up International. As a branding agency, we received an assignment to place our products in Far Eastern countries. We contacted one of our friends, an author, to collaborate on the branding project. In the midst of the pandemic crisis, the author told us about his experiences. His story struck us as potentially appealing to a wide audience, so we started thinking how to make it accessible to every age group. We spoke with the author for months until we decided to collaborate and publish the work.
Based on an original idea by CoCréation, the creative platform was born in this moment of a global crisis.
We are not a normal publishing house or a film production company, but a meeting of creative minds. Authors entrust us with their work, which we make travel through our networks, so that together we can achieve ever greater goals. Many writers, artists, filmmakers, and consultants have wisely chosen a profession that keeps them as far away as possible from the constraints of modern society. Most of them are self-employed by choice. They often live in isolated, natural settings. Many of them strive to avoid the rigid rules of organizations. But, the downside is that most creatives are not able to think about their projects on a large scale.
We are an organisation that is able to realise the ideas of creative minds, check the economic viability of projects, and support them so that their artistic product spreads widely. It’s as if artists were sailing the endless ocean in a small craft and we are offering them a bigger, more comfortable, more stable boat. Now their creative process can better withstand the force of the waves and the weather. We work with a large network of designers and illustrators, and together we launch innovative approaches to bring life to your project – from the typography to the cover design to the entire branding process for marketing your book. In our modern digital age, we want to make our products stand out as one-of-a-kind valued items: both the printed book and the e-book will be unique and unrepeatable pieces.
About Us
Think Up Editions focuses on the works of exceptional authors and always embody social values. We publish works that have potential for film adaptation. We think beyond the printed word – we intend to produce feature films, documentaries, or short films based on our published work.
Our resource is a large network of artists and designers who can co-create and co-produce our projects. We believe in creativity in the broadest sense of the word. Most writers, filmmakers, and artists work and create because they can’t stop, because they believe that living has meaning only through the act of art. Artists are constantly and incessantly searching. Artists work everywhere: in their garages, in the mountains, on deserted islands or on street corners. They create exceptional art that comes straight from their imaginative hearts. Their artistic act is the victory of life over death, of drawing meaning and beauty from entropy.
We support and promote creative storytellers who put their heart into their work.
Our Team
Our team consists of professional and specialized people who will strive to ensure that your creativity grows and succeeds.
Toshio Kamitani
Designer & Artist
Focus: Creating designs that look delicious
Flow: I am aware that we are consumers before we are creators, who lead the modern consumer to make the right choices.
Force: I always want to be a member of society who lives creatively 365 days a year.
I’ve been working in design for a long time, especially for the food packaging industry. In the design world, painting means illustration. It’s the same painting, but it’s an illustration. It’s not art. Illustration can be explanatory or atmospheric. It has an absolute purpose. A picture is an answer to a client’s question. But a picture is art. It is a picture that no one wants. It has to be a picture that I want to make myself. It can be an illustration. Or it can be art. When I paint, I want it to be art. But it’s not always easy to see it that way. Design counts as a problem-solving instrument. I like the definition of art as problem finding. It’s very easy to understand and I like it. I’m starting from here for now. I designed for various customers from the food packaging industry. As an artist I exhibit in many museums.
Mansoureh Rahnama
CEO & Founder
Focus: Innovation, cooperation, leading networks
Flow: Exploring the potential, release of energy, and connecting relevant partners with empathy and passion
Force: Idea creation, interdisciplinary team building, problem solving, go to the market strategy.
I develop extraordinary interdisciplinary entrepreneurial projects by building on my excellent interdisciplinary networks from conventional and creative industries. A key part of my job is the analysis of target groups and their business processes to make recommendations for strategically optimized processes. This has been instrumental in bringing me a variety of projects and collaboration with various companies throughout the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa). Purposeful planning and clear management are at the heart of every project I take on, from its inception to its fruition.
Andrea Biscaro
Author & Songwriter
Focus: writer, songwriter, poet, ghost-writer, screenwriter
Flow: multifaceted writer, I move in many genres: sentimentality, poetry, thriller, mystery, horror, music, songs, concerts, comics, illustrated books for children…
Force: I have been living on the small Tuscan Island of Giglio for 15 years. Here I live in close contact with nature, between long daily swims and at least 10 kilometres a day of walking along paths and mule tracks, meditating and creating incessantly.
I am the author of novels, short stories, fables, songs, poems, concerts, comics. As a ghost-writer I have over 50 publications to my credit for actors, politicians, athletes, company managers, and well-known models. My latest ghost-written book came out in June 2020 for Mondadori, the most important Italian publisher. I have been working for years as a musician and songwriter in the Secondamarea project, which over time has received numerous accolades and awards both in Italy and abroad.
Shahram Karimi
Artist & Filmmaker
Focus: represents trans-cultural currents and realties in the context of contemporary art
Flow: Narrative elements and inscription of text over imagery and his minimal abstractions of visual iconography bind him to Western art.
Force: Is the memory, the confused identity, the words sounds and explosions. These eyes that remain so fixed, and these weary feet, that keep on walking, walking..
I have worked for many years as an artist and filmmaker. I am a ‘global’ artist and seeking a delicate balance between Persian aesthetics and Western expression to arrive at an art which becomes truly universal. In my works memory is an unstable and equivocal place, when I do not have to tame the overwhelming force of nostalgia, then I have to distil unmistakably real details from the muck of sentimentality. Irrationally, I take pride in my own transformation, development, and yet my, memory condemns my country, my past, to stay exactly as it was, immutable and essential, uncontaminated and faithful to the image that I treasure..
Works
Lockdown Love
We are proud to present our first member, Andrea Biscaro, with his outstanding work “Lockdown Love”. The novel is written in Italian language and will be published in Italian and German languages in 2022. We are developing market entry strategies for the publication of the novel with our partner companies Think Up International. To this end, we are looking for distribution partners for the release of the work in all German-speaking countries. All steps of our branding strategies will be published on our news page.
Synopsis of the work:
“Lockdown Love” is a love story that takes place during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic – the first lockdown, March 2020.
The novel aims to show how intense feelings can arise even in times of death and misery. Love, indeed, precisely because of Covid’s forced stop, was able to have time to grow and mature. This is what the book is trying to communicate: we all need time. If only to understand who we are, what we want and, above all, who we want. The protagonists of the novel (Glenda and Antonio) will get to know each other and love each other thanks to the time that the lockdown has given them.
“Lockdown Love” is about love, the pure and absolute feeling that binds two people physically located far apart. To love is to understand-listen to-become the other. The different. That which is not us. Who, in this narcissistic and egocentric society, has the desire to undress oneself, to enter into the I-Other? Does anyone, today, really want to love and be loved? Definitely yes. But we are few. Because it takes time. A lot of time. In fact, all the time. Loving is dedication, it is listening, it is an eye and an ear given to the other. It is a shared heart.
“Lockdown Love” is a true story.
The Devil Wears Gaga
Andrea Biscaro’s book, to be released in December 2021 in Italy by the publishing house OFFICINA DI HANK-CHINASKI is the first real literary and biographical work about Lady Gaga. Think Up Editions will edit and publish the German and English language Editions, as well as create connections and distribution possibilities for the work in the rest of the world.
Synopsis of the work:
Lady Gaga is Art in every manifestation.
This book is not just a biography, but an attempt to grasp, dismember and analyse the body of work of a great artist, the world’s last great diva, whose songs are but the tip of the iceberg. Gaga crosses music, fashion, cinema, advertising, politics, overturning the concept of PopArt. No longer art at the service of mass culture, but mass culture at the service of art: ArtPop, therefore. Every step, every appearance, every album by Lady Gaga is a cultural and costume revolution. Scandalous, excessive, “Mother Monster” has become a symbol of diversity. Elusive and iconic, Gaga plays with her multiple personalities, displaying the many faces of herbare heart. An angel and a demon, she can be the clean-cut girl from “A Star Is Born” and at the same time the diabolical bloodthirsty Countess from “American Horror Story”.
A multifaceted and chameleon-like book, just like the subject being narrated.
My life in 18 kisses
“My life in 18 kisses” is the third book, as yet unpublished, by Andrea Biscaro, which Think Up Editions embraces. The book will be accompanied by 18 original illustrations.
Synopsis of the work:
Why tell your life in kisses?
Perhaps because the kiss is a primordial form of knowledge. The purest, most authentic, wild, saving form of knowledge. A perfect alphabet, uncorrupted, sublime, made of lips, silences, sighs, moods, rooms. Exchange fluids. Exchange skin. Exchange the stars. Exchange the soul. That, after all, is the essence of a kiss. The most honest way we human beings communicate. There’s never any deception in a kiss. Never falsehood. There is no double meaning. We are ourselves. Unfiltered. We ourselves, who sink into the other. And become the other. If only for a moment. I’ll tell my kisses. Every kiss, a girl. Every kiss, a life. Mine. Hers. Every kiss, a tour. Physical and soul. Yes, because the kiss is an interminable journey from stillness. Each kiss, an age. The passing years will not follow a temporal chronology. Only that of the soul. I will jump from one kiss to the next. From one year to another. From one decade to another. From one innocence to another. From one woman to another, and vice versa. You will see that kissing is ageless. One is always a teenager in the act of kissing. Every kiss is a first time. Because it’s always the first time, even with the same woman.
Every kiss is a beginning.
It is new heaven that passes through us.
A book suspended between poetry, prose, and illustrated story.
Expertise
Publication
We select and publish unpublished works by deserving authors.
We provide services to talented authors to publish their works on international platforms.
We’re looking for creatives who can work in a team.
When we work with authors, we protect these points:
– We protect the author’s work
– We defend the rights of the author
– We make sure that the author is valued to the fullest and has the best opportunities for sales
Production
We support and cooperate with extraordinary young filmmakers to produce feature films and documentaries.
We produce works from published books or original screenplays.
We intend to touch the heart of the viewer with great stories.
Selected works may be funded and produced by a variety of organisations in European countries.
Art exhibitions
We are looking for artists who have something unique to say.
We are particularly interested in introducing novice collectors to the art world and pioneering artists working off the beaten track.
We provide services that promote accessibility by helping artists connect with galleries. We specifically target art dealers.
We work with various designers and artists and connect them with the most respectful curators and art dealers around the world, including new industrial clients.
How to join us as a talent?
You decide on a project from our project lists.
1. Project presentation
You can choose up to three projects from among the proposed projects. We assign suitable projects depending on capacity and urgency. You decide on the project and present yourself to the client.
2. Contract
You get to know the project; Think Up Editions makes an offer in consultation with you, following which Think Up Editions enters into a contract with the client.
3. Invoicing
Think Up Editions issues the invoice and then pays you the agreed amount. Further details on the calculation of fees can be found in our framework agreement that we conclude with every Think Up Editions creative.
4. Responses
Think Up Editions stays by your side throughout the process and will regularly ask you and your client for feedback.
Become a talent!
Becoming a talent at Think Up Editions has many advantages.
1. Concentration on core creative business
Think Up Editions offers access to project inquiries and enables you to focus on your core business.
2. Creativity
The talents at Think Up Editions can be used -as your project needs.
3. International network of creative minds
Our international network of experienced consultants enables cooperation in the international arena and ensures professional exchange and cooperation, even on large projects – because together we are stronger.
4. Years of experience
Our talents have many years of experience in project management in tier 1 or tier 2 international projects, and can provide project references from creative industries for SMEs or group companies.
5. Commitment and independence
Our talents act as your confidants. They address complex problems and blind spots. They are highly committed and always respectful and solution oriented. They are used to accompanying clients with independent advisory processes in a goal-oriented manner.
Contact us as a talent and present your own projects:
There should be a form which you can fills up. Just like he would get an option for Male and Female in the form, there should also be an option that would state -Are you contacting as a creative talent or as an entrepreneur?
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Graduate in business administration Mansoureh Rahnama
Headquarters: Dortmund
Responsible for the content according to § 55 paragraph 2 RStV:
Mansoureh Rahnama, address as above
Think Up International is registered as a registered business woman (e. Kfr.) of the Dortmund District Court under no. Xxx. The sales tax identification number according to §27 a sales tax law: is DE 331142799
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