//about

creativity
built on structure

Justus Rehn is a leadership executive, brand strategist, identity designer, and aerial fine art photographer from Germany.

Throughout his career, he has worked at the intersection of large-scale organisational thinking and creative precision — two disciplines that, in his experience, are rarely as far apart as they seem.

Born in Moers — a city of around 105,000 on the Lower Rhine, roughly 30 minutes northwest of Düsseldorf — he joined ALDI in 2006 as a student and spent a decade in store operations across Germany and Australia. Since 2017, he has held Director-level roles across real estate, international transformation, and IT.

It was during his time in Western Australia that he discovered aerial photography. In 2018, he founded PINES & PALM TREES Creative Studios, a fine art practice focused on landscape and form seen from above. Each work is released as a strictly limited edition of fifteen, printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® and individually certified.



In 2025, he established FORTYSEVENSEVEN Design Co. in Düsseldorf — a studio for brand strategy and visual identity, working with founders and businesses to define what they stand for before a single logo gets drawn.

After two decades in corporate leadership, Justus now directs his focus toward his own ventures — bringing the same structured thinking and understanding of how people and organisations work into his creative practice. His creativity has always fuelled everything he does. That will not change.

Justus Rehn lives in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort.

He is available for conversations as a leadership voice, brand strategist, and aerial imagist.

→ FORTYSEVENSEVEN Design Co.
→ PINES & PALM TREES


Experiences

2025

Founder

FORTYSEVENSEVEN Design Co.
Düsseldorf, Germany

2023 - current

IT Director

ALDI International (ADX)
Mülheim a. d. Ruhr

2018

Creative Director

THE SURF MEAL CO.
Perth, Australia

2018

Founder + Aerial Artist

PINES & PALM TREES Creative Studios
Munich, Germany

2017 - 2023

Director of Real Estate

ALDI SÜD
Munich-Area, Germany

2015 - 2017

Expatriate Exec. Manager

ALDI Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Perth, Australia

2009 - 2014

Area Manager Store Operations

ALDI SÜD
NRW, Germany

Experiences

2025

Founder

FORTYSEVENSEVEN Design Co.
Düsseldorf, Germany

2023 - current

IT Director

ALDI International Services (ADX)
Mülheim a. d. Ruhr, Germany

2018

Creative Director

THE SURF MEAL CO.
Perth, Australia

2018

Founder + Aerial Artist

PINES & PALM TREES Creative Studios
Munich, Germany

2017 - 2023

Director of Real Estate

ALDI SÜD
Munich-Area, Germany

2015 - 2017

Expatriate Exec. Manager

ALDI Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Perth, Australia

2009 - 2014

Area Manager Store Operations

ALDI SÜD
NRW, Germany

Experiences

2025

Founder

FORTYSEVENSEVEN Design Co.
Düsseldorf, Germany

2023 - current

IT Director

ALDI International (ADX)
Mülheim a. d. Ruhr

2018

Creative Director

THE SURF MEAL CO.
Perth, Australia

2018

Founder + Aerial Artist

PINES & PALM TREES Creative Studios
Munich, Germany

2017 - 2023

Director of Real Estate

ALDI SÜD
Munich-Area, Germany

2015 - 2017

Expatriate Exec. Manager

ALDI Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Perth, Australia

2009 - 2014

Area Manager Store Operations

ALDI SÜD
NRW, Germany

Education

2008

Economics

University of Santa Barbara (UCSB)
California, USA

2006 - 2009

International Business / Change Management

DHBW Mosbach Campus Bad-Mergentheim, Germany


Education

2008

Economics

University of Santa Barbara (UCSB)
California, USA

2006 - 2009

International Business / Change Management

DHBW Mosbach Campus Bad-Mergentheim, Germany


Education

2008

Economics

University of Santa Barbara (UCSB)
California, USA

2006 - 2009

International Business / Change Management

DHBW Mosbach Campus Bad-Mergentheim, Germany

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